When we first dreamt of Geordie, excitement about AI Agents was rising, but enterprise Security leaders kept asking the same pressing questions: Can I trust an AI Agent to operate inside my business without creating new risks? Where is the balance between innovation and security when deploying these systems at scale?
The tension is clear: agents promise huge productivity gains, but adoption is challenged by concerns around trust, security, and governance.
Geordie Story
This isn’t a new challenge with technological developments. During the Industrial Revolution, coal powered a transformation in productivity and economic growth, but it also carried invisible risks. Flammable gases built up dangerously as it was mined, leading to explosions that put workers at risk and challenged innovation.
We took inspiration from the invention of mining lamps, such as the Geordie lamp, which helped workers across the world to see these risks that they couldn’t see with their own eyes. A small candle inside would extinguish itself when the gas levels grew too high, giving miners line of sight into hidden danger. By making the invisible visible, the lamp allowed the risks to be mitigated, and the Industrial Revolution to proceed safely.
We believe enterprises today face a similar moment: AI Agents can drive the next revolution in productivity, but only if leaders can see and manage the risks before they scale. Geordie is the modern lamp: illuminating where agents exist in your environment, what they are capable of and actually doing, and how risky they are. With our proprietary intervention system, Beam, we go a step further: proactively guiding agents to make risk-aware decisions in real time, so enterprises can innovate with confidence.
Security & IT Teams
We are tremendously grateful to the many security and IT leaders who spent time with us this year. They made it clear that scaling AI Agents is as much a security and trust challenge as it is a technical one. Some leaders told us they felt unable to enable innovation because they lacked visibility into agent risk, while others admitted they had “put the cart before the horse,” rolling out agents without safeguards. Existing tools weren’t built for this middle ground and manual risk management processes would not suffice.
Through these conversations, three enterprise needs became clear. First, enterprises require trust at the core. They need confidence that AI Agents will not create new liabilities and that risk management is embedded into every interaction. Second, they need scalability with safeguards. Agents must be able to work across the enterprise without the risk of dangerously unpredictable behavior. Third, they want partnership beyond just products. Security and IT leaders are looking for vendors that understand the stakes of deploying agents, and will empower them to partner with their business and transform its operations at this critical time.
These insights shaped Geordie from day one to enable enterprises to safely govern agents without governance slowing them down. What began as visibility and intelligence quickly evolved into embedding real-time, adaptive mitigations early in the agentic journey.
The Future
Whilst today we are proud to launch Geordie publicly, this is just the beginning. Our vision is simple but ambitious: for Geordie to become a cornerstone of responsible agentic adoption worldwide. We do not believe innovation and safety are opposites; they reinforce one another. True innovation is only possible when customers have confidence that they can manage the realities of scaling it responsibly.
We want to say thank you to the incredible investors who co-led our Seed round in General Catalyst & Ten Eleven Ventures, with participation from Step Function, AlphaGraph, and a team of world-class angels. We are equally proud and thankful to the elite team we have already assembled to collectively deliver on our vision, and are excited to add many more superstars to the fold in future to do the best work of their careers.
We want to help security and IT leaders say “yes” to innovation with a platform they can trust to manage agentic risk. That means delivering visibility, context, and real-time control as agents move into production. As we open this journey to a broader community, our commitment is simple: to put your needs at the heart of everything we build.
If you’re a security or IT leader exploring AI Agents and weighing the balance between innovation and risk, we’d love to talk. Together, we can ensure the next wave of AI is not only powerful, but also trustworthy, responsible, and transformative at enterprise scale.
— Henry, Hanah, Benji & the Geordies
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