Runlayer

Runlayer: A Control Plane for Enterprise AI Agents

Runlayer is an enterprise platform that gives organizations visibility and control over how AI agents are adopted and used. As teams connect agents to internal and external tools through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), Runlayer sits in the middle — discovering which agents and MCP servers are in use, governing what they can access and do, scanning tool calls for security and sensitive-data risks in real time, and tracking AI spend.

It addresses "shadow AI": agents and integrations that teams stand up on their own, outside any central security or governance.

Key Features

• Access to a large catalog of MCP integrations for tools
• Shadow-AI discovery and visibility across the org
• Governance of agent access and allowed actions
• Real-time security scanning of tool calls and sensitive data
• AI spend monitoring and cost tracking
• Governed creation of agents with central controls

Ideal Use Case

Runlayer fits security, platform, and IT teams at companies where employees and engineers are rapidly adopting AI agents and MCP connections, and leadership needs central visibility and guardrails before that sprawl becomes a risk. It is built for the enterprise rollout stage of agentic AI.

How Runlayer differentiates

Runlayer focuses on the governance and security layer for agents and MCP specifically — discovery, access control, and real-time inspection — rather than being an agent builder itself. It raised a $30M Series A from Felicis and Khosla Ventures, and lists customers including Instacart, Gusto, Opendoor, Lemonade, and dbt Labs.

FAQ

What is Runlayer? An enterprise control plane that secures and governs AI agents and their MCP tool connections.

What is shadow AI? AI agents and integrations teams deploy on their own, outside central security; Runlayer discovers and governs them.

Is Runlayer an agent builder? No. It is the governance, security, and visibility layer around agents and MCP.

Who backs Runlayer? A $30M Series A from Felicis and Khosla Ventures; customers include Instacart, Gusto, and Lemonade.

tl;dr

Runlayer is an enterprise control plane for AI agents and MCP — discovery, access governance, real-time security, and spend tracking — backed by a $30M Series A and used by Instacart, Gusto, and Lemonade.