Guild.ai
Category: AI Infrastructure
Guild.ai is the control plane for AI agents, providing enterprise-grade governance, observability, and management infrastructure for deploying and scaling AI agents in production. Guild.ai was founded in 2025. The company is led by James Everingham. Based in Ross (San Francisco Bay Area), California, United States. Team size: 11-50. Total funding raised: $44M. Latest round: Series A. Key investors include GV (Google Ventures), Khosla Ventures, NFX, Acrew Capital, Scribble Ventures, Webb Investment Network, 515 Ventures.
- Founded
- 2025
- Headquarters
- Ross (San Francisco Bay Area), California, United States
- Team size
- 11-50
- Total funding
- $44M
Value proposition
Guild.ai provides a neutral, model-agnostic control plane for AI agents that enables engineering teams to build, deploy, govern, and share agents in production with centralized security, observability, cost controls, and audit trails — solving the "agent control problem" that emerges when companies scale from one agent to many.
Products and solutions
Guild Control Plane (agent governance, observability, and management platform), Agent Hub (GitHub-like marketplace for discovering, forking, and sharing agents), Guild Agent SDK (TypeScript SDK for building agents), Starter Kit Agents (Ticket Triage, PR Code Review, Root Cause Analysis, On-Call Response, Slack Bot, Tech Support), Enterprise governance features (centralized identity, least-privilege access, immutable audit logs, cost visibility, circuit breakers)
Unique value
The first dedicated control plane for AI agents — model-agnostic (works with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, open-source), framework-agnostic (LangChain, CrewAI, custom), and vendor-neutral. Provides a GitHub-like Agent Hub for discovering, forking, and sharing agents across organizations, with built-in cost circuit breakers, least-privilege credential management, and immutable audit logging.
Target customer
Engineering teams and platform engineers at enterprises deploying AI agents in production; individual developers building and sharing agents
Industries served
Technology / Software, Enterprise (cross-industry), Platform Engineering, DevOps / CI-CD
Technology advantage
Built by ex-Meta DevInfra leadership (VP Eng Instagram/DevInfra); model-agnostic architecture supporting OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and open-source models; framework-agnostic (LangChain, CrewAI, custom); TypeScript SDK with versioned releases; immutable audit logging; runtime circuit breakers; centralized credential management; Agent Hub for agent discovery and reuse; integrations with GitHub, Jira, Slack, Linear, Zendesk, Google Workspace, PagerDuty, New Relic, and more
How they differentiate
Unlike agent frameworks (LangGraph, CrewAI) that focus on agent construction, Guild is a neutral control plane focused purely on governance, observability, and lifecycle management. It is model-agnostic and framework-agnostic — not tied to any single cloud, model provider, or agent framework. The Agent Hub provides a GitHub-like distribution model for agents that no competitor offers.
Main competitors
LangGraph (LangChain), Prefect, Temporal, Dagster, Microsoft (GitHub Copilot agent management), cloud-native agent platforms from AWS/Azure/GCP
Key partnerships
Integrations with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google (model providers), GitHub, Jira, Slack, Linear, Zendesk, Google Workspace, PagerDuty, New Relic, Confluence
Major milestones
Founded 2025 by ex-Meta DevInfra team, $14M Seed led by GV (Nov 2025), $30M Series A led by GV with Khosla Ventures, NFX, Acrew Capital (Mar 2026), $300M valuation, General Availability launch April 28, 2026, Agent Hub marketplace launched
Market positioning
Pioneering the emerging "Agent Control Plane" category, recognized by Forrester as a formal market segment. Positioned as the neutral, vendor-independent layer between agent frameworks/runtimes and enterprise infrastructure — distinct from cloud-specific or framework-tied solutions.
Geographic focus
North America (primary); expanding into Europe by end of 2026
About James Everingham
Ex-VP Engineering Meta/Instagram (Head of DevInfra, co-created Diem); Cofounder/SVP Eng Lightspark; VP Eng Yahoo; CEO Luminate; CTO/Cofounder LiveOps; Netscape Browser Engineering Lead; Borland
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Official website: https://www.guild.ai