About R2
R2 Is a Products and Services Company
R2 helps executives turn high-consequence AI, cyber, product, and transformation priorities into working systems and operating capability.
Why R2 Exists
Advice-only consulting has a structural limit: it ends before the organization has the working system it actually needs.
R2 was built to close that gap. The company combines strategy, engineering, applied research, products, cybersecurity, and operating experience into a single practice, rather than treating advice and execution as separate businesses. That is the strategy-to-capability model, and it is AI-native by design: R2 uses the same architecture, agent workflows, and forward-deployed methods it recommends to clients.
R2 Advisory is the client-facing strategy, transformation, architecture, and execution capability. Advisory is a means to an end: the goal is not merely to deliver recommendations, but to help create the product, system, workflow, operating model, agent capability, or decision advantage the organization needs.
R2 Labs is the applied research and engineering engine. It develops open standards, reference architectures, prototypes, experimental systems, and product foundations, including the Agent Delegation Contract and the research behind iDragonFly, an emerging commercial operating environment for governed expert work, currently in development.
How R2 Creates Value
Services Delivered Now
Executive advisory, AI and agentic-systems engagements, cybersecurity work, and forward-deployed engineering.
Reusable Methods and IP
Frameworks, architectures, and delivery methods refined across engagements rather than reinvented each time.
Applied Research
R2 Labs develops the standards and prototypes that inform what R2 Advisory can responsibly deliver.
Open Standards
The Agent Delegation Contract is published openly so it can be evaluated and adopted independent of any vendor.
Emerging Products
iDragonFly is R2’s first product bet, built on research and delivery experience, not a separate business.
Partnerships and Design Collaboration
Design partners, research collaborators, and technology partners extend what R2 can build and validate.
Founder
Michael Ruiz
Founder & Principal Advisor
Michael Ruiz is an executive operator, architect, product and cyber leader, transformation leader, and researcher and educator with over 25 years of experience in software engineering, cybersecurity, digital transformation, and applied AI. He has held leadership roles across government, defense, healthcare, and enterprise technology organizations.
That range is what lets R2 operate as a single practice rather than a set of disconnected services: the same person who frames an executive decision can also architect the system it requires and lead the team that builds it. His broader thesis on AI-native enterprises, agent governance, and the future of expert work is developed separately on MichaelERuiz.com, while R2 Advisory is where organizations engage that thinking as applied architecture, products, and delivery.
Extended Capability
R2 is a focused practice, not a large staffing organization. Engagements extend beyond the founder through:
- Senior collaborators who join specific engagements for specialized depth
- Specialist partners in cybersecurity, data, and platform engineering
- Client teams who co-build alongside R2 during forward-deployed work
- Research relationships with universities and standards participants
- Technology partners who support integration and delivery
Operating Proof
What the experience enables.
Honeywell
- Grew the global OT cybersecurity business from approximately $150M to more than $300M
- Led approximately 600 professionals across eight countries
- Integrated a $100M acquisition
Ability to connect cybersecurity, product strategy, M&A, global operations, and profitable growth.
Raytheon
- Led a federal cyber mission platform valued at approximately $1.2B to $1.4B
- Led approximately 570 professionals
- Increased delivery velocity by 49% year over year
Ability to lead high-consequence federal technology programs while improving delivery, economics, and mission performance.
MedStar Health
- Built an enterprise digital capability from an 11-person team
- Developed an approximately $300M digital business unit
- Expanded reach to approximately 3.5M annual users
Ability to convert digital transformation into measurable growth, adoption, and operating value.
Deloitte / Federal Mission Architecture
- Supported more than $2B in pursuits
- Contributed to approximately $700M in awards
- Included DNI Fusion and NCTC Railhead
Ability to translate architecture and emerging technology into differentiated solutions that win and execute at scale.
These outcomes reflect team and organizational results achieved under Michael Ruiz’s leadership, not the work of one individual acting alone.
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If the organization is navigating a complex AI, cyber, or transformation priority, we would welcome the opportunity to understand the situation.
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