Applied intelligence for agencies that cannot afford to be wrong.

THE MISSION

The gap that causes case collapse is not bad investigators or bad prosecutors. It is a system with no structural floor. Evidence collected without cryptographic verification. AI findings with no disclosed methodology. Brady material buried in discovery without automatic surfacing. Intelligence produced manually without documented cross-referencing.

CypherMission closes the structural gaps. Not by adding speed to a broken process, but by rebuilding the process so the gaps cannot exist. Chain of custody at collection. Daubert-ready findings from the first output. ACI intelligence that compounds across every case, every agency, every deployment, so the system gets measurably more accurate the longer it runs.

Mr. Castillo brings over two decades of expertise in cybersecurity and cyber intelligence. He serves on several prestigious advisory boards, including Tarleton State University's School of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Strategic Studies, and Dallas College's Cybersecurity and Cloud Computing Program.

A dedicated leader in the field, Mr. Castillo is a member of the North Texas Crime Commission, the U.S. Secret Service North Texas Cyber Fraud Task Force, and on the Board of Directors of North Texas InfraGard Members Alliance. He holds a certificate in Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism from Leiden University (Netherlands) and a Cybersecurity certificate from HarvardX (Harvard University).

He is the author of The Executive's Guide to Cybersecurity: Safeguarding Your Company Against Online Attacks and AI for Executives: A Primer on Artificial Intelligence and its Business Impact.

Mr. Castillo is a United States Air Force veteran who served with distinction and received an Honorable Discharge. MBA, Amberton University.

Career technology operator and inventor. Lead architect of the federal AI engineering practice and the underlying Adaptive Compound Intelligence (ACI) substrate that powers every CypherMission platform. Twenty-plus years building production systems across web, mobile, AI, security, and infrastructure.

During the Oxford University AI Program in 2026, the founding work on Adaptive Compound Intelligence was reviewed by program faculty and framed as “a fundamentally new category of intelligence architecture” distinct from existing large language model, agentic, and retrieval-augmented generation paradigms.

Federal past performance includes cleared engagements with the Department of Veterans Affairs (FedRAMP High), Department of Homeland Security, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Transportation Security Administration, and General Services Administration.

Kelsi Strange brings full-stack digital engineering expertise across interface architecture, front-end development, and platform performance optimization. She leads web platform builds from technical specification through component-level implementation and production deployment, owning design systems, responsive architecture, and conversion-optimized UI patterns across the full project lifecycle.

Her technical scope covers semantic front-end architecture, structured data implementation, and GEO/SEO infrastructure engineering, so the platforms built for CypherMission clients rank, load fast, and convert. Client portfolio spans real estate, healthcare, legal services, and the arts, with consistent delivery across multi-project workflows coordinating design, engineering, and launch timelines simultaneously.

At Lucid Tech Labs, Kelsi oversees product design and digital strategy for the ACI platform suite: managing cross-functional team coordination, client-facing platform builds, and marketing infrastructure. She applies the same technical rigor to visual execution and brand systems as to backend performance architecture, producing platforms engineered to operate at production scale from day one.