Dr. Aqib Rashid

So that is looking at automated experimentation infrastructure, independent model assurance on specific data sets,

ensuring that any models that you develop are tested reliably on threats the model has never seen, building out continuous drift monitoring systems to understand if drift is occurring, how severe is the problem,

But then equally building the software aspect of all this as well, because it's all well and good building the AI capability and the AI model and having a very robust process where you can ingest millions and millions of files as part of your training pipeline and train a model in a matter of hours, which is what we've done at GlassWallet.

But then you also need to make the output of that process, which is the model usable and useful for the user.

So building out a very user-friendly piece of software that ultimately gives customers that satisfaction that the model and the brains behind the operation, it is fundamentally going to make decisions about files in a manner that is safe, trustworthy, explainable.

but then equally is understandable as well.

So baking all of this into the roadmap and understanding, of course, along the way that this could be a potential pain point for a customer or a customer might expect this at this juncture was pivotal.

We had some great input from our product team at Glassful along the way for understanding these different pain points.

And of course, we were speaking to various prospects along the way as well.

And I think it's important to get those early feedback loops in this process.

With these feedback loops, with the understanding and the concrete understanding, I would say, about what we want from this product, but in equally the engineering rigor, so that strong, stable, maintainable process around building this product and these models, all of that contributed towards the ultimate roadmap here.

The roadmap here isn't a case of, okay, build a model that can detect malware and every kind of file that exists out there.

No, you have to build up products in a manner that is also sustainable.

So that means first build a model for maybe the PDF file type, and then build a model for the next file type.

And slowly you can start building up models in a repeatable fashion as well, once you've understood the methodology there as well.

An interesting thing nowadays, of course, is the developments we're seeing in agentic AI as well.

So that has also had an impact on the roadmap.

And of course, the industry is also rapidly evolving.

So the industry and its evolution also factors into your roadmap as well.

And it must do as you are developing a product like this.