Business case
From a week
to a day.
Metis drafts the threat model in minutes. Your architects spend one or two days validating it, not a week building it.
1–2days
per threat model, down from 5–7
75–80%
accuracy of the AI draft in lab testing
A$12–15K
saved per project, at ~A$2,000 per day
Where the time goes
The slow part is the blank page. Metis removes it.
Most of a traditional threat model is spent gathering context and drafting threats by hand. Judgement, the part only an expert can do, is a fraction of the effort.
Metis drafts threats, scores and controls in minutes. The architect's time goes into validation and sign-off, not a blank page.
Threat modeling effort, average project
Architect days by phase · illustrative split of a 6-day engagement vs Metis
- Traditional
- With Metis
Traditional5–7 days
6days
With Metis1–2 days
Describe & model · AI draft in minutes · Expert validation · Sign-off
1.5days
| Phase | Traditional (days) | With Metis (days) |
|---|
Accuracy
75–80%
Most of the work, done before the expert starts.
In our lab testing, Metis threat models reach 75 to 80 percent accuracy before any human review. For a first draft that is a substantial result: the architect is no longer building from scratch, but reviewing, correcting and completing a model that is already largely right.
AI draft
Threats, risk scores and recommended controls generated in minutes.
Expert
Validation, context and sign-off.
The numbers
A$12–15K back, on every project.
A threat model is not one person's work. Alongside the security architect, engineers and project team members give time to workshops, walkthroughs and reviews.
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Security architect
6 days → 1.5 days · 4.5 days × A$2,000
A$9,000
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Supporting team
Workshops and reviews · 1.5–3 person-days × A$2,000
A$3,000–6,000
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Saved per project
Average project, before licensing
A$12–15K
Savings calculator
Run the numbers for your portfolio.
Beyond the hard savings
The value that does not fit in a calculator.
01
Assess every project
When a threat model costs a day instead of a week, smaller projects and changes stop slipping through unassessed.
02
Find risk earlier
Risks surface at design time, when changing course is cheapest, not after go-live, when remediation costs the most.
03
Stretch scarce experts
OT security specialists are hard to hire. Metis lets the team you have cover far more of the portfolio.
04
Evidence for compliance
Every assessment feeds AESCSF, SOCI and Essential Eight tracking, so audit evidence is a by-product, not a project.
Assumptions
How we got these numbers.
- Baseline effort. A traditional threat model takes 5–7 architect days, depending on project size and complexity. Calculations use a 6-day average.
- Effort with Metis. 1–2 architect days for validation and sign-off. Calculations use a 1.5-day average.
- Day rate. ~A$2,000 per day, a typical fully loaded enterprise cost for a security architect. Applied to supporting-team time for simplicity.
- Supporting team. 1.5–3 person-days saved per project in workshops and reviews.
- Accuracy. 75–80% measured in Metis lab testing of AI-generated threat models before human review. Results vary by project and by the quality of the inputs provided.
- Scope. Savings are estimates of effort avoided, before Metis licensing costs. Phase splits in the timeline chart are illustrative.