Differentiates by providing a 'reliability layer' for AI agents, moving away from pure autonomy towards controlled, state-based execution that is visually debuggable.

Leadership

Founders

Ben Cochran

Distinguished Engineer with over 20 years of experience in systems engineering. Previously a Director of Engineering for System Software at NVIDIA and a Senior Engineer at AMD. Expert in GPU/HPC infrastructure.

Bondan Rufen

Co-founder of Statewright. Background in engineering and semiconductor industry, with experience in RTL design, ASIC development, and embedded systems.

Executive Team

Ben Cochran

Founder & CEO

20+ years in production infrastructure at NVIDIA and AMD.

Founding Story

Founded by Ben Cochran to address the unpredictability of LLM-based agents. Leveraging his 20-year background in systems engineering at NVIDIA, he developed a Rust-based state machine engine to provide deterministic control over agentic workflows.

Business Model

Revenue Model

SaaS subscription model for visual builder and hosting, with options for single-team self-hosting.

Pricing Tiers

Free Tier

Free

Live and available for individual developer use. Single-team self-hosting is explicitly permitted.

Private

Target Markets

Industries & Segments

AI Developers
Software Engineering Teams
Enterprises using AI agents

Use Cases

AI coding agents
Autonomous DevOps workflows
Reliable multi-step agentic processes

Notable Customers

Individual developers and single teams

Quick Facts

Headquarters

Carmel, Indiana

Founded

2026

Entity Type

Inc.

Employees

Total Funding

Early Stage / Bootstrapped

Office Locations

Carmel

History & Milestones

May 2026

Officially launched Statewright on Hacker News (Show HN) and released the visual builder and Rust engine.

May 2026

Announced support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to standardize tool restrictions across AI agents.

Key Capabilities

Visual state machine definitions

Deterministic transitions and guards

State-based tool restrictions (allow-lists)

Rust runtime engine

Model Context Protocol (MCP) support

Bash and command safety guardrails

Integrations & Partnerships

Platform Integrations

MCP
Rust-based environments
AI Agent Frameworks

Key Partnerships

Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration

Connect

Website

statewright.ai

GitHub

statewright

AI Topics

Statewright focuses on these topics:

Agent Frameworks(1)

Autonomous Systems(1)

MCP Tools(1)

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Statewright

To make AI agents reliable and deterministic using visual state machine guardrails.

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2026Est.

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State Machine Guards for AI Agents

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Latest News

05/01/2026

Statewright launches on Hacker News to address AI agent reliability.

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05/01/2026

Statewright introduces support for Model Context Protocol (MCP).

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Products & Services

Statewright Visual State Machine Builder

May 2026

A visual interface for defining state machine workflows for AI agents, allowing developers to map out complex processes with guards and transitions.

Statewright Rust Engine

May 2026

A high-performance Rust-based runtime that evaluates state machine definitions and enforces deterministic guardrails for AI agent execution.

Market Position

Differentiates by providing a 'reliability layer' for AI agents, moving away from pure autonomy towards controlled, state-based execution that is visually debuggable.

Leadership

Founders

Ben Cochran

Bondan Rufen

Co-founder of Statewright. Background in engineering and semiconductor industry, with experience in RTL design, ASIC development, and embedded systems.

Executive Team

Ben Cochran

Founder & CEO

20+ years in production infrastructure at NVIDIA and AMD.

Founding Story

Business Model

Revenue Model

SaaS subscription model for visual builder and hosting, with options for single-team self-hosting.

Pricing Tiers

Free Tier

Free

Live and available for individual developer use. Single-team self-hosting is explicitly permitted.

Private

Target Markets

Industries & Segments

AI Developers
Software Engineering Teams
Enterprises using AI agents

Use Cases

AI coding agents
Autonomous DevOps workflows
Reliable multi-step agentic processes

Notable Customers

Individual developers and single teams

Quick Facts

Headquarters

Carmel, Indiana

Founded

2026

Entity Type

Inc.

Employees

Total Funding

Early Stage / Bootstrapped

Office Locations

Carmel

History & Milestones

May 2026

Officially launched Statewright on Hacker News (Show HN) and released the visual builder and Rust engine.

May 2026

Announced support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to standardize tool restrictions across AI agents.

Key Capabilities

Visual state machine definitions

Deterministic transitions and guards

State-based tool restrictions (allow-lists)

Rust runtime engine

Model Context Protocol (MCP) support

Bash and command safety guardrails

Integrations & Partnerships

Platform Integrations

MCP
Rust-based environments
AI Agent Frameworks

Key Partnerships

Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration

Connect

Website

statewright.ai

GitHub

statewright

AI Topics

Statewright focuses on these topics:

Agent Frameworks(1)

Autonomous Systems(1)

MCP Tools(1)

Back to all developers