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Deals stalling on security reviews
Enterprise customers send 200-question security questionnaires. Your CTO burns weekends on them. Answers still aren't good enough to close. And now they're asking about your AI practices too.
Senior IT, Security & AI Leadership. For growing companies.
Your company is growing. Your IT, security, and AI need a leader.
Senior IT, security, and AI leadership at companies up to 6,000+ staff, including 12 external AI advisory mandates since 2019. One accountable operator for IT strategy, security, compliance, cloud, and AI governance. Enterprise-grade operator, not an enterprise-grade bill.
Currently taking new retainer engagements.
The situation
You've outgrown "figure it out as we go."
Your company sells to enterprises or operates in regulated markets. IT governance, security, and AI can't be afterthoughts, but an in-house security leader runs 115-130K DKK/month all-in (base, pension, holiday, bonus) plus 5-9 months from search to effective contributor.
02
Compliance is consuming leadership time
ISO 27001, NIS2, EU AI Act, the board wants answers. Consultancies quote six figures and six months. Nobody internally can scope the real work or connect the dots between security, compliance, and AI.
03
Your team is using AI everywhere and nobody's governing it
ChatGPT, Copilot, and probably three other tools you don't know about. No policy, no oversight, no idea what company data is going where. A customer just asked about your AI practices and your CTO had to wing it.
Results
What this looks like in practice.
Real engagements, anonymised. Scope defined upfront, outcome measured at the end.
01
Danish SaaS company: ISO 27001
Certification roadmap in 8 weeks
Trigger. A Danish SaaS company was losing traction in enterprise sales because buyers kept asking for ISO 27001 certification they didn't have.
Work. Ran a structured readiness assessment to identify the gaps, then provided ongoing advisory covering policy development, risk assessment setup, and a realistic certification roadmap.
Result. Complete gap analysis, assigned owners, and a sequenced 6-month certification roadmap in 8 weeks. Two enterprise deals that had stalled in procurement moved forward.
- 8 wk
- To roadmap
- 2 deals
- Unblocked
02
Software company: Questionnaires (one engagement)
One engagement: questionnaire time from 10-15 hours to under 2
Trigger. Senior engineering time was being consumed by customer security questionnaires, in this case 10-15 hours per questionnaire.
Work. Built a structured answer library, standardised responses, and created a repeatable process for future questionnaires.
Result. In this engagement, the answer library covered roughly 85% of incoming questions and engineering reclaimed about 30 hours per month. Individual result; your starting point and scope will differ.
- <2 hrs
- Per questionnaire
- 30 hrs
- Back per month
03
Software company: Interim leadership
CTO from 2 days/week on security to under 3 hours
Trigger. CTO handling security, cloud governance, and ISO 27001 prep on top of product and engineering leadership.
Work. Diagnostic assessment, then ongoing advisory covering security decisions, cloud architecture review, and ISO 27001 readiness preparation.
Result. Passed first external security review with no critical findings. Began ISO 27001 certification preparation within 4 months.
- 3 hrs
- CTO time on security
- 4 mo
- To ISO cert start
Engagements
Fixed scope and fixed price, agreed before you sign.
Every engagement starts with a fixed-fee baseline. Not a vague discovery. You see exactly what you're getting before committing to anything ongoing.
Entry point
Readiness Assessments
25-35,000 DKK. Fixed fee.
ISO 27001 / SOC 2 readiness, Cloud Cost Review, or Customer AI Readiness. Each is fixed-fee, fixed-scope, delivered in 5-10 business days. Clear picture, prioritised roadmap, decision point.
- ISO 27001 / SOC 2 Readiness Assessment (25-35K DKK fixed)
- Cloud Cost Review tiered by cloud spend (25 / 50 / 100K DKK) with 2x-savings-or-refund guarantee
- Customer AI Readiness (25-30K DKK standard, 45K Questionnaire-Unlock variant)
- Written report with prioritised 90-day action plan
Ongoing
Standard Retainer
Typical engagements 195-225K DKK/quarter
Senior leadership time covering IT governance, security, compliance, cloud oversight, and AI strategy. Bi-weekly sessions, async availability, and ownership of the things your CTO shouldn't own. Scope and fee agreed in the scoping call on a quarterly commitment. 10% discount for prepaid quarters; monthly billing available.
- IT, security & AI governance under one accountable owner
- Compliance program management (ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIS2, EU AI Act)
- Cloud oversight and FinOps discipline
- Executive reporting and board communication
- Security questionnaire handling included. I run them; your engineers stay on product.
Expanded
Executive Retainer
Typical engagements 255-285K DKK/quarter
Broader-scope engagement for companies with multiple concurrent triggers, top-of-ICP scale (150-250 staff), or PE-backed with investor-grade reporting. Same operator, higher scoped hours, one board-prep block per quarter included, quarterly strategic reviews.
- Multi-problem scope (IT + security + AI + cloud + compliance in one engagement)
- Investor-grade reporting cadence
- Board-prep blocks and quarterly strategic reviews
Behzad Motaghi
Founder, Accel Comply
About
Who is in the chair.
I started Accel Comply because I kept seeing the same pattern: growing companies hitting IT, security, and AI governance walls they weren't staffed to handle. The available options (big consultancies, premature full-time hires, or just ignoring it) didn't fit. So I built something that does.
15+ years in IT and security leadership across the Nordics and EEA. IT, security, and AI mandates spanning growing companies through enterprise scale. Includes interim CIDO/CIO work at a 1,800-staff PE-backed group and AI diligence across 9 portfolio companies. Led a Nordic cloud engineering team of 15 at Innofactor. Grew a cloud and security consulting portfolio from 1M to 3M EUR at Crayon.
Azure Solutions Architect Expert | PRINCE2 Practitioner
LinkedIn →Frameworks
- ISO 27001
- SOC 2
- NIS2
- EU AI Act
- CIS Controls
- NIST CSF
Next step
Let's work out what you actually need.
30-minute scoping call. Free and non-binding. If it's not a fit I'll tell you, and point you somewhere that is.
Typically responds within 24 hours