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Golf helps enterprise security and platform teams discover, control and audit AI agent and MCP connections.

category

Agentic AI security and governance

market profile

  • text: AI coding tools can connect to sensitive enterprise systems through MCP outside established security workflows.
  • text: The company has shifted its positioning from MCP server tooling toward enterprise discovery, enforcement and audit.

personas

  • title: CISO or AI security leader
    pains:
    • Cannot reliably inventory shadow AI connections to sensitive systems.
    • Must limit data exposure and unauthorized actions without stopping developer adoption.
  • title: Platform engineering or IT leader
    pains:
    • Manual approval and self-reported MCP inventories create bottlenecks and incomplete visibility.
    • Needs fine-grained access controls that fit existing developer tools.
  • title: AI governance or compliance lead
    pains:
    • Needs evidence of agent activity and controls for audits.
    • Must map AI usage to security and governance frameworks.

icp

  • text: Enterprises whose engineers use coding agents connected to internal data and tools through MCP.
  • text: Regulated or audit-sensitive organizations with security, platform and compliance stakeholders; no employee threshold is published.

message pillars

  • text: Find AI connections that security teams cannot currently see.
  • text: Apply policy at the connection layer while teams retain their models.
  • text: Make agent activity and access auditable.

objections

  • objection: Will governance slow down developers?
    response: Evaluate a scoped deployment with engineering and measure latency and workflow impact against current tools.
  • objection: Do we already cover this with existing security tools?
    response: Map existing visibility and policies against actual MCP connections and test any gaps before buying.
  • objection: Can this meet our audit and data retention requirements?
    response: Review the audit trail, framework mappings and retention terms against the organization's specific controls.

competitors

  • name: Token Security
    why: Agentic identity and security tools compete for enterprise agent governance budgets.
  • name: Microsoft Agent 365
    why: Enterprise agent management and governance overlaps with discovery and control.
  • name: Alter
    why: Agent gateway is an alternative architecture for governing agent connections.

influencers

  • name: Antoni Gmitruk
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antoni-gmitruk-80a268211
    why: Golf cofounder posts about MCP security and the company's product launches.

keywords

  • MCP security gateway
  • shadow AI discovery
  • AI agent governance
  • MCP access control
  • agent audit trail
  • AI agent data security

voice

  • Direct and urgent
  • Security focused
  • Developer aware

signals

  • text: Engineers are adopting Cursor, Claude Code or other agents with MCP access to internal systems.
  • text: Security and IT teams are formalizing AI access policies or preparing audit evidence.

stack

  • MCP
  • Cursor
  • Claude Code
  • GitHub Copilot

pricing

model: unknown

motion

sales_led

channels

  • LinkedIn
  • Product Hunt
  • events
  • SEO

confidence

medium

Founders

  • name: Wojciech Błaszak
    title: Founder/CEO
    role: CEO
    bio: Wojciech is the cofounder & CEO @ Golf. Wojciech started building first company at 14, scaling it to $200k rev. He dropped out of university after one semester to keep building full-time. He has previously worked on multiple AI products, including an AI SDR and infrastructure for AI agents. Wojciech also started a community for young Polish hackers and scientists.
  • name: Antoni Gmitruk
    title: Founder/CTO
    role: CTO
    bio: Antoni is the cofounder & CTO @ Golf. Antoni started building at 15 by creating a fully automated 3D printer. He dropped out of university after one semester to keep building full-time. He has previously worked on multiple AI products, including an AI SDR and infrastructure for AI agents. Antoni also started a community for young Polish hackers and scientists.

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