We're glad our toolkits are resonating, and the conversations they're sparking demonstrate just how rapidly AI is reshaping enterprise operations. For our third volume, we're tackling what might be the most complex area of AI transformation: Security, IT, Engineering, and Data. These are the functions that enable everything else, and frankly, where some of the biggest breakdowns are happening for enterprises today.
Like with Volume 1 (GTM) and Volume 2 (Ops, Productivity, Finance, Legal), we've organized this final (for now!) toolkit to help navigate what can feel like an overwhelming landscape. These solutions have been tested and refined in some of the most demanding environments, often in direct partnership with our operators who are wrestling with these exact challenges. The results we're seeing - improved security postures, reduced operational overhead, faster development cycles, and more reliable data foundations - are the building blocks that enable all other AI transformations. Get in touch if you'd like an intro!
Security & IT
AUTONOMOUS IDENTITY GOVERNANCE
What They Do
ConductorOne is simplifying identity security and access control by providing a modern Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) solution.
Why It Matters
ConductorOne helps organizations secure both human and non-human identities at enterprise scale through automation, visibility, and context-aware controls. By reducing manual effort for compliance and least-privilege enforcement, allowing employees to self-service access, and providing unified identity visibility across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments, ConductorOne allows customers such as Instacart, Ramp, Digital Ocean, Zscaler, Brex, and Klaviyo to reduce risk, improve security, and increase operational efficiency.
What's New
ConductorOne recently launched the industry’s first multi-agent identity security platform, featuring a suite of AI agents for automating identity operations. Designed to protect every identity - human, non-human, and AI - the AI-native identity platform enables customers to safely scale their businesses for the coming agentic AI wave and achieve unparalleled efficiency for their identity programs.
AI GOVERNANCE & SECURITY
What They Do
SurePath AI provides an enterprise governance platform that enables secure use of public and private GenAI services.
Why It Matters
Companies are being pressured to adopt generative AI to gain productivity within their workforce, but AI governance & security pose real challenges, with many companies feeling forced to simply block access to many tools. SurePath offers controls to identify, classify, and manage GenAI traffic at the network level, transforming a major security concern into a driver of innovation. Key capabilities include capturing and logging all GenAI interactions across public and private tools; redacting or blocking sensitive data; defining role-based access to models and enterprise data; integrating with existing security infrastructure (e.g. SASE, proxies) to monitor traffic; and providing insights, analytics, and dashboards to understand (and encourage) usage.
What's New
SurePath has released MCP policy controls to apply real-time policies to Model Context Protocol (MCP) traffic so customers can govern AI actions, not just access.
DATA PRIVACY MANAGEMENT
What They Do
DataGrail automates privacy workflows to protect companies’ brands and earn their customers’ trust.
Why It Matters
DataGrail is a comprehensive data privacy management platform that enables enterprises to gain full visibility into the entire tech stack, highlighting where risks and personal data may be hiding, automating tedious processes, and ensuring compliance with GDPR, CCPA, CPRA and more.
What's New
With increased AI usage across all applications, privacy risk is top of mind for every legal and security team; DataGrail recently released their 4th annual Privacy Trends Report, which analyzes real-world privacy requests and website compliance data to uncover key evolutions in the market, including a sharp increase in the cost of handling privacy requests and uncovered that 69% of websites are not honoring consent opt-out requests.
ENTERPRISE SAAS MANAGEMENT
What They Do
Productiv is the data-driven SaaS management platform that helps CIOs and CFOs simplify, plan, secure, and get the most out of their SaaS portfolios.
Why It Matters
A major pain point for CIOs is managing and assessing the value of their SaaS applications; lack of visibility into how tools are used by employees means they can’t accurately ascertain the ROI on their SaaS spend. Productiv enables IT leaders to visualize and optimize their tech stacks to ensure that they work for their people, their budget, and their business.
What’s New
Productiv has launched AI Visibility, a new feature in its platform that automatically detects where “shadow AI” has been introduced in apps, what type, and whether those features retain or train on company data. By connecting to systems like SSO, HRIS, ERP, and expense tools, and observing app usage, AI Visibility gives IT teams insight into both approved and unapproved tools, helps them manage exposure, enables fast reviews and reporting, and provides metrics for responsible AI adoption.
AGENTIC ENTERPRISE FINOPS
What They Do
Amberflo's FinOps Platform enables companies to control and save cloud and AI spend - easily, accurately, and in real-time.
Why It Matters
Amberflo enables token-level metering of prompts and API calls for LLMs like GPT, Claude, LLaMA, custom cost modeling, cost anomaly detection, and internal cost attribution at the team, app, and business unit levels. The platform also supports usage-based billing, chargebacks, dashboards, forecasting, and guardrails for budget control, aiming to reduce waste and align AI spend with business outcomes.
What’s New
Amberflo has launched AI Control Tower, a comprehensive AI FinOps platform that enables faster AI innovation balanced with governance and controls, automatically metering and cost allocating the use of underlying LLMs to allow companies to drive accountability and optimizations. It includes a built-in AI Gateway and AI Metering to streamline and centralize company-wide LLM access, with real-time usage tracking and per-unit cost analytics and insights.
Engineering & Data
AI WORKSPACE FOR DATA ANALYTICS
What They Do
Hex is a collaborative data analytics workspace that enables teams to build, share, and scale workflows to drive faster answers and better decisions.
Why It Matters
By combining the flexibility of custom code with the accessibility of no-code tools in a notebook-based environment, Hex allows technical and non-technical stakeholders to collaborate on data analysis, create dashboards, and deploy data applications without the traditional barriers between data and business teams. This solution comes at exactly the right time, as AI adoption is creating unprecedented demand for accessible data tools for customers like Anthropic, Figma, HubSpot, Ramp, Notion, Reddit, and Duolingo.
What’s New
Hex recently introduced its new Notebook Agent, which embeds agentic capabilities directly within Hex notebooks to make data teams faster and more productive. Using Claude Sonnet 4, it helps users go from question to first-draft analysis by automatically identifying relevant tables, chaining SQL and Python cells, visualizing results, and synthesizing insights in Markdown-while providing features like diff views for revisions, autosaved versions, and the ability to @mention tables or cells for context.
INTELLIGENCE FOR ENGINEERING PRODUCTIVITY
What They Do
Faros AI is a data platform that connects and integrates with all software engineering data sources, giving engineering leaders the visibility they need to make data-driven decisions about their teams, processes, and projects.
Why It Matters
Faros AI is helping large software organizations turn engineering metrics and telemetry into actionable insights, with recent focus on supporting AI-driven engineering. It offers solutions in areas like Engineering Efficiency, AI Transformation, and Delivery Excellence, letting teams measure developer experience, benchmark using frameworks like DORA and SPACE, track AI tool impact, spot bottlenecks, and improve delivery risk and capacity.
What’s New
Faros AI has created GAINS™, the Generative AI Impact Net Score, to expose where AI is working, where it’s blocked, and what to do next. Based on the findings of its AI Productivity Paradox Report 2025, a two-year study examining the impact of AI coding assistants on engineering productivity, Faros AI now offers GAINS™ assessments and action plans for engineering organizations seeking to overcome these challenges and realize true AI gains.
PREDICTIVE CHANGE INTELLIGENCE
What They Do
Overmind is the pioneer of Predictive Change Intelligence, helping engineering teams deploy faster and safer by predicting the impact of infrastructure changes before they happen.
Why It Matters
Observability has traditionally focused on diagnosing problems after they occur, but the real value is in preventing incidents. By combining real-time infrastructure discovery with intelligent change pattern learning, Overmind prevents outages, reduces review time, and enables confident innovation at scale. Companies like Dropbox, Whisker Labs, and YouLend have made Overmind's analysis mandatory before any production changes.
What’s New
Overmind is now available on Google Cloud with over 100 services supported - and this number is steadily increasing, meaning that they will be able to predict the impact of almost any GCP change before it’s made.
AI ASSISTANT FOR SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
What They Do
Augment is an AI coding tool built for enterprise companies.
Why It Matters
Unlike other AI coding tools, Augment optimizes for large code bases, supports multiple developers and teams, includes strong customer IP protection, and is cloud-agnostic. It uses models that are trained with code-specific data and vertically-integrated with user-facing applications, with the goal of improving software quality and productivity by more than 2x. Augment’s solution includes inference, extensive model training, and secure cloud architecture.
What’s New
Augment recently released Memory Review - a way to see, edit, and curate memories as they’re created, so your agent remembers what matters and forgets what doesn’t.
OPEN-SOURCE CLOUD FOR AI AGENTS
What They Do
E2B is a secure cloud platform built for enterprise companies to run AI agents in isolated, customizable sandboxes that allow agents to safely execute code, analyze data, and integrate workflows with real-world tools.
Why It Matters
E2B’s solution includes agent sandboxes, enterprise-grade security, and scalable infrastructure to make deploying and managing autonomous agents easier for customers such as Perplexity, Groq, and Hugging Face. By powering use cases like secure code execution, data analysis, workflow automation, and multi-agent collaboration, E2B enables enterprises to move from prototypes to production with confidence and speed.
What’s New
Expanding the open-source standard, E2B is adding pluggable modules such as Secrets Vault for secure credential management, Sandbox Observability for real-time monitoring and compliance, and Shared Context for persistent, collaborative state management. These add-ons will enable enterprises to tailor their agent environments precisely to security and operational requirements.
CONVERSATIONAL AI DESIGN COLLABORATION
What They Do
Voiceflow is a no-code/low-code platform that enables teams to build, deploy, and scale conversational AI agents for both chat and voice modalities, combining rules-based flows with AI-driven dialogue, integrations, and knowledge bases.
Why It Matters
Voiceflow’s visual, drag-and-drop flow builder lets product teams design, test, and iterate conversational agents much faster than coding from scratch with non-technical team members contributing directly, reducing internal bottlenecks. Customers like CVS, StateFarm, and US Bank have achieved substantial savings by automating routine support tasks, accelerating time-to-market for new agents, and reducing dependence on heavy engineering resources for conversational tools.
What’s New
Voiceflow’s new Agent step is a flexible, all-in-one tool to create AI agents that can intelligently respond to user queries, search knowledge bases, follow specific conversation paths, and execute functions - all within a single step.
Others
COMPREHENSIVE PERSONAL FINANCE
What They Do
Origin is an all‑in‑one personal finance platform designed to help users budget, invest, plan their estate, and receive tailored financial guidance-all from one unified interface.
Why It Matters
Origin users can securely connect accounts across banks, brokerages, real estate, equity, and more to monitor their net worth, spending, subscriptions, and cash flow. The platform offers features such as one‑click budgeting, AI‑driven insights, high‑yield cash accounts, AUM‑fee‑free automated index investing, and thematic stock bundles - bringing all financial needs into a single, streamlined subscription experience.
What’s New
Origin has just launched the first AI financial advisor regulated by the SEC, reducing the cost of financial advice by 95%+ and bringing guidance to tens of millions of households currently priced out of the market. The platform delivers an always-on financial advisor that can instantly answer any investing, spending, credit, forecasting, or equity question, just like a human financial advisor would. This launch accompanies an additional 75+ product improvements including a full UI redesign.
AI TRAFFIC CONTROL
What They Do
TollBit helps publishers monitor, manage, and monetize the way AI agents access their web content, offering tools like real-time analytics of AI bot traffic, bot paywalls, and licensing or rate-based access for AI agents.
Why It Matters
With over 1,400 publishers already onboard, TollBit aims to give content creators finer control over how AI tools consume their content and allow them to monetize that consumption while preserving human reader access. With TollBit, publishers can authenticate agents, meter usage, enforce rate limits, and collect payments without having to build heavy infrastructure on their sites. TollBit is now expanding beyond digital publishers and user-generated content to provide sanctioned access to AI visitors on e-commerce sites.
What’s New
TollBit has announced partnerships with Fastly and DataDome to give their websites the ability to monetize AI bot and agent visitors. Already experts in bot blocking, Fastly and Datadome are now working with TollBit to explore ways to monetize rather than block this new class of visitor that fetches information or takes action on a human's behalf.
