Our Mission
Advanced Technology With a Public Purpose.
We believe powerful technology should strengthen communities, improve resilience, and earn trust through responsible design. Our work explores how secure AI, post-quantum cybersecurity, privacy-first systems, and public-safety resilience technology can serve a safer future.
Guiding Principles
How We Build
Three principles shape every initiative we pursue.
Human Authority
Human oversight, auditability, evidence grounding, and responsible deployment.
Resilience by Design
Technology designed for disruption, uncertainty, and critical operating conditions.
Privacy First
Privacy and control treated as architectural principles, not afterthoughts.
Our Approach
Research That Must Earn Trust.
Black Diamond approaches emerging technology with disciplined validation — identifying the need, defining the risk, designing the system, testing the assumptions, documenting limitations, and only then describing what the work can support.
Define the public-benefit problem and the conditions the work must serve.
Architect the system around trust, resilience, privacy, and human authorization.
Evaluate risk, adversarial exposure, and failure modes before validation.
Test assumptions under controlled conditions and document limitations.
Describe only what the work can support, grounded in evidence.
Leadership
The People Behind the Work
Simon Carreras
Founder & Principal
Simon is a cybersecurity researcher and engineer with expertise in secure AI, post-quantum cryptography, resilience systems, and privacy-first architecture. He leads Black Diamond Project Corp's research and strategic direction.