Problem

Clawvisor addresses the trust gap that keeps teams from giving AI agents meaningful access to business systems. Agents can be useful when they can reach Gmail, Slack, Google Drive, GitHub, shells, and APIs, but broad permissions and exposed credentials create a large blast radius: a rogue agent or compromised prompt may access data or take actions the task never required. The economic trade-off is between the productivity of autonomous work and the cost of security incidents, excessive permissions, and manual review of every action.

The main use case is bounded autonomy: an agent can triage an inbox, review a pull request, send an email, or call an API while being limited to the purpose and tools approved for that task. Clawvisor is designed to let teams approve a task once rather than repeatedly supervise every low-risk action, while retaining human control over higher-risk work.

Product / Service

Clawvisor is an agent-agnostic security gateway and authorization control plane placed between AI agents and the tools they use. An agent declares a task, its purpose, and the service-action pairs it needs; the user approves the scope; and Clawvisor enforces that scope on every request. It keeps credentials in a vault, injects them only after authorization, can score risk and require human approval for high-blast-radius actions, and maintains an auditable record of decisions and tool calls.

The delivery model is open-core and supports both self-hosting and managed cloud deployment. The self-hosted gateway is free to run in a customer’s network, while cloud plans remove the operational burden and add managed retention and team governance: Solo is listed at $50 per month for up to 15,000 protected tool calls, Team at $150 per month for up to 50,000, and Enterprise is custom. The benefit is a practical way to add containment, credential protection, approval workflows, and auditability to existing agents without rebuilding them on a new runtime.

Market

Clawvisor competes in the emerging AI-agent security, authorization, and governance market, particularly the control-plane layer for agents that already exist. Its closest named alternatives in the evidence are Arcade, which is positioned as an agent-building runtime with per-action authorization, and Portkey, which focuses on LLM routing and observability. Clawvisor differentiates by authorizing the agent’s overall task, enforcing tool-call permissions at a gateway, vaulting credentials, scoring risk, and preserving a task-linked audit trail.

The company appears to be at an early commercial and product-validation stage rather than established scale. Y Combinator lists it as founded in 2026, part of the Spring 2026 batch, active, based in San Francisco, and having a team size of one; the company offers a hosted product and an open-source core, and its FAQ says the core gateway is already in use in front of real agents. The reviewed public evidence does not disclose customer counts, revenue, or funding, so Clawvisor cannot be conclusively labeled pre-revenue, but there is also no evidence of material commercial traction yet.