D2 and Intent-Based Policies with Denis Knjazihhin

In this Lital-less episode of the DiDi and Lital Show, DiDi interviews Denis Knjazihhin, a cybersecurity veteran who founded D2 to help enterprises roll out AI agents about his new company, D2, after a brief sports and music discussion including World Cup reactions and concerts at Fenway. Denis explains that D2 helps organizations adopt AI by removing security as a blocker, since agents require deep access to systems and data and can make risky mistakes or be tricked into harmful actions. D2’s approach is intent-based policy: expressing what should happen and translating it into controls that constrain agent actions deterministically, evolving as agents find new ways around restrictions. A key use case is governing Claude CoWork access to sensitive email in a financial institution with policies like limiting access to recent emails, excluding attorney-client privilege content, restricting to specific folders, and allowing drafting but not sending. D2 deploys via a gateway between the agent and applications, supports local/hosted/enterprise installs, offers natural-language policy creation with testing, and provides an open-source policy catalog. Denis invites users to try D2 free at d2.ai, shares that the team is six people, and says they are seeking GTM leadership and critical product feedback.   Topics 01:35 World Cup Takes 03:53 US Team Rollercoaster 07:21 Red Sox and Fenway Concerts 09:39 What D2 Does 14:22 Claude Email Policy Use Case 17:00 Gateway Deployment and Policy Catalog 19:29 Hardening Policies and User Partnership 22:51 Try D2 and Core IP 25:01 PDP vs PEP Architecture 26:49 Small Team Big Speed 27:56 Startup Building Then vs Now 31:45 Wrap Up and Call to Action