← Obsta Labs
Team
Early-stage, founder-led.
Obsta Labs builds kernel-level security and control primitives for AI agents.
It is at the founder-led stage: one person building the product and technical
direction, while talking to early collaborators, advisors, and future team
members.
Founder
Pavel Piankov
Founder & Engineer
Sole founder, building kernel-level security and control primitives for
AI agents. The flagship is Bulwark —
an open-source read-consent gate that pauses a protected file open at the
Linux/macOS kernel before any byte reaches an agent.
Bulwark did not appear in isolation. It was built on a working stack I run
every day: NeuroRouter Pro (context for
live model sessions) and Hiveram (the shared
work graph and provenance) drove the build itself, and
VectorCourt served as the adversarial
review gate throughout. Hivebus (open source)
is the coordination fabric underneath. These tools are mature because I depend
on them — Bulwark is what the stack produced.
Company
Obsta Labs Pte. Ltd. — Singapore (UEN 202622479E).
Also operating as Obsta Labs LLC — Delaware, USA.
Web: obstalabs.dev · Contact: hello@obstalabs.dev
Current focus includes Bulwark, an open-source read-consent gate for AI agents; VectorCourt, a decision governance engine; and CoreGate (obsta.ai), a control plane for regulated agentic banking.
Building something at the intersection of AI agents and systems
security? Obsta Labs is talking to early collaborators and advisors —
hello@obstalabs.dev.