Agent governance is the next control plane.
Identity governed people. MDM governed devices. Nothing yet governs the AI agents now acting on your behalf — sending mail, moving money, touching production. HiveKey is building that layer.
We started HiveKey because we'd seen the blast radius.
Every company we talked to was racing to put agents into production — and every one of them was doing it the same risky way. An engineer pastes a raw API key into an agent, wires it straight to email or a payments provider or the CRM, and ships. It works. Then it works for ten more agents. Then a vendor's agent gets the same access.
Now nobody can answer the simple questions. What can this agent actually do? What did it do last Tuesday? If it goes wrong at 2am, who stops it? The answers were scattered across logs, Slack threads, and the memory of whoever set it up.
We'd lived this in identity and infrastructure before. The pattern always resolves the same way: you stop trusting that every caller behaves, and you put a control plane in the path — one place that decides, enforces, and records. That's what HiveKey is for agents.
The number of agents will dwarf the number of employees. The governance gap is the opportunity.
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a new class of actor inside the company — agents that act on your behalf, each one needing governance.
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shared policy across the agents most companies run today. The control plane simply doesn't exist yet.
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place every action should pass through, so you can decide, enforce, and prove it — for the whole fleet.
The principles we build on.
Five beliefs decide every product call we make — and how we run the company.
Enforce in the path
A policy you can't enforce is a suggestion. We sit between every agent and every action so the rule runs before the action does — never reconstructed after the fact.
Provable, not plausible
Every claim we make about an agent should be backed by an immutable record. If you can't export it for an auditor, it didn't happen.
Least privilege, always
Anything an agent isn't granted should be invisible to it. Default-deny is the only default that scales to a fleet.
Dogfood relentlessly
We put our own agents under HiveKey before we ask you to. If a control isn't good enough for us, it isn't good enough for you.
A small founding team.
We keep the team deliberately lean and let our product carry the load — scope, guard, and log enforced in the path of every action.
Put your agents under one policy.
We're in private beta with design partners. See HiveKey scope, guard, and log your own agents and internal tools.