Security capability for a multipolar world.

Astralis Intelligence helps organisations globally navigate cyber risk, defence industrial partnerships, and the emerging command-and-control layer between people, sensors, software and systems.

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Capability · Control · Trust

A restrained operating thesis for security partnerships in high-stakes environments.

CAPABILITIES

Three vectors. One thesis.

Cyber resilience and AI security operations

Go-to-market, channel development and strategic partnerships for AI-native cybersecurity platforms serving lean security teams, regulated operators and mid-market enterprises.

Regulated defence industrial partnerships

Responsible market-entry, qualification and partnership work between UK and European buyers and credible allied or partner-country defence industrial ecosystems.

III

AI command-and-control layer

A product roadmap for vendor-neutral decision support: fusing cyber, sensor, operational and human-context data into explainable workflows for high-stakes environments.

From partner business development to proprietary defence technology.

Phase I

Commercial execution in cyber

Immediate focus: business development, resale and partner-led market entry for AI-native cybersecurity.

Phase II

Defence sourcing and qualification

A compliant, documented process for identifying, validating and localising defence industrial opportunities.

Phase III

Proprietary AI defence layer

A vendor-neutral orchestration layer for counter-UAS, cyber resilience and command decision support.

PRINCIPLES

Business moves at the speed of trust

Compliance first

All defence-related work is subject to applicable export controls, sanctions screening, end-use review and licensing requirements.

Human authority

AI should accelerate understanding and execution while keeping accountable human decision-makers in control.

Partner ecosystem

Astralis works across founders, operators, public-sector stakeholders and industrial partners to turn capability into adoption.

Operational clarity

Reduce complexity, surface what matters, and move credible capability from conversation to deployment.

Led by Omar Askari.

Omar Askari is an operator and investor with over twenty years originating and closing complex deals across payments, technology platforms and capital markets in the UK, US, Europe and Asia. His work sits where business, government and regulators meet: the exact terrain where defence and security capability has to be navigated into adoption.

As Chief Business Officer at NayaPay, he took the business from heavy burn to gross profitability in two years and led the AliPay+ partnership that opened Pakistani QR payments into China through an exceptional regulatory approval. As Global Head of Business Development at Revolut, he ran the group’s global cloud negotiation to the chief executive of Google Cloud, supporting its path to profitability. As Head of Business for Uber in Pakistan, he built a $100M+ business and contributed to the due diligence behind Uber’s $3.4bn Careem acquisition.

23+ years across fintech, capital markets and technology platforms

Morgan Stanley, Uber, Revolut, NayaPay

Seed burn to gross profitability as CBO of a licensed e-money institution

MSc, London School of Economics. BA, Brown University

Partnership conversations

For confidential discussions, founder-led BD, or strategic market-entry work, contact Astralis directly.

optimus@astralisintel.com

United Kingdom