Iron We're making safe AI agents accessible to every business in the world.
The market has produced two kinds of AI safety products: governance tools that tell you what went wrong after it already happened, and infrastructure platforms so technically demanding they require a dedicated engineering team to run. Neither was built for the business that just wants to deploy AI agents safely. Iron Gorilla is the third option — runtime governance that works out of the box, for any company, at any stage.
The convictions we build from.
We build at the edge of what the market needs and what the technology can support. These are the convictions that keep us pointed in the right direction.
Agents augment first, replace eventually.
AI agents should start by running alongside human teams — handling the repetitive, the dangerous, the slow. As trust is established, they take over more. This is the natural progression of every transformational technology, and it is moving faster than most businesses are ready for.
AI-native companies will dominate the next decade.
The competitive gap between organizations built around AI agents and those using AI as an add-on is already widening. In ten years, AI-native companies will lead in nearly every industry. We are building the infrastructure they will run on.
We run what we sell.
Iron Gorilla operates on Iron Gorilla. We govern our own AI agents with the same platform we sell to enterprises. If we wouldn't trust it ourselves, we have no business asking you to. Dogfooding isn't a box to check — it's how we stay honest about what actually works.
Innovation has no finish line.
There is no version of this company that is done. AI evolves fast enough to demand constant reinvention. We build to stay ahead of the problems you haven't encountered yet — not to coast on what we shipped last quarter.
Infrastructure veterans. AI obsessed.
Jacob Hartmann
Co-founder & CEO
Built and scaled enterprise infrastructure at companies trusted by Fortune 500s. Led teams shipping mission-critical systems under strict compliance constraints.
R.A. Reaves
Co-founder & CTO
Systems architect with deep roots in runtime governance and distributed infrastructure. Designed platforms running at scale in regulated environments across banking and insurance.
Behind Iron Gorilla is a team of engineers and operators who have spent careers building and scaling mission-critical software at enterprise scale. We have shipped platforms trusted by banks, insurers, and regulated industries worldwide — and we brought that same discipline to the problem of agentic AI. Our job is to make the infrastructure so reliable and invisible that your teams can move fast without asking permission.
Six things we don't compromise on.
These run the organization. They shape how we hire, how we build, and what we expect from everyone on the team.
Speak up or it dies.
Ideas don't survive silence.
Say what's on your mind. Disagreement and pushback are expected. A bad idea that nobody challenges is just a disaster with a delayed arrival.
Ship, then perfect.
Done beats perfect.
The market teaches us faster than endless planning. Launch it, learn from it, make it better. We iterate in public and take the feedback seriously.
Own the outcome.
Take credit and take blame.
Both are yours. We don't pass problems up the chain or down to vendors. Accountability at every level is what makes a team trustworthy.
Defend ideas, not egos.
Fight hard. Pivot fast.
Push hard for what you believe in. But when the evidence changes, change your position. The ego has no seat at the table here.
Challenge everything.
Question. Push back. Test.
Assumptions are the enemy of good engineering. Poke holes. Ask why. We grow by subjecting every idea — including our own — to rigorous scrutiny.
Ask early.
Asking is free. Drowning is expensive.
Surface problems before they compound. Nobody loses points for raising their hand early — only for waiting until the damage is done.
Security is a foundation, not a feature.
Security is not a layer we add later. Our infrastructure, network controls, and access architecture are built to enterprise standards from the ground up.
Cloud infrastructure
Hosted on enterprise cloud infrastructure with strong physical, network, and operational security controls from providers who have earned them at scale.
DDoS mitigation & WAF
All traffic passes through Cloudflare's global network for DDoS mitigation, WAF protection, and Zero Trust access. Threats are stopped at the edge before they reach our infrastructure.
Encryption everywhere
Data is encrypted at rest (AES-256) and in transit (TLS 1.3 minimum). Tenant data is isolated at the storage and application layer. Keys are managed by dedicated key management infrastructure.
Access controls
Zero Trust architecture, multi-factor authentication enforced for all internal access, role-based access controls, and least-privilege principles applied across every system boundary.
Have a security question or need to report a vulnerability? Contact our security team