We Defined Agent Runtime Governance. Then We Built the Runtime Control Plane for It.
Watchlight AI Beacon is that control plane: it authorizes, enforces, and records what autonomous agents are allowed to do at runtime. Behind it is 23+ years of running identity and security for large enterprises, paired with deep work on agentic AI systems, so the discipline is shaped by people who have operated security at scale.
Category Creators
We authored Agent Runtime Governance and its 12 Founding Principles, plus the growing body of work that defines the discipline.
Practitioner-Led
23+ years running identity and security for some of the largest enterprises in the world. Beacon reflects that operational reality.
Deployable Today
Watchlight AI Beacon is real and running: version 0.9.12, fully on-premises and air-gapped, deployed in real environments.
Our Vision
A world where every autonomous AI agent operates under verifiable governance, so organizations can trust what their agents do as confidently as they trust the people they employ.
Our Mission
We give security leaders runtime control over what their AI agents are allowed to do. We authorize every action against policy before it executes, require a human when the stakes demand it, and prove what happened with tamper-evident evidence, across every framework an enterprise runs.
This is that vision drawn as a control flow. A human initiates, identity establishes authority, and Watchlight AI Beacon authorizes, enforces, and records every action before an agent can reach the enterprise systems and data it acts on.
"Design. Secure. Govern. Trust."
The commitments behind everything we build, from the Agent Runtime Governance framework to Watchlight AI Beacon.
Who You're Working With
Aldo Pietropaolo
Founder & CEO, Watchlight AI
Aldo has spent 23+ years on the front lines of cybersecurity and identity, and created the Agent Runtime Governance category that Watchlight AI now defines. He has led and architected identity and security programs for some of the largest, most complex enterprises in the industry, and founded Watchlight AI to close a widening gap: organizations are deploying autonomous AI agents far faster than they can govern what those agents actually do.
- Creator of Agent Runtime Governance and its 12 Founding Principles
- Co-inventor of IAM Microservices
- Former Field CTO, Strata Identity
- Former Director of Solutions Engineering, SGNL, CrowdStrike
- Co-founder, Good Dog Labs (acquired)
“Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.” Psalm 127:1 (ESV)
Guided by Operators Who Have Scaled
Leaders who have taken enterprise software and security products from early traction to scale, and to successful exits.
Tanya Helin
Go-to-Market Advisor, Watchlight AI
Tanya is a senior go-to-market executive with 20+ years bringing enterprise software and cybersecurity products to market. She has led end-to-end go-to-market organizations across sales, customer success, professional services, alliances, and revenue operations, with leadership roles at HashiCorp, GitLab, Stack Overflow, and AutoRABIT, and has helped drive the growth behind multiple successful exits. A hands-on operator, she turns strategy into execution by setting priorities, creating accountability, and working alongside founders to deliver measurable results.
- Early leader at HashiCorp, helping scale the company from under $500K to roughly $300M selling technical infrastructure and security to large enterprises
- Led GitLab’s largest region, lifting pipeline coverage from under 3x to about 4x and expanding customers into DevSecOps and security
- CRO at AutoRABIT, launching go-to-market for a new cybersecurity product and taking it from flat growth to ~20% growth and from cash burn to positive EBITDA in under two years
- Advises software and cybersecurity companies on product-market fit and on building and scaling go-to-market
Govern What Your Agents Actually Do
Watchlight AI Beacon is available now, fully on-premises and air-gapped. Request a demo, or work with the team that defined Agent Runtime Governance.
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