C1

Market position

C1 markets itself as a control plane spanning human, workload, and agent identities, and cites a 2026 Future of Identity Report claiming 95% of organizations already run autonomous AI agents, 47% say non-human identities outnumber people, and only 22% have full visibility into those identities. The sources do not contain independent market share or analyst positioning data. [0][1]

Stated differentiators are unified coverage of human, non-human, and AI agent identities in a single platform; runtime governance of agent actions with 100% audited tool-call coverage; a post-quantum vault for agent credentials; and breadth of connectivity claimed at 300+ app connectors and 3,000+ MCPs out of the box, with integrations to systems including Okta, AWS, Salesforce, Slack, GitHub, Snowflake, Azure, Google Workspace, Microsoft Entra, ServiceNow, and Cursor. [0][1]

Technology

C1 describes an AI-native platform with a unified identity directory, an identity-aware gateway for AI and MCP traffic, a post-quantum credential vault, and AI agents (C1AW) operating under access controls. Public engineering posts describe underlying infrastructure work including PostgreSQL query planning fixes, calculated partition-key sharding on DynamoDB via protoc-gen-dynamo, an embedding pipeline refactor cutting Bedrock inference costs and vector storage roughly in half, keepalive-based connection authentication in C1 Bridge for long-lived private-network connections, an agent-TUI tool that exposes rendered terminal screens to agents, and formal-methods techniques such as fault injection, e-graph equivalence proofs for permission derivations, and compiling connector branch conditions to deterministic finite automata. [0][1][3]

Go-to-market

Direct enterprise sales supported by website demo requests, published customer stories, integrations and MCP directories, and a company-hosted conference (C1 Transform 2026) aimed at security and AI strategy leaders, with speakers from Cursor, Together AI, Brex, Vanta, Daytona.io, DraftKings, and a former Okta chief product architect. [0][1][5]

Large enterprises adopting AI and agentic systems, with buyers in security, IT, and infrastructure functions. Named customer voices on the site include a Director of Product and Infrastructure Security at DigitalOcean, a CISO, a Director of IT, an Infrastructure Security Team Leader, and a Director of Corporate Applications referencing Zscaler. [0][1]

Geography

The C1 Transform 2026 conference is being held in San Francisco, California; the sources provide no further detail on office locations or international presence. [5]

Risks & controversies

No controversies are reported in the sources. Note that several similarly named entities appear in public search results and are distinct companies: C1 (onec1.com), a Bloomington, Minnesota-based IT solutions and managed services provider; Cenkusha's "C1" business management system; C1 Fund Inc., a Palo Alto closed-end digital asset fund; and Celestial AI's "Series C1" financing round. [2][4][6][7]