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Panopticore

The Missing Layer in Enterprise AI.

Deterministic, infrastructure-level governance for AI agents. Audit-grade evidence that internal auditors, third parties, and insurers can verify offline.

As featured on Cloud Wars · April 15, 2026
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What exists today

Three layers of AI governance.
None of them enforce at the action layer.

Model providers & hyperscalers
▸Content filters and safety settings at the model or gateway level
▸Basic logging of prompts and completions
Cannot see your internal workflows, policies, or systems of record. Governance ends at the API boundary.
Observability & monitoring
▸Dashboards and logs after actions have already executed
▸Tracing and metrics for debugging and performance
Cannot stop a bad action at the moment an agent takes it.
AI security & red-teaming
▸Prompt injection detection, data leakage prevention, model vulnerability scanning
▸Pre-deployment testing and adversarial evaluation
Works on the model and the prompt, before deployment or at the filter. Blind to the actions an agent takes.
The missing layer
Panopticore
Runtime governance at the network layer
Enforce before execution
Policy evaluated on every action. Allow, warn, block, or require approval.
Separate trust boundary
Out-of-process, at the network layer. Cannot be bypassed by the agent it governs.
Tamper-evident evidence
Cryptographically signed Evidence Binders that any third party can verify offline.
Your agents ↔ Panopticore ↔ External systems, APIs, tools
What it does

A governance sidecar for AI agent egress.

Deploy it in your VPC, route agent traffic through it, and enforce policy at the network layer.

See every action

Capture every agent action on the egress path, including ones nobody knew about, and measure how much of it your policy covers.

Enforce policy

Each request gets a deterministic decision: allow, warn, block, or require approval. Egress guardrails add allowlists, DNS pinning, and rate limits.

Orchestrate approvals

Require approvals before execution for high-consequence actions via Slack with signed tokens.

Evidence Binders

Cryptographically signed session records for audit, incident response, and legal review. Any third party can verify them offline.
Where it sits
Your Agents
Any framework, any vendor
Panopticore
Enforces policy, routes approvals, records evidence
Separate trust boundary
External Systems
APIs, tools, services
All agent egress flows through a dedicated control point in a separate trust boundary. It needs no SDK and no framework changes.

Frequently asked questions

What traffic can Panopticore govern?
Any agent action routed through the sidecar proxy over HTTP or HTTPS, including requests inside HTTPS CONNECT tunnels.
How is Panopticore different from Microsoft's Agent Governance Toolkit?

Microsoft's README says the toolkit "enforces governance at the application middleware layer" and that "the policy engine and agents share the same process boundary." It hooks into agent frameworks through their extension points, such as LangChain callback handlers and CrewAI decorators.

Panopticore operates at the network layer in a separate trust boundary from the agent and requires no framework changes. Panopticore produces its Evidence Binders outside the agent's process, so a compromised agent cannot alter them. Both are useful; they answer different questions.

Is this just monitoring or observability?
No. Panopticore can block actions or require approvals before execution, and generates offline-verifiable evidence. Observability tools tell you what happened. Panopticore decides whether it should happen.
Can it run entirely in our VPC?
Yes. Panopticore is built to run in your VPC and does not require a SaaS control plane.
What do you store?
Event metadata and cryptographic proofs. Payload capture is configurable and policy-driven.
Does Panopticore handle MCP and A2A?
Panopticore is MCP-aware today. A2A support is on the near-term roadmap.
What's the deployment timeline for a design partner?
Days. You start in simulate mode, then turn on enforcement one workflow at a time once the policy set is clean.
Can Panopticore run in regulated environments?
Yes. It deploys in your VPC, so agent traffic, policy decisions, and Evidence Binders stay in your environment.
What's the company's current stage?
Pre-seed, in active development, building design partner relationships. See the Company page for founder background.