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Both platforms help service providers deliver cybersecurity services. Cynomi builds security programs powered by CISO Intelligence and turns every client into a growth opportunity. RealCISO offers an accessible entry point with assessment tools, insurance dashboards, and a vendor marketplace.
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The Quick Take
Cynomi is a Security Growth Platform powered by CISO Intelligence that turns cybersecurity into a recurring revenue practice, not a line item. Partners generate more MRR per client because the platform enables advisory services on top of assessments. Walk a client through a security roadmap, recommend prioritized actions, show measurable progress quarter over quarter. That engagement is worth multiples of an assessment fee. Cynomi embeds the methodology to make that possible for any team member, without hiring senior security talent proportionately as you scale.
RealCISO is a vCISO platform built around cybersecurity assessments, remediation tracking, and cyber insurance readiness. An affordable starting point with white-label capabilities and a built-in vendor marketplace for teams that want a straightforward path from assessment to insurance documentation.
Both platforms support multi-tenant client management, compliance frameworks, and remediation workflows. If your goal is to run assessments and connect clients with insurance documentation, RealCISO provides a clean path. If you want each client engagement to grow into a monthly advisory relationship with stacked services, security roadmaps, and visible posture improvement, that is the work Cynomi was built for.
The Cynomi Difference
A side-by-side look at how the platforms compare across key capabilities.
Feature |  |  |
|---|---|---|
Starting Point | Security program delivery and practice growth | Cybersecurity assessment and insurance readiness |
Platform Experience | Visual, intuitive, context-driven, designed so any team member can deliver with confidence | Guided questionnaire with dashboard visualizations and marketplace integration |
AI Capabilities | Structured CISO methodology with AI agents for ease of use, advisory expertise, and GTM enablement | Proprietary algorithm for gap analysis and vendor recommendations |
Time to Value | Days, with streamlined onboarding and no setup required | Quick assessment launch, though deeper configuration varies |
Framework Coverage | 40+ compliance frameworks with automated cross-mapping across standards | 8+ frameworks including NIST CSF, SOC 2, HIPAA, CMMC 2.0, ISO 27001, CIS Controls |
Revenue Insights | Portfolio-level revenue intelligence and gap-to-service mapping | Revenue growth messaging, though no dedicated portfolio analytics module |
Pricing Model | Tiered plans with predictable, transparent pricing | Affiliate (per-client/year) and Direct Use tiers (Free, Starter, Premium, Enterprise) |
Channel Model | 100% partner-focused, no channel conflict | Partners and direct-use plans for internal organizations |
Ease of Use | Visual, wizard-driven workflows that guide every step | Guided questionnaire format with actionable output |
Best For | Service providers building and scaling security practices with recurring revenue | Service providers seeking affordable assessments with insurance and marketplace integration |
What Customers Say
A side-by-side look at how the platforms compare across key capabilities.
G2 + Capterra
"We've increased client capacity by 40% without adding more staff, thanks to Cynomi's automation."
— G2 Review, 2025
"I have used compliance platforms from other industry leaders. While those solutions were good, they often are prohibitively expensive and they often over complicate the task at hand."
— G2 Review, Mid-Market
"Cynomi allows you to focus on security, not on a framework."
— G2 Review, Director
G2
"The clarity of the yes/no framework alignment is incredibly helpful. It cuts through the gray areas and keeps conversations focused and objective." –Taylor G., Client Solutions Manager
"Its not just a surface level compliance score you actually get detailed findings along with clear guidance on what to fix and how to fix it." –Robin Z., System Engineer
Cynomi Redefines
Compliance and Cybersecurity Management
What happens after the $50/month assessment is where practices are built or stalled.
Your Junior Staff Can Deliver What RealCISO Needs Senior People For
The Revenue Lives Between Assessments
Automating a Program Is Different from Automating a Questionnaire
From Risk Score to 90-Day Roadmap
The Math Changes at 50 Clients
Feature Deep Dives
A closer look at what each capability means for your practice.
Your Junior Staff Can Deliver What RealCISO Needs Senior People For
RealCISO’s guided questionnaire produces useful output, but interpreting results and building a remediation plan requires someone who knows what they are looking at. That bottleneck tightens as your security-experienced staff stretch thinner.
Cynomi walks your team through each step with context-aware guidance. The person running a client engagement does not need to know which controls matter most or how to prioritize remediation. The platform provides that judgment. Partners describe it as “putting us in the expert seat very quickly,” and they mean their whole team, including staff with two years of experience.
- Wizard-driven workflows that embed security methodology into every step
- Visual dashboards with posture scoring your clients can understand
- No manual configuration or senior expertise required to deliver quality output
The Revenue Lives Between Assessments
RealCISO follows a periodic cadence: assess, report, remediate, repeat. The gaps between cycles are where revenue either grows or flatlines. Show up only at assessment time and your client sees you as a cost. Monitor posture, flag new risks, update roadmaps month to month, and you are running an advisory practice.
Cynomi keeps every engagement active. Scores update as tasks progress. New risks surface before they become problems. Your team brings something meaningful to every monthly review, and the MRR conversation follows.
- Ongoing posture tracking that replaces annual snapshots
- Automated score updates as remediation progresses
- Proactive risk identification between formal assessments
Automating a Program Is Different from Automating a Questionnaire
RealCISO automates the assessment itself, delivering real time savings during intake. Cynomi automates the full security program lifecycle: policies generated from each client’s environment, evidence collected from cloud and on-prem systems, remediation tasks ranked by business impact.
Partners report 75-80% less manual work across the full engagement. The labor savings compound across every client, every month, which is how a higher price point pays for itself.
- Policies tailored to each client’s environment, generated in minutes
- Automated evidence collection from live infrastructure
- Prioritized remediation tasks ranked by impact, so your team works on what matters first
From Risk Score to 90-Day Roadmap
RealCISO gives your client a snapshot: risk scores and gap analysis. Useful if your team has the expertise to translate a gap report into a prioritized, business-contextualized roadmap.
Cynomi does that translation. The platform takes each client’s risk data and produces prioritized remediation roadmaps, executive-ready reporting, and strategic guidance tied to business outcomes. Walk a client through their next 90 days instead of handing them a PDF, and the relationship shifts from vendor to advisor.
The Math Changes at 50 Clients
At $50/month per client, RealCISO’s economics look attractive on a spreadsheet. But the platform handles the assessment. Advisory conversations, custom remediation planning, and executive reporting still require your team’s labor. At five clients, manageable. At 50, you are hiring people to do what the platform does not.
Cynomi partners have increased client capacity by 40% without adding staff. The platform handles advisory work alongside assessment mechanics.
“Cynomi’s guided workflows, centralized dashboards, and out-of-the-box connectors let my team spin up each engagement quickly, cutting manual effort by nearly 75%.” –Rene V., Security Practice Manager
- Multi-tenant architecture where one analyst manages 20+ client programs
- Standardized delivery methodology that maintains quality as you grow
- Portfolio-level revenue intelligence that shows where expansion opportunities sit across your client base
Which Platform Is Right for You?
Different priorities call for different tools. Here is how to know.
Cynomi may be the better fit if:
- You want each client to generate monthly advisory revenue beyond the annual assessment fee
- Your team needs to deliver security programs without hiring expensive senior security staff proportionately
- You are planning for 20, 50, or 100+ clients and need delivery that scales without proportional headcount
- Translating security findings into executive-level business conversations matters for your client relationships
- You want the platform to handle methodology, prioritization, and reporting so your team focuses on the client relationship
- You see security as a practice you are building, not a product you are reselling
RealCISO may be the better fit if:
- Affordable entry-level pricing is the top priority for your practice
- Cyber insurance readiness and documentation are primary service offerings
- You want a built-in vendor marketplace to recommend 3rd party solutions to clients
- Your practice is focused on assessments and remediation tracking
What Our Partners Say
Frequently Asked Questions
Most partners deliver client assessments within days. Onboarding is streamlined, templates are pre-built. No weeks of configuration before showing a client their first security posture report.
Different platforms, different work. RealCISO runs assessments and connects clients to insurance and 3rd party vendor recommendations. Cynomi helps you run ongoing security programs: advisory workflows, continuous posture tracking, automated policy generation, portfolio-level revenue intelligence. The price reflects the gap between an assessment tool and a practice platform. Partners consistently report the additional MRR per client justifies the cost.
Tiered plans with transparent, predictable pricing. Assessments, policies, remediation guidance, executive reporting, and integrations all included. No paying extra for features you need to actually deliver a service.
CISO Intelligence is the structured methodology of an experienced security leader, embedded into the platform. It analyzes each client’s environment and produces prioritized remediation plans, risk-contextualized roadmaps, and executive-ready reporting. A more junior analyst or consultant with two years of experience can walk into a meeting and sound like someone with 15. Cynomi’s AI Agents also help with CISO-level workflows and GTM scale.
$60M+ raised and actively expanding intelligence, partner enablement, and revenue analytics capabilities. Active development roadmap, not a tool in maintenance mode.
Yes. The partner success team helps with transitions, and fast time-to-value means you can run both platforms in parallel during migration.
The platform maps client security gaps to your service offerings across your entire client base. Instead of reviewing each client individually for upsell opportunities, you see where revenue sits across your portfolio, measured in MRR. Partners use this to plan quarterly growth instead of guessing which clients to call. It also shows which services you should add to your portfolio next based on what gaps you could close for your existing base.