Barndoor builds a centralized control plane giving enterprises access management, visibility, and policy enforcement across LLMs, AI agents, MCP servers, and tool calls.
Barndoor builds governance infrastructure for agentic AI. Founded in 2024 and headquartered in New York City, the company has raised $13.6m in seed funding and targets Fortune 100 companies as its primary market. Its stated aim is to give enterprises a way to deploy AI agents at scale while remaining compliant and in control.
The company's core product is a centralized control plane for agentic AI. It provides enterprise-grade access management, visibility, and policy enforcement across every LLM, AI agent, MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, tool call, and data interaction within an organisation. Capabilities include context-based access controls, single-pane-of-glass connection management, and real-time telemetry on AI usage.
The technical work spans AI agent governance, access management, policy enforcement, LLM integration, MCP servers, tool call monitoring, enterprise security, and real-time telemetry. The industry verticals served are enterprise AI, cybersecurity, and IT governance and compliance; the buyers are typically security teams, IT departments, and business leaders.
Barndoor describes its orientation as security- and compliance-first, with an emphasis on trustworthiness and transparency in how AI agents operate inside enterprises.
