THE FOUNDER
Dark Vector Cognition LLC is an independent agent security advisory in Austin, Texas. It sells no platform, no seats and no agents — which is why it can tell you the truth about the ones you already have.
Al Sharma runs Dark Vector Cognition. Before this he led post-sales and field engineering teams at Snyk, HashiCorp and Harness, and most recently ran Technical Success for the Americas at Port.io, where his team carried Fortune-100 financial services, insurance, media and sports accounts through production rollouts of platform and AI tooling. He has sat on the vendor side of the exact pitches your team is getting now. Flight Check is DVC on your estate for two weeks — not a junior team with a slide deck.
THE WORK
Both are diagnostics with a named deliverable and a date on it, delivered as files you own.
AGENT FLIGHT CHECK · $7,500 · TWO WEEKS
Inventory, permission map, ten days of tamper-evident records, ranked findings, and a costed remediation plan — for the CISO or VP Engineering who has to answer from evidence.
See the Flight Check →AI SPEND AUDIT · $9,500 · THREE WEEKS
Seat-level usage, AI-attributed commits and PRs by team, cost per active seat, and a renewal recommendation — for the budget owner heading into a contract conversation.
See the AI Spend Audit →THE REST OF IT
The advisory work is the front door, not the whole building. DVC also ships its own software and media, which is where the operating experience behind the Flight Check comes from.
PRODUCT
The flagship product world — an editorial field manual, live on the open web.
See QuarterMaster →APPLICATIONS
Native, local-first software. Moment is on the App Store; HELM is the operator cockpit this studio runs on daily.
See the applications →MEDIA
The studio's own film craft — script-first cinema, screened on infrastructure DVC owns.
Enter the screening room →DIRECT LINE
Every message lands with Al, not a queue.