Alter GTM brain

Alter provides privileged access management for teams deploying AI agents that call external tools and APIs.

category

AI agent identity and access security

market profile

  • text: Agent builders need identity, delegated credentials and per-action authorization as agents gain access to SaaS APIs.
  • text: Agent authorization competes with both identity platforms and emerging agent-specific security tools.

personas

  • title: Security leader or CISO
    pains:
    • Agents inherit excessive access and leave unclear audit trails
    • Sensitive actions need controls and evidence for review
  • title: AI platform engineer
    pains:
    • Managing OAuth and secrets across agents and users adds integration work
    • Needs to constrain individual API calls without building a policy layer
  • title: SaaS product engineer
    pains:
    • Must act on customer accounts without exposing their credentials
    • Needs human approval for high-risk requests

icp

  • text: AI application startups building agents that access customer SaaS accounts and perform actions through APIs.
  • text: Growing and enterprise software teams with security review requirements, multiple agents and audit retention needs.

message pillars

  • text: Enforce what agents may do for each customer.
  • text: Keep secrets away from agents.
  • text: Authorize and audit calls.
  • text: Put sensitive calls behind named human review.

objections

  • objection: We already have an identity provider and vault.
    response: Evaluate Alter's per-agent delegation and per-call parameter policy alongside existing identity and secrets infrastructure.
  • objection: Will approvals slow down our agents?
    response: Scope approval to high-risk calls and test the operational latency and escalation path in a pilot.
  • objection: How does the bill scale?
    response: The free tier includes 10,000 monthly calls; paid tiers include usage and bill additional calls.

competitors

  • name: Arcade.dev
    why: Agent tool authorization and secure access platform.
  • name: Auth0
    why: Identity platform that customers may consider for authentication and authorization.
  • name: Baselayer
    why: Agent identity and trust offering with overlapping access requirements.

keywords

  • AI agent privileged access management
  • agent identity management
  • AI agent authorization
  • agent credential vault
  • AI tool call guardrails
  • agent audit logs

voice

  • Security-focused
  • Precise and technical
  • Practical about developer setup

signals

  • text: A team is moving agents from read-only experiments to API actions that modify customer data or payments.
  • text: An enterprise security review asks for agent-level permissions and auditability.

stack

  • Python SDK
  • TypeScript SDK
  • OAuth
  • OIDC
  • MCP

pricing

model: freemium
starting price: Free for 10,000 API calls/month; Starter $50/month

motion

hybrid

channels

  • developer documentation
  • SEO
  • LinkedIn
  • YC launch
  • Discord

confidence

high

Founders

  • name: Srikar Dandamuraju
    title: Founder/CEO
    role: CEO
    bio: Co-Founder & CEO of Alter (YC S25), a zero-trust identity and access control platform for AI agents. Former Platform Lead at Goldman Sachs, where I scaled GSAM’s post-trade infrastructure from single to multi-cluster and helped launch the GM Card. Before that, software engineer at Addepar and Clear Street.
  • name: Kevan Dodhia
    title: Founder/CTO
    role: CTO
    bio: Co-founder and CTO of Alter (YC S25), a zero-trust identity and access control platform for AI agents. Previously technical co-founder of Compute.ai, where we built a high performance SQL compute engine for highly regulated enterprises. Compute.ai was acquired by Terizza in 2025.

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