About Zaun

Control must
advance with AI.

We build infrastructure to govern and secure organizational AI today, while studying the harder problems that increasing capability creates.

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Our conviction

AI security is a
lasting research problem.

AI is becoming part of how organizations act, decide, and build. As its capabilities grow, the questions about authority, behavior, and control become more consequential.

Reagent is our practical starting point: organizational AI governance and security across discovery, runtime behavior, and spend. Its controls depend on the systems an organization connects and the authority it grants.

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Independent scrutiny.

Powerful models need examination beyond their developers' own assurance. Methods, commercial interests, and limitations should be open to inspection.

A longer horizon.

We support the pursuit of more capable AI, including the prospect of superintelligence. Our ambition is to build the independent controls such systems would require.

Evidence in the open.

State the question. Show the method. Explain what the evidence supports and where it stops. The work should leave room for correction.

Team

Practitioners at work.

Our team brings experience in defense, enterprise security, and detection engineering.

Woo An

Cofounder & CEO

Deployed AI decision systems for the DoD at Palantir and led ML cybersecurity insider threat products.

Tyler Lalicker

Cofounder & CTO

Researcher and engineer for Securonix's first LLM product and worked in security operations for over a decade.

Lauren Trujillo

CIO

Lead architect and executive advisor to Fortune 100 enterprises navigating cybersecurity, cloud, and DevOps transformation with a compliance-first approach.

Bret Harrison

SVP of Sales & Partnerships

Bret has spent 20 years turning enterprise security into revenue at Palo Alto Networks, Check Point and more, doubling two businesses in under 18 months.