2026 Strategic Focus ... momentum > positioning
Leadership Team Direction - These are strategic focus areas, not day-to-day expectations.
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Company 2026 Targets
FY26 Revenue
$35.5M Post RXT Reset
YoY Growth
>5% bouncing from bottom
MDR Growth
>$1M dumb conservative
MDR Churn
<$0.3M we should drive to none
AEC Growth
>$0.8M upside here if we get micro-AEC right
AEC Churn
<$1.3M Big opportunity for revenue protection
PS Revenue
>$1.5M Catalyst for MDR growth
EBITDA
>10% Balancing company health
Margin
>50% Ability to improve with AI
NNMRR
>50% New logos extremely important
Armor - Company Wide
12-Month Wins Looking back from January 2027
- MSFT SEA strategy has delivered real customer wins or we've pivoted
- NA Microsoft & Oracle partnerships are generating revenue
- AI is how we operate - not a side project
- Engineering is leaner and shipping more
- Nexus is being used daily by customers
- We've developed an option to have a monopoly - not just competitiveness
Drake
CEOStrategic & Execution Focus Areas
- Prove out MSFT SEA strategy with intense coverage model
- Identify 2-3 strategic partners with better-together potential
- Create a team that runs toward hard problems
- Have pivot plan ready if no success
- Hire and ramp sales leader by Q2
- LT leads by example on AI - no exceptions, no excuses
6-Month Wins
- Sales leader hired and ramped
- MSFT SEA either validated or pivoted with a clear decision made
- New positioning and business model tested - story is sharper
- Strategic partner conversations active with at least one selling together
12-Month Wins
- Armor shareholders closed out and refreshed
- Strategic BOD built
- Mentorship model for LT established
- Market position elevated - seen as leader, not just competitor
AK
Operations / FinanceStrategic & Execution Focus Areas
- Fix the pricing model - know if it's the model, cost basis, or both
- Understand and address AEC churn - it's eating growth
- Operations runs lean and scales without headcount
- Be the business model gut-check as product strategy develops
- Arm Marketing/Sales with analytics they can act on
- Leverage AI for forecasting, reporting, and automation
6-Month Wins
- Pricing Analyst hired, model restructured, cost basis understood - hard decisions made
- AEC churn root causes identified with action plan
12-Month Wins
- AEC churn reduced - growth outpaces churn
- Pricing is competitive - no longer losing deals on price
- Ops processes automated - team doing more with less
- Marketing/Sales trust the numbers and use them
Stouff
Security / SupportStrategic & Execution Focus Areas
- Deliver security within MSFT/Oracle ecosystems - actions, agents, playbooks
- Own Nexus customer adoption - make it indispensable
- Anticipate threats and issues before they hit
- AI code out legacy pain points and swap costly vendors
- Build self-service and reduce ticket dependency
- Team ready to defend against AI-era threats
6-Month Wins
- Long-standing problems finally fixed
- Costly vendors replaced - we own more of our stack
- Nexus has real daily usage from customers
12-Month Wins
- AI/agent security capability deployed and generating revenue
- SOC/Support plugged into MSFT/Oracle delivery model
- Support ticket volume down, customer satisfaction up
- Nexus is why customers stay
Phillip
Engineering / ProductStrategic & Execution Focus Areas
- AI coding is the default, not the experiment
- 2x output at 0.5x engineering cost
- Product Owners + AI = fast value curve
- Only retain next-level talent
- Cut low-value/legacy work
- Invest in rising star POs vs. seasoned PMs
- Nexus, Dash, Reactor roadmaps locked and shipping
6-Month Wins
- AI-first development is how the team works
- Team is the right size with the right people - no dead weight
- AI strategist/owner hired and ramping the company
12-Month Wins
- Transformed team: velocity up, cost down, knowledge distributed
- Armor Principles embedded company-wide
- Dash/Reactor shipped and winning deals
- Ideas to production in weeks, not quarters
Nancy
Compliance / AuditStrategic & Execution Focus Areas
- Compliance/Audit must drive customer value - customers say it, not just us
- Own the CISO experience in Reactor and Dash - make it indispensable
- Break and recreate all processes that slow Armor from moving at AI speed
- Take on compliance work customers hate doing - even if it's uncomfortable for us
- Integrate with Microsoft data/compliance ecosystem
6-Month Wins
- Identified specific compliance work we'll take off customers' plates - plan in motion
- CISO experience in Reactor/Dash has clear roadmap and first features shipping
- Microsoft compliance integrations live
- First customer says "this is different good" unprompted
12-Month Wins
- We own compliance work customers used to dread - it's our differentiator
- CISO experience in Reactor/Dash is why customers stay
- Customer testimonials prove compliance drives value - not just our claim
- Microsoft ecosystem fully integrated and selling
Gary
Services / ConsultingStrategic & Execution Focus Areas
- Services becomes a deal accelerator, not just delivery
- Productized offerings that Sales can sell without Gary in the room
- Get dangerously sharp on AI - how it impacts customers and how we help them navigate it
- Package repeatable use cases (agentic AI, data readiness, etc.)
- Build IP during downtime - not just busy work
- Build direct MSFT/Oracle technical relationships - not dependent on Armor partnership teams
6-Month Wins
- 2-3 packaged offerings Sales can pitch independently
- MRR attached to 25% of services deals at close
- SCs in market with MSFT/Oracle - not waiting for deal assignments
12-Month Wins
- MRR attached to 50% of services deals at close
- Services is why customers buy, not just how they implement
- Repeatable playbooks driving margin improvement