Operant AI
Software DevelopmentCalifornia, United States11-50 Employees
Operant AI is a San Francisco-based software development company focused on cybersecurity for AI systems and multi-cloud environments, including AI agents and MCP (servers, clients, and tools). Its product lineup includes AI Gatekeeper, MCP Gateway, and the 3D Runtime Defense Platform, designed to discover, detect, and defend against attacks across APIs, Kubernetes (K8s), large language models, and agents. The company emphasizes rapid deployment, with security coverage described as available within minutes of a single-step deployment across AI and cloud applications, workloads, models, APIs, MCP components, and agents. Operant AI has been named a vendor in Gartner's 2025 Market Guide for AI Trust, Risk, and Security Management and API Threat Protection, and has received recognition such as Latio AI Security Leader and a Tech Ascension Award for Cloud Security. The firm, with 11-50 employees, is based in San Francisco, California 94115, and has announced multiple product launches and partnerships in 2025–2026, including MCP Gateway, Agent Protector, CodeInjectionGuard, and collaborations with Tenstorrent and Model Context Protocol.