As featured in the Fall 2025 edition of Family Office Magazine. In today’s environment, luxury assets are no longer just symbols of wealth; they are nodes of vulnerability. The exposure economy is flourishing, and the very lifestyle designed for discretion is under siege.

Organizations need a Chief Strategic Intelligence Officer (CSIO) to ensure leadership teams gain foresight, not blind spots. The challenge is not a lack of data, it is a lack of intelligence.

If there’s one lesson our team has learned, whether supporting the Department of Defense, Fortune 500s, or fast-moving startups, it’s this: the most damaging threats are rarely the ones you see coming.

Reality TV is about unpredictable drama. But preventable disasters — lawsuits, breakdowns, abuse revelations — aren’t “good TV.” They’re failures of vetting.

It’s time to raise the bar. It’s time to vet like an intelligence agency.