Why We Started AegisAI

Email has been around for over 50 years—and for just as long, it’s been a security problem no one has truly solved. Despite all the advances in cybersecurity, email remains the single most common entry point for attackers. It's the front door to the enterprise—and it's still wide open.

Over the past few years, we’ve watched the threat landscape shift dramatically. Social engineering attacks are no longer crude or obvious. They’re sophisticated, personalized, and increasingly automated. Business Email Compromise (BEC) has exploded—and now, with generative AI in the mix, attackers are moving faster and scaling smarter than ever before.

We saw what was coming—and we didn’t see the right defenses being built.

That’s why we started AegisAI.

We believe the only way to combat AI-native threats is with AI-native defense. In the early days of our work, we saw just how powerful large language models could be—not just for generating language, but for understanding context, intent, and deception in ways traditional rule-based systems never could. We realized that this wasn’t just an incremental improvement—it was a step-function change in how security could be done.

The mission ahead isn’t easy. But it’s clear: to build intelligent, adaptive systems that can learn and evolve just as fast as the threats they’re facing. It means customizing language models to detect and respond to the full spectrum of known and emerging email threats—from zero-day phishing to highly targeted social engineering. It means treating every inbox like a dynamic, high-value environment that deserves real-time, AI-powered protection.

Our team brings together over 25 years of combined experience working on email security at Google. We’ve lived in the trenches of this problem, and we’ve seen what works—and what doesn’t. We’re builders, researchers, defenders. And above all, we’re mission-driven.

Defending the internet has been the through line of our careers. AegisAI is the next evolution of that mission—reimagining email security from the ground up with AI at its core.

This isn’t just about stopping today’s attacks. It’s about building a future where communication is safe by default and trust can scale. 

That’s the promise of AegisAI.

Email secured.

Cy & Ryan