About
Managers don't lack the will
to implement AI.They just lack a safe path.
Why we built this
Organizations shouldn't have to choose between productivity and control.
Every company will run on agents. The question is whether people will be in charge of them. We believe the answer has to be yes — and that it should be easy.
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Humans own outcomes
An agent can do the work, but a person is always accountable for it. Traffic Lights makes that ownership explicit and visible.
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Autonomy is earned
Trust in an agent should grow the same way trust in a new hire does — through observed, measured performance over time.
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Control should be invisible
Good governance gets out of the way. When a policy fires, it should feel like a colleague asking a quick question, not a gate.
The founder
Manish Chitnis founded Traffic Lights after serving as Chief Data Officer at Partner Fund Management, a $6B technology and healthcare hedge fund — building risk infrastructure and data governance for a regulated, high-stakes investment environment.
As AI entered the picture, a pattern became clear: governance was becoming the bottleneck. Teams had the tools to do the work. What they lacked was a governed layer that connected those tools, enforced decisions, and gave leaders an answer when something went wrong.
Traffic Lights is that layer. Built from the inside out — by someone who needed it and could not find it.
Why Traffic Lights exists
Enterprise AI adoption is slow because the accountability question has no owner. Capability arrived first; the operating model did not. Traffic Lights is the operating model — the path that lets an accountable person say yes.
The category
Governance tools describe policy. Orchestration tools move work. Monitoring tools report after the fact. Each answers part of the question. Supervised autonomy answers all of it: what is allowed, who approved it, what they understood, and what happens next.
Early access
Define your first governed process in 15 minutes.
No infrastructure to deploy. No seat licenses for approvers. Approvers tap from their phone.