O'Brien Corporation

O'Brien Corporation

Building the systems the modern enterprise runs on.

Cybersecurity, AI governance, and executive counsel — under one roof. A portfolio of platforms and services designed for organisations that can't afford to get it wrong.

Who we are

One holding company. Three domains. One standard.

O'Brien Corporation is a privately-held technology group building platforms and advising leaders across cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and executive strategy.

Our companies operate independently but share a single operating principle: the systems we ship are the systems we would trust with our own business. Nothing gets our brand until it clears that bar.

Founded and led by Jacob O'Brien, the group serves clients across Southern Africa and beyond.

Products

The platforms.

Software built by operators, for operators. Every product below is in production today with paying customers.

Hakware

The cybersecurity platform for teams that need to see, prove, and defend everything — without a security operations centre the size of a bank.

  • Continuous pentesting & attack-surface monitoring
  • Command Center for governance & audit-ready reporting
  • Managed detection with our own AI-assisted agents
hakware.com

Asgard

The AI access broker. Every call your business makes to every model — governed, blocked when it needs to be, and logged forever.

  • Heimdall blocks off-policy prompts, PII, and secret leaks
  • The Bridge captures every request, per team, per tenant
  • One auth surface across Claude, GPT, Gemini & your own models
asgard.labzero.online

Lab Zero

[Placeholder — awaiting your one-liner] The applied-AI studio behind our next generation of products — Asgard, Nexus, Twinning, Hive, and Healthbound.

  • AI-native platforms shipped to production, not prototypes
  • Multi-tenant infrastructure operated as one estate
  • Every product on the O'Brien standard from day one
labzero.online

Services

The counsel.

When you need a senior operator in the room, not another agency deck. Engagements are hands-on, senior-led, and outcome-scoped.

Virtual CISO

A senior security leader embedded in your business — accountable for your security posture without the full-time overhead. Ideal for regulated companies scaling past 50 people, or any team that needs a signature on the strategy.

  • Board-level reporting & risk quantification
  • Compliance programme design (ISO 27001, SOC 2, POPIA)
  • Incident response leadership when it matters most
  • Vendor & product security assessments

Executive Consulting

For founders and leadership teams navigating scale, technology, or transformation. Straight-talking, operator-informed counsel on the decisions that don't fit neatly into a job description.

  • Technology strategy & platform bets
  • Product-market fit & go-to-market for technical products
  • Org design, hiring, and technical leadership coaching
  • Fractional CTO / executive sparring partner

Get in touch

Let's talk about the problem you're actually trying to solve.

Whether you need a platform, a security programme, or a senior voice in the room, we'd rather start with a conversation than a proposal.