Midplane GTM brain

Midplane adds a policy and approval gateway between AI assistants and Postgres databases for engineering teams.

category

AI agent database security

market profile

  • text: AI assistants can generate destructive SQL or expose sensitive data when given production database access.
  • text: A gateway can check SQL and require human approval while enabling broader access to operational data.

personas

  • title: Engineering or platform lead
    pains:
    • AI-generated updates can affect every row if a filter is missing
    • Engineers become a bottleneck for routine database questions
  • title: Security or data governance lead
    pains:
    • Agent database credentials and sensitive columns create data exposure risk
    • Teams need evidence of queries and approval decisions
  • title: Developer using AI coding assistants
    pains:
    • Read-only access limits useful operational tasks
    • High-impact writes need a safe review path

icp

  • text: Software organizations running PostgreSQL with AI assistants such as Claude, Cursor or MCP clients.
  • text: Teams with production customer data that need data locality and approval for sensitive changes.

message pillars

  • text: Protect production data while enabling natural language access.
  • text: Intercept unsafe SQL before execution.
  • text: Keep database rows and credentials within the customer's network.

objections

  • objection: Does sensitive data leave our network?
    response: The site says rows and database passwords stay in the customer network; evaluate the documented cloud metadata and relay design.
  • objection: Can an agent make an unreviewed mass update?
    response: Midplane describes blocking unfiltered mass changes and holding risky changes for approval; test policies against your workloads.
  • objection: Will our current assistant work?
    response: The product lists Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code and MCP clients; verify your deployment configuration.

competitors

  • name: Kitalon Labs
    website: https://kitalonlabs.com/pgmoat
    why: Its pgmoat offers governed Postgres access for MCP agents with masking and audit.
  • name: Endram
    website: https://app.endram.com/integrations/postgres
    why: Offers agent action policy and approval for PostgreSQL.
  • name: Bablsoft
    website: https://github.com/bablsoft/accessflow
    why: AccessFlow offers SQL access governance, review and audit.

keywords

  • AI agent database security
  • Postgres MCP gateway
  • AI SQL guardrails
  • database query approval
  • mask PII from AI agents
  • safe production database access
  • AI database audit log

voice

  • Plainspoken and concrete
  • Safety focused
  • Developer oriented

signals

  • text: Engineers are connecting Cursor or Claude to production Postgres.
  • text: Security teams are blocking AI access because production tables contain personal data.

stack

  • PostgreSQL
  • MCP
  • Claude
  • ChatGPT
  • Cursor
  • VS Code

pricing

model: unknown

motion

hybrid

channels

  • GitHub
  • developer documentation
  • SEO
  • sales

confidence

medium

Founders

  • name: Dustin Lange
    title: Founder
    role: Founder
    bio: Dustin is co-founder of Midplane. Dustin has 8.5 years of industry experience at Amazon as Machine Learning Scientist and Applied Science Manager. He founded a team that built tools for data quality measurement and cleaning, including Deequ (2.4k+ stars on GitHub). Dustin later owned data products powering the Amazon product search page, used by millions of users every day. Dustin holds a PhD in database systems from Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, Germany.

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