COGWEAVE

Governed Agentic Harness

The trust layer that lets AI agents run unattended — safely.

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Problem

Enterprises are racing into agents — only 2% have reached scale

61%

61% of organizations are preparing for or exploring agentic deployment — yet only 2% have reached full scale.¹
The gap is governance: agents whose actions can't be bounded, attributed, or audited.
Cogweave doesn't make the model deterministic — it makes everything around it accountable:

Every capability is allowlisted and monotonically scoped
Every memory carries unforgeable provenance
The ledger is append-only — so an unpredictable agent still has a predictable footprint

Problem

Agents drown in their own history and forget what matters

As sessions grow, irrelevant history "poisons" the context window:

Token waste on re-sent history
Quadratic attention cost
"Lost in the Middle" performance rot²

Introducing Cogweave

The governance layer between your LLM and your runtime

A Governed Execution Environment that sits between the LLM and your runtime.

Contains infinite loops and context drift by design — via memory decay and permission-scoped escalation.

Product — Memory

Typed, provenance-stamped records — not a vector blob

We don't just "RAG" your data. Every memory is a typed record, stamped with unforgeable provenance, in an append-only, fully auditable ledger.

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User-Said — permanent, trusted origin

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LLM-Inferred — confidence-based decay

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Append-Only — full audit & time-travel

Product — Sandbox

Sub-agents can only lose authority down the tree — never gain it

Cogweave grants each sub-agent capabilities that only shrink — never beyond its parent. At a boundary it escalates up the chain instead of faking a workaround.

Psandbox = { Read , Limited Write } → Harness Enforcement

Product — Stack

One local binary: MCP-native, self-routing, with a real retrieval pipeline

MCP Server

Model Context Protocol native. Connects instantly with Claude Code, Cursor, and enterprise IDEs.

Dynamic Router

Routes across your configured providers per task, reordering by observed reliability and judged output quality — never to a model you didn't list.

Retrieval Pipeline

Packs only the relevant memory into context — structured filter, graph expansion, semantic re-rank, budget-aware — while confidence decay and TTL retire stale records.

Competition

Rivals bolt memory & permissions on; we make them the architecture

	OpenClaw · Hermes	Cogweave
Memory	Full-text search + skill docs (freeform)	Typed ledger — provenance, confidence, audit
Permissions	Container isolation / external guardrail	Capabilities shrink down the agent tree
Footprint	Always-on daemon, 12+ chat channels	One binary, local-first, no server

Market

The picks-and-shovels play for the agent era

Bottom-up: 27M professional developers³ × 25% adopting agent infra × $500/yr = $3.8B serviceable. We win the governed-memory wedge first.

2025–2030: LLMs are shifting from "chat" to "agents." Infrastructure is the ultimate picks-and-shovels play.

$50.31B

Market by 2030⁴

45.8%

CAGR

Business Model

Open-core: free adoption funnels into paid Cloud & Enterprise

Free — OSS Core

Local binary + MCP server + SDK. Drives adoption.

$0 forever

Cloud — per seat

Hosted control plane: observability, audit logs, secure runtimes.

$39 / seat / mo

Enterprise — annual

SSO, support, on-prem, compliance.

$50K ACV

Unit economics — Target CAC $30K · LTV $120K · LTV:CAC 4:1 · OSS install → paid 2% · gross margin 80%

Go-to-market

Open-source core wins developers: Cloud monetizes the enterprise

1. Open Source (OSS) — Release the core SDK and MCP server to win developer mindshare and viral adoption. Zero friction to entry.

2. Cogweave Cloud — Optional control plane on the local-first core: observability, centralized audit logs, hosted secure runtimes.

OSS install→ 40% activate→ 5% to Cloud→ Enterprise

CAC $30K · LTV $120K

Roadmap

From a working MVP today to enterprise scale by 2027

Q2 2026

MVP CompleteMCP IntegrationPrivate Beta

Q4 2026

OSS Core LaunchV1 Public Release1k Star Goal

Q2 2027

Cloud PlatformAudit Log V1

Q3 2027

Scale DeploymentEnterprise POCs

Roadmap — Beyond V1

Self-optimization, org memory & intent clarification widen the moat

Re-prompter

Clarifies intent before execution — helps users spec the request and drive it to done.

Self Optimization

Already self-evaluates — turns that into continuous, org-wide improvement.

Organizational Memory

Shared memory the whole enterprise benefits from — not just the user at the screen.

Team

Founder-led by an engineer who already built the hard part

Active DoD Secret Clearance

David Hawkes

Founder & CEO

Built production LLM/RAG/MCP systems — onto 20+ years of enterprise infrastructure at PayPal & FIS.

Why me: shipped the full governed-agent core solo (M1–M6) — sandbox supervisor, typed provenance ledger, MCP server, dynamic router.

LangChain · Ollama · MCP · vector stores in production. Two decades running least-privilege, fully-audited carrier-grade networks — the same governance discipline Cogweave brings to agents.

Deliberately lean — solo through validation; team scales on the next round.

Join the Agentic Future

$400k

Pre-seed

Pre-seed to go full-time and launch the OSS core + Cloud beta. ~18-month runway: founder full-time, local-model compute, lean opex. First GTM hire ~Q1 2027; team scales on the next round.

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