# Craig Adams

Craig Adams is a product leader building AI software for insurance. As Chief Product Officer at Gradient AI, he focuses on tools that help insurers make decisions about risk, pricing and claims. His posts also draw on experience at Rapid7 and discuss cybersecurity, product strategy and leadership.

- Profile: https://b2binfluencer.marketing/creators/craig-adams/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigsadams
- Median of last 8 posts: 111 reactions, 5 comments (checked 2026-11-02)
- Topics: artificial-intelligence, leadership, cybersecurity
- Based on 8 dated posts, latest 2026-08-05

## Summary

Craig is most useful for cybersecurity thought leadership on AI security outcomes, response, remediation, and leadership.

- Best for: Cybersecurity software brands seeking podcast or advisory work on AI security outcomes and leadership.
- Not for: Consumer family, children's literacy, or paid parent creator campaigns needing disclosed sponsorship and purchase content.
- Check first: Confirm if they have a commercial partnership offer and audience data for your target roles.

### Takeaways

- Security tools should help customers respond and fix problems, not just find threats.
- Insurance decisions cover risk, pricing, claims, renewal analytics, and choices for underwriters and renewal teams.
- Ownership means deciding what to improve next.

## Main ideas

- **Technology matters when it improves decisions and outcomes**: Adams describes insurance as a business built on decisions about risk, pricing, claims and resources. He argues that AI should improve the quality and economics of those decisions, not just automate workflows. In a separate post about health insurance costs, he connects better risk prediction, underwriting and claims management with the possibility of lower costs and better care. That connection is his argument, not independent proof that the products achieve those results.
- **Security tools should help customers respond, not just find problems**: Adams argues that faster detection is not enough: customers need help completing response and remediation workflows. His reasoning is that finding threats was never the end goal; the value is in helping an organization act on what it finds. This is a clear, testable view of where he thinks cybersecurity products should compete.
- **Ownership means deciding what to improve next**: Adams's leadership advice emphasizes curiosity, clear purpose and action. He says curiosity matters in a fast-changing technology landscape and describes strong team culture as built through repetition, clarity, ownership and shared purpose. His definition of Extreme Ownership is not simply accepting blame: it is identifying what is within your control, what you can improve and what to do next.
- **Make community support specific and easy to act on**: In two personal appeals, Adams turns concern for children into a defined need, a concrete ask and a way for readers to help. The posts show priorities he has chosen to discuss publicly; they do not establish a broader private motivation.

## Work to read

- [Joining Gradient AI as Chief Product Officer](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/craigsadams_ai-powered-intelligence-for-insurance-gradient-activity-7500166531092406272-dDKh)
- [Framing AI against rising health insurance costs](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/craigsadams_ai-powered-intelligence-for-insurance-gradient-activity-7503070636529987585--Sky)
- [Describing product capability in insurance renewal analytics](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/craigsadams_gradient-ai-delivers-major-renewal-analytics-activity-7503845829355540481-x0YP)
- [Podcast conversation on AI, cybersecurity and leadership](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/craigsadams_i-recently-joined-thomas-richard-on-the-cybersecurity-activity-7475576135418863616-r58v)
- [Public predictions on cyber offense, defense and AI-era roles](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/craigsadams_i-had-a-great-time-discussing-the-future-activity-7469750129005101056-OYNc)
- [Leaving Rapid7 after a platform-building chapter](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/craigsadams_after-a-rewarding-chapter-at-rapid7-ive-activity-7497636332702445568-X2Kr)
- [Raising support for the Dolly Parton Imagination Library in Waltham](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/craigsadams_dollypartonday-walthamma-literacy-activity-7509223032524238849-5WFC)
- [Back-to-school support for children in state care](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/craigsadams_the-measure-of-a-life-is-not-what-you-achieve-activity-7478047917191262208-zq5U)

## Brand relationships

- **Gradient AI** (employment)
- **Rapid7** (employment)
- **The Wonderfund** (mention)
- **Dolly Parton Imagination Library** (mention)
- **The Cybersecurity Recruiter Podcast** (mention)
- **Noise2Signal** (mention)

## Partnerships

Nothing in the reviewed material sets out a commercial partnership offer from Craig Adams. The eight posts cover two things: Craig Adams's work as Chief Product Officer at Gradient AI, where posts describe the company's renewal analytics product and the cost pressure in group health insurance, and guest appearances on other people's shows, including The Cybersecurity Recruiter Podcast and the Noise2Signal channel. Those conversations show they will discuss AI, cybersecurity, product strategy and leadership at length, but the shows belong to other hosts and nothing presents the appearances as a bookable or paid service. The one contact route shared publicly is a personal email address offered for a local children's literacy fundraiser, not for commercial enquiries. No media kit, sponsorship policy, rate information or disclosed paid brand partnership appears anywhere in the material. For the cybersecurity software brief, treat the shape of any paid engagement — sponsored podcast, advisory work or paid speaking — as unverified; confirming it needs direct outreach or primary material this review did not have.

## Alternatives

- Robert E.: Pick Robert E. over Craig Adams when the episode or advisory work needs authority grounded in hands-on security operations rather than product strategy. The reviewed posts show someone who built a home SOC lab deliberately to test where AI actually helps in SOC workflows, where it falls short, and where people still matter, and who says plainly that firsthand experience was the point rather than opinions about AI replacing roles. The same person appears as a media-ready commentator on live incidents: a FOX 5 Atlanta segment on cyber activity against regional water systems, the suspected Iran link, and what utilities should do, with the position that prevention alone is not enough and that detection, rapid response, tested recovery plans and coordination between technology, operations and leadership are what count. For a cybersecurity software company, that is a strong fit if the campaign wants the detection-and-response argument made by someone who has run the tools, or wants a guest who can carry a critical-infrastructure resilience angle.
- John Davison: Choose John Davison when the company wants a host and convenor rather than a single guest's thesis. The reviewed posts come from someone who runs the "In Case of Emergency" podcast and uses it to put specialists in front of an audience: one 2024 episode with two guests on the intersection of cybersecurity and business legality, covering evolving regulation, compliance frameworks affecting multinational companies, and international customer relationships under complex legislation; another episode with a colleague on cyber risk, the overlap between cybersecurity and the Internet of Things, and the need for greater female representation in the industry. That suits a campaign that wants to borrow an existing show brand, pair the sponsor with legal or compliance voices, or build an episode around several speakers instead of one.
- Tracy Levine: Consider Tracy Levine when the decision turns on vendor risk governance or post-quantum readiness. The reviewed posts argue that cybersecurity leaders cannot secure their own systems in isolation because third-party vendors affect their security posture, and that leaders must hold those vendors to the same standards and get assurances for shared data and systems. A second post announces that SonKsuru is aligning quantum-proof solutions to be accessible and affordable for critical industries such as law firms and the legal profession, and welcomes a former American Bar Association executive to its advisory board. For a cybersecurity software company, that makes Levine a credible voice if the brief targets third-party risk, governance frameworks, or the migration to post-quantum security, with a Forbes Technology Council byline attached to the first post.

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