Aten Security joins San Francisco's Emerging Technologies pool
Aten Security is now prequalified for the City and County of San Francisco's Emerging Technologies pool, which lets City departments pilot AI products in a sandbox before production.
Nyah Check
October 28, 2026 · 2 min read
The City and County of San Francisco has added Aten Security to its Emerging Technologies prequalified pool.
The pool, run by the Office of the City Administrator and the Department of Technology, is a two-year pilot of a new way to buy emerging technology. City departments send mini-RFPs to firms in the pool. A selected firm runs a short pilot on synthetic or public data in a sandbox, before any production system is involved, and the department then decides whether to scale it.
We think that is the right way for governments to adopt AI agents: start with a bounded pilot, test for accuracy, security and fairness, and keep a record of what the system did.
What Thoth brings to a City pilot
It is also what Thoth is built for. Thoth evaluates each action an AI agent takes before it runs, then does one of three things:
- Allows it,
- routes it to a named approver, or
- blocks it,
and records a signed, tamper-evident decision that a reviewer can check later.
Rules make the decision; machine-learning risk scores can only escalate an action, never approve one. A department can run Thoth in observe mode first to see what it would have decided, then enforce once the rules are right, and send every decision to its own security tools.
What comes next
Being in the pool is not a contract. It makes Aten eligible to respond when a department has a problem we can genuinely help with, and we look forward to those mini-RFPs.
Teams deploying AI agents in government or other regulated environments can reach us at sales@atensecurity.com.
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