Lockout/tagout, for software that acts on its own.
Interlok exists because the plant floor solved this problem a long time ago, and software is only now meeting it.
Where the idea comes from
On a factory floor, nobody reaches into a robot cell on trust. The energy is locked out, a tag names the person who did it, and the machine cannot move until that person says so. It is not paperwork for its own sake. It is how a plant proves, every shift, that a dangerous action had an owner.
AI agents now hold real keys: payments, production systems, customer data, cloud permissions. Most of what they do is routine and should run. A few actions cannot be taken back. Interlok puts a lock on those few, asks a named person to decide, and signs the decision into a record anyone can check without trusting us.
Who builds it
Interlok is built by Jay Moore in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Jay is a manufacturing engineer by background: industrial robotics, paint lines, plant control systems, lockout/tagout, arc flash and pressure safety. Interlok applies that discipline to agents.
Interlok is a Tenney Park company. The rule behind every product decision is short: AI proposes, humans determine, cryptography proves.
What we will not do
- Let an agent approve an agent. The verifier refuses any record that says otherwise.
- Ask you to trust our word. Every record checks offline with open-source code.
- Claim more than the record shows. Reports count signed records; they do not estimate.