Why TrueSquare Exists
Most AI governance consulting is built from the frameworks down: take a standard, map it to the product, report the gaps. TrueSquare is built from casework up. Before this firm existed, its founder spent years watching exactly how technology products get turned against children, one investigation at a time. That vantage point produces a different kind of assessment, one that starts from what offenders or the child themselves actually do rather than what a framework assumes they might.
The name comes from the carpenter’s true square, the tool a builder trusts to know an angle is right before the structure goes up. That is the role this practice takes with clients: the reference you check your work against before it bears weight.
Kevin Cronister, Founder and Principal
Kevin Cronister is a retired Lead Detective who served more than 15 years with the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office and was the Lead Detective for the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force and Cyber Crimes Unit in Kansas. Over more than 300 investigations, he worked child exploitation cases from first report through prosecution, conducted digital forensic examinations, worked casework with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, testified before legislators, and built training programs for investigators and community organizations.
He holds an M.S. in Forensic Psychology, a B.S. in Criminal Justice, and the IAPP Artificial Intelligence Governance Professional (AIGP) credential, along with an extensive suite of digital forensics and investigative certifications to include a Board Certification as an Expert in Cyber Investigations (CECI) through the McAfee Institute. He currently serves as Director of the Office of Ministerial Standards for the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas, where he oversees safe environment standards and compliance operations for one of the region’s largest institutions serving children and families.
He founded TrueSquare Governance on a straightforward conviction: the people best positioned to help technology companies protect children are the ones who have seen, in granular detail, what happens when products fail them.