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Operant AI

Runtime AI defense that protects live applications, APIs and AI agents from attack.

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About

Operant AI is a runtime AI application defense platform founded in 2021 by Vrajesh Bhavsar, Priyanka Tembey and Ashley Roof (Apple, Arm, Google backgrounds). Its 3D Runtime Defense discovers, detects and blocks attacks across APIs, cloud workloads and LLMs in real time, and its MCP Gateway provides runtime discovery and protection for Model Context Protocol-connected AI applications — including defense against zero-click agentic attacks like the Shadow Escape technique its research team disclosed. Backed by $13.5M ($10M Series A led by SineWave Ventures and Felicis), it is a Gartner AI TRiSM representative vendor. It is purpose-built for teams shipping AI products, not a general-purpose SOC tool.

What it can do

  • Runtime discovery, detection and defense
  • MCP Gateway for AI agent protection
  • Zero-click agentic attack blocking
  • Utility-based pricing

Setup

  1. Deploy with the single-step install into your Kubernetes environment
  2. Operant discovers APIs, workloads and AI agents at runtime
  3. Enable MCP Gateway for MCP-connected applications
  4. Set blocking policies for detected attack patterns

Prerequisites

Kubernetes or cloud workloads; AI applications or APIs to protect

Use cases

automationagentsdata

Works with

Any agent (.md)

Trust score — 7/10

/10 trustMetrics-checked

Scored 7/10 (metrics tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: $13.5M total ($10M Series A, Felicis + SineWave Ventures); Gartner AI TRiSM representative vendor; Shadow Escape research is public; MCP Gateway is a differentiated offering for AI agent security; Purpose-built for AI product teams, not a general SOC tool. License: Proprietary SaaS..

How the trust score is built

Full methodology →
Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
6.0/10
Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
7.0/10
Openness · license + docs
5.0/10
Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
7.0/10
  • · $13.5M total ($10M Series A, Felicis + SineWave Ventures)
  • · Gartner AI TRiSM representative vendor; Shadow Escape research is public
  • · MCP Gateway is a differentiated offering for AI agent security
  • · Purpose-built for AI product teams, not a general SOC tool

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