Beauty in Building

AI Agents you can trust

Agentic Research and Development

Security-rooted. Product-minded.

Montcao is an engineering lab focused on building agentic AI solutions. We contribute to the open infrastructure that makes agents accountable, build products for people who've never had an engineer on their side, and forward deploy engineers to take agentic AI into production.

What we build

Based in the USA and France

montcao

Our mission is to bring the power of AI and technology to everyone. We pursue it from two directions: direct services with clients to enable them with AI advancements, and building AI infrastructure to put real capability in the hands of people who've never had an engineer on their side.

What we build

Core contributor

Agent Identity Protocol

Core contributor to AIP, the open standard for agent identity and authorization.

Coming soon

GhostCTO

Our first product. An AI technical cofounder for non-technical founders.

Public

Open Source

Public repositories, references, and tooling.

In development

Next agent product. Details when it's ready.

Thoughts

by: ChiefCow

Five States Of AI Agents

Thoughts on how agentic AI is progressing in 2026

by: Cero

Understanding the core concepts of agentic AI

An essay on the core components of an AI agent

MONTCao

Forward deployed. Production first.

We embed engineers inside a small number of teams to take AI agents from demo to production, with agent identity, authorization, and audit built in from the first commit. What we learn in your environment shapes what we build in the open.
If you're weighing agentic AI and want engineers who start from what can go wrong and end up at what can go right, that's the conversation we want to have.

Talk to us