# Keycard — Identity & Access Management for AI Agents

# About Keycard
Keycard is identity and access management (IAM) infrastructure for the agent-native world. We provide secure identity, authorization, and governance for AI agents and MCP (Model Context Protocol) platforms.

# Company Information
- Name: Keycard
- Website: https://keycard.ai
- Tagline: "The control plane for autonomous agents"
- Mission: Unlock the power of AI agents by giving developers and enterprises the foundations they need to build and adopt trusted agentic applications at scale.

# Core Product
Keycard provides deterministic guardrails to the non-deterministic world of AI agents by evolving the way applications, agents, and machines identify and authorize one another. Keycard is not a gateway — it's a secure token service that supports federation and brokering of credentials across applications, agents, and services.

Key features:
- Ephemeral, identity-bound tokens with support for mixed delegation chains
- Task-scoped policy enforcement
- Dynamic provisioning, escalation, and revocation of access at runtime
- Federated identity across systems and companies
- End-to-end cryptographic tracking of actions and authorizations
- Contextual audit logs for complete visibility
- MCP-native integration

# Funding & Investors
- Total Funding: $38M combined inception round
- Lead Investors: Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Acrew Capital, Boldstart Ventures
- Participating Investors: Mantis VC, Tapestry Ventures, Essence Ventures, Exceptional Capital, Modern Technical Fund, Vermillion Cliffs Ventures

Individual Investors:
- Matias Woloski, CTO, Auth0
- Karl McGuinness, Chief Product Architect, Okta
- Ian Andrews, CRO, Grok
- Ryan Carlson, President, Chainguard
- Emilio Escobar, CISO, Datadog
- Dane Knecht, CTO, Cloudflare
- Angie Lai, Head of Security Engineering, Anthropic
- Martin Gontovnikas, Early growth, Auth0, CMO, Vercel

# Key Pages & Content

## Home (/)
Page Title: Keycard — The Control Plane for Autonomous Agents
Page Description: Build and deploy secure AI agents with Keycard. Our unified identity infrastructure delivers real-time access control, compliance, and trust for the agent-native world.

Main sections:

### Hero Section
Title: Build, connect and adopt trusted AI agents
Subtitle: Software is no longer static. AI Agents act dynamically across systems. Keycard puts users, developers and companies in control with real-time, adaptive permissions and complete transparency.

### What We Do Section (Panels)
Title: The missing pillar for secure, trusted agent access
Subtitle: Securely connect your agents and applications — and the people that use them — to the APIs, tools, and information they need.
Description: Adopt trusted agents using dynamic access tokens, federated identity, task-based policy, and enforcement at the edge.

### Anatomy Section
Visual breakdown of how Keycard works at a technical level — identity binding, token issuance, and policy enforcement.

### How It Works Section
Title: The foundation for trusted, production-ready agentic applications
Subtitle: Empower developers to build, users to adopt and control, and security to govern.

Three main steps:
1. Build agentic applications without becoming an IAM expert.
   No custom access logic or protocol expertise required to build agents and tools. Use drop-in SDKs for popular frameworks that handle authentication & authorization, identity binding, and standards compliance for you.

2. Connect agents to everything they need to work.
   Link agents — the ones you build or buy — to users, SaaS tools, and internal systems without sacrificing control or visibility. Distributed enforcement keeps access consistent and secure across environments at any scale.

3. Empower everyone to control agents, securely and precisely.
   Give security teams unified visibility and policy enforcement across every agent, tool, and user action in real time.

### How To Start Section
Three paths to getting started:
1. Build — Create secure, identity-aware agents using Keycard's SDKs
2. Adopt — Connect agents to users, tools, and systems securely
3. Secure — Govern agents at scale with unified policy and auditing

### Governance Section
Visual divider transitioning to the governance and dashboard sections.

### Dashboard Section
Real-time dashboard view showing agent activity, stopped actions, and session traces.

### Credibility Section
Trust indicators showing funding, open-source heritage (Passport.js), and protocol support (MCP + A2A).

### Homepagent Section
Interactive agent experience demonstrating Keycard's capabilities.

## About (/about)
Page Title: About — Keycard
Page Description: Keycard makes AI agents safe, trustworthy, and production-ready.

### Hero Section
Title: Keycard makes AI agents safe, trustworthy, and production-ready
Subtitle: Our mission is to reimagine how developers connect people, agents, and services across networks, clouds, and applications.

### Mission Cards
Three mission pillars:
1. Unblock Critical AI Projects
   Empower teams to move agent-driven workloads into production — without compromising control.

2. Democratize Agents and Tools
   Make it easy to securely connect agents to real services, across any cloud and all teams.

3. Build for the Agent Native Future
   Empower teams to move agent-driven workloads into production — without compromising control.

### Our Investors Section
Institutional: a16z, Acrew, boldstart, mtf.vc, Essence, Mantis, Exceptional Capital, Vermilion Cliffs, Tapestry VC.
Individual investors listed above.

### Founders Section
- Matthew Creager, Product & Marketing
- Jared Hanson, Technology
- Ian Livingstone, CEO

### Open Positions CTA
Links to /careers for current job openings.

## Pricing (/pricing)
Page Title: Pricing — Keycard
Plans for teams and enterprises with features including:
- Team: Unlimited users & apps, SSO + SCIM, Custom roles & RBAC, Real-time telemetry, Audit logging & continuous export, API access
- Enterprise: Everything in Team plus dedicated or BYO infrastructure, 24/7 support & dedicated CSM, and more

## Careers (/careers)
Page Title: Careers at Keycard
Page Description: Join the team that's designing identity infrastructure for secure AI agents.

### Our Values
1. Trust by Default — We build transparent systems where every decision can be verified.
2. Developer Velocity — We obsess over developer experience because great tools should feel effortless.
3. Rapid Evolution — We anticipate where AI development is heading and ship solutions before problems become widespread.
4. Adaptive Agility — We embrace change as a constant.

### Benefits
- Solve Important Problems — Building the trust layer for autonomous agents
- Access to the Latest AI Tools
- Autonomy & Impact
- Top-of-the-Line Equipment (MacBook Pro + $500 stipend)
- Flexible, Remote-First Work (North and South America)
- Time Off to Recharge (4 weeks vacation, 11 holidays, 1 volunteer day, parental leave)
- Comprehensive Benefits (health, dental, vision, paramedical)
- Competitive Compensation + Equity (4-year vest, 1-year cliff)

## FAQ (/faq)
Page Title: FAQ — Keycard
Page Description: Clear answers about Keycard's identity infrastructure for developers, security teams, and enterprises.

Categories:
- General
- Developer / Product Teams
- Security / Compliance Teams
- Leadership & Buyers

Key questions addressed:
- What problem does Keycard solve?
- Who is Keycard for?
- How is Keycard different from traditional identity management?
- Does Keycard replace my identity provider (Okta, Auth0, etc.)? — No, Keycard extends your existing identity stack.

## Security (/security)
Page Title: Security — Keycard
Security posture, compliance, and trust-related information.

## Blog (/blog)
Page Title: Blog — Keycard
Page Description: Insights on agent security, identity, and the future of governed AI.
Product updates, announcements, and thought leadership from the Keycard team.

## Press Kit (/press)
Page Title: Press Kit — Keycard
Page Description: Official Keycard logos, brand assets, and team bios for press and partners.

Includes:
- Logo & combinations (default, green, background variations, glowing effects, flowing effects)
- All logos available in PNG and SVG formats
- Team photos and bios

## Privacy (/privacy)
Privacy policy and data processing information (GDPR & CCPA compliant).

## Cookie Policy (/cookie-policy)
How Keycard uses cookies and how visitors manage consent preferences.

## Manifesto (/manifesto)
Trust infrastructure for the agent era. (Coming soon)

## Platform (/platform)
The control plane for autonomous agents. (Coming soon)

# Social Media & Links
- GitHub: https://github.com/keycardai
- X (Twitter): https://x.com/keycardlabs
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/keycard-labs
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/keycardai

# Key Concepts

## AI Agent Identity
The challenge: Traditional IAM systems were designed for static, human-driven interactions, not the dynamic, ephemeral, and autonomous world of AI agents. Agents require:
- Ephemeral identity that can be created and destroyed quickly
- Federated identity across systems and companies
- Attestable identity bound to device or cloud runtime
- Traceable delegations back to original users or companies

## MCP (Model Context Protocol)
Keycard is MCP-native, integrating directly with MCP platforms to provide identity and access management for multi-agent systems.

## Agent-Native Era
We're entering a new era where software is dynamic, with AI agents working on behalf of people and businesses. This requires new identity and access primitives.

## Keycard's Approach
Keycard provides deterministic guardrails to the non-deterministic world of AI agents by evolving the way applications, agents, and machines identify and authorize one another. Keycard is not a gateway — it's a secure token service that supports federation and brokering of credentials across applications, agents, and services.

# Use Cases
- Extend copilots & adopt agents: Adopt internal or external agents and expose tools, APIs, and services securely
- Create trusted agents & tools: Build secure, identity-aware agentic applications using Keycard's SDKs
- Build multi-agent systems: Coordinate agents, tools, and data across teams, networks, and companies
- Build next-generation products: Evolve products into agents or safely connect agents to platforms

# Early Access
Keycard is currently available in early access. Users can sign up for early access through the website. The default call-to-action is "GET EARLY ACCESS."

# Contact
- Email: hello@keycard.ai
- Website: https://keycard.ai

# Technical Details
- Base URL: https://keycard.ai
- Standards: OAuth 2.1, MCP, A2A, AP2, Web Bot Auth, x402
- Framework: Astro + React
- Trust Center: https://trust.keycard.ai/

# Site Structure
- Home: /
- About: /about
- Pricing: /pricing
- Careers: /careers
- FAQ: /faq
- Security: /security
- Blog: /blog
- Blog posts: /blog/[slug]
- Press Kit: /press
- Privacy: /privacy
- Cookie Policy: /cookie-policy
- Manifesto: /manifesto (coming soon)
- Platform: /platform (coming soon)

# Last Updated
March 2026