EarnedTrust 2026

From first customer to enterprise growth.

EarnedTrust is the commercialization partner that helps ambitious AI, cybersecurity, and B2B technology companies become enterprise-ready. We build the revenue operating system, open the right doors, and work your deals until they close. Enterprise is the destination, not the entry requirement.

Retainer only. No equity. No cold outreach.
Founder experience, delivered inside
GoogleNextdoorExelon PG&EYahooBrex
Three promises
1
We build your revenue operating system.
2
We turn momentum into enterprise customers.
3
We work your active deals until they close.

Everything else, the introductions, the launch support, the CRM, the coaching, serves those three.

Why EarnedTrust

We do not sell you advice. We move the deal.

Most of what stalls an enterprise deal never shows up in a pipeline report. It happens inside the buyer's organization, in rooms you are not in. EarnedTrust works that layer.

Warm introductions, not cold lists
Direct connections to CISOs, CTOs, and VPs from Jules's personal network. People who answer because of who is asking.
Buyer matching
We point you at the accounts where your product actually fits and the timing is real, so effort lands where it converts.
Back-channeling
We read the buyer's internal politics and tell you what their team needs to hear, and from whom, to reach yes.
A trust standard buyers respect
An independent bar that helps security and procurement clear faster, turning a long review into a decision they can defend.
What we measure that no one else does

Commercialization, made measurable.

Most firms talk about readiness. We score it. Every engagement begins with quantified indices, so founders, investors, and boards can see progress instead of relying on opinion.

Commercial readiness
ICP, pricing, and positioning that hold up under enterprise scrutiny.
Trust and security
Whether you can pass a security review and turn it into a reason to buy.
Warm relationships and references
Access to the right buyers, and customers who will vouch for you.
Leadership and culture
The team behind the product, and how deliberately it is built.
Communication and thought leadership
Whether the value lands in two sentences and carries without you.
Investor readiness
The numbers and the narrative that survive due diligence.
About

Trust is the only thing that closes.

EarnedTrust is led by Jules Okafor, JD, who has spent more than twelve years in security, five of them selling and seven consulting, with operator years inside Yahoo and Brex, and Fortune 500 security culture programs delivered at Google, Nextdoor, Exelon, and PG&E.

Before launching EarnedTrust, she led sales and commercialization for multiple technology companies, including Head of Sales and VP of Sales and Marketing roles at three companies that were ultimately acquired. She has carried the number and lived the exit, the same pressure her founders feel.

In 2019 she founded RevolutionCyber on a conviction that has only grown truer in the AI era: security failures are human and cultural, not merely technical. Humans are the system. Culture is the architecture. Today, through RevolutionCyber, her team works alongside CISOs and enterprise security leaders every day, which gives EarnedTrust direct insight into how enterprise buyers actually evaluate emerging technology companies.

The result is a partner who has sat on both sides of the enterprise deal: the sales leader who had to close it, and the trusted advisor beside the security leaders who decide whether to buy. She holds a JD from Temple University, has delivered congressional testimony on AI governance, and keynotes at the RSA Conference and beyond. As you scale, RevolutionCyber, her platform company, becomes the natural next partner. The two are kept deliberately separate: EarnedTrust commercializes growth, RevolutionCyber operates the enterprise.

Three acquisitions
Sales and commercialization leadership across multiple technology companies, three later acquired.
Both sides of the deal
Former Head of Sales and VP of Sales and Marketing, now the advisor beside the buyers.
Inside the buyer's room
Through RevolutionCyber, working daily with CISOs and enterprise security leaders.
JD, Temple University
Legal training that reads procurement, privacy, and risk the way a buyer's counsel does.
Congressional testimony
Testimony on AI governance, at the level where the rules are written.
RSA Conference keynote
A recognized voice on security culture and trust in the AI era.
The Commercialization Journey

Five stages. One direction. Always toward the close.

We organize the work around your commercial maturity, not your headcount. You always know what you are buying and what comes next.

VALIDATECan someone actually sell this?
Review free
Readiness Sprint $1,950
Validation Sprint from $5,000
Confirm real enterprise demand before you commit to a monthly engagement.
Start with the free Readiness Review. The Founder Readiness Sprint adds a Commercialization Canvas and a 30 day action plan. The Validation Sprint adds 3 warm introductions and an investor-ready Demand Validation Report.
WINCan we land our first enterprise customer?
From $5,000
Find what is blocking the deal and build the path through it.
Deal Diagnostic: mapping across 1 to 2 active opportunities, named Stage 4 and Stage 5 blockers, and a clear path to close.
ACCELERATECan we close the deal in front of us?
Sprint from $9,500
Close on success fee
Convert real interest into a signed pilot.
Deal Close: Jules steps in as a named closer, not a consultant. Stakeholder mapping, trust gap repair, procurement and GRC objection handling, pilot design. Or the fixed-fee Pilot Acceleration Sprint for founders who want structure.
SCALECan we make enterprise sales repeatable?
From $18,000
Build the engine so revenue no longer runs through the founder.
Revenue Commercialization System: sales operating model, pricing, qualification, pipeline architecture, and the executive messaging that holds.
GROW & OPERATECan we hold enterprise expectations as we grow?
From $3,500/month
Run with an executive commercialization office until you are ready to build your own. This is where RevolutionCyber becomes the natural next partner as you scale into enterprise operations and AI governance.
The Office of Enterprise Growth: a monthly operating cadence, delivered in Profiles confirmed by the Readiness Review.
The Office of Enterprise Growth, an operating rhythm not consulting hours
Kickoff Strategy Sprint90 MIN
Objectives, ICP, priority growth motion, launch strategy, success metrics. Outcome: a 90-day execution plan.
Weekly Revenue Sprints45 TO 60 MIN
One working session each week to move opportunities forward. Execution sessions, not status calls.
Triarch Security CRMREQUIRED
One source of truth: stages, forecast, founder dashboard, investor-ready metrics. Yours after the engagement ends.
Included execution support
Discovery prep, introductions and back-channeling, proposal review, follow-up coaching, between sessions.
StageProductInvestment
ValidateFounder Readiness ReviewFree
ValidateFounder Readiness Sprint$1,950
ValidateValidation SprintFrom $5,000
WinDeal DiagnosticFrom $5,000
AcceleratePilot Acceleration SprintFrom $9,500
AccelerateDeal CloseSuccess fee on close
ScaleRevenue Commercialization SystemFrom $18,000
Grow & OperateOffice of Enterprise GrowthFrom $3,500/month

Performance-aligned options are available on Scale and Grow for selected clients: a reduced base plus a success fee tied to agreed commercialization milestones.

Founder Intelligence · AI Buyer and Spend Map 2026

Where AI budget lives. Where it closes.

AI budget is not one pool. It splits across distinct owners who fund different things at very different speeds. Here is where the money sits, and where an enterprise-ready vendor attaches the moment a buyer is ready to act.

Lane 01
AI Security and Governance
Owner: CISO
Nearly 80% of security leaders name AI as a top funding priority for 2026, most of it reallocated from budget already held.
EarnedTrust: we vet the vendor before it ever touches the environment, so a fast purchase stays a safe one.
Closes fastAcute fear, a regulatory deadline, reallocation that skips the committee.
Lane 02
Infrastructure and Agentic Platforms
Owner: CIO / CTO
Roughly 9% of IT spend and climbing. About 70 cents of every new AI dollar is pulled from budget that already existed.
EarnedTrust: our readiness review de-risks platform selection before finance asks the hard question.
Closes slowFinance interrogates it, boards expect proof, decisions run quarters.
Lane 03
Enablement, Training and Workshops
Owner: Shared · CHRO · CEO · CIO · CISO
82% of organizations already train their people. 59% still report a skills gap. The spend is happening. The capability is not.
EarnedTrust: we open with a keynote or workshop, then build a measured, governance-anchored program that holds.
Fast entryA workshop closes in one approval. The literacy mandate forces the timeline.
Lane 04
Vendor Trust and Selection
Owner: CISO · CIO · Procurement
Buyers now choose the vendors who make risk and compliance simpler. Trust decides who gets adopted at all.
EarnedTrust: we are the independent gate. Our vetting turns a slow security review into a fast yes.
Clears the pathIndependent proof turns a long review into a decision you can defend.
The through-line

Across every lane, the first dollars go to visibility, control, and capability. They move fastest when they meet a partner who has already done the hard part: the vetting, the structure, the trust. One partner, across all four. That is EarnedTrust.

Case Study · Anonymized

Enterprise-ready in 90 days.

Founder Readiness Review

Start here. Find out if you are ready, and if we are a fit.

It scores how ready your business is and whether you are the kind of founder enterprises and investors trust. Your full results go to you and to EarnedTrust.

The real version

Are you ready to win enterprise, and to be a story worth telling?

We work with a small number of founders, and we only take the ones we can turn into proof. Seventeen questions, twenty-one proof points, one honest read.

17 questions
21 proof points
6 to 8 minutes
What you get
  • A readiness score across business and founder readiness
  • An honest read on whether the timing is right to work together
  • A checklist of the evidence to bring to a first conversation
  • Your full results, sent to you and to EarnedTrust

Answer honestly. The score only helps if it is true.

Contact

Let us talk about fit.

Opens your mail app addressed to Jules@earnedtrust.io.

Web
earnedtrust.ai
How we work
Retainer or fixed fee, never equity. Commission on closes. Fit confirmed by the Readiness Review. No negotiations before we deliver.