Projects already at risk
We establish where the project actually stands, name the risks plainly, and stay alongside your leadership team while the corrections land. Not a report that sits on a shelf — adjustments you can implement and measure.
An innovation company
Build fast. Build things that survive.
We spent years being called into projects that were already failing — which is an unusually good education in what never to build. RightScope now applies it twice over: recovering the projects you already have, and developing new ones, in-house and for clients, at a pace that tends to surprise people.
More than half a century of combined leadership
80M customers served in live service
Advising since 2011
How we engage
Two ways in, one skill set
Understanding why a project is dying and knowing how to build one that won’t are the same discipline pointed in opposite directions. We do both, and the first is why we are any good at the second.
New development, in-house and out
Products built for clients, and ventures we develop and hold ourselves. A small senior team with no layers between the decision and the work, which is the entire reason we move as quickly as we do.
Four places projects actually fail
A review starts with the current state — accomplishments included, not just problems. These are the areas that most often turn out to be carrying the risk, and the ones we design around when we build.
Resources
Whether the people, skills and capacity match what has been committed — and what has quietly been assumed.
Leadership & succession
Gaps in ownership and decision-making, and what happens to delivery when a key person leaves or is moved.
Scope
What the project is really being asked to deliver, where that has drifted, and which parts are load-bearing.
Reporting & control
Whether the signals reaching leadership reflect reality — and whether anyone would know early if they stopped doing so.
The bench
Four disciplines, not one consultant
Most reviews can tell you a process is broken. Ours can also tell you whether the thing is buildable, defensible and fundable — because the people running the review have owned each of those problems themselves.
Security & trusted identity
Founded SecureTrust, an SSL certificate authority merged into Trustwave. Seat on the U.S. Federal PKI Policy Authority.* We read systems for how they fail, not how they are documented.
Game development & live service
Shipped and operated interactive products at consumer scale, with responsibility for live service serving tens of millions of customers.
Finance & capital
Deal structuring, capital raising and the modelling behind a plan — so the numbers in a recovery survive contact with a board.
Founding & operating
Multiple companies founded, scaled and exited. We have sat in the chair being advised, which shapes the advice we give.
A single specialist sees the risk in their own discipline. A project in trouble is usually failing across several at once.
Representing NexOasis on the U.S. Federal Public Key Infrastructure Policy Authority is a personal and NexOasis role. It is not a RightScope LLC engagement or membership.
Experience
Built on live service at scale
Our principals bring more than half a century of combined executive leadership between them — across computer electronics, entertainment, security and federal trusted identity, including responsibility for live service operations serving tens of millions of customers.
Customers served by live service under our responsibility
80M
Countries reached by our principals, from SSL issuance to live service
170+
Advising communications and entertainment companies since
2011
RightScope clients
- Alinea Games
- Other Ocean Interactive
Companies engaged by RightScope LLC. Work has included mobile application strategy, Agile planning at scale, and the creative design and evaluation of projects. Current engagements include a power grid simulation project helping consumers and utilities understand their very different needs.
SecureTrust — founded, led, merged with Trustwave in 2007
Enterprise clients of SecureTrust — the SSL certificate authority our principal founded and merged with Trustwave in 2007, in a cash-and-stock transaction. Trustwave was subsequently acquired by Singapore Telecommunications. The SecureTrust roots remain in service under their own name today, two owners on. Listed as individual experience, not as engagements of RightScope LLC — included because handling security work at that scale leaves habits that don’t expire.
Portfolio & affiliations
We back the things we believe we could operate
Direct and angel positions across AI infrastructure, healthcare technology, media and identity. This is the half of the business that keeps the other half honest: we are building and funding inside the same conditions our clients are working in, not advising from outside them.
Personal investments and affiliations held by our principals. These are not holdings of, or engagements by, RightScope LLC, and nothing here implies endorsement by the companies or organisations named.
Resources
What we actually hand to leadership teams
A short working library, kept short on purpose. Every link below was checked and is live.
Scaling & delivery
Live service & leadership
Contact
Start with a conversation
Tell us where the project stands. If a review is the wrong answer, we will say so.