Q was built to protect.
Artificial intelligence is transforming our world at extraordinary speed. With that progress comes enormous promise, but also new risks. AI can be used to deceive, defraud, manipulate, and cause harm on a scale we have never faced before.
Q was built for the other side of that equation.
Q was created to help protect people, organizations, and society by identifying the behavioral indicators associated with deception and malicious intent in both humans and AI agents.
From individual investigative interviews to millions of digital interactions and autonomous AI agents, Q brings behavioral credibility assessment to virtually any environment where language is exchanged.
It can help investigators find those responsible, help organizations identify threats before they become crises, and help expose sophisticated fraud. And, just as importantly, help distinguish people who are telling the truth from those who may warrant closer scrutiny.
At a time when technology is making deception easier to create, harder to recognize, and faster to spread, technology must also be part of the defense.
Q is AI built with a purpose: to help uncover the truth, protect the innocent, identify those who intend harm, and make our world safer.
Deception has entered the machine age. Credibility assessment hasn’t.
Human interaction, and with it deception, manipulation and crime, has increasingly migrated into the digital world. AI is accelerating this shift, enabling deception at unprecedented scale and increasingly allowing machines to deceive autonomously.
Yet traditional credibility assessment remains costly, limited to one-to-one human interactions, and dependent on specialized expertise. It was never built for this world.
CyberQ changes that.
Built on a proven behavioral intelligence methodology developed for national security, CyberQ transforms credibility assessment into a digital, automated and scalable capability.
Language is the key: a rich, analyzable record of human cognition and intent, and now the common medium of human and machine communication.
CyberQ analyzes language to assess credibility, from individual interviews to millions of digital interactions and emerging AI threats.
Deception has no boundaries. Neither should detection.
We see almost limitless applications for this technology across the world, wherever words and decisions intersect. The following represent some of the most immediate and impactful examples of where this capability can transform performance, reduce risk, and even save lives.
Government & National Security
Intelligence operations, security vetting, defense investigations, border security and program integrity.
Financial Services
Fraud detection, lending and investment due diligence, and financial compliance.
Insurance & Claims
Claims assessment, underwriting reviews and fraud investigations.
Corporate Governance & Security
M&A due diligence, internal investigations, insider threat detection and corporate compliance.
Higher Education
Ghost student detection, admissions screening and financial aid fraud.
Law Enforcement & Public Safety
Public interaction assessments, investigative interviewing and cold-case analysis.
Legal & E-Discovery
Witness and deposition analysis, litigation support and large-scale communications review.
Consumer Platforms
User authentication, fraud detection and trust and safety across digital interactions.
Media & Entertainment
Investigative journalism, true-crime investigations and behavioral analysis of public statements.
AI Behavioral Security
Detecting AI impersonation, assessing AI-generated communications and identifying deceptive behavior in autonomous AI agents.
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Our founders possess unrivaled expertise, with over a century of combined experience developing, teaching and applying the proven behavioral intelligence methodology that forms the foundation of Q, CyberQ’s credibility assessment system.
Phil Houston, President & Founding Partner
Phil Houston is an internationally recognized expert in deception detection, critical interviewing and elicitation. During his 25-year CIA career, he conducted more than a thousand interviews and interrogations and pioneered the behavioral methodology underlying CyberQ.
Following his intelligence career, Phil co-founded Business Intelligence Advisors and QVerity, bringing his expertise to institutional investors, global corporations and ultra-high-net-worth clients. For much of the past 15 years, he has supported Brad Jacobs in building his transportation and logistics businesses, advising on executive screening, M&A, negotiations and investigations.
At CyberQ, Phil leads commercial strategy and guides the integration of his behavioral methodology into the company’s technology. He is co-author of the New York Times bestsellers Spy the Lie and Get the Truth.
Simon Frechette, CEO & Founding Partner
Simon Frechette has over 18 years of experience applying behavioral intelligence to high-stakes business and investment decisions. At Business Intelligence Advisors, he became the first expert and instructor to emerge from outside the intelligence community, applying and teaching the methodology developed by Phil Houston.
Simon co-founded Mitra Capital in 2014 and developed its behavioral intelligence-based investment strategy. In 2015, Mitra was the world’s best-performing market-neutral fund, delivering a 43.3% net return.
He subsequently served as a Due Diligence Specialist at North Run Capital, leveraging human intelligence collection techniques to inform long/short equity investments. He later became Director of Due Diligence at XPO Logistics, advising the CEO on executive hiring, M&A, negotiations and investigations.
As CEO, Simon drives CyberQ’s strategy and the integration of behavioral intelligence with artificial intelligence to deliver scalable credibility assessment technology.
Susan Carnicero, COO & Founding Partner
Susan Carnicero is a former CIA security specialist with 30 years of experience in interviewing, interrogation, polygraph examination and deception detection. She developed a behavioral screening program used by the federal government and private industry.
As a founding partner of QVerity, Susan has trained federal agencies, law enforcement organizations and major corporations in behavioral assessment and investigative interviewing. Her experience also includes high-level personnel screening and advisory services for prominent business leaders and families.
At CyberQ, Susan oversees operations and supports the development and implementation of the company’s technology. She is co-author of the New York Times bestsellers Spy the Lie and Get the Truth and holds a master’s degree in Forensic Psychology.
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