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Limestone AI Labs
About

Run by one person who has done this before.

Limestone AI Labs is a deliberately small infrastructure and security practice, run remote-first out of Fort Worth. One operator, fixed-fee outcomes, and a paper trail you can hand to anyone who asks.

Ryan Humphries

Surveyor · Fort Worth

Ryan Humphries

Fifteen-plus years designing, building, and running infrastructure end to end — identity and SSO, switching and firewalls, server and storage clusters, Microsoft 365, and managed endpoint fleets — including an insurance-sector company with 4,900 employees across more than 200 offices. I have stood up enterprise-scale environments from the cabling and the tenant up, more than once. The pattern repeats at every scale: most of the day-to-day is unglamorous configuration nobody has time to do carefully.

Limestone is the practice I wanted to exist: that same discipline, sized to whatever you actually are — a five-person shop or a thousand-seat operation. Most people who can pass your security audit can't build the network behind it; I do both. Identity with a backbone. A network where one bad laptop is not the whole company. Evidence that holds up when an insurer or a regulator comes asking. And AI applied where it earns its keep, which is the reading and the writing, never the judgment.

I write everything down. I tell you when I am wrong. I would rather lose a deal than take one I am not the right fit for.

Method

Three things I hold to.

  1. 01
    Audit before you touch anything.

    Every engagement starts read-only. You get a written baseline and a mapped gap report before a single setting changes. Surprises belong in the report, not in production.

  2. 02
    Evidence over promises.

    Anyone can claim a tenant is secure. The work is producing the trail that proves it: the logs, the policies, the exports an insurer or a court will actually accept.

  3. 03
    AI is leverage, not a headcount excuse.

    The reading, the drift-watching, and the reporting run on models so one operator can cover real ground. A human still scopes the work, makes the calls, and owns the result.

Start here

Email is the front door.

Tell me your headcount, your main cloud, and what made security urgent. Real answer, one business day.

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