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A note on the work

I build software, platforms and tools for a world in which people and intelligent agents work together.

Much of that work begins with trust: who an agent is, what it may do, and how we know it did the right thing.

Selected work

Two explorations in trust and accountability.

Identity & consent

AgentHalo

Your agent should carry your trust with it. AgentHalo brings identity, memory, permissions and consent together across devices, with a record of what an agent was allowed to do—and what it did.

Purpose-bound permissionsConsent receiptsSigned proofs
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Evaluation & evidence

Truthseek

A convincing answer is only a beginning. Truthseek puts an agent’s claims to the test, through an evaluation harness and a companion that brings that scrutiny into the editor.

The full collection

Public platforms, tools and experiments.

Private work

A few words on work that remains private.

Verified revenue infrastructure

Private systems for making revenue operations more trustworthy, traceable and easier to verify.

Sovereign AI systems

Private product work around user-owned models, data and runtime infrastructure.

Enterprise agent control planes

Private infrastructure for agent policy, permissions, deployment and operational control.

Evidence systems

Private tools for testing claims, preserving provenance and creating audit-ready records.

Agentic commerce

Private protocol and product work for safer transactions between people, agents and businesses.

Research & standards

Co-authored papers and contributions to shared foundations.

About me

I’m Mahesh Lambe, a founder, engineer, researcher and angel investor in Palo Alto, California. I build software around a simple conviction: people should retain ownership of their data, their tools and the decisions made on their behalf.

Enterprise & public service

For more than twenty years, I’ve worked on AI, CRM and cloud platforms for governments and global enterprises, including Microsoft, PIMCO and the NYPD. My public-sector work includes large-scale systems for more than 170 California state departments. That experience shapes my focus on reliability, accountability and freedom from vendor lock-in.

Founding & investing

I’m the founder and CEO of Unify Dynamics, working across CRM, cloud and generative AI. I’ve founded four startups and, as an angel investor, backed more than 100 companies across AI, automation and enterprise software. Building companies and supporting other founders are both part of my work.

Research & security

I’m a core contributor to MIT’s Project NANDA, exploring how agents discover one another, establish identity and collaborate across systems. I co-authored the four NANDA papers collected here, with Ramesh Raskar and collaborators, on agent naming, verified AgentFacts, adaptive resolution and Zero Trust Agentic Access.

I’m also a founding member, reviewer and contributor to the OWASP AI Vulnerability Scoring System, helping develop shared ways to assess security risks in AI and agentic systems.

My upstream proposals to WebMCP address browser-tool permissions and clearer tool-execution contracts.

Platforms & tools

My public work spans user-owned AI and local software with SovereignAI and Sovereign Suite; customer relationships with FreeCRM; agent identity and consent with AgentHalo; and evaluation with Truthseek. It also includes iswebmcp, Enterprise Agent Simulation Assurance, Lego Claw, OpenWood’s creative tools, and reusable agent skills.

Alongside that work, I build private systems for verified revenue, sovereign AI, enterprise agent control, evidence and agentic commerce. The common thread is making actions inspectable, permissions revocable and ownership meaningful.

Open community

Sharing what I learn has long been part of the practice. I was among the top five global MSDN contributors for five consecutive years. Today, that continues through open-source projects, technical essays and conference talks on agent registries, AgentFacts and the architecture of an open agentic web.

Writing & talks

Notes from the work.

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