Decawork
YC S26Entrepreneur First '25San Francisco, US Β· Founded 2025 Β· 2 employees Β· 2 known investors
Decawork provides an operating layer for IT teams to deploy, govern, and maintain AI agents running across a company's systems. It handles agent identity, scoped access to internal systems, spending caps, approval gates, and audit records so agents stay controlled from onboarding through audit.
Also known as Decawork AI
Founders & leadershipΒ· Y Combinator alumni (S26)
Decawork was founded in 2025 by Aman Raj and Sarthak Aggarwal.
Investors Β· 2
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Decawork describes itself as an "agent control plane" for IT teams: a single platform through which an organization deploys, governs, and maintains the AI agents built by its internal teams. The stated problem is agent sprawl - internal teams increasingly build agents in tools such as Claude Code or Codex, those agents go live with access to production systems and data, maintenance is unowned, and IT has no visibility, leaving it to either ignore or block them.
The product is organized around three stages. Deploy: each agent receives its own identity and scoped credentials, with an IT go-live checklist covering access scoping, monitoring, spending caps, and IT sign-off before the agent touches company systems. Govern: agent tool calls pass through a Decawork gateway so no raw credentials are exposed, sensitive actions are held for approval, and all other actions are logged and attributed. Maintain: every run is monitored, IT is alerted (for example via Slack) when credentials expire, integrations fail, or suspicious activity is detected, unused agents are retired, and agents whose owners leave the company continue running on their own scoped credentials, with paths to restore, pause, or retire an agent.
The website advertises 1:1 identity per agent, scoped credentials by default, 24/7 run monitoring, and SOC 2 as an independent examination claim. A third-party profile states the platform supports integrations with tools including Okta, Google Cloud, and Slack, and shows fleet-management examples spanning Finance, IT, Ops, and Sales functions.
Founding story
The founders state they encountered the problem in prior roles: Sarthak Aggarwal built AI systems at NVIDIA that were deployed at OpenAI and Meta and worked on enterprise AI at Ema; Aman Raj built an AI compliance platform at Barclays used by internal teams globally and hand-wired credentials for each agent he shipped while serving over 100,000 monthly users, because no standard method existed. They say the recurring questions across those deployments - what an agent can access, who approved it, and what it did - were answered for other software but not for AI, and they left their roles to build Decawork.
Business model
Decawork sells software to enterprises, positioned as a developer/IT infrastructure platform (described by one profile as a developer platform/API/infrastructure delivery model, software only). It is sold through direct founder-led demos rather than self-serve signup on the public site. No pricing information is disclosed in the available sources.
Not disclosed in the available sources.
Traction
Traction disclosed in the sources is limited: an active Y Combinator Summer 2026 batch listing, a team size of two, and a launch post seeking design-partner style conversations with IT leaders. No customers, revenue, or usage metrics are disclosed.
Latest developments
The most recent developments visible in the sources are the company's inclusion as an active Y Combinator Summer 2026 batch company and the publication of its YC launch post and launch video describing the deploy/govern/maintain product.
βΈFull profile β market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history, risks & controversies
Market position
Decawork is categorized by third parties as B2B infrastructure/AI, DevTools, and within an "AI agent management" sub-cluster, and by another directory as Enterprise Software. It frames its market thesis around the argument that prior technology shifts (cloud, SaaS, the digital workspace) ended up managed by IT and that AI agents will follow the same pattern.
Decawork positions itself as a single standard operating layer that works with agents teams have already built in any stack (Claude Code, Codex, or other), rather than requiring rebuilding them, combining per-agent identity, scoped credentials issued through a gateway that avoids exposing raw credentials, pre-launch IT sign-off, approval gates on sensitive actions, full action logging and attribution, and post-deployment lifecycle management (alerting, pausing, retiring, ownership continuity when an employee departs).
Technology
A gateway architecture through which agent tool calls are routed, providing per-agent identity, scoped credentials without exposing raw secrets, policy-based approval holds on sensitive actions, logging and attribution of every action, run-level monitoring with failure and credential-expiry alerts, spending caps, and lifecycle controls to restore, pause, or retire agents. The platform is described as stack-agnostic, supporting agents built in Claude Code, Codex, or other frameworks, and integrating with tools such as Okta, Google Cloud, and Slack.
Go-to-market
Go-to-market is founder-led and demo-driven: the website's primary calls to action are booking a demo or live walkthrough, offering a 30-minute session with a founder covering deployment, maintenance and governance in the live console, with no sales deck. Prospects are also invited to bring an agent their team already built to be migrated onto the platform, and the founders solicit introductions to IT leaders by email.
IT teams and IT leaders at companies where employees and business teams are building internal AI tools and agents; example agent use cases span Finance, IT, Ops and Sales functions, including vendor onboarding and recurring invoice reminders.
Geography
Y Combinator and one aggregator list the company in San Francisco; a separate startup directory lists its location as India. No other operating regions are disclosed.
History
Sources give differing founding years: Y Combinator lists the company as founded in 2026, while an investor directory lists 2025. The company appears in Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch with active status, a team size of 2, a San Francisco location, and Brad Flora as primary YC partner. Its YC launch post introduced the product publicly and solicited intros to IT leaders. One third-party directory lists the company's location as India and its stage as Seed.
Risks & controversies
No controversies are reported in the sources. Sources conflict on basic facts (founding year 2025 vs 2026; headquarters San Francisco vs India), and the company is very early with a two-person team and no disclosed customers, revenue, or funding amounts. The SOC 2 claim on the website is not substantiated by an independent source in the material provided. Much third-party coverage consists of automatically generated directory profiles with no substantive verified detail.
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Key figures
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Timeline Β· 2
launches, deals, and filingsDecawork is listed as an active company in Y Combinator's Summer 2026 (S26) batch, based in San Francisco, with Brad Flora as primary partner. The company's site displays a 'Backed by Y Combinator' badge.
Founders Aman Raj and Sarthak Aggarwal published a YC company launch post introducing the platform, covering deployment with per-agent identity and scoped credentials, gateway-level governance with approval gates and logging, and post-launch monitoring, alerting and retirement of unused agents. The post included a launch video and a request for intros to IT leaders.
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In the news
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Decawork do?
- Y Combinator-backed agent control plane letting IT teams deploy, govern and maintain AI agents across company systems.
- Who founded Decawork?
- Decawork was founded by Aman Raj, Sarthak Aggarwal in 2025.
- Who are Decawork's investors?
- Decawork's investors include Y Combinator, Entrepreneur First.
- Where is Decawork headquartered?
- Decawork is headquartered in San Francisco, US.