Who this is for

Financial services, government, critical infrastructure operators, and consultancies building capability in this space. EU-focused; global coordination when relevant.

Proper Tools supports organizations facing long-lived infrastructure risk — especially epoch rollover events, embedded timing dependencies, and cross-sector coupling where competent actors lack a shared map. Hard problems made legible, with deliverables leaders can act on.

Executive & Board Briefings

Tailored briefings that make complex risk legible: rollover timelines, cyber-physical dependencies, regulatory interfaces, and the evolving standards landscape.

Deliverable: shared mental model, practical risk register outline, and defensible next-step options.

Side project (open): I’m assembling a small, vetted reviewer group for a CC-BY 30-minute executive briefing workshop on 2038-class time risk. If you operate in leadership briefing environments and want to help pressure-test the framing before I release it, get in touch and tell me a bit about yourself and what audiences you routinely brief.

Facilitation & Convening

Workshop design and facilitation for organizations navigating complex infrastructure or coordination challenges across technical, policy, and operational stakeholders.

Deliverable: structured dialogue, decisions captured, and a durable coordination path forward.

Fractional Advisory

Part-time advisory for leadership teams who need continuity-aware strategy and technical translation without adding headcount.

Typical engagements: 2–4 days/month. Focus areas include prioritization, governance clarity, and calm, defensible communication.

Expert Witness & Technical Testimony

Neutral technical expert services for legal proceedings involving systemic infrastructure risk or timing-related failures.

Available as testifying expert or through referral to qualified specialists.

Standards & Policy Alignment

Guidance on rollover risk in relation to NIS2, DORA, CRA, and standards work across FIRST, ITU-T, and IETF.

Deliverable: coordination clarity, defensible governance posture, and evidence-ready documentation.

Research & Observatory Collaboration

Contribution to research on systemic dependencies, time synchronization, and rollover risk observability.

Focused on durable work that remains useful beyond news cycles.

Engagement & Rates

Standard engagements are priced at €5,000/day. This number is stated deliberately to avoid performative negotiation and wasted time.

Rates may be adjusted for unusually consequential or public-interest work.

Client work enables the publication of CC-BY research, frameworks, and tools intended to accelerate ecosystem-wide remediation.

Standard MSA and NDA available upon request.

Reach out

If you're interested in an engagement—or unsure whether a fit exists—please reach out. We will suggest the smallest useful next step.