Building the Operating System for Continuous Ownership
Ciph Lab® is building Intelligence Resources™ (IR™) — the permanent operating system for AI readiness and continuous ownership in high-stakes knowledge work. We turn static ownership into a live system requirement so AI-assisted work can actually reach production.
Based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The Founder
Founder-Market Fit for AI Governance
Juanita Alvarez combines Big Law operational rigor, Fortune 500 legal transformation experience, and frontier AI governance training to make AI ownership operational.
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Juanita Alvarez LinkedIn
Founder & CEO · Originator of Intelligence Resources™
13+ years bridging legal operations, enterprise transformation, and AI governance.
Founder-Market Fit
6+ years at HG Law (Ropes & Gray spinoff) managing 500+ IP portfolios for clients including Google. Later managed 10 outside counsel firms and $10M+ in annual spend at Amazon Lab126.
IP Systems Lead at Figma. Delivered a 70% reduction in contract turnaround time at Okta. Privacy & compliance roles at Apple. Practice Leader at Legal.io.
UC Berkeley BASIS AI Safety Policy Fellow. Translates frontier AI safety research into deployable commercial frameworks. Raion member.
Experience
The Team
Dr. Jessica Staddon LinkedIn
Principal Advisor at Ciph Lab. 25 years leading AI safety, security, and privacy research at Google/YouTube and JPMorgan Chase.
- → 9,000+ research citations
- → PhD Mathematics, UC Berkeley
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Kilikina Casey LinkedIn
Technical Lead at Ciph Lab. Leads technical implementation across Ciph Lab's platform, including a live diagnostic tool deployed on Vercel. Previously supported technical systems at Credit Karma.
- → Built the Access Tax™ diagnostic
- → B.S. Communication Arts, SF State
Enterprise Experience
Combined team experience at industry leaders including:
Internal R&D Core
IR Insight Circle™
A specialized five-discipline research core establishing the alignment between proprietary governance logic, regulatory law, software engineering, technical execution, and enterprise risk management.
We are the research engine behind Intelligence Resources™, translating abstract compliance requirements into concrete, deployable frameworks that enterprises can actually use.
The IR Insight Circle™ is also our living demonstration. We don't just build Intelligence Resources™—we embody it. Our team structure demonstrates the exact principles we help enterprises implement: breaking down silos between Legal, Tech, and Business; cultivating multidimensional fluency across disciplines; and building adaptive systems that evolve as the regulatory and technical landscape shifts.
Juanita Alvarez
Framework Originator of Intelligence Resources™. Leading the Governance Logic Track. Translating regulatory intent into proprietary business rules and operational methodology.
Core Researcher (Lawyer)
Open Position — Actively Recruiting. Leading the Regulatory Synthesis Track. JD required. Legal validation of governance logic tracks across AI regulatory frameworks.
→ Inquire: founder@ciph-lab.comCore Engineer
Open Position — Actively Recruiting. Leading the Technical Build Track. Building and shipping the Intelligence Resources™ platform. Hands-on engineering with a bias toward execution and delivery.
→ Inquire: founder@ciph-lab.comKilikina Casey
Technical Lead at Ciph Lab. Leads technical implementation across Ciph Lab's platform, including a live diagnostic tool deployed on Vercel. Previously supported technical systems at Credit Karma.
Dr. Jessica Staddon
Principal Advisor at Ciph Lab. 25 years leading AI safety, security and privacy research at Google and JPMorgan Chase. PhD Mathematics, UC Berkeley. 9,000+ research citations.
Research Inquiries Welcome: founder@ciph-lab.com
Living Proof of Concept
Multidimensional Fluency Matrix™
Coming Soon ▾
We are building a full picture of the multidimensional backgrounds that make Intelligence Resources™ work. Not just job titles — the actual disciplines, experiences, and ways of thinking each person on this team brings to the table.
Legacy hiring is too narrow for the AI era. Most organizations hire deep into one lane and hope the rest works itself out. That is exactly why we are also the living demonstration. AI literacy is not a checkbox — real AI literacy requires multidimensional fluency. You cannot fully understand how to work with AI if you only know one lane. The people who grasp it deepest are the ones who bring creativity alongside technical knowledge and can see across disciplines at the same time.
The Multidimensional Fluency Matrix™ will show what that looks like in practice — and why the backgrounds you might not expect are often the ones that matter most.
Building the technical team — open roles for a technical co-founder and founding engineer. founder@ciph-lab.com
Get Involved
Work With Ciph Lab®
We are building the governance infrastructure that responsible AI deployment requires — and we welcome contributors across disciplines.
No personal identifying information required at this stage.