Stacktrace GTM brain

Stacktrace provides visibility, policy enforcement and steering for organizations running AI agents.

category

AI agent runtime security and control

market profile

  • text: Coding agents increasingly run unattended with access to credentials, tools and company data, creating security and reliability concerns.
  • text: Stacktrace offers fleet oversight for internal coding agents and a gateway for customer agents accessing MCP servers.

personas

  • title: VP of Engineering or developer platform lead
    pains:
    • Cannot see stalled or runaway coding sessions across tools.
    • Agent drift wastes engineering time and tokens.
  • title: Security or IT leader
    pains:
    • Lacks inventory of agent tools, MCP servers and skills.
    • Worries about credentials or data leaving endpoints.
  • title: Product security lead for an MCP service
    pains:
    • Must verify external agent identity and secure risky customer actions.
    • Needs an auditable record of decisions.

icp

  • text: Software organizations deploying Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or other coding agents across engineering teams.
  • text: Businesses exposing customer-facing MCP tools where identity, authorization and audit are priorities; enterprise features suit larger governed deployments.

message pillars

  • text: Grant autonomy with oversight.
  • text: See activity and tool results across agent sessions.
  • text: Intervene before dangerous tool calls execute.

objections

  • objection: Will sensitive transcripts leave our machines?
    response: The site says session logs are read on the machine and transcripts stay there; confirm deployment details with security.
  • objection: Can we trial it before an enterprise contract?
    response: The Team tier is free with a monthly session-hour allowance; steering is an Enterprise feature.

competitors

  • name: Datadog
    website: https://www.datadoghq.com/products/security/ai-guard/
    why: AI Guard provides runtime protection against agent tool misuse and data exfiltration.
  • name: Operant AI
    website: https://github.com/luisalima/agentic-security/blob/main/docs/reference/tools.md
    why: Listed as offering endpoint coding-agent and MCP runtime defense.
  • name: Noma Security
    website: https://agentopsguide.com/ai-agent-security-tools/
    why: Agent security platform covering coding agents on employee devices.

influencers

  • name: Vinod Kone
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/vinodkone_stacktrace-run-unsupervised-intelligence-activity-7505360654611091456-ywt2
    why: Co-founder and CEO announced Stacktrace.
  • name: Micheal Benedict
    url: https://nitter.cf/micheal
    why: Co-founder discusses visibility, control and agent intervention.

keywords

  • AI agent security
  • coding agent guardrails
  • MCP security gateway
  • agent runtime policy
  • AI agent observability
  • Claude Code security
  • agent fleet management

voice

  • Direct and operational
  • Security-conscious without abandoning developer autonomy

signals

  • text: Engineering teams have rolled out coding agents with access to repositories and credentials.
  • text: A company is launching an MCP server for customers' personal agents.

stack

  • Claude Code
  • Codex
  • Cursor
  • Devin
  • MCP
  • Slack

pricing

model: freemium
starting price: Free for 200 session-hours per month; Enterprise custom

motion

hybrid

channels

  • LinkedIn
  • X
  • SEO
  • self-service sandbox
  • founder demos

confidence

high

Founders

  • name: Vinod Kone
    title: Founder/CEO
    role: CEO
    bio: Vinod Kone, Founder and CEO of Stacktrace (YC F26). Previously VP of Engineering at Harness, where he led platform engineering and owned software supply-chain security, and Senior Director at Twilio Segment. Former Apache Mesos PMC Chair; scaled Mesos to 30,000 nodes at Twitter. PhD in CS from UC Santa Barbara.
  • name: Micheal Benedict
    title: Founder
    role: Founder
    bio: Founder of Stacktrace (YC F26). Previously Head of Infrastructure, Security and AI Platforms at Airtable. Before that, he led developer platform and cloud infrastructure orgs at Databricks, Pinterest and Twitter. He holds an MS in Computer Science from SUNY.
  • name: Prasanth Ganta
    title: Founder
    role: Founder
    bio: Founder at Stacktrace (YC F26). Previously Engineering Leader at Amazon (2011-2026), where he built core foundational services across AWS, Amazon and Alexa.. MS in CS from Texas A&M, B.Tech from IIT Guwahati.

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