About us

Two founders who hit the same wall.

“We saw the same thing at work: colleagues connecting all kinds of stuff to Claude, and nobody knowing what it could reach. A ticking time bomb.”

Mathieu and Stijn
Mathieu Daems, co-founder of airlock

Go-to-market

Mathieu Daems

A program manager by nature. Four years at delaware consulting, where he led multiple AI enablement initiatives. Zero to one is where he gets his energy.

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Stijn Haus, co-founder of airlock

Product and engineering

Stijn Haus

Twenty years of building software: Cronos, freelance for banks and government, then five years at Showpad. Security comes first. For him it is not optional.

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Could be youYou?Grit, attitude, eager, and a little bit of crazy. We are hiring the first people around us.See open positions →

Three things we are sure of.

  1. Agents, agents, agents.

    Autonomous agents, always-on agents, agents with computer use, personal and shared agents. They are not human, and they need to be set up and governed as such.

  2. The setup belongs to the company.

    Agents, skills, rules and memory are company assets. They should outlive any one AI vendor. Change the tool, keep the setup.

  3. Speed or safety? Both, please.

    If governance only works on an enterprise budget, everyone else stops using AI or runs it without oversight. We build it so they do not have to choose.

Our vision: an agentic 360 control layer.

Everyone on Copilot, some on Claude, one brings a personal Hermes, some agents on Microsoft. Are you still in control of what's connected?

That is most companies today, or will be soon. And the software you already run is building its own harness: Salesforce has Agentforce, Slack turned Slackbot into an agent. Every tool brings its own logins, its own connections and its own idea of the rules. Each vendor sees its own slice. Nobody sees all of it.

We believe someone has to. One view, all the way round: every person, every agent and every tool around the software your company runs on. Checked before an action runs, written down after.

The agentic 360: your company software in the centre, with agents of its own; airlock around it, checking every action; and around that the AI assistants, the agents and the people that use them.Your systemsairlockAI ASSISTANTSAGENTSPEOPLE AND TEAMSYour own agentsSalesFinanceITOpsLegal

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