Problem

Cynomi addresses the difficulty MSPs, MSSPs, and cybersecurity consultancies face when trying to deliver CISO-level security and compliance services to many clients at once. Their customers—especially SMBs—often lack internal security leadership even as cyber threats, regulatory requirements, and framework demands grow. Service providers, meanwhile, must reconcile technical findings with executive business risk, manage multiple frameworks, and overcome an expertise gap without hiring a full-time CISO for every account.

The economic pain is operational as well as commercial: manual assessments, reporting, and consultant-by-consultant variation consume senior staff time and erode margins. Cynomi’s core use case is enabling a provider to turn fragmented, one-off security assessments into a repeatable, recurring vCISO program across its client base. The company reports up to a 70% reduction in manual assessment and reporting work; one customer, ECI, cut assessment time by 50% and increased GRC margins by 30% without adding proportional headcount.

Product / Service

Cynomi is an AI-powered vCISO and security growth platform sold to service providers. It combines security program management, GRC, risk management, and vCISO delivery in one workflow, with built-in CISO expertise intended to let trained junior staff produce more consistent, senior-level outcomes. The delivery model is partner-led: MSPs, MSSPs, and consultancies use Cynomi to create and operate tailored security and compliance programs for their own customers, generating higher-margin and recurring advisory services.

The platform guides users from client onboarding and interactive risk assessment through planning, remediation, and progress tracking. It can incorporate results from third-party tools such as Nessus, Qualys, and Microsoft Secure Score, or use its own scan; then it analyzes gaps, generates client-specific policies and a unified risk/compliance action plan, connects tasks and controls, tracks improvement, and produces branded, board-ready reports. By mapping more than 40 frameworks into one continuous program and automating repetitive work, Cynomi aims to reduce delivery time, improve consistency, demonstrate client value, and scale services without linear headcount growth.

Market

Cynomi competes in the vCISO software and broader security-program-management/GRC market, with a particularly focused position serving MSPs, MSSPs, and vCISO consultancies rather than selling only a direct-to-enterprise compliance tool. Named alternatives in the vCISO comparison landscape include RealCISO, GetCybr, Apptega, Trava Security, and DrawBridge; broader or adjacent platforms frequently compared in the category include Vanta and Drata.

Cynomi is demonstrably revenue-generating rather than pre-revenue. The company announced a $37 million Series B in April 2025, reporting 4.5x ARR growth in 2023 and 3x growth in 2024. Its 2025 review said the platform was used by nearly 200 MSPs in the Pax8 ecosystem and cited relationships with Deutsche Telekom, Grant Thornton, ECI, and others. Customer case studies report measurable outcomes including ECI’s 30% margin increase, Model’s 20% customer-base growth and 60% upsell-revenue increase, and Secure Cyber Defense’s three-times-faster deal closures, although these performance figures are company-reported.