Decawork GTM brain

category

market profile

• text: As agents gain access to business systems, organizations need action-level controls that reflect the current task and risk.
• text: Authorization vendors increasingly offer runtime controls and approval gates for agent tool calls.

personas

• title: CISO or security engineering leader
  pains:

  • Broad agent credentials can expose sensitive systems or allow inappropriate actions
  • Static permissions miss the business context of each task
• title: Head of IT or identity governance
  pains:

  • Agents proliferate across teams without a clear owner or inventory
  • Manual approval of every step can slow useful automation
• title: AI platform engineering lead
  pains:

  • Needs to connect heterogeneous agents and tool calls to consistent controls
  • Security checks must operate in real time without breaking workflows

icp

• text: Organizations deploying multiple internal agents across departments with access to sensitive data or systems; no minimum employee count is published.
• text: IT and security teams managing API and MCP traffic and human approval requirements for agents.

message pillars

• text: Allow useful automation while governing actions.
• text: Apply policy in the context of the active task.
• text: Maintain visibility into the agent estate.

objections

• objection: Can a model be trusted to make security decisions?
  response: Evaluate false allows and blocks on representative tasks, and specify which actions require human approval.
• objection: Will adding a decision gateway slow or interrupt agents?
  response: Pilot a bounded workflow and measure latency, coverage and failure behavior before scaling.
• objection: We already have identity and access controls.
  response: Compare existing static permissions with task-specific decisions at the individual agent action boundary.

competitors

• name: Apono
  website: https://www.apono.io/agent-privilege-guard/
  why: Runtime agent privilege controls assess intent and require approval for sensitive actions.
• name: Permit.io
  website: https://docs.permit.io/ai-security/framework/
  why: Fine-grained authorization and MCP gateway offer policy checks for agent tool calls.
• name: Palo Alto Networks
  website: https://www2.paloaltonetworks.com/cyberpedia/what-is-agent-authorization
  why: Enterprise security vendor addresses agent authorization and per-action enforcement.

influencers

• name: Sarthak Aggarwal
  url: https://www.producthunt.com/products/decawork?launch=decawork
  why: Co-founder introduced Decawork in its Product Hunt launch.

keywords

• AI agent authorization
• agent access control
• MCP gateway security
• AI agent governance
• runtime agent policy
• AI agent approval workflows
• agent identity management

voice

• Direct and control-oriented
• Security-focused with practical examples

signals

• text: Company is deploying agents that can modify HR, finance or production systems.
• text: IT is inventorying agents or adding approval gates for sensitive tool calls.

stack

• MCP
• API gateway

pricing

motion

channels

• Product Hunt
• LinkedIn
• X
• founder outreach

confidence

Founders

• name: Aman Raj
  title: Founder/CEO
  role: CEO
  bio: - Built AI compliance platform at Barclays used by internal teams globally - Founded a fintech and scaled it to 52K families and $1.5M AUM - Led product at a consumer AI startup, scaled to 100K+ MAU (Google Play Best App 2024) - IIT Kharagpur
• name: Sarthak Aggarwal
  title: Founder/CTO
  role: CTO
  bio: - AI systems at NVIDIA (deployed at OpenAI, Meta) - Enterprise AI at Ema (used by Microsoft, Hitachi) - Led Conquest, Asia's largest student-run accelerator - Google Code-In Global Winner + Open source since the age of 12 - BITS Pilani