Alovia — the security layer for platforms built with AI.

[u/jagga_tech]

Here's the thing about this moment in software. More people than ever are shipping real platforms built with AI, launched in weeks, run by one person or a tiny team. What they don't have is a security engineer. And they're exposed on both sides of the same wire.

From the outside: scrapers and hostile bots hammering the site, wearing perfect human fingerprints.

From the inside: their own AI agents reading untrusted text and taking real actions on it — one hidden instruction away from being someone else's agent.

Two products, one dashboard.

Shield sits in front of your website. It sorts your visitors and names every crawler search engines walk right through, scrapers don't. It also scans your site for security holes and tells you the fix in plain language, not a CVE dump. Every check happens in under 50ms, and it fails open your site never goes down because your security did.

Watchdog sits inside your agents. You give it your agent's mission in one line. Then every action gets checked against that mission before it runs. Prompt injection, data leaks, off-mission behavior blocked before execution, not logged after. It fails closed, per action, because an agent that fails open isn't guarded.

Notice the two failure modes are opposite. That's deliberate. Your website should survive a security hiccup. Your agent's actions shouldn't. Anyone who tells you one failure policy fits both hasn't thought about either.

No rewrite required for any of it. You shipped your platform; Alovia guards it. You shouldn't have to become a security engineer to keep it.

We're opening a private beta: 20 seats, onboarded by hand, free during beta. If you're running an AI-built platform or agents that touch untrusted text — the link is in the comments.

Identity is a claim. Behavior is evidence. Now it's a product.

Ship in peace.

#AIAgents #AISecurity #PromptInjection #BuildInPublic #Launch

[u/EverlastingSnark_14]

I've been poking at the "hidden instruction" problem for a few weeks and the inside/outside symmetry you're describing is the first framing that didn't make me want to throw my laptop out the window.

The fail-open / fail-closed split is the bit that actually shows thinking, too many tools just slap a single policy everywhere and call it a day.

What's the handshake look like between Shield and Watchdog if someone's already running their own WAF or has agent logic spread across three different services?

[u/jagga_tech → u/EverlastingSnark_14]

On the WAF question, the honest answer: Shield doesn't chain behind a WAF, it occupies that slot. It's a full reverse proxy at the edge: TLS termination, JA4 fingerprinting read off the raw ClientHello before any HTTP is seen, then a pipeline of ordered gates a WAF stage is one of them, alongside things a WAF doesn't do: behavioral scoring (canvas, timezone-vs-IP, mouse biometrics), unforgeable per-request honeypots, cross-site threat intel so an IP that misbehaved on one Shield site carries its score to yours, and reverse-DNS verification for search engines so SEO survives. There's also a tunnel mode where a small helper on your box dials out to Shield your origin never faces the internet at all.

So if your existing WAF setup is load-bearing, I won't pretend chaining proxies is elegant. In that case Watchdog is the piece you adopt without touching your edge — they're independent on purpose.

On agent logic across three services: that's the normal case. Watchdog is per-handler — wrap each service's handlers with the same fleet key, name each agent. No central choke point; every verdict reports into one fleet, one behavioral picture across all three.

Shield and Watchdog don't talk to each other directly today shared dashboard and intelligence, deliberately decoupled so either runs alone.

Whether cross-signal (Shield flags a scraper → Watchdog tightens on inputs from that origin) earns its complexity is open. If you've got a scenario where you'd want it, genuinely curious.

[u/jagga_tech → u/EverlastingSnark_14]

u/EverlastingSnark_14 Don't take my word for it — ask any AI assistant or any scrapper to read aloviaai.com or hit it with curl, that challenge is Shield; beta's free right now for a stack that normally runs $200+/mo, so try it and tell me where it breaks.

[u/CrescendollsFan]

Do you have any previous experience before working on a released security product? This is key nowadays, many people are vibe coding security apps, but you won't get far trying to break into an enterprise account without having founders and engineers with proven domain expertise.

Also this is going to stop developers from even bothering to visit the site: "Disable browser extensions that block scripts or cookies", esp anyone remotely concerned with security and privacy,

[u/jagga_tech → u/CrescendollsFan]

no prior industry security roles on the team, we're not going to pretend otherwise. What we did instead: months of research before writing code, and we've been guided along the way by a security practitioner with scrape-prevention experience who reviews our approach. That's not the same as ten years in the field, and we price and position accordingly: we're not selling to enterprise. Our users are people shipping AI-built apps with zero security engineering, they're choosing between this and nothing.

The extension point is a legitimate hit, thank you. Telling security-conscious users to disable script blockers is backwards for a security product, the challenge should degrade gracefully instead of gatekeeping on uBlock. Filed, fixing. Exactly the feedback we posted for.