Kong said on 28 October 2026 that it had joined ServiceNow’s Control Tower Alliance as a founding member, one of 11 companies in the enterprise AI governance partnership, StreetInsider reported. Announced by Kong in San Francisco, the arrangement would bring its API and AI-traffic controls into an ecosystem built around the ServiceNow Super Intelligence Control Tower, a platform intended to help enterprises oversee AI deployments.
Key points
- Kong says its AI Gateway will apply controls to traffic involving models, tools and agents.
- Kong and ServiceNow plan joint development, a certification process and joint offerings.
- Other members have outlined separate identity, security and billing contributions.
Kong AI Gateway targets agent traffic
Kong says its role is to enforce policies at the connections AI applications use to reach APIs, models and tools. Its Kong AI Gateway is intended to apply those controls to large language model traffic, Model Context Protocol connections and exchanges between agents. Model Context Protocol, or MCP, is a way for AI applications to connect with external tools.
That puts Kong at a different point in the system from a company supplying a model or a security dashboard. Kong says its Konnect platform can apply access and security policies across the services agents use, including when an enterprise changes models, providers or operating environments. Those are capabilities Kong describes for its products, rather than results reported from an alliance deployment.
Augusto Marietti, Kong’s CEO and co-founder, said the planned work with ServiceNow would turn enterprise policies into controls across those connections. “AI governance depends on enforcing what agents can access and do,” he said in Kong’s announcement. The proposed integration centres on the traffic passing between an agent and the business systems it uses.
ServiceNow sets three routes for Kong
Kong says the companies plan to collaborate on solutions running on the Super Intelligence Control Tower. It describes the Control Tower as a central place to discover, secure, govern, observe and measure enterprise AI. The companies also intend to develop integrated offerings for customers and partners.
Kong’s solutions will go through ServiceNow’s qualification and certification process, according to Kong. According to ServiceNow’s company statement, the alliance is designed to make curated partner solutions available to customers after they pass that process. The planned sequence makes certification a step before distribution, rather than a status Kong says it has already obtained.
The alliance also has a sales component. Kong says it and ServiceNow will create joint offerings, while the broader programme includes global co-selling through ServiceNow’s sales channels. Amit Zavery, ServiceNow’s president, chief product officer and chief operating officer, described the partnership in a company statement as an ecosystem for governing AI agents.
Okta and Cisco outline separate integrations
The other founding members are Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, Cisco, HiddenLayer, Nvidia, Okta, OpenAI, Stripe, WitnessAI and Zenity, alongside Kong. Their inclusion brings model providers, cloud infrastructure and other enterprise software businesses into the same ServiceNow programme.
Several members have described specific work. Okta’s proposed contribution includes a kill switch to stop token requests from agents operating beyond their intended scope, StreetInsider reported. Cisco said it would connect AI Defense to the Control Tower so customers could see AI assets and security findings there. Those functions address identity and visibility, while Kong’s proposed controls sit at the connections carrying AI traffic.
Stripe said its Metronome product would contribute usage-based billing and spending controls for AI deployments, StreetInsider reported. The Control Tower Alliance is separate from the ServiceNow Store and Workflow Data Network Partner Passport programmes and will operate alongside them.
