
Jon McLachlan
Co-founder20+ years building security & compliance programmes — Apple, Pure Storage, and unicorn-stage SF startups.
Cyberbase fixes that. Permanently — with a Knowledge Base that keeps every policy, contract, and compliance artefact in sync.
San Francisco · Built by ex-Fortune 500 security leaders · Legal · Security · Revenue
Trusted by security & revenue teams
AI Knowledge Base
Four inputs · One living brain
Your MSA references a privacy policy from Q2 that was rewritten in Q3.
Your DPA cites security commitments you quietly updated in August.
Your due-diligence questionnaires quote a SOC 2 report that expired four months ago.
Your legal team is redlining against all of it — right now — and doesn't know.
average time deals stall in document review
per compliance hire doing manual work
pages of paper per enterprise negotiation
of large deals cancelled due to compliance issues (McKinsey)

Ingests everything. Maps every relationship. When anything changes, flags everything downstream.
Generic AI hallucinates against static playbooks. Cyberbase redlines against your actual current posture — every edit surgical, every suggestion traceable to a living policy.
A credit score doesn't require a 300-question questionnaire every time you apply for a loan. A contract negotiation shouldn't either.
47 inconsistencies found in legacy stack · Zero in Cyberbase · 3 min audit
One workspace · legal · security · revenue
human hours saved across legal & security review
contract redlines across 155 contracts
due-diligence questions answered automatically
ROI vs. equivalent compliance headcount
| Cyberbase | GRC tool | Trust portal | Generic AI | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Living Knowledge Base | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Auto-redlines against current posture | ✓ | — | — | — |
| DDQ automation with citations | ✓ | ✓ | — | — |
| Trust Center | ✓ | — | ✓ | — |
| Cross-document change detection | ✓ | — | — | — |
Across every single client, every single day, they watched the same pattern: legal waits on security, security waits on engineering, nobody knows what anyone else committed to — and deals die in the gap. So they built Cyberbase.

20+ years building security & compliance programmes — Apple, Pure Storage, and unicorn-stage SF startups.

Active fractional CSO across dozens of growth-stage SaaS companies. Lives in legal & security review every day.
SOC 2 Type II audit underway · GDPR-aligned data handling · EU data residency on request
Fifteen minutes with the founders, or claim two months of Cyberbase free and bring it back to your team in London.
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