Built for security-mature teams running autonomous workflows.
Panopticore focuses on VPC-native enforcement and cryptographic evidence so platform teams can safely operationalize autonomy.
Dave Medeiros
Founder & CEO
LinkedIn →Dave Medeiros founded Panoptic Systems on a straightforward observation: AI agents are taking real actions in production, and nothing sits between the agent and the consequences. No external enforcement. No tamper-evident record. No way to prove to an auditor what happened or why it was allowed.
He recognized this as a familiar architectural problem. After more than a decade building at the boundaries between systems, he had seen the pattern before: when the thing being governed and the thing doing the governing share the same trust boundary, governance fails. Panopticore puts the governance layer where it belongs: outside the agent, at the network boundary, in its own trust domain.
Active participant in defining AI agent governance standards.
What we optimize for
VPC-first by default
Customer-owned evidence
Fail-closed boundaries
The governance gap is structural, not operational.
AI agents are gaining the ability to take consequential actions in production. The systems governing those actions remain structurally insufficient: self-reporting, application-layer middleware sharing the agent's trust boundary, and observability tools that record what happened without the ability to prevent what shouldn't. Panopticore exists to provide the missing layer: deterministic, infrastructure-level governance with evidence that any third party can verify independently.
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