Fast-growing Temporal hires team from NYC startup Oso to build AI agent security controls

What happened

In an announcement Tuesday, Temporal revealed that team members from Oso, a New York-based startup specializing in application authorization, are joining the company to integrate access controls directly into Temporal’s platform. Meanwhile, holding company Tiny acquired Oso’s software product and customer base.

Temporal co-founders Maxim Fateev, CTO (left), and Samar Abbas, CEO. (Temporal Photo) Bellevue, Wash.-based Temporal is expanding its security capabilities for AI agents (AI that carries out multi-step tasks rather than answering one question) following a $550 million funding round last month that valued the enterprise infrastructure company at $12.55 billion. Related Inside Temporal’s journey to a $12.55B valuation, and its bet on building a backbone for AI agents The move addresses a growing challenge for enterprise tech teams: while generative AI models handle reasoning, autonomous agents must interact with internal databases, execute multi-step workflows, and call external application programming interfaces without breaching security boundaries.