What happened
On 6 October 2026 InnerWarden became a member of Claude Startups, Anthropic's program for early-stage founders. Members get access to offers, tools and events that help them run their business using Claude.
What the program gives
For a company of our size, membership brings:
- a year of Claude Team for the people who build InnerWarden;
- a one-time grant of API credits;
- the Claude Startup Stack, a set of offers on AI-native tools;
- group sessions with Anthropic's Applied AI team every other week;
- invitations to Claude Startup events, hackathons and meetups.
Why it matters to us
InnerWarden is runtime security for AI agents, and Claude Code is one of the agents it guards: the free Community guard screens the shell commands Claude Code tries to run, before they run, and on Linux, Active Defence, once armed, refuses a program that is not on the agent's allow list.
Building that well means working with agents every day, the way our users do. The program gives us more room to do that, and the Applied AI sessions are where we plan to bring the hard questions, such as how to evaluate the local decision model we ship.
What it is not
Membership of Claude Startups is not a partnership, a certification or an endorsement. Anthropic has not reviewed or approved InnerWarden. Anthropic, Claude and Claude Code are trademarks of Anthropic, PBC.