The companies that win the AI transition won't be the ones that restrict it#
Your employees aren't waiting for permission. They're using Claude to draft proposals, ChatGPT to research customers, and Cursor to ship code faster than any generation of engineers before them. Within a few quarters, the AI agents they deploy will outnumber the humans in your org — making thousands of autonomous decisions per minute across your most sensitive systems.
The question every security and IT leader is now facing isn't whether AI belongs in the enterprise. It's whether governance can keep up with adoption — and whether the answer to a new AI tool can be "yes, and here's how," instead of "file a ticket and wait two weeks."
Governance is the unlock for AI adoption, not the brake on it. The companies that thrive through this transition are the ones making the governed path faster than the ungoverned one. That's what today's announcement is about.
A unified control plane for the AI stack#
C1 already governs access to more than 300 of the applications enterprises run on — Notion, Linear, GitHub, Ramp, Slack, your cloud infrastructure, your developer platforms, your on-premise systems. Today we're extending that same control plane to the three most widely adopted AI platforms in the enterprise:
- Claude — both Claude Enterprise (company-wide productivity) and the Claude Developer Platform (builder access to the API)
- OpenAI — fine-grained governance across organizations, projects, roles, groups, service accounts, and API keys
- Cursor — the AI-native IDE now standard on engineering teams of every size
With these connectors, your AI stack gets the same treatment as every other critical system in your environment: unified visibility, dynamic policy enforcement, automated joiner-mover-leaver workflows, and audit trails that stand up to compliance review.
What's new#
Claude: two front doors, one governance model#
Most organizations interact with Anthropic in two very different ways, and each has its own governance profile.
Claude Enterprise is where the whole company lives — a productivity tool deployed at organizational scale. Our connector handles the full identity lifecycle: new hires get Claude access as part of standard onboarding, departing employees lose it the moment they're offboarded, and group memberships stay in sync with your identity provider automatically. Because Claude Enterprise authenticates via SSO, credentials never pass through C1.
The Claude Developer Platform is where your builders work. Our connector gives you visibility and governance over API keys, organization roles, users, and workspaces. Developers request access through a policy-governed workflow instead of an ad hoc key share. When someone leaves, API access is revoked automatically — not left dormant because nobody remembered to rotate it.
OpenAI: closing the SCIM gap#
OpenAI's platform reflects real organizational complexity — organizations, projects, predefined and custom roles, groups, service accounts, API keys. C1's OpenAI connector handles all of it. Automatic provisioning places every user in the right project with the right role. Deprovisioning removes them the moment they leave. And because we fill OpenAI's SCIM gap, you get dynamic support for custom roles and direct management of project memberships — not just org-level user sync.
Cursor: audit-ready AI-native engineering#
Cursor has become the IDE of choice for AI-native engineering teams, and with broad adoption comes new access sprawl. The Cursor connector brings your engineering toolchain into C1 — who has access, what roles they hold, and whether any of it has outlasted its usefulness. Run access reviews across Cursor the same way you run them everywhere else, and catch stale access before your next audit does.
What this unlocks#
When AI tools are governed through the same platform as the rest of your stack:
- AI pilots become company-wide standards without the security bottleneck. Approving a new tool for the whole company no longer requires a months-long review — policy handles the access side automatically.
- Onboarding and offboarding actually cover AI. No more orphaned API keys, no more forgotten Cursor seats, no more blind spots.
- Agent identities get governed alongside human ones. Every agent has an identity — delegated from a human or operating on its own. Every tool call is an access event. C1 treats them as first-class citizens in your access model.
- Audits get easier, not harder. The same evidence trail that covers your SaaS, cloud, and infrastructure now covers your AI stack.
Governance is the foundation that makes AI productivity possible at scale#
Every agent has an identity. Every tool call is an access event. Every employee using Claude or Cursor or ChatGPT is an identity with a lifecycle. The organizations that govern all of it from day one will be the ones that move fastest — because there won't be a friction tax on productivity.
This is what it looks like to say "yes" to AI at enterprise speed.
Ready to bring your AI stack into C1? Visit our connector docs to learn more, or talk to our team to see how C1 can help you adopt AI with confidence and speed.
