Tacilent intelligence operations command center

Company

Built by people who have owned the consequences.

National security tradecraft and operating experience, transformed into decision-ready Risk Intelligence.

Recognition

  • TAG Top 40 Most Innovative Companies
  • CRN Stellar Startup
  • Atlanta Startup Awards, Best New Startup
  • Venture Atlanta Showcase
  • The LegalTech Fund
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The Founders

Experience built for consequential decisions.

Ron Johnson, Founder/CEO + Chief Intelligence Officer

Ron Johnson

Founder/CEO + Chief Intelligence Officer

Army special operations, FBI, DoD, EY, Harvard Kennedy School

Josh Bonham, Co-Founder + COO

Josh Bonham

Co-Founder + COO

First investor · scaled companies to $40M and $100M ARR

Why Tacilent

The story behind the intelligence.

The people who owned the consequences rarely held the intelligence.

Ron Johnson spent his career inside the intelligence centers most organizations will never see. As an Army special operations combat veteran, a former FBI risk and intelligence leader who built the program from the ground up, and a builder of covert-operations software for the Department of Defense, Ron watched national-security teams predict and prevent what the commercial world only cleans up after.

Then he crossed into business, leading risk across a $100M-plus P&L inside EY's Financial Services practice. The gap was stark. Private-sector risk management was reactive, backward looking, and fragmented across tools and teams, unchanged in twenty years. The people who owned the consequences rarely held the intelligence, and the intelligence rarely arrived in time to matter.

Tacit + Resilient = Tacilent

Tacilent joins two words: tacit and resilient. Tacit is the unspoken risk people sense but never say out loud, too often locked in silos. Resilience is what we build for every organization we serve. The name brings them together, turning silent knowledge into shared resilience. Relentless resilience is Ron's motto, and Tacilent drives the shift from reactive risk management to predictive risk resilience.

Advisory Board

Experienced perspective for building and scaling Tacilent.

Tacilent's advisors support company growth, organizational development, strategic decisions, and long-term scale.

Demek Adams, Tacilent advisor

Demek Adams

Former EY and Grant Thornton partner and principal

Expertise

Financial services · Transformation

Dennis Sabo, Tacilent advisor

Dennis Sabo

Managing Director

Expertise

Financial services · Private markets

David Blaha, Tacilent advisor

David Blaha

Former Vice President and General Manager, American Express

Expertise

Financial services · Go-to-market

Stephen Helwig, Tacilent advisor

Stephen Helwig

Vice President, Microsoft

Expertise

AI · Cloud · Enterprise technology

Intelligence Council

National security expertise behind the platform.

Tacilent's Intelligence Council is a curated group of intelligence, national security, risk, cyber, and AI experts who help train, test, and quality-control the platform against real-world decision conditions.

Challenge outputs

Review recommendations, assumptions, and analytical logic against real-world experience.

Test edge cases

Surface blind spots and examine what happens when conditions or assumptions change.

Design scenarios

Create realistic, multi-domain cases that strengthen platform training and evaluation.

Prioritize signals

Determine which internal and external signals matter most by industry, risk, and consequence.

The Council is chaired by Tacilent's CEO and Chief Intelligence Officer, who sets priorities and coordinates reviews across platform and intelligence work.

Kenneth Cassine, Intelligence Council

Kenneth Cassine

Intelligence Council

Former FBI executive and enterprise security leader

Expertise

Cybersecurity · Intelligence

Philip Wislar, Intelligence Council

Philip Wislar

Intelligence Council

Former FBI and U.S. Army leader · Former company president

Expertise

Industrial security design · Intelligence · Investigations

Predict Risk.

Protect Value.