Aegean Intelligence Group
AEGEAN INTELLIGENCE GROUPAEIG-WEB-ADV-v1.0 · THE FOUNDERS · 2026
ADVISORY · THE FOUNDERS' CONSULTING PRACTICE

We advise the people who own a decision, and we put our record where they can check it.

Aegean Intelligence Group is an open-source intelligence consultancy run by its two founders. Clients bring a live decision that carries real exposure: a principal's or an organisation's security, a market or a counterparty before capital commits, a contract worth pursuing or not, a threat picture that no single function owns whole. The founders build the evidence from lawful public sources to a published standard, state their judgment with a confidence they can be held to, and lock the forward claims the work makes so the client can score them later. The research on this site shows how they think. The Scorecard shows how often they are right.

01 · THE FOUNDERS
CO-FOUNDER · PRINCIPAL

Zacharias

Zacharias is the author of record for everything the firm publishes: every assessment on the register and the monthly Letter, each judgment tagged with its confidence and its sources, every forward claim locked on the Scorecard with its outcome. He wrote AEGEAN-OS, the operating standard every engagement runs to, and built BRIER, the instrument that scores it.

A client's engagement is researched, argued and confidence-tagged to the same standard as the published work, and the same instrument keeps the client's record.

ROLECo-founder, Principal
CO-FOUNDER · PRINCIPAL

Dimitrius

Dimitrius is a former high-net-worth security specialist with an extensive background in defense, tactical planning, and principal and entity risk: the discipline of reading a person's or an organisation's exposure whole, deciding what to do about it before the event, and seeing that it gets done. The firm's principal and entity risk work is built on that discipline.

He runs the firm's operations across Aegean Intelligence Group and the work that sits under it. Client acceptance, the pricing of an engagement and any contract carry both founders' names.

ROLECo-founder, Principal
02 · WHAT WE DO FOR CLIENTS

Four kinds of work, each pointed at a decision the client already owns. Every engagement is fixed in scope, cited to tiered public sources, confidence-tagged, and passes a written acceptance gate before any work begins.

PRINCIPAL AND ENTITY RISK

One principal. One exposure picture. One accountable function.

A person's, a family's or an organisation's exposure read as one document: the physical footprint, the digital footprint and the counterparty surface. Many advisers each see part of the risk; we own the whole picture, give every finding an owner and a status, and do not close the ledger until the actions are closed.

We hold one relationship per principal, with no competing mandate and no exception by fee. Collection is lawful public information only, kept to the minimum necessary.

  • Principal Risk DiagnosticFIXED SCOPE
  • Trip and Event Decision PackPER TRIP
  • Counterparty Exposure ReviewPER SUBJECT
  • Family-Office Risk RegisterSTANDING
  • Managed Principal Risk WatchSTANDING

Proof on the record: the Defense & Security desk · its claims, scored

THREAT INTELLIGENCE

See the whole threat. Decide before options close.

The external threat picture around the people, sites, operations, suppliers and counterparties that matter, read across five domains rather than left in the gaps between security, legal, procurement and IT. We identify material changes, say what they mean, and define who must act, by when, against which threshold.

This is broader than cyber threat intelligence. We do not run cyber defence, technical incident response or protective operations; we inform the people who do.

  • Integrated Threat Exposure DiagnosticFIXED SCOPE
  • Mission and Decision Threat AssessmentPER DECISION
  • Supply-Chain Threat and Resilience ReviewFIXED SCOPE
  • Managed Threat Watch and WarningRETAINED
  • Incident and Crisis Intelligence SupportSURGE

Proof on the record: the Defense & Security desk · its claims, scored

MARKET AND COUNTERPARTY INTELLIGENCE

One market. One integrated read. One decision you can defend.

A whole market pulled into one picture and pointed at the call you are about to make: demand, the competitive field, capital and ownership, the regulatory trajectory, and the structure the market runs on. A counterparty, a partner or a transaction is read from the public record before signature.

We take no commission on any deal and render no valuation, no appraisal and no investment recommendation, so the read is straight and it says plainly where the evidence stops.

  • Market Baseline DiagnosticFIXED SCOPE
  • Market Entry and Repositioning Decision PackPER DECISION
  • Competitive Position AssessmentPER MARKET
  • Counterparty and Transaction Exposure ReviewPER SUBJECT
  • Regulatory and Fiscal Trajectory BriefPER REGIME
  • Managed Market WatchRETAINED

Proof on the record: the Economic & Financial Markets desk · its claims, scored

PURSUIT INTELLIGENCE

Win the work you should pursue. Walk away from the work you should not.

Whether a contract is worth chasing, decided on evidence before the money is spent: who will really bid, what the buyer actually funds and rewards, how a teaming partner or an acquisition target exposes you, and whether the work is winnable enough to justify the cost of pursuing it.

We take one side per pursuit, never handle source-selection information, and have no stake in your bid: we will tell you to walk away. We inform the decision; you write the proposal.

  • Pursuit DiagnosticFIXED SCOPE
  • Competitive Pursuit AssessmentPER PURSUIT
  • Owner and Buying-Organisation BriefPER BUYER
  • Teaming, Partner and Acquisition ReviewPER SUBJECT
  • Pursuit WatchRETAINED

Proof on the record: the Political Risk & Governance desk · its claims, scored

03 · HOW AN ENGAGEMENT RUNS

Every engagement starts small and paid, and nothing escalates on its own. A client who commissions the diagnostic and stops has a complete product. Each step is commissioned on its own merits.

01 · DIAGNOSEThe first integrated readWhere the exposure is, which decisions it touches, and what is still unknown. Fixed scope, fixed fee, complete on its own terms. A diagnostic assessment with an executive memo, typically within five to ten business days.
02 · DECIDEOne decision, closedFindings converted into a decision pack: the options compared, the evidence attached, the confidence stated, and an owner and a horizon on every action.
03 · SUSTAINA standing watchCoverage against agreed indicators and thresholds, monthly status on everything tracked, and an alert to a named person when conditions change enough to matter, not when they merely fluctuate.
04 · SCOREThe record, keptEvery forward claim the work makes is locked and scored with BRIER, so the client can see over time how well the judgment held. The same instrument keeps this site's Scorecard.
THE STANDING INSTRUMENT

The Judgment Audit.

For a client who wants the record before the engagement, the founders stand up an instance on the client's recent decisions, the last twelve months or the last N decisions of one type, lock what the record supports, resolve what has resolved, and hand back a scored record. It is consulting on the invoice and an installed BRIER instance on the ground. The retainer is the instance staying on, with the founders in the gate.

The first conversation is free and takes thirty minutes: where your environment creates decision pressure, and which engagement fits, if any. Each engagement is priced in conversation by both founders; the Judgment Audit is fixed per audit and quoted per instance per year thereafter.

STAND UPAn instance on the client's own decisions, under the client's control.
LOCKWhat the record supports, as dated, probability-weighted claims. Never edited afterwards.
RESOLVEWhat has resolved, against outcomes on the record.
HAND BACKA scored record. The same instrument that keeps this site's Scorecard.
04 · HOW WE WORK

The standards that make the read worth acting on. Every engagement runs on AEGEAN-OS, the firm's published operating standard, applied the same way on every product.

INDEPENDENCENo stake in the outcome. No commission on any transaction, no valuation, no investment recommendation, and no fee that depends on the answer.
SOURCE DISCIPLINELawful public information only, from an allowlist of more than 620 approved sources organised by tier. No pretexting, no intrusion. A gap is reported as a gap, never filled with plausible content.
SEPARATIONFact, assessment and recommendation are never blended. Facts are cited. Every assessment carries a confidence tag and a one-line rationale. Every recommendation names an owner and a horizon.
CONFLICTSOne relationship per principal. One side per pursuit. The structure is written into the engagement before any work begins.
OUR SEATWe advise and assign. We do not execute protection, run cyber defence, or write the proposal. The people who decide keep the decision.
CONFIDENTIALITYClient confidential by default. Principal work is delivered by a single named author under a non-disclosure agreement, and nothing about a client appears on this site.

The firm is not a tax representative, a law firm, an appraiser, a broker, or an investment adviser, and it says so and stops where a licensed professional is needed.

05 · WHERE WE ARE SPEAKING
NO ENGAGEMENTS ARE LISTED YET. THE FOUNDERS ADD THEM AS THEY ARE CONFIRMED.
06 · REACH THE FOUNDERS

Write to the founders here, or to either founder directly at the address under his name. Say what the decision is, who owns it, and when it is due. A reply comes from one of the two people named above, not from a queue.

The first conversation is free and takes thirty minutes. It ends with a plain view of where your environment creates decision pressure and which engagement fits, if any.

Your message goes to the founders and to no one else. It is not added to any list.