Company / Deep Fathom

Built to make evidence part of the work.

Deep Fathom exists to remove the operational and compliance obstacles between a supplier’s capability and revenue in government and regulated markets.

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Why we started

A capable supplier needs evidence that travels with the work.

Organizations doing serious work interpret dense requirements, coordinate action across teams and systems, and defend claims long after the original deadline. When the record is scattered across spreadsheets, documents, screenshots, and memory, each request starts with reconstruction.

We started with CMMC because the Defense Industrial Base makes the problem impossible to ignore. Security obligations directly affect who can pursue and retain work, while smaller suppliers and their partners are expected to produce credible evidence without enterprise-sized compliance departments.

Our broader direction is mission-to-market: make the obligations between capability and revenue understandable, executable, and provable. Today Deep Fathom operates the readiness and evidence layer. Opportunity selection, proposal writing, legal judgment, and contract awards remain with the responsible people and organizations.

Our mission

Make every obligation executable and every consequential claim provable.

We are building toward a future where teams maintain readiness through the operating work that follows an audit, customer request, or proposal deadline.

How we build

Principles for high-stakes work.

  1. 01

    Rigor that teams can run

    We remove repetitive work while preserving authority, traceability, and evidence. A higher standard belongs in the operating workflow.

  2. 02

    Evidence before assertion

    We show the product working, state its limits, and connect consequential claims to evidence. Teams can inspect how a result was produced.

  3. 03

    Human authority

    AI can accelerate analysis and execution. Accountable people still set intent, review evidence, and authorize outcomes.

  4. 04

    One connected record

    Requirements, work, evidence, and decisions live together so the people responsible can review the same facts.

Leadership

Steven Hess, Deep Fathom Co-founder & CEO

Steven Hess

Co-founder & CEO

Builds systems for high-stakes work, with leadership experience across security, healthcare, fintech, and supply chain.

Kevin Hunt, Deep Fathom Co-founder & CTO

Kevin Hunt

Co-founder & CTO

Infrastructure and security engineer focused on making operational data resilient, traceable, and useful to the teams responsible for it.

Strategic Advisors

Savan Kong, Deep Fathom Advisor

Savan Kong

Product and customer experience leader across commercial and government technology. First Customer Experience Officer at the DoD. Former Defense Digital Service and Amazon.

Rob Bair, Deep Fathom Advisor

Rob Bair

National security and cybersecurity leader across government, AI, and critical infrastructure. Leads cyber and national security policy for Anthropic. Former NSC, U.S. Cyber Command, NSA.

Tanya Loh, Deep Fathom Advisor

Tanya Loh

Strategic advisor, investor, and brand builder. Former CMO at Forgepoint Capital and market development lead at M12, Microsoft's Venture Fund. Early Yammer team through acquisition.

Rich Vorwaller, Deep Fathom Advisor

Rich Vorwaller

Security product leader with deep cloud roots. Launched early AWS cloud security, built a category-leading CWPP at McAfee, and helped found multiple acquired startups.