BlackLake builds tools for people who run AI agents.
AI agents are doing more on our behalf every day: writing code, managing files, calling APIs, sending messages. But there's no easy way to see what they're doing, set boundaries on what they're allowed to do, or understand what they cost. BlackLake builds the tools that give you that control.
Company
The company
BlackLake is an engineering-led company focused on making AI agents visible and controllable for the people who use them. The background is in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and applied AI. Every product is shaped by first-hand experience running AI agents in real work, and wanting to know what they were doing.
What we stand for
Principles
You should know what your agents are doing
Every tool call, every decision, every cost. If an agent is acting on your behalf, you should be able to see exactly what it did and why.
Control by default
Agents should ask before doing anything sensitive. Safe defaults matter more than convenient defaults. If a policy doesn’t explicitly allow an action, it doesn’t happen.
Simple first
One command to start. No cloud required. No signup. The product should be useful in minutes, not after a week of configuration. Complexity is available when you need it, never forced on you.
Get started
No signup. No credit card. Runs on your machine.
npx @blacklake-systems/surface-clinpx @blacklake-systems/depth-cli run workflow.ts