After his contract ended, Ryan became a contractor for the Central Intelligence Agency and served with the Global Response Staff of the Counterterrorism Mission Center.

Ryan was inspired to found the company after watching videos of terror attacks and shooting incidents in which bystanders did not know how to react, which motivated him to begin training people for those situations.

[1][5] To prepare for filming John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, actor Keanu Reeves trained with Ryan.

CANSOFCOM claimed this was because the episode contained classified footage of a record breaking shot in which a sniper killed an ISIS fighter from a 2.2 mile distance.

[19] However, Ryan and Alexander stated their belief that the episode was censored because it contained Dallas' criticism of the Canadian armed forces' mandatory COVID-19 vaccine policy.