Define authority
Who can act, on what, with which data, under which policy?
IDENTITY · ACCESS · POLICY
AI SECURITY · TRUST INFRASTRUCTURE · SEED
Move fast at the speed of earned trust.
SeedTempo Capital backs founders building the security, governance, evidence, and recovery systems that make AI dependable in the real world.
SEEDTEMPO / TRUST SIGNAL
● MONITORING
AUTHORITY
SCOPED
EVIDENCE
VERIFIED
RECOVERY
READY
STAGE
Seed
THEME
Trust stack
FOCUS
Enterprise AI
LOCATION
Austin, TX
01 / RISK CONSOLE
Trust is infrastructure, not a promise.
Select a system risk to inspect the company-building opportunity beneath it.
CONTROL / 01
THESIS ACTIVE
AI needs bounded authority.
Permissions, data boundaries, delegated identity, and policy must travel with every AI-assisted action.
BUYER
Security leader
PROOF
Least privilege
ADVANTAGE
Policy context
02 / TRUST FRAMEWORK
Four layers between a model and a dependable system.
We invest where technical controls become operational confidence for people who deploy, govern, and insure AI.
See the workflow
Trace decisions, tool calls, data paths, and human handoffs.
TELEMETRY · LINEAGE · COSTVerify outcomes
Connect evaluation to policy, business outcomes, and real operating conditions.
EVALS · AUDIT · ASSURANCEDesign the return
Contain incidents, restore known state, and turn failure into system learning.
RESPONSE · ROLLBACK · LEARNING03 / EVIDENCE LEDGER
What credible trust looks like.
We look for controls that create usable evidence across the full operating life of an AI system.
01Authority is attributableIDENTITY BOUND
02Decisions are reconstructableTRACE COMPLETE
03Outcomes are testableEVIDENCE LINKED
04Recovery is rehearsedRETURN READY
04 / TRUST NOTES
Notes for founders making AI accountable.
The project includes 20 distinct X posts, visual assets, an avatar, a header, and numbered publishing copy.
Trust grows at the tempo of evidence.
Every verified action makes expansion safer. Every unexplained action creates hidden debt.
FOLLOW THE EVIDENCE →Permission is part of the product.
Great controls make the safe path clearer, faster, and easier to operate.
DESIGN AUTHORITY →Rollback is a confidence feature.
Teams adopt autonomy faster when they know how the system returns to safety.
PLAN THE RETURN →
FOUNDER INTRODUCTIONS
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Building the trust layer for AI?
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