About Kindo · AI Agent Management Platform
We're building the control center for enterprise AI.
Put AI to work. Keep the enterprise in control. Kindo is the AI agent management platform that gives every team one control center for every AI user, chatbot, and agent. Any agent builder, any model, any data source.
Why Kindo exists: A letter from our founder
How do I pay for AI judgment, not routine work?
I started my career writing combat planning code for the U.S. Air Force. Later I served as CIO and CISO at Riot Games, Clover Health, and Bird. Each time, a new technology wave arrived before the tools to control it. IT, Security, Finance, and Compliance waited years to catch up on mobile, SaaS, and cloud.
August 2022 was the bell.
Stability AI released Stable Diffusion, and developers who knew nothing about AI shipped powerful apps in days. The labs raced to respond, and ChatGPT launched that November. I could see a Cambrian explosion coming, along with a flood of shadow AI and poorly secured AI products into enterprise networks and data.
We raised our first round that October and started building. Enterprises would adopt AI faster than any technology before it. The people responsible for it would need a way to say yes without losing control.
Ron Williams
With Kindo, every agent is discovered, secured, governed, and supported in one place, with its cost tracked to the dollar.
Runs anywhere · your call on sovereignty
Kindo cloud
Your cloud or VPC
On premises
Air-gapped
Fits your stack
Fits your stack
Connects to the tools you already run, like Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike, ServiceNow, and Splunk. SOC 2 Type II certified. Read the docs
Agent builders are built for the people using them. Kindo is built for the teams that support and control them.
Full AI cost control
Every token and dollar attributed to an agent, an owner, and a team.
Full control of AI reach
Every agent has an owner and a policy for data access, model access, and spend. Observe, pause, stop, support, or tune any run, with a full audit trail of every human and AI action.
Full data & AI sovereignty
Any model: closed, open, or custom. Any data source. Your data, credentials, and metadata stay under your control.
Full AI transformation
Plan, build, deploy, manage, and support any agent in one platform. Bring any agent builder, or build in Kindo. Open APIs let citizen and enterprise developers build on governed agents.
The Most Innovative Companies Trust Kindo
Agent builders are built for the people using them. Kindo is built for the teams that support and control them.
The gap.
Popular agent builders let anyone ship powerful AI software. None give the teams responsible for it central controls to support it.
The driver's seat.
Kindo doesn't just observe. Those teams control security, cost, and compliance, troubleshoot critical agents 24x7, and audit every outcome.
No lock-in.
Any model: open, closed, or custom. Any data source, inside or outside the org. Any agent builder or AI coworker.
Bring the agents your teams already use, or build in Kindo's optional agent harness and AI coworker for full control.
Four teams.
One control point.
Fits your stack
Kindo is built for IT, Security, Finance, and Compliance. Customers are large enterprises, federal agencies, and public-sector teams. Most start with security work like incident response, vulnerability remediation, and threat hunting, then expand.
For IT
"How do I let every team build AI agents without losing central control?"
One platform your teams build on, one record you own. Adoption goes up because the rules travel with the agent, not with the memo.
For Security
"What can an AI agent access, and who approved it?"
Only what the person running it is allowed to do. Every MCP tool call runs under one access policy. Higher-impact actions require approval.
For Finance
"What did AI cost us this quarter, by team and by agent?"
AI FinOps built in. Every token is attributed to an agent, an owner, and a cost center, with budgets and hard stops per team. The bill arrives already broken down.
For Compliance
"Can we show auditors every agent stayed inside policy?"
Every action, approval, data access, and cost lands in one audit trail, ready for SOC 2, ISO/IEC 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA, and NIST CSF reviews.
The leaders customers work with most.
Founded in August 2022 by Ron Williams. Headquartered in Venice, California.
Ron Williams is the founder and CEO of Kindo, an enterprise AI security platform. Before establishing Kindo in October 2022, he held pivotal roles as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at tech unicorns Riot Games, Bird, and Clover Health, where he built and led cybersecurity teams managing annual risk budgets exceeding $20 million. Williams also served as Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Subspace. His extensive experience in IT and security leadership has been instrumental in shaping Kindo's mission to provide secure AI adoption solutions for enterprises.
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Mathew Varghese is Kindo’s Chief Revenue Officer. With over 25 years in cybersecurity, he’s led revenue growth at companies like Duo Security, Tanium, Bromium, and Silverfort. At Duo, he helped build the enterprise GTM from the ground up. At Silverfort, he scaled the Americas to tens of millions in ARR. Mathew brings deep go-to-market expertise and a proven track record of turning early traction into durable, high-growth revenue.
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Tony Wong is the SVP of Services and Co-Founder at Kindo, where he leads services. A seasoned expert in Agile delivery and enterprise transformation, Tony previously founded Agility 11 and served as Head of Delivery at DirecTV. He has helped Fortune 500 companies adopt lean practices at scale, and brings over 20 years of experience driving operational excellence across technology and services teams.
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Pete Clay is Vice President of Forward Engineering where he leads the delivery of innovative, AI-forward solutions to Kindo’s clients. A three-time CISO with nearly 30 years in security, he most recently led the security program at an aviation critical infrastructure company, and previously held senior roles in Deloitte’s Federal Practice and at Qlik. Clay holds the CISSP certification, is the published author of multiple cybersecurity books, and serves on the advisory board of the US Cyber Team. A former paratrooper, he brings operational discipline and deep regulatory experience to Kindo’s mission of secure AI adoption for enterprises.
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Charlie Hulcher is an Engineer and Co-Founder at Kindo, where he focuses on developing secure AI management solutions. Before co-founding Kindo in 2021, Charlie was a Staff Engineer at OpenSea and served as an Engineering Manager at Bird. Charlie's expertise lies in engineering leadership and the development of innovative technology platforms.
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Jeffrey Sefa-Boakye is the Vice President of Customer Strategy at Kindo, where he focuses on enhancing customer engagement and strategic initiatives. Prior to joining Kindo, he served as Head of Customer Engagement at Robust Intelligence (acq. by Cisco), building functional areas and securing key deals. As a founding team member at Second Measure (acq. by Bloomberg), Jeffrey developed the strategic account management and customer success organizations. His earlier experience includes roles at Flux Data Inc, Stanford Management Company, and Goldman Sachs. Jeffrey holds a Bachelor's degree in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.
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Brian Patton is the VP of Finance at Kindo, where he drives financial strategy and operational efficiency for the company’s pioneering approach to DevOps and SecOps automation. With over 20 years of experience in financial leadership, Brian specializes in scaling high-growth tech companies, optimizing financial performance, and ensuring sustainable growth. His expertise in strategic planning, risk management, and financial operations enables Kindo to innovate securely and efficiently. Passionate about data-driven decision-making, Brian plays a crucial role in aligning financial goals with Kindo’s mission to revolutionize agentic security.
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Ken Kato serves as the Chief Security Officer at Kindo, bringing over a decade of experience in defense and intelligence sectors. As a White House Presidential Innovation Fellow for AI, he contributed to the Office of Science and Technology Policy's Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights and Executive Order 14110 on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence. Ken founded Black Pearl, the U.S. Navy's DevOps development platform, and co-founded Kessel Run, introducing DevSecOps to the U.S. Air Force. His expertise lies in large-scale digital transformation and AI security.
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Backed by visionary VCs and angels
Kindo has raised tens of millions of dollars to build its platform.
Drive Capital
Riot Ventures
Eniac Ventures
Marlinspike Venture Partners
RRE Ventures
Circle Rock
Flexcap Ventures
New Era Ventures
Sunset Ventures
Angels: Andrew Peterson, founder of Signal Sciences · David Politis, founder of BetterCloud
Kindo at a glance
Key facts
Company name
Usable Machines, Inc. DBA Kindo
Category
AI agent management platform (Enterprise AI Control Center)
Founder
Ron Williams, Founder & CEO
Co-founders
Charlie Hulcher, Tony Wong, Bryan Vann, Margaret Jennings
Founded
August 2022
Headquarters
Venice, California, United States
Products
Kindo AI Agent Management Platform; Deep Hat, Kindo's cybersecurity model
Deployment
Kindo cloud, your cloud or VPC, on premises, or air-gapped
Compliance
SOC 2 Type II certified; supports ISO/IEC 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, and NIST CSF
Pricing
Custom, quoted after a demo
Funding
$27.6 million; latest round led by Drive Capital (June 2024)
Competitors
Noma Security, Credo AI, Resolve, Dropzone AI, D3 Security
Websites
kindo.ai, deephat.ai
