About Watchlight AI
AI acts on behalf of your business.We help you stay in control of every action.
Our Vision
A world where every business can let AI act on its behalf and trust what it does as confidently as it trusts the people it employs, because every action is governed and proven.
Our Mission
To protect people, and the businesses that serve them, as AI acts on their behalf. We give the leaders who answer for AI, and the teams who run it, control over every agent action: authorized before it runs, stoppable while it runs, and proven after.
What We Build On
Excellence
We believe good work deserves our full effort. We build carefully, test what we claim, and ship what we would be willing to stake a customer’s incident response on.
Integrity
Truth matters more than positioning. Every product claim should withstand examination against the code. We say plainly what Watchlight does, what it does not do, and where its limits are.
Creativity
New problems sometimes require new categories of thinking. We are willing to question assumptions, build from first principles, and pursue a better answer rather than simply repackaging what already exists.
Wisdom
We bring our best thinking to the hardest version of the problem, not merely the easiest version to sell. Governing autonomous systems requires judgment, rigor, and a willingness to resist shortcuts.
People and Their Families
The people who build Watchlight are more than the work they produce. They have families, responsibilities, communities, and lives outside this company. We want excellent work to be compatible with a whole life, and we intend to keep the commitments we make to the people who keep theirs to us.
Our Customers
Trust must be earned. We listen before prescribing, recommend the control that actually fits, and say so plainly when a customer does not need us. We would rather answer the real problem than sell the convenient solution.
Stewardship
We view capital, customer trust, data, time, talent, and opportunity as things entrusted to our care rather than things to exploit.
That means using resources carefully, protecting what others place in our hands, avoiding waste, and building something worthy of the trust we have been given.
Leadership
Who You're Working With
Aldo Pietropaolo
Founder & CEO, Watchlight AI
Aldo has spent 23+ years on the front lines of cybersecurity and identity, and created the Agent Runtime Governance category that Watchlight AI now defines. He has led and architected identity and security programs for some of the largest, most complex enterprises in the industry, and founded Watchlight AI to close a widening gap: organizations are deploying autonomous AI agents far faster than they can govern what those agents actually do.
- Creator of Agent Runtime Governance and its 12 Founding Principles
- Co-inventor of IAM Microservices
- Former Field CTO, Strata Identity
- Former Director of Solutions Engineering, SGNL, CrowdStrike
- Co-founder, Good Dog Labs (acquired)
“Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.”
Advisors
Guided by Operators Who Have Scaled
Leaders who have taken enterprise software and security products from early traction to scale, and to successful exits.
Tanya Helin
Go-to-Market Advisor, Watchlight AI
Tanya is a senior go-to-market executive with 20+ years bringing enterprise software and cybersecurity products to market. She has led end-to-end go-to-market organizations across sales, customer success, professional services, alliances, and revenue operations, with leadership roles at HashiCorp, GitLab, Stack Overflow, and AutoRABIT, and has helped drive the growth behind multiple successful exits. A hands-on operator, she turns strategy into execution by setting priorities, creating accountability, and working alongside founders to deliver measurable results.
- Early leader at HashiCorp, helping scale the company from under $500K to roughly $300M selling technical infrastructure and security to large enterprises
- Led GitLab’s largest region, lifting pipeline coverage from under 3x to about 4x and expanding customers into DevSecOps and security
- CRO at AutoRABIT, launching go-to-market for a new cybersecurity product and taking it from flat growth to ~20% growth and from cash burn to positive EBITDA in under two years
- Advises software and cybersecurity companies on product-market fit and on building and scaling go-to-market