# Cyber Company Profiles: Olakai

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## At a Glance

- Website: [olakai.ai](https://olakai.ai)
- Profile: https://cybercompanyprofiles.com/companies/olakai
- Type: Security for AI, Governance Risk Compliance, Data Security
- Also known as: Olakai Corporation
- Market readiness: Emerging (20/40)
- Defensibility: Exposed (11/21)
- Last updated: 2026-07-17

## Executive Summary

Olakai sells a management layer for enterprise AI that measures what coding tools, workplace copilots, and autonomous agents cost and return across vendors, then adds governance that surfaces unapproved AI tools and sensitive data in employee prompts. Andrew Ng's AI Fund backs the company, and serial founder Xavier Casanova, previously CEO of the publicly traded Presto, leads it. The pitch lands as AI coding tools shift to usage-based pricing that leaders must justify. Olakai has not yet shown proof of its own traction: no named customer, no disclosed funding amount, and a founding team of three. For a company that sells proof of AI value, that is the evidence a buyer would check first.

## Contents

- [Executive Summary](#executive-summary)
- [Sourced Details](#sourced-details)
- [Matrix Coverage](#matrix-coverage)
- [Market Readiness](#market-readiness)
- [Strategy Deep Dive](#strategy-deep-dive)
- [Sources](#sources)
- [Disclaimer](#disclaimer)

## Sourced Details

| Detail | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Description | Olakai sells an enterprise AI ROI and governance platform that measures the cost, usage, and business return of AI coding tools, workplace copilots, and autonomous agents across vendors, and flags shadow AI use and sensitive data in employee prompts. | [\[f1\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| HQ | Mountain View, California, US | [\[f2\]](#company-detail-sources) |

### Products

| Product | What it does |
|---|---|
| Coding IQ | Measures what AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot cost and return, reading provider admin APIs and version control data, with budgets, forecasts, and overrun alerts. |
| Assistive IQ | Tracks adoption, license utilization, and time saved across workplace AI assistants, and uses a browser extension to surface unapproved AI tools and sensitive data in prompts. |
| Agent IQ | Measures the cost and business outcomes of autonomous agents built on platforms such as Salesforce Agentforce and Microsoft Copilot Studio, with budgets and guardrails for the agent footprint. |
| Kai | Conversational analyst layered over the platform's data that answers questions about AI ROI, spend, and risk, showing the data sources, filters, and calculations behind each answer. |

## Matrix Coverage

Mapped to the [AI Defense Matrix](https://aidefensematrix.com) [\[f3\]](#company-detail-sources):

| Asset | Govern | Identify | Protect | Detect | Respond | Recover |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI Gateways & Routers |  | ✓ |  |  |  |  |
| Runtime AI Data |  | ✓ | ✓ |  |  |  |

Olakai discovers the AI services employees use, surfaces sensitive data in prompts, and enforces policies that can block risky tools. The company is mapped to the AI Defense Matrix. The ROI measurement core is management tooling outside the matrix.

## Market Readiness

How well the company can compete in its security market, scored across eight dimensions against public evidence.

**Emerging (20/40)**

Analyzed 2026-07-02. Scope: whole company.

| Dimension | Score |
|---|---|
| Problem Clarity | 3/5 |
| Capability Depth | 3/5 |
| Market Timing | 3/5 |
| Team Credibility | 3/5 |
| GTM Proof | 2/5 |
| Funding Efficiency | 2/5 |
| Category Clarity | 2/5 |
| Incumbent Defensibility | 2/5 |

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## Strategy Deep Dive

A closer look at the company's product strategy, measuring how [defensible](https://zeltser.com/scoring-security-product-strategy) it is against market forces and examining the [eight areas](https://zeltser.com/security-product-creation-framework) behind it.

### Defensibility

**Exposed (11/21)**

Band guidance: pivot urgently. Analyzed 2026-07-17. Scope: whole company.

| Dimension | Score |
|---|---|
| Value Delivery | 1/3 |
| Switching Cost | 2/3 |
| Compliance Moat | 1/3 |
| Problem Complexity | 2/3 |
| Buyer Profile | 2/3 |
| Layer | 2/3 |
| Proprietary Data, Content, or IP | 1/3 |

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## Sources

### Company Detail Sources

Cited from the Sourced Details and Matrix Coverage rows.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| f1 | [Olakai homepage](https://olakai.ai/) | official | 2026-06-11 |
| f2 | [Crunchbase profile for Olakai](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/olakai-23d6) | other | 2026-06-11 |
| f3 | [Olakai CISO use case page](https://olakai.ai/use-cases/ciso/) | official | 2026-06-11 |

### Profile Analysis Sources

The sources the full Market Readiness analysis cites.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [Olakai homepage](https://olakai.ai/) “Measure adoption and real time saved across 850+ AI tools, translated into dollars, so you know what the licenses return.” | official | 2026-06-12 |
| s2 | [Olakai platform page](https://olakai.ai/platform/) “Olakai unifies measurement, governance, and enablement into a single intelligence platform, giving leaders visibility across coding, assistive, and agentic AI” | official | 2026-06-12 |
| s3 | [Coding IQ product page](https://olakai.ai/coding-iq/) “A daily job projects month-end spend from your run-rate and fires an alert the moment a budget is breached or forecast to breach, before the invoice instead of after.” | official | 2026-06-12 |
| s4 | [Assistive IQ product page](https://olakai.ai/assistive-iq/) “The browser extension surfaces every unauthorized AI tool the moment an employee starts using it” | official | 2026-06-12 |
| s5 | [Agent IQ product page](https://olakai.ai/agent-iq/) “Agent IQ sits above every platform and framework, watches every agent execution, and ties it back to the business outcome you actually care about.” | official | 2026-06-12 |
| s6 | [Kai product page](https://olakai.ai/kai/) “Cross-data synthesis across Agent IQ, Assistive IQ, and Coding IQ in a single answer” | official | 2026-06-12 |
| s7 | [Shadow AI detection page](https://olakai.ai/shadow-ai/) “Every detected AI tool is automatically scored for data sensitivity, compliance exposure, and security risk.” | official | 2026-06-12 |
| s8 | [Olakai CISO use case page](https://olakai.ai/use-cases/ciso/) “DLP for AI. Content policy enforcement on every prompt. Approval workflows for risky tools. Block sensitive data from leaving your tenant” | official | 2026-06-12 |
| s9 | [Olakai AI governance page](https://olakai.ai/ai-governance/) “Policy Enforcement. Audit Trails. Compliance Frameworks.” | official | 2026-06-12 |
| s10 | [Olakai integrations page](https://olakai.ai/integrations/) “Drop in your provider admin API keys and point Olakai at your GitHub or Bitbucket org. Data flows within minutes. No heavy SDK rollout, no per-tool instrumentation, no waiting on every team to adopt a new agent.” | official | 2026-06-12 |
| s11 | [Olakai trust and security page](https://olakai.ai/trust/) “Audit in progress via Vanta. We are committed to meeting SOC 2 Type II standards across security, availability, and confidentiality.” | official | 2026-07-02 |
| s12 | [About Olakai company page](https://olakai.ai/company/) “Xavier Casanova, Founder & CEO. Walt Mann, Co-Founder & CTO. Paul Brzozowski, Co-Founder & CRO. Dean Sysman, Board Member.” | official | 2026-06-18 |
| s13 | [Olakai terms of service](https://olakai.ai/terms-of-service/) | official | 2026-06-12 |
| s14 | [AI Fund portfolio page for Olakai](https://aifund.ai/portfolio/olakai/) “Co-founded by Xavier Casanova, Olakai gives CIOs, CFOs, and CISOs unified visibility into AI usage, performance, cost, and risk across all vendors.” | other | 2026-06-18 |
| s15 | [AI Fund: Olakai, Empowering Enterprises to Safely Manage Their AI Tools (August 1, 2025)](https://aifund.ai/insights/olakai-empowering-enterprises-to-safely-manage-their-ai-tools/) “Previously, he was CEO of Presto (NASDAQ: PRST), a restaurant automation company, and founded Liveclicker, an email personalization platform that was acquired by Campaign Monitor in 2018. He also founded Fireclick, which was acquired by Digital River in 2004.” | press | 2026-06-18 |
| s16 | [HP Tech Ventures: How Olakai Is Bringing ROI Discipline to Enterprise AI (February 4, 2026)](https://hptechventures.com/podcast/how-olakai-is-bringing-roi-discipline-to-enterprise-ai/) “But Olakai marks his sixth venture since starting Fireclick as a Stanford student.” | press | 2026-06-12 |
| s17 | [F4 startup profile for Olakai](https://f4.fund/startups/olakai) “Olakai is an enterprise AI analytics platform that focuses on measurement, governance, cost control, and security across AI tools” | other | 2026-06-12 |
| s18 | [Capterra listing for Olakai](https://www.capterra.com/p/10037178/Olakai/) | other | 2026-06-18 |
| s19 | [Crunchbase profile for Olakai](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/olakai-23d6) | other | 2026-06-18 |
| s20 | [Singulr AI homepage](https://singulr.ai/) | other | 2026-06-12 |
| s21 | [Harmonic Security homepage](https://www.harmonic.security/) | other | 2026-06-12 |
| s22 | [DX homepage](https://getdx.com/) | other | 2026-06-12 |
| s23 | [Built In job posting for Head of AI at Olakai](https://builtin.com/job/head-ai-olakai/3276896) “Founded by Xavier Casanova (Founder and CEO of Liveclicker) and backed by Andrew Ng's AI Fund and Dean Sysman (Founder and CEO of Axonious)” | other | 2026-06-18 |

### Deep-Dive Sources

The sources the full Strategy Deep Dive cites.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [Olakai homepage](https://olakai.ai/) “Measure adoption and real time saved across 850+ AI tools, translated into dollars, so you know what the licenses return.” | official | 2026-06-11 |
| s2 | [Olakai platform page](https://olakai.ai/platform/) “Olakai unifies measurement, governance, and enablement into a single intelligence platform, giving leaders visibility across coding, assistive, and agentic AI” | official | 2026-06-11 |
| s3 | [Coding IQ product page](https://olakai.ai/coding-iq/) “A daily job projects month-end spend from your run-rate and fires an alert the moment a budget is breached or forecast to breach, before the invoice instead of after.” | official | 2026-06-11 |
| s4 | [Assistive IQ product page](https://olakai.ai/assistive-iq/) “The browser extension surfaces every unauthorized AI tool the moment an employee starts using it” | official | 2026-06-11 |
| s5 | [Agent IQ product page](https://olakai.ai/agent-iq/) “Agent IQ sits above every platform and framework, watches every agent execution, and ties it back to the business outcome you actually care about.” | official | 2026-06-11 |
| s6 | [Kai product page](https://olakai.ai/kai/) “Kai pulls the data, runs the analysis, and shows you the reasoning behind every answer. Cross-data synthesis across Agent IQ, Assistive IQ, and Coding IQ in a single answer” | official | 2026-06-18 |
| s7 | [Shadow AI detection page](https://olakai.ai/shadow-ai/) “Every detected AI tool is automatically scored for data sensitivity, compliance exposure, and security risk.” | official | 2026-06-11 |
| s8 | [Olakai CISO use case page](https://olakai.ai/use-cases/ciso/) “DLP for AI. Content policy enforcement on every prompt. Approval workflows for risky tools. Block sensitive data from leaving your tenant” | official | 2026-06-11 |
| s9 | [Olakai AI governance page](https://olakai.ai/ai-governance/) “Policy Enforcement. Audit Trails. Compliance Frameworks.” | official | 2026-06-11 |
| s10 | [Olakai integrations page](https://olakai.ai/integrations/) “Drop in your provider admin API keys and point Olakai at your GitHub or Bitbucket org. Data flows within minutes. No heavy SDK rollout, no per-tool instrumentation, no waiting on every team to adopt a new agent.” | official | 2026-06-11 |
| s11 | [Olakai trust and security page](https://olakai.ai/trust/) “Audit in progress via Vanta. We are committed to meeting SOC 2 Type II standards across security, availability, and confidentiality. AI providers (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Mistral) process data via API calls only, no persistent storage at the provider.” | official | 2026-07-02 |
| s12 | [About Olakai company page](https://olakai.ai/company/) “So we built it. Olakai is a vendor-neutral analytics and governance platform that works across your entire AI stack. Xavier Casanova Founder & CEO. Walt Mann Co-Founder & CTO. Paul Brzozowski Co-Founder & CRO. Dean Sysman Board Member.” | official | 2026-06-18 |
| s13 | [Olakai terms of service](https://olakai.ai/terms-of-service/) | official | 2026-06-11 |
| s14 | [AI Fund portfolio page for Olakai](https://aifund.ai/portfolio/olakai/) “Co-founded by Xavier Casanova, Olakai gives CIOs, CFOs, and CISOs unified visibility into AI usage, performance, cost, and risk across all vendors.” | other | 2026-06-18 |
| s15 | [AI Fund insights article on Olakai (August 1, 2025)](https://aifund.ai/insights/olakai-empowering-enterprises-to-safely-manage-their-ai-tools/) “Previously, he was CEO of Presto (NASDAQ: PRST), a restaurant automation company, and founded Liveclicker, an email personalization platform that was acquired by Campaign Monitor in 2018. He also founded Fireclick, which was acquired by Digital River in 2004.” | press | 2026-06-11 |
| s16 | [HP Tech Ventures feature on Olakai (February 4, 2026)](https://hptechventures.com/podcast/how-olakai-is-bringing-roi-discipline-to-enterprise-ai/) “But Olakai marks his sixth venture since starting Fireclick as a Stanford student.” | press | 2026-06-11 |
| s17 | [F4 startup profile for Olakai](https://f4.fund/startups/olakai) “Olakai is an enterprise AI analytics platform that focuses on measurement, governance, cost control, and security across AI tools” | other | 2026-06-11 |
| s18 | [Capterra listing for Olakai](https://www.capterra.com/p/10037178/Olakai/) “Based on 0 user reviews” | other | 2026-06-11 |
| s19 | [Crunchbase profile for Olakai](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/olakai-23d6) “Founders Andrew Ng, Xavier Casanova” | other | 2026-06-11 |
| s20 | [Singulr AI homepage](https://singulr.ai/) | other | 2026-06-11 |
| s21 | [Harmonic Security homepage](https://www.harmonic.security/) | other | 2026-06-11 |
| s22 | [DX homepage](https://getdx.com/) | other | 2026-06-11 |
| s23 | [Built In job posting for Head of AI at Olakai](https://builtin.com/job/head-ai-olakai/3276896) “Founded in 2017 by Dr. Andrew Ng, AI Fund is backed with $176 million in capital by some of the leading VC firms and investors, including NEA, Sequoia, and Greylock.” | other | 2026-06-11 |
| s24 | [Olakai site page sitemap](https://olakai.ai/page-sitemap.xml) | official | 2026-06-11 |

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