Kong joins ServiceNow Control Tower Alliance as founding member

The announcement centers on a governance gap that appears as companies put AI agents to work. Kong's CEO and co-founder Augusto Marietti framed the problem as controlling what AI agents can access and what operations they can perform. Kong's answer is to turn corporate AI policy into concrete controls across APIs, AI models and tools.

Kong's role in the alliance rests on its existing products. Kong Konnect is positioned as a unified policy and control foundation, and Kong AI Gateway applies policies to traffic among large language models (LLMs), Model Context Protocol (MCP) and AI agents. A stated advantage is that governance need not be rebuilt when companies change AI models, service providers or execution environments.

The alliance itself is built around ServiceNow's Super Intelligence Control Tower, which is meant to detect AI inside a company and centrally handle security, governance, observability and value measurement. Kong's three tracks — joint development, going through ServiceNow's review and certification, and joint sales — suggest the partnership is aimed at making Kong's controls available on a platform enterprises may already use for AI governance.