Guild.ai Expands Its Control Plane for AI Agents With New Tools for Visibility, Cost Optimization, and Discovery

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Guild.ai Expands Its Control Plane for AI Agents With New Tools for Visibility, Cost Optimization, and Discovery
Guild moves from platform to applications, giving enterprises a single place to deploy, govern, observe, and optimize every AI agent in production

San Francisco, CA – September 4, 2026 — Guild.ai, the control plane for AI agents, announced a suite of new products that extend its platform into higher-level applications for engineering, finance, and platform teams. The additions give enterprises a single place to deploy, govern, observe, and optimize every agent running in production, across every model, framework, and tool.

Guild was built as a code-first, vendor-neutral control plane: a foundation that lets organizations understand what agents are running, what they can access, who owns them, what they cost, and how they're performing. Governance is enforced directly in the runtime, with scoped credentials, permissions, policies, approval gates, audit trails, and cost controls applied as agents operate. Guild Insights adds real-time visibility into AI usage and spend across users, teams, agents, models, and providers, helping organizations forecast costs, set limits, and identify inefficiencies.

What's New
Guild Software Factory turns agent-based development into a full engineering system, not a single coding agent. A team of specialized agents continuously plans, implements, reviews, triages, and maintains work across a codebase, including production bugs, flaky tests, noisy logs, dead code, and backlog maintenance. The goal isn't to replace engineers; it's to remove the tax on engineering teams for work that is small, bounded, verifiable, and expensive to keep interrupting a human to do.

AI Spend Explorer gives organizations instant visibility into AI costs. By connecting Anthropic, OpenAI, or Cursor, teams can see up to 90 days of AI usage and spend with no credit card and no lengthy setup, using secure, read-only access. Spend Explorer breaks down usage by provider, model, team, and user, and projects what a month-end bill will likely be.

Guild Optimizer automatically reduces agent costs without sacrificing quality. Once an agent has production history on Guild, Optimizer builds an evaluation from that history and tests cheaper configurations against it: smaller models, fewer tools, or deterministic code in place of an LLM call. If quality holds, Guild recommends the change and shows the projected savings; if it doesn't, nothing changes.

Guild Agent Hub is an open platform for discovering, running, and sharing production-ready agents. Teams can find well-adopted open-source agents and skills, connect them to their own tools and data, and run them on the Guild control plane with the identity, permissions, and controls production requires.

The Smith, Guild's meta-agent for platform setup, lets teams describe what they want to automate in a single sentence. Smith assembles the pieces, building the agent, creating the workspace, configuring triggers, and requesting credentials, and proposes a full plan for approval before anything runs.

The release also introduces Skills, reusable agent capabilities that organizations can combine with their own context, tools, permissions, and rules.

Platform Capabilities
Across these products, Guild's control plane gives organizations the ability to:

Run any agent on any model. Connect any model, framework, tool, or data source without rebuilding or migrating, with no vendor lock-in.

Audit everything, from AI spend to tool calls. Create complete audit trails and see AI spend by provider, model, team, user, and agent in real time.

Govern access and permissions at scale. Manage access, provision credentials, enforce policies, and maintain compliance within existing workflows, with governance built directly into the runtime.

Optimize costs without sacrificing quality. Automatically identify new ways to improve agent ROI — from model swaps and prompt improvements to new deterministic code — and deploy fixes in a single click.

Make every agent discoverable and reusable. Publish agents to Agent Hub, so teams can find, fork, and build on what already works.

About Guild.ai
Guild is the control plane for AI agents, giving organizations one place to deploy, govern, observe, and optimize every agent in production. Guild helps teams understand what agents are running, what they can access, who owns them, what they cost, and how they’re performing; across models, frameworks, tools, and teams.

Guild builds governance directly into its runtime, with scoped credentials, permissions, policies, approval gates, audit trails, and cost controls enforced as agents operate. Guild Insights provides real-time visibility into AI usage and spend across users, teams, agents, models, and providers, helping organizations forecast costs, set limits, identify inefficiencies, and optimize performance.

Through Guild Agent Hub, teams can discover, deploy, share, and reuse production-ready agents instead of rebuilding the same workflows across the organization. Guild is code-first, model- and framework-agnostic, vendor-neutral, and designed to work with the infrastructure teams already use.

Guild has raised $44 million to Series A from GV, NFX, Acrew Capital, Scribble Ventures, Khosla Ventures, and Webb Investment Network.

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