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Ryan Kucher
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Ryan Kucher
Founder & CEO — ThreatForged AI

Not a product manager.
An operator.

Before ThreatForged AI existed, I spent years inside credit unions and community banks as their IT administrator — managing their networks, maintaining their infrastructure, and understanding exactly how much risk they were carrying without knowing it.

Then I moved into penetration testing, specializing in Active Directory assessments for financial institutions. Engagement after engagement, I kept finding the same patterns: misconfigured ADCS servers, NTLM relay paths wide open, Kerberoastable service accounts with weak passwords that hadn't been rotated in years. Organizations that believed they were secure, because no one had ever actually tested them.

The problem wasn't that these organizations didn't care. It was that the options for fixing it didn't fit their reality. A $20,000 consulting engagement once a year is out of reach for a 75-person credit union. An enterprise platform built for a 10-person SOC team is useless to an IT Director who is the security team.

ThreatForged AI is the tool I wish had existed when I was on the other side of that desk — an AI agent that thinks and acts like a human pentester, built specifically for the environments that need it most, priced so they can actually afford to use it.

// Background & Credentials

The experience behind the platform.

Experience

4.5 Years in Cybersecurity

  • ~3 years in credit union IT administration
  • Penetration testing specialist — Active Directory focus
  • Financial institution assessments — credit unions, community banks
  • AI security engineering — ThreatForged AI platform architecture
Certifications

Industry Credentials

  • CompTIA A+
  • CompTIA Network+
  • CompTIA Security+
  • CompTIA CySA+
  • CISM (in progress)
Technical Specialization

AD Attack Expertise

  • NTLM relay — PetitPotam, PrinterBug, DFSCoerce
  • ADCS exploitation — ESC1, ESC8, ESC15
  • BloodHound attack path analysis
  • DCSync & credential harvesting
  • Kerberoasting & AS-REP roasting
Platform & Engineering

ThreatForged AI Stack

  • LangGraph multi-agent orchestration
  • Custom fine-tuned attack reasoning model
  • 99+ integrated security tools
  • pgvector RAG knowledge base
  • MCP server architecture

Close the security gap for SMBs.

The security industry has a dirty secret: the organizations most likely to be targeted by ransomware and credential-based attacks are the ones least equipped to defend against them. Not because they don't care — because the tools built to help them weren't built for them.

ThreatForged AI's mission is to close the security gap for small and mid-sized businesses by delivering enterprise-grade penetration testing at a fraction of the cost, with zero complexity, and without requiring a dedicated security team to operate it.

That means building an AI that thinks like a real attacker — chaining weaknesses together the way a human pentester would, not just scanning for known CVEs. It means writing reports in plain English that an IT Director can hand to their board or their insurance carrier. And it means pricing that treats regular security testing as a routine practice, not an annual luxury.

We're starting with internal Active Directory assessments because that's where most SMB compromises begin. NTLM relay, ADCS abuse, Kerberoasting, lateral movement — the same techniques show up in breach after breach, against organizations that had no idea they were exposed. ThreatForged AI finds those paths first.

$15K
Minimum typical consulting engagement cost
<4hrs
Average time from initial access to domain admin in SMB environments
90%
Cost reduction vs. traditional consulting engagements
0
Security team headcount required to run an assessment

Let's talk about your environment.

Book a 30-minute call. No sales pitch — just an honest conversation about what your AD environment looks like and what an assessment would actually find.

Response timeWithin 24 hours
LocationAustin, TX — remote assessments nationwide
Sectors servedCredit unions, community banks, SMBs under 200 employees