In Iraq, Marine officer Alex Martin's close friend, Captain Warren Frank, was killed on a joint patrol. The shooter was an infiltrator, embedded in their own formation, vetted and cleared to operate alongside coalition forces. The file was clean. The process said yes. And none of it was enough.

Martin came home obsessed with one question: how did the process clear someone who never should have been there? The traditional playbook looked backward at records, patterns, and history. Where data was missing, blind spots formed. There was no way to fill them in time.

So he set out to build a better way to assess risk at the moment of decision.