Gumloop raises £40M to democratise agent building

The Agent Stack #007 — Friday Signal Benchmark just backed the future of workplace AI. And it’s not what you think. The No-Code Agent Revolution Gumloop landed £40M from Benchmark this week to turn every employee into an AI agent builder. Not just developers. Everyone. The San Francisco startup lets non-technical workers drag and drop their way to custom agents. Think Zapier meets Claude, but without needing to understand APIs or write code. ...

March 13, 2026 · 2 min · Rob Taylor

Agent security wakes up as enterprise adoption soars

The Agent Stack #005 — Friday Signal This week brought a security reality check for AI agents. Multiple security tools launched specifically for agent environments. Meanwhile, enterprise adoption hit a new gear with major partnerships and acquisitions. Main Analysis: The Agent Security Moment The agent security category just crystallised overnight. Four separate security tools for AI agents launched on Hacker News in 48 hours. ClawCare (github.com/natechensan/ClawCare) tackles runtime protection after its creator nearly exposed AWS secrets to an agent checking environment variables. SkillFortify (github.com/varun369/skillfortify) does formal verification after 1,200 malicious skills hit the OpenClaw marketplace in January. MVAR (github.com/mvar-security/mvar) enforces deterministic security boundaries instead of just filtering inputs. ...

February 27, 2026 · 2 min · Rob Taylor