Bring your own model
Model-agnostic. Connect your own key so nothing ever leaves your environment. You're never locked to our AI.
What stops one wrong move, or an AI agent, from taking your whole business down?
Korvalis does. It watches your systems and shuts down a dangerous action in seconds, whoever's behind it.
It only takes one bad move.
On a small team, anyone with access can take you down. And no one is watching.
A tired engineer60%of breaches involve a person
A forgotten key98%of granted cloud access is never used
An AI agent97%of AI breaches had no access controls
One attack costs a small team $16,000. Four in ten don't survive a six-figure hit.
Sources: Verizon DBIR 2025, Microsoft 2024, IBM 2025, Hiscox 2023.
We protect you while you sleep.
Korvalis sits inside your own cloud and never looks away, so you don't have to.
- 01WatchEvery session, around the clock.
- 02ReadThe session's intent, not keywords.
- 03GrantAccess just for the task, then revoke it.
- 04CutThe bad session, on our own, in seconds.
Set it up once. It runs itself.
Temporary access
Access that expires itself.
Bringing on a freelancer or vendor? Grant exactly what the job needs, and it's gone on its own when the work is done. No leftover login to forget.
Auto-termination
Destructive sessions, cut on their own.
The moment a session turns dangerous, Korvalis ends it in seconds, without waiting for a human to notice.
Slack approvals
Approve access without leaving Slack.
Requests arrive in Slack with the context to decide. Approve or deny in a click, and it's logged either way.
Detection rules
You decide what counts as destructive.
Tune the rules to your own stack. Start with sane defaults, then tighten as you grow.
We sit beside your stack, not in the middle of it.
A security layer shouldn't own your infrastructure. Korvalis watches from the side and only steps in when it needs to. You keep control.
Self-host it
Want it fully inside your own walls? We can deploy Korvalis self-hosted, so your data stays entirely with you.
No proxy games
We don't route your traffic through us like the old tools. Korvalis watches from the side and only steps in when a session turns destructive.
No new place to live
No extra app, no new window, no new access to hand out. It works through an admin dashboard and Slack, so your team stays in its own tools.
How does Korvalis compare to the alternatives?
The honest version, for a team with no dedicated security hire.
| Korvalis | Teleport / StrongDM | AWS native (IAM + CloudTrail) | DIY scripts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cuts a destructive session while it's running | Yes, in seconds | Records and reviews, no live cut | No, logs only | No |
| Stops humans and AI agents | Both | Human access focus | — | No |
| Setup time | Under an hour | Weeks to months | Ongoing | Ongoing |
| Needs a dedicated security team | No | Usually | You build it | You build it |
| Routes your traffic through a proxy | No proxy | Yes | — | — |
| Price | Free tier, then from $99/mo per account | Enterprise pricing | Free, but you build and run it | Your engineers' time |
From the founder
I ran engineering for years, owning production and access for a 25-person team. I saw how one wrong command, one over-powered key, or one quiet night could put the whole thing at risk, and how the tools that could stop it were built for companies ten times our size. Korvalis is the guardrail I wish we'd had. I'm building it for teams like the one I ran.
Nick Krykunov
Co-founder & CEO
Questions people ask before they trust us in their cloud
What does Korvalis actually do?
It runs inside your own cloud account and watches what every privileged session is doing. When a session turns destructive, it cuts it off in seconds, whether the actor is a person, a contractor, a stolen key, or an AI agent.
How is this different from AWS IAM or CloudTrail?
IAM controls who can log in, and CloudTrail logs what happened after the fact. Neither one watches a live session and stops a destructive action while it is running. That live cut is what Korvalis adds.
Do you sit in front of my traffic like a proxy?
No. Korvalis has no proxy, so nothing routes through us and your engineers keep working exactly as they do today. It reads activity inside your own account instead.
What happens if it flags the wrong thing?
It starts in observe-only mode with conservative defaults, so it watches before it ever blocks. You set the policy, and a break-glass command removes Korvalis from the path in one step. It is a fast guard, not a perfect firewall.
Can it stop an AI agent from deleting production?
Yes, the same way it handles a person. It watches what the agent's session is doing and cuts it if it turns destructive, so an agent moving at machine speed still gets stopped.
How long does it take to set up?
About half an hour, inside your own AWS account, with no security hire. It goes in watching first, so it is safe from day one.
Does any of my data leave my account?
No. Korvalis installs inside your own cloud, your data stays in your environment, and you can bring your own model. Nothing sensitive routes through us.
How much does it cost?
There is a free watch-only tier, then paid plans from $99/mo per cloud account. Korvalis is on a waitlist today while we onboard the first teams, so pricing opens up as we do.