The founders. Proven under attack.
Our initial focus is application security infrastructure for banking payment systems. On a protected system, unilateral change is refused. Not by an admin, a service, an AI, an insider, or stolen credentials. Not even root.
Application security infrastructure for banking payment systems. On a protected system, unilateral change is refused. Not by an admin, a service, an AI, an insider, or stolen credentials. Not even root.
WestGate Data Science is a startup, and Churchill spent two and a half years in design and testing before this launch.
A 30-day public capture-the-flag open to invited offensive kernel researchers, and adversarial testing with Mythos under Anthropic’s Cyber Verification Program.
Every technical claim we publish is verified by our own engineers before it goes out, and the ones that matter most were tested by people we invited to break them.
The market sells a different tool for each intruder. We built the one gate they all have to pass.
An AI, an insider, a hacker, a careless admin. To do damage, every one of them needs the system to do something it was not authorized to do. The industry answered that with a product per intruder: one for malware, one for insiders, now one for AI. All of them monitor and alert, promising to detect sooner. Sooner is still after. The action already hit production.
We started from the other end. If every intruder needs an unauthorized change, then refuse the change and the intruder's identity stops mattering. That is Churchill's Protocol.
Banking, operations, kernels, and payments.
This team has worked for and with IBM, built and run payment systems inside banks, and led the same critical operations together at the executive level long before Churchill existed.
First Level Officer at Comerica at 23. Automated a pension death audit others had stalled on for a decade, saving $2M in year one, and turned a 5,000-page error report into one page with two items by fixing the system rather than the records.
Later scaled procurement across more than 40 plants in 32 countries, and stood up the flagship EMS joint venture for Parastar and Beaumont Health. Her IBM relationship, built on the Comerica mainframe, is the foundation of the partnership today.
32 years in operations. Deputy Chief at Farmington Hills Fire and Rescue, which is incident command, the doctrine most bank incident response programs are modeled on.
Director of Operations at Parastar and Beaumont Health, and at Valor Transport Management, where dispatch runs to a hard deadline with a fatal failure mode: the same discipline a settlement window runs on. Stood up three EMS operations from the ground up. Corporate director across 12 companies and 1,500 employees. Runs day-to-day operations and co-owns the IBM commercial track.
MS Computer Science. An IBM internship, then decades as a principal architect, including a decade at KPMG leading teams of up to 18, the transformation of a nationwide bank payments platform, and Cisco's global identity component library. Contributor to Churchill's architecture.
Ten years from embedded firmware to distributed enterprise platforms. Built a centralized payment gateway to PCI standards and low-level system drivers, with real-time systems in C++, C#, and Rust. With Curtis, verification authority for every technical claim we publish.
Senior Director of Venture Development, Wayne State University. He, Cheryl, and Kevin worked the same critical projects at Parastar and Beaumont Health, now Corewell, where he was asked to verify her non-emergent EMS logistics results: 23% to a sustained 98.9% average. He confirmed them to the CEO and called the system the new standard. Years later she called him, and he came in as Chief Strategic Officer.
Professor of Organizational Behavior, Emeritus, Stanford Graduate School of Business. PhD, Stanford. Co-author of Made to Stick, Switch, Decisive, and The Power of Moments. His father spent his career as an IBM engineer, and Chip interned at IBM early in his own career.
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Sales is founder-led. If you evaluate Churchill, you are talking to the people who built it, not to a layer between you and them.
We did not ask anyone to take our word for it.
Churchill works at the kernel, so before we asked anyone else to trust it we tested it on our own host against the toughest adversaries we could find. Two separate programs, two separate result sets. Neither result is extrapolated to the other.
Thirty days, open entry, against a live server holding a real flag. 31 specialist kernel researchers and top offensive CTF competitors, plus 40 autonomous AI attack sessions directed by the participants themselves. Registered on GitHub, any method allowed, every participant selecting their own techniques freely. 282 distinct techniques across 409 attack instances, on an open and publicly tracked scoreboard. No attacker changed what the protected application runs.
As a participant in Anthropic's Cyber Verification Program we obtained access to Mythos and used it to attack Churchill. 29 documented sessions over 11.3 cumulative hours produced 406,433 enforcement decisions, including sessions that began with full root. 100% containment, zero data exfiltrated. These are measured test results, not an Anthropic endorsement, certification, or recommendation. Sanitized session excerpts and our acceptance record for the program are available on request. Complete logs and full methodology under NDA.
Three provisionals plus an omnibus utility application: 8 claim sets, 160 claims. The architecture is proprietary.
Across both programs, the protected workload continued to serve while attacks were refused. Recovery was negligible, even under active attack.
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Put it on a system you choose.
A host you pick. The rest of it is a conversation.