The majority of production agent deployments authenticate using static API keys and shared credentials that were designed for human-operated software, not autonomous systems executing at scale. Only 21% of organizations maintain real-time agent inventories and only 28% can trace an agent action back to an authorizing human, creating critical compliance and security blind spots. There is no widely adopted identity primitive built for agents—one that supports dynamic issuance, scoped delegation, and full auditability across multi-agent pipelines.

Agents authenticate with static API keys designed for humans, making it impossible to scope permissions, trace actions to authorizing humans, or maintain real-time inventories across multi-agent pipelines.

Platform engineering and security teams at companies running 10+ autonomous agents in production (fintech, healthtech, enterprise SaaS) who face SOC2/compliance pressure around non-human identity.

Non-human identity management is an exploding compliance gap — CISOs are already paying for secrets management (HashiCorp Vault, CyberArk) but have zero tooling purpose-built for agent-scoped delegation and audit trails; the 21% inventory stat means 79% of orgs are flying blind and auditors are starting to ask questions.

MVP is an identity registry with an SDK: issue short-lived, scoped credential tokens to agents via OAuth2-compatible flows, log every action with a delegation chain back to a human authorizer, and expose a real-time dashboard of active agent identities — build on existing OIDC/SPIFFE primitives to avoid reinventing crypto.

Non-human identity management is a subset of the $20B+ IAM market; with enterprises averaging 45 non-human identities per human identity and agent counts exploding, this is a $2-5B standalone category within 3 years.