About Control Zero
The Governance Layer for AI Agents.
AI agents are powerful. But power without control is a liability. Control Zero exists to close the gap between what AI agents can do and what they should do.
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Our Mission
AI agents are powerful. But power without control is a liability. Control Zero exists to close the gap between what AI agents can do and what they should do, with policies, audit trails, and enforcement that work in real time.
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Why We Built This
We built AI applications and watched teams struggle with the same problems: agents calling expensive models without limits, tool calls with no access control, zero visibility into what autonomous agents were actually doing, and compliance teams asking for audit trails that did not exist.
The existing options pulled us in two directions: heavyweight platforms that required routing every request through their service, or do-it-yourself patterns we had to maintain forever. We wanted a third path: a governance layer that runs in your own process, with no per-call network round trip, and gives you complete control over your AI agents.
Control Zero is that layer. Policies defined in a dashboard. Enforcement powered by a compiled policy engine. Immutable audit trails built for scale. And SDKs that wrap your existing code in one line.
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Our Principles
Portability
No Lock-in
Your data is yours. Export everything anytime. The SDK works independently, no vendor lock-in.
Experience
Developer First
Built by developers, for developers. One-line integration. SDKs for Python, Node.js, and Go. Full API access.
Speed
Performance Matters
Fast policy evaluation. In-process execution. Your users should not pay for governance overhead.
Trust
Security by Default
Default-deny policies. Cryptographically signed bundles. Encrypted at rest. Your data never touches our servers.
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Where This Is Heading
Governance Is Becoming Infrastructure
Right now, developers install the SDK or point at the gateway to govern their AI applications. They define policies, configure alerts, and review audit logs through the dashboard. This is where most governance products stop.
But teams building production AI need governance as code, not as a dashboard tab. That is why Control Zero ships with a full REST API and an MCP server. The same operations you run through the UI, your CI/CD pipeline and your AI coding assistants can run programmatically.
The industry is heading somewhere more fundamental. As AI agents gain autonomy, they will need to provision their own governance. Not because a human told them to, but because it is part of operating responsibly. The same APIs developers use today are the APIs agents will call tomorrow.
We are building for that trajectory. Every endpoint is agent-callable. Every workflow is automatable. From a solo developer governing a side project to a platform team enforcing compliance across a fleet of autonomous agents.