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A standing marker for structure and governance.

We design, govern, and operate AI systems the way you already run production.

Denied by default. Observable. Owned.

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What we do

Simulated telemetryuntil a real gateway is wired · local control-plane field · not production metrics[ Field live ]
sanctioned path skip-path · not in etcd
[ Field live — no human in the loop ]

Org rails

Org rails inherited, not optional.

Team SDLC

  1. Development

    SDLC, CI, and change control sit inside those rails.

  2. Platform

    MCP tools and runbooks execute on Kubernetes, inside the barrier.

  3. Security

    Identity, skills, and secrets. Denied by default.

What remains

Inheritance still binds every team.
Each team still owns its SDLC.
Skills stay team-owned. Denied by default.
A runbook can still execute. A shadow agent cannot.
kube exec stays human-led. Denied by default.
The agent never holds a kubeconfig.
Read and write are different groups.
In-cluster uses the same hop.
A skip is still denied on the host.
Shell waits. Markdown does not.

Principal

Felix Rodriguez

MCP and agent trust boundaries.

AI on Kubernetes, in production, including the control plane.

Cloud security and enterprise governance. Denied by default.

Shadow AI

Unintentional. At machine speed.

Most of it is not malice. It is a personal account. An agent with a tool you did not issue. A model that keeps what it saw. That is an insider. It does not know it is one. Once the data leaves the building, you do not get it back.

92%
Of AI-related breaches lacked proper AI access controls.

IBM Cost of a Data Breach, 2026

43%
Of incidents involved unapproved (shadow) AI, more than double last year (20%).

IBM Cost of a Data Breach, 2026

$5.39M
Average breach cost when shadow AI was involved (was $4.63M).

IBM Cost of a Data Breach, 2026

+$1.0M
Extra cost of AI-driven attacks versus other malicious breaches.

IBM Cost of a Data Breach, 2026

21%
Of organizations had an AI-related incident, up from 13%.

IBM Cost of a Data Breach, 2026

40%
Use access controls on AI models and data.

IBM Cost of a Data Breach, 2026

46%
Secure non-human identities in AI workflows.

IBM Cost of a Data Breach, 2026

$1.93M
Saved, and 65 fewer days to contain, with extensive security AI and automation.

IBM Cost of a Data Breach, 2026

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