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Founder & VP Product, Nirmata

Ritesh Patel

Ritesh Patel is a founder of Nirmata and leads its products. He writes about governing AI coding agents, MCP security and Kubernetes policy as code.

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Before You Deploy AIControls

An AI governance strategy is a portfolio, not a purchase. No AI governance tool covers everything today, including this one. Governing models, developers, autonomous…

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Govern the Request, Not Just the Model

What we heard from teams already using AI gateways — and what it still didn't answer. Talking to platform and engineering teams putting AI into production, we kept…

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The Cloud Security Playbook for AI Governance

This is the second in a three-part series on the AI Governance market. Part 1: Understanding AI Governance: A Market Map. Part 3: We Built the Enforcement Layer. Here's…

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Understanding AI Governance: A Market Map

We've spent the last several months talking to CISOs, VPs of Engineering, and Chief AI Officers at enterprises across financial services, healthcare, and technology…

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Tokenomics: From Tokenmaxxing to Valuemaxxing

Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in four months. An AI consultant's client spent $500 million in a single month because no one set usage limits on Claude…

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