Agents are deployed with uncontrolled, often overprivileged permissions and no audit trails, policy enforcement mechanisms, or identity lifecycle management equivalent to what exists for human IAM. Nearly half of organizations have already observed agents acting outside intended boundaries, and adversarial exploitation of write-access agents is an active threat vector. Current agent frameworks treat identity and access as an afterthought rather than a foundational primitive.

Agents today ship with god-mode credentials, no audit trails, and no policy enforcement—leaving orgs exposed to boundary violations and adversarial exploits with zero visibility.

Platform engineering and security teams at mid-to-large companies deploying autonomous agents across internal tools, APIs, and cloud infrastructure.

Enterprises already spend heavily on human IAM (Okta, CyberArk) and are now frantically extending those systems to agents with duct-tape solutions; a native agent-IAM platform with least-privilege policies, identity lifecycle, and real-time audit logs solves a compliance-blocking pain that security teams will pay to fix immediately.

MVP: an agent identity registry with OAuth2/mTLS credential issuance, declarative permission scopes (read/write/execute per resource), real-time action audit log, and a policy engine (OPA-based) that enforces boundaries—ship as an SDK + hosted control plane that plugs into existing agent frameworks like LangChain, CrewAI, and AutoGen.

Agent-specific IAM is a new layer atop the $18B+ IAM market; with millions of agents projected by 2026, even 1% penetration at $5K/yr per org = $500M+ opportunity.