A VC-Backed Startup Just Open-Sourced What I Built in My Apartment

Last Tuesday, Galileo — backed by Databricks Ventures and Battery Ventures — released Agent Control . Open source. Apache 2.0. Integrations with CrewAI, Cisco AI Defense, and Glean on day one. Agent Control is an "open source control plane that empowers organizations to define and enforce desired behavior across all their AI agents." I read the announcement three times. Then I went for a walk. Because I built that. Not conceptually. The same thing. Policy-based agent governance. Centralized behavioral enforcement. Tiered permissions. Action logging. I built it in an apartment in Cebu, Philippines. They built it in San Francisco with ML engineers. We arrived at the same design. Two Types of Agent Builders Type 1 raises $20M, hires 15 engineers, spends 8 months building an agent platform, launches with a press release. Type 2 buys $380/month in API credits, connects 8 agents to actual businesses, watches them break in real-time, patches the failures, and ships governance because producti