Brussels · Independent advisory practice

Some risks don't announce themselves.
Until they do.

Infrastructure failures at scale rarely come from a lack of expertise. They come from misalignment between disciplines, across time horizons that don't fit quarterly planning cycles.

It's hard to think when you're trying not to sink. Proper Tools exists to help you think earlier.

Hacker-literate. Policy-aware. Built for decisions that must hold up over years, not quarters.

Founded by Trey Darley Brussels Get in touch →

The problem on the calendar

Some failure modes build quietly for decades and surface abruptly: embedded timing dependencies, rollover events, cross-sector coupling. They rarely appear in quarterly dashboards — until they become someone else's emergency.

7 Feb 2036 NTP 32-bit counter rollover
19 Jan 2038 Signed 32-bit time_t rollover — Unix epoch
Now The coordination window is open. It will not stay open.
These are not surprising events. They are not new discoveries. They are dates on a calendar, and the calendar is not negotiable.

NIS2, CRA, and DORA are beginning to frame timing as a regulated systemic risk. Legacy NTP dependencies and unexamined clock assumptions persist across critical infrastructure. The gap between embedded device lifecycles and policy horizons keeps growing.

The Epochalypse Project FAQ offers a concise orientation. The RATP/Alstom case, examined in depth by Epsiloon (n°57), illustrates what operational exposure looks like in practice. Read the investigation →

What we do

Executive briefings, facilitation, fractional advisory, standards coordination, and research partnerships — for organizations navigating complex decisions and long-lived risk.

The 2038-Class Risk Exposure Matrix workshop kit is available under CC BY 4.0. Sixty minutes, designed for mixed technical and leadership rooms. Commercial reuse explicitly encouraged.

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Field Notes

Dispatches on infrastructure risk, long-horizon failure modes, and the gap between how systems are governed and how they actually fail. Written for people who need to understand these things before they become someone else's emergency.

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