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Kyverno Policy Benchmarks: Same Model, Different Harness, Very Different Results
We benchmarked our own tool against two general-purpose AI agents on Kyverno policy tasks. Here’s what we found, including the parts that complicate the story. We build nctl, a CLI-based controller for Nirmata and policy as code powered by Kyverno. That means we have an…
Understanding AI Governance: A Market Map
We’ve spent the last several months talking to CISOs, VPs of Engineering, and Chief AI Officers at enterprises across financial services, healthcare, and technology. Every one of them is thinking about AI governance. Almost none of them are thinking about the same problem. The…
Tokenomics: From Tokenmaxxing to Valuemaxxing
Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in four months. An AI consultant’s client spent $500 million in a single month because no one set usage limits on Claude licenses. Microsoft — which has P&L on both sides of the AI tooling trade —…
Your AI Stack Has a Security Problem. And a Cost Problem. They’re the Same Problem.
Every CISO and VP of Engineering we talk to is wrestling with the same three pressures right now: Move faster with AI. Your business stakeholders want outcomes yesterday. Developers are shipping with Copilot, Claude Code, and a dozen other AI tools. Agents are running in…
The AI Governance Market Is Here. Most of the Problem Remains Unsolved.
Recently, Palo Alto Networks announced its intent to acquire Portkey — an AI Gateway processing trillions of tokens per month — to become the routing and visibility layer inside Prisma AIRS. We think this is great news. Not just for Portkey. For the entire category...
AI Governance Has No Owner. That’s the Problem.
Ask ten enterprises who owns AI governance and you’ll get ten different answers. We’ve had this conversation across financial services, healthcare, retail, energy, and technology companies over the past several months. The pattern is consistent: everyone agrees that AI governance matters. Nobody agrees on who…
From Experimentation to Production: The AI Governance Journey Every Enterprise Is About to Take
Most enterprises we talk to are in the same place right now. AI agents are running in development environments. Developers are using Claude Code, Copilot, and Cursor daily. Business units are asking when everything can go to production. And security teams are asking a different…
Your Developers Are Using AI. Your Governance Layer Isn’t.
Your developers are already using AI. Claude Code. GitHub Copilot. Cursor. A dozen other tools running in the background while they work. The productivity gains are real. Developers ship faster. Code review cycles shrink. Repetitive tasks disappear. And nobody in your organization has meaningful visibility…
The AI Vulnerability Watershed: What Mythos Means for Open Source and Kyverno
On April 7, 2026, Anthropic announced Claude Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing — and the open source security landscape changed permanently. Here is what it means for Kyverno, and what we are doing about it. Something shifted recently. Anthropic revealed that its new Claude Mythos…
What Good AI Agent Governance Actually Looks Like
Picture this. An AI agent with read access to your customer database. Deployed six months ago by a developer who has since moved to another team. Running quietly in the background, making hundreds of API calls a day. Nobody remembers exactly what it’s allowed to…
People at Nirmata
Radhesh Kanumury
Radhesh is Managing Partner of Arka Venture Labs. Arka Venture Labs is an Accelerator fund which assists Indian B2B Startups to foray into US by providing a combination of Funding, Mentoring and access to Silicon Valley Ecosystem. Arka Venture Labs was formed in August 2018 and has made 9 investments so far...
Anubhav Sharma, VP of Business Development
Anubhav is VP of Business Development and Customer Success. He has 20+ years of experience in building and growing businesses across service provider, enterprise and commercial sectors...
Ritesh Patel, Founder & VP of Products
Ritesh Patel is co-founder of Nirmata and has 20+ years experience building and delivering enterprise software solutions and has led highly successful software and business development teams...
Damien Toledo, Founder & VP of Engineering
Damien Toledo is Co-Founder and Vice President of Engineering, overseeing research and development, operations, maintenance, and delivery of Nirmata products...
Jim Bugwadia, Founder & CEO
Jim Bugwadia has 20+ years experience building and leading effective teams and has created software that powers communications systems around the world...