This is part 3 of why you want someone with a Top Secret Clearance leading innovation at your company; especially if you’re B2B or B2C.
Your idea has an enemy, you just haven’t met it yet. Let’s talk about business intelligence. Forget the competitive market analysis your consulting firm pulled from CB Insights; there is no TAM>SAM>SOM for this.
The problems your industry faces in 2040? We’ve seen 2040 already. Some people have been working in this domain since it was 1999. National security problems hit first decades before markets do. Thus, people who’ve worked in that world carry the patterns, not the secrets, and those patterns become your early-warning system.
They think in terms of nation-state capabilities, not script kiddies or TikTok influencers. That raises your vetting and security baseline to where real risk lives getting you adversary-grade business modeling. They understand influence operations and synthetic media - that’s direct value for brand protection, trust and safety, and crisis response.
