Kamiwaza 1.0 delivers managed collaboration, securely designed infrastructure, and next-generation AI agents without moving data
Kamiwaza AI, a secure AI orchestration platform that provides the foundation for enterprises to build, operate, and scale their own AI-powered capabilities, today announced the general availability of Kamiwaza 1.0. Designed specifically for the security and governance requirements of highly regulated industries, Kamiwaza 1.0 securely connects across distributed environments without moving or centralizing enterprise data, giving organizations the control and visibility they need to deploy AI with confidence.
This release introduces three major new features:
- Kamiwaza Workrooms is a new managed collaboration environment where enterprise teams and their AI agents can work within their own access boundaries.
- Infrastructure built on Chainguard’s hardened zero-to-low level CVE container images designed with security and compliance in mind.
- Kaizen, the platform’s AI agent, has been upgraded to extend multimodal analysis and output capabilities
Together, these capabilities enable enterprise teams to collaborate with AI across sensitive data in ways not previously possible, with strict boundaries enforced at the platform level.
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“Regulated industries have made it clear what they want from AI: keeping data in the right place, respecting security boundaries, and having full visibility into the behavior of AI,” said Luke Norris, CEO and co-founder of Kamiwaza. “Kamiwaza 1.0 builds on the distributed data and security foundation that our enterprise and government customers already rely on, with enhanced infrastructure, managed team collaboration, and more capable agents working across it all.”
Kamiwaza Workrooms: Governed AI collaboration for enterprise teams
Business and government teams regularly work in cross-functional groups and need to share sensitive data within projects, but not universally. Typically, this means restricting access so broadly that collaboration is hampered, or exposing access in a way that creates security and compliance risks. Neither is acceptable in a regulated environment.
Kamiwaza Workrooms solves this problem by creating a secure, policy-restricted space where team members and their AI agents operate within their own access rights. Each workroom contains its own data and tools, and can only be accessed by users with appropriate permissions. The platform enforces these boundaries at the architectural level, rather than through manual policy exceptions or agent-level filters. All actions are fully auditable.
Chainguard: Enhanced security at the infrastructure layer
Most enterprise AI platforms are built on standard open source container images that accumulate vulnerabilities over time. Security teams must identify, prioritize, and patch vulnerabilities in infrastructure they don’t build or manage. As AI workloads move into production, this becomes an unsustainable model.
Kamiwaza 1.0 addresses this issue by leveraging Chainguard Containers, a hardened container image purpose-built for security and compliance. Unlike standard open source images, Chainguard’s container images are minimally designed, continually rebuilt, and offer zero known vulnerabilities, high-quality SBOM, and verifiable signatures. FIPS-compliant versions are also available for federal deployments.
Kaizen: A context-aware AI agent ready for day one
Enterprise teams can’t always rely on AI agents to make the best decisions because the data agents rely on is fragmented across systems, has inconsistent terminology, and is governed by varying access controls.
Kaizen, the platform’s flagship AI agent, connects to internal data sources across an organization’s systems through the Kamiwaza Context Manager, so its output is informed by a complete data landscape rather than a single silo. A new skills library will enable enterprise teams to define which capabilities are available to agents and under what conditions.
“Workroom, Chainguard, and Kaizen each solve a separate problem, but together they add up to a bigger problem,” said Matt Wallace, CTO and co-founder of Kamiwaza. “Teams can collaborate with AI across sensitive data, without humans or agents seeing as much as they need to. The infrastructure they’re running on has no known vulnerabilities from day one. And the agents that connect everything understand the full context, not pieces of data. This combination doesn’t exist anywhere else.”
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