Hey Chloe Mayo, Head of Strategy & Ops at Synquery,
I assumed that ignoring your repeated “Strategic Consulting Opportunity” emails to my private account would be a sufficiently clear signal to anyone with even modest social and cognitive skills: I have zero interest in engaging with you or your company.
Since that message apparently didn’t make it from your inbox to basic inference, here it is in plain language: No. Neither I nor any of my colleagues will support you or Synquery as interview partners for vendor selection in the threat detection and compromise-assessment software landscape.
I understand the business incentive. You want to convert other people’s expertise into training data, product credibility, and marketable “insights” for your AI services. What I don’t understand is your insistence on pursuing that goal in a way that is functionally indistinguishable from aggressive harvesting.
Even less defensible is this coming from someone flaunting a title like “Head of Whatever” as though it were a credential. But fine—titles in that particular bubble tend to be more performative than meaningful. What is genuinely entertaining is the audacity: sending unsolicited requests into a highly specialised European niche that runs on trust and integrity, and doing so with the confidence of someone who clearly doesn’t understand how that community works.
The result is a neat combination of ignorance, amateurism, and misplaced self-importance. How detached from your target audience do you have to be to believe anyone here will spoon-feed hard-won, domain-specific expertise into a fly-by-night AI service that shows up uninvited?
