The SpookyGood story

A penetration-testing firm, 2020

Kyeson Blake Utley founded SpookyGood in 2020 as a penetration-testing and information-security firm. The pitch on the first website was simple:

At the rate at which cyber threats are rising, it is only logical to secure the gaps in your network BEFORE an incident occurs.

The name and the tagline, “Because we’re spooky good ;)”, set the tone. The company took security seriously and itself a little less so.

Privacy by default

From the start, SpookyGood treated client privacy as part of the service. Clients could sign NDAs with a PGP key instead of a name, communications and documents were encrypted, and the company accepted cryptocurrency alongside cards, checks and bank transfers. Clients got security advice throughout an engagement, free of charge, so they left with better habits as well as a report.

SpookyGood held partner status with Proton, the Swiss maker of encrypted email and VPN services, and was an affiliate of Purism, which builds privacy-focused laptops and phones.

From testing to investigations, 2022

In March 2022 the business was organized as SpookyGood, LLC under Texas law. That spring its focus widened from testing networks to investigating what happens after an attack: cyber investigations, digital forensics, cryptography and intelligence work. The 2022 site put it this way:

Our only goal is to protect you before an attack; if one has already occurred then we will get you back on your feet and correct your current practices to ensure you will not fall victim again.

Much of that work was blockchain tracing for people who had lost money to romance scams, pig-butchering schemes, fake exchanges and fraudulent investment platforms. Clients included law firms, investigators, businesses and individuals. The company summed up its niche in one line: “a simple solution for an unorthodox problem.”

On August 25, 2022, SpookyGood registered in the federal System for Award Management (SAM.gov), making it eligible to bid on U.S. government contracts.

The merger and TRFFC, 2024

In April 2024, SpookyGood merged with Justice Solutions Group (JSG). Kyeson Blake Utley became JSG’s chief technology officer and led development of OnTrial, an AI-assisted investigations platform for attorneys. The two firms announced TRFFC alongside the merger: a non-profit project on Solana built to fund investigators working human-trafficking cases. Read the announcement.

With its work carried on inside JSG, SpookyGood, LLC filed a certificate of termination with the Texas Secretary of State on December 10, 2024.

What came next

Years of tracing stolen funds showed where systems really fail: key handling, over-trusted wallets, and the gaps between components, rarely the cryptography itself. Kyeson Blake Utley carried that lesson into GhostKey Development, which he founded in 2026 to do security-critical engineering: post-quantum cryptography migration, cryptocurrency and custody systems, smart-contract audits and full-scope penetration testing.