What does Zenity do?
Agent governance for enterprises. It has reportedly raised more than $100M, though funding figures in this market are sometimes estimates.
Beam vs ZENITY
Beam vs Zenity
Zenity sells agent governance to enterprises and has raised more than $100M by reported figures. Governance means policy, ownership and control across many agents. Beam is a single-machine observation tool with no policy engine, no console and no enforcement.
Beam vs Zenity, side by side
Details below are drawn from a September 2026 review of the AI agent security market. Some figures are vendor-sourced or analyst estimates, and this is a fast-moving space — check with each vendor before you buy.
| Beam | Zenity | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Local-first activity monitor and pre-run scanner for AI coding agents. Early prototype. | Enterprise agent governance platform. |
| Monitoring | Shell commands, file changes, tool calls, network endpoints and browser actions from harnesses such as Claude Code, Codex and Cursor, normalised into local NDJSON with risk flags and evidence attached. | Agent governance across an organisation's AI agents. |
| Skill / MCP scanning | Yes. SKILL.md files and MCP configurations are scanned before you run them, using 11 heuristic patterns plus an MCP version-pin check. | Not specifically covered in our source research. |
| Blocking / enforcement | No. Beam observes and flags. It never allows or denies an action. | Governance and policy controls are part of the platform. |
| Individual use | Runs locally for one person on one machine. Shared teams, fleet rollout and approvals are not built yet. | None. Enterprise platform sale. |
| Deployment | A local collector plus a local interface. No MDM package, no central console, no SSO, no SOC 2, no SIEM forwarding. | Enterprise deployment. |
| Source / licence | Not open source today. | Commercial, not open source. |
| Pricing | Not published. | Enterprise custom quote, no public price. |
Zenity in numbers
As reported in our source research. Some figures are estimates.
- Funding
- Reported to have raised more than $100M; some funding figures in this space are estimates
- Focus
- Agent governance
Where Zenity does more
- Governance and policy over agents across an organisation, which Beam has no equivalent of.
- Well funded, with more than $100M reported raised.
- Built for a security organisation's process, not a single developer's curiosity.
Where Beam differs
- Beam is a local record of what a coding agent did, readable without a governance programme around it.
- Beam includes a pre-run scan for skill files and MCP configurations.
- Beam sends no telemetry by default and redacts known credential formats before writing.
Beam’s current gaps
- Beam observes and flags. It has no blocking or enforcement, so it cannot stop a destructive command.
- There is no MDM package, central console, SSO or SOC 2 report, so it is not ready for a managed fleet rollout.
- Scanning is heuristic pattern matching. It produces false positives, misses novel phrasing, and is not a guarantee of safety.
- Beam is early and has no published pricing. Every tool on this page is further along in at least one dimension.
Which one fits
If your problem is governing agents across an organisation, Zenity is in that category and Beam is not. Beam is the smaller, earlier tool for seeing what one agent actually did.
FAQ
Does Beam do agent governance?
No. Beam has no policy engine and no enforcement. It records agent activity locally and flags risky actions with evidence.
Can they be used together?
Our source research does not describe an integration between them, so treat that as untested.
See how Beam works
Beam is an early, local-first prototype. Read what it actually does today before comparing it further.