AI, your way: introducing the Poolside Platform — Poolside

Who we built this for

We built the Poolside Platform for a specific kind of team: the kind whose approved base images are a matter of policy; whose network architectures make sure no single node has both GPU access and outbound connectivity; whose CISO has been forced, over the past two years, to relax controls for an AI vendor because there wasn't a real alternative. Now there’s Poolside.

Inside the Platform, agents run where developers already work—VS Code, Visual Studio, Zed, IntelliJ, or the terminal—and connect to the tools teams actually use, like Slack, Jira, GitHub, Workday, and Salesforce through centrally managed MCP servers. Every session runs in a containerized environment with built-in secret management and network policy control. Every agent action, including tool calls, file edits, reasoning steps, and decisions, is recorded as a searchable trajectory. Credentials are encrypted at rest, injected at runtime, and automatically redacted from outputs. Administrators define the boundaries centrally; the Platform enforces them.

Four ways to deploy: on your own bare metal, air-gapped on turnkey hardware through partners like Dell; inside your existing VPC on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.

And Forward Deployed Research Engineers who actually ship it with you. Our FDREs sit with your team, work out where agents create the most value in your specific workflows, build on the Platform alongside you, ship the first automated workflow in weeks, then harden and measure.

There's more than we can cover here. Learn more on our enterprise page, which goes deeper on the Console, sandboxed execution, audit retention, and the deployment modalities.

Keep your organization moving fast without compromising control — have full visibility into every decision and action AI takes.

Why now

The fast-moving AI coding market has progressed primarily through cloud APIs requiring enterprises to relax enterprise safeguards and controls, or allow dangerous modes of operating to avoid falling behind. Businesses deserve better. AI vendors should not require enterprises to relax well established best practices, and Poolside does not. Enterprises expect AI auditability and governance to become mainstream priorities in 2026, pushed there not by regulators but by the people responsible for running AI in production.

What this enables

For any team whose data is too sensitive, too regulated, or too strategic to send outside of their security boundary, the Poolside Platform puts AI within reach.

For a bank that's been quietly running an AI coding tool under a three-month security exception, with Poolside, you no longer need to compromise security for your team's efficiency. For a defense contractor whose AI usage policies have been running ahead of the tooling available to enforce them, it means your controls can finally match your requirements.

We're excited about what customers have already built with the Platform. Hunted Labs, who helps you protect the security of your software supply chain, has made Poolside part of its full-stack offer:

Poolside has fundamentally changed how software is written for secure compute environments. Poolside models have… changed how we build secure software internally for our customers at Hunted.”