About Proper Tools

Proper Tools was founded to make long-lived cyber-physical infrastructure risks legible — and to support the organizations responsible for navigating them.

Our work focuses on systemic rollover risks (including 2036/2038/2106), time synchronization & embedded lifecycle dependencies, and the institutional coordination challenges that arise when technical systems outlive policy horizons.

Founder

Proper Tools was founded by Trey Darley, a resilience engineer & strategic intelligence practitioner working at the intersection of cybersecurity, embedded systems & systemic risk. He chairs the FIRST Time Security SIG, FIRST Standards SIG, and contributes to ongoing ITU-T SG17 work on 2038-class rollover coordination.