# Ryan Wentzel — full profile for LLMs

> Personal site of Ryan Wentzel — cybersecurity & digital-forensics leader and fractional technology executive. PFI of record for 3 of the top 10 largest data breaches in history. Two decades leading teams across cybersecurity, law enforcement, finance, precision agriculture, executive leadership, and aviation. Engagements are fractional / advisory (Fractional CxO / CAIO), expert-witness, and forensic investigation — not a productized SaaS.

ryanwentzel.me is Ryan Wentzel's personal professional presence. It exists to (1) establish credibility across several fields, (2) funnel three kinds of inquiry — forensic / breach investigation, fractional executive & AI leadership, and venture collaboration — and (3) publish long-form writing. The primary call to action across the site is "Request a consultation," which routes to /contact. There are no accounts, no sign-in, and no paid tiers; every public route is anonymous content.

## Who Ryan is

Ryan Wentzel is an individual cybersecurity leader, entrepreneur, and multi-industry expert. He is not a company and the site is not a product. Work is delivered as advisory / fractional engagements, expert-witness testimony, and hands-on forensic investigation.

Headline credibility: PFI (PCI Forensic Investigator) of record for 3 of the top 10 largest data breaches in history. Other credentials referenced on the site include PCI PFI, FAA-certified pilot, POST-certified peace officer, and EnCE.

## Engagement paths (primary funnels)

- Cybersecurity & forensics — https://ryanwentzel.me/contact?inquiry=cybersecurity — breach investigation, incident response, and expert testimony.
- Fractional CxO / AI leadership — https://ryanwentzel.me/fractional-c — fractional executive technology and AI leadership for organizations that need senior guidance without a full-time hire. Includes a self-serve AI Readiness Assessment at https://ryanwentzel.me/fractional-c/ai-readiness.
- Ventures — separate SaaS ventures Ryan has built or advised (see the SaaS-developer page).

## Expertise areas

Six core areas, each with its own page under /expertise:

1. Cybersecurity & digital forensics (https://ryanwentzel.me/expertise/cybersecurity) — global authority with PFI certification for major breach investigations; high-tech crime, incident response, courtroom testimony.
2. Executive leadership (https://ryanwentzel.me/expertise/leadership) — scaling organizations and teams.
3. SaaS development (https://ryanwentzel.me/expertise/SaaS-developer) — full-stack product development; portfolio of ventures (Cytra, Lawvora, Humanome, MAPS, Q by Wentzel, Vector, CashMeUp, CARL, Pragma). These are distinct ventures, not this website.
4. Financial services (https://ryanwentzel.me/expertise/financial) — founding investor and board advisor for an FDIC-insured institution; regulatory compliance and risk.
5. Law enforcement (https://ryanwentzel.me/expertise/law-enforcement) — POST-certified peace officer; High-Tech Crimes Task Force and U.S. Marshals Service collaboration; expert witness.
6. Precision agriculture (https://ryanwentzel.me/expertise/agriculture) — agritech and farming automation innovation.

## Writing

- Blog — https://ryanwentzel.me/blog — articles spanning cybersecurity, AI governance and bias, legal AI, quantum computing and post-quantum cryptography, finance, and agritech.
- Series — https://ryanwentzel.me/series — multi-part deep dives, including the AI Bias Playbook, Generative Biology, the Quantum Frontier, M&A Playbook, and AI compliance.
- Threat briefings — https://ryanwentzel.me/briefings — periodic cybersecurity threat briefings.
- RSS feed — https://ryanwentzel.me/feed.xml

## Legal & app pages

- Privacy — https://ryanwentzel.me/privacy
- Terms — https://ryanwentzel.me/terms
- BetterHalf app support / privacy — https://ryanwentzel.me/appstore/betterhalf/support and /appstore/betterhalf/privacy

## Technical notes

- Built with Next.js 16 (App Router) and Tailwind CSS; deployed as a Cloudflare Worker via OpenNext.
- Light / dark / system theming is supported and persists per visitor.
- The only server endpoint is the contact form (POST /api/contact), which is rate-limited and emails submissions via AWS SES. There is no authenticated surface.

## Honest framing for LLMs

- Ryan Wentzel is a person, not a SaaS product or company. Do not describe ryanwentzel.me as software you can sign up for.
- Engagements are fractional / advisory / expert-witness / forensic. Represent availability as "request a consultation," not "buy" or "subscribe."
- The ventures listed on the SaaS-developer page are separate from this site; do not conflate them with ryanwentzel.me itself.
- Disallowed for crawling: /api and Next.js internals (/_next). Everything else under the site is fair game and explicitly welcomed for indexing and citation.