Kamiwaza 1.0 delivers governed collaboration, secure-by-design infrastructure, and a next-gen AI agent—without moving your data
SILVERTHORNE, Colo., May 1, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Kamiwaza AI (Kamiwaza), the secure AI orchestration platform that provides the foundation for enterprises to build, operate, and scale their own AI-powered capabilities, today announced the general availability of Kamiwaza 1.0. Purpose-built for the security and governance requirements of highly regulated industries, Kamiwaza 1.0 connects enterprise data securely across distributed environments without moving or centralizing it, giving organizations the control and visibility they need to deploy AI with confidence.
The release introduces three new major features:
- Kamiwaza Workrooms, a new governed collaboration environment where enterprise teams and their AI agents work within their own access boundaries
- Infrastructure built on Chainguard's hardened, zero-to-low CVE container images, designed for security and compliance
- Kaizen, the platform's AI agent, upgraded with expanded capabilities for multi-modal analysis and output
Together, these features enable enterprise teams to collaborate with AI across sensitive data in a way that was not previously possible, with strict boundaries enforced at the platform level.
"Regulated industries have been clear about what they need from AI: keep our data where it is, respect our security boundaries, and give us full visibility into what the AI is doing," said Luke Norris, CEO and co-founder of Kamiwaza. "Kamiwaza 1.0 builds on the distributed data and security foundation our enterprise and government customers already rely on with hardened infrastructure, governed team collaboration, and a more capable agent that works across all of it."
Kamiwaza Workrooms: Governed AI Collaboration for Enterprise Teams
Enterprise and government teams regularly work in cross-functional groups where sensitive data must be shared within a project, but not universally. Usually, that means either restricting access so broadly that collaboration suffers, or opening it up in ways that create security and compliance risk. Neither is acceptable in regulated environments.
Kamiwaza Workrooms solve this by creating secure, policy-bounded spaces where team members and their AI agents operate within their individual access rights. Each Workroom contains its own data and tools, accessible only to those with the appropriate permissions. The platform enforces these boundaries at the architecture level, not through manual policy exceptions or agent-level filters. Every action is fully auditable.
Chainguard: Security Hardened at the Infrastructure Layer
Most enterprise AI platforms are built on standard open-source container images that accumulate vulnerabilities over time. Security teams are left to identify, triage, and patch those vulnerabilities in infrastructure they didn't build and don't control. This becomes an unsustainable model as AI workloads move into production.
Kamiwaza 1.0 addresses this by leveraging Chainguard Containers, hardened container images purpose-built for security and compliance. Unlike standard open source images, Chainguard's container images are minimal by design and rebuilt continuously, delivering zero known vulnerabilities, high-quality SBOMs, and verifiable signatures. FIPS-ready versions are also available for federal deployments.
Kaizen: A Context-Aware AI Agent, Ready on Day One
Enterprise teams can't always rely on AI agents to make the best decisions because the data those agents depend on is fragmented across systems, inconsistent in terminology, and governed by different access controls.
Kaizen, the platform's flagship AI agent, connects to internal data sources across an organization's systems through the Kamiwaza Context Manager, so its outputs are informed by the full data landscape rather than a single silo. A new skills library lets enterprise teams define which capabilities are available to the agent and under what conditions.
"Workroom, Chainguard, and Kaizen each solve a distinct problem, but they add up to something bigger," said Matt Wallace, CTO and co-founder of Kamiwaza. "Teams can collaborate with AI across sensitive data without anyone—human or agent—seeing more than they should. The infrastructure they're running on has zero known vulnerabilities from day one. And the agent connecting it all understands the full context of their data as opposed to its fragments. That combination doesn't exist anywhere else."
Availability
Kamiwaza 1.0 is generally available as of today. Enterprises, government agencies, system integrators, and technology partners interested in deploying or building on the platform are encouraged to request a demonstration or briefing at www.kamiwaza.ai.
About Kamiwaza AI
Kamiwaza delivers the distributed inference platform that makes AI deployment safe, governable, and scalable across any environment—cloud, on-prem, or edge. Its orchestration engine enables intelligent agents to run where data lives, with built-in contextual authorization that ensures security and compliance from day one. By unifying model deployment, agent tooling, and enterprise governance, Kamiwaza helps organizations accelerate AI transformation while maintaining full data sovereignty and control.
Learn more at www.kamiwaza.ai/
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