Business judgment on AI products
Takes the automations staff spin up with AI and runs them where the company can see, sandbox, and audit them.
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Start inside the user's day · Public facts + workflow reasoning · 2026-08-28
Takes the automations staff spin up with AI and runs them where the company can see, sandbox, and audit them.
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Leadership told everyone to use AI, then lost sight of which keys got pasted into which scripts. Don't build another automation toy—make the governed path the easiest path, and sell that to security and IT.
It promises a simpler way to complete this job: Takes the automations staff spin up with AI and runs them where the company can see, sandbox, and audit them. The exact adoption motive and repeat use are not yet verified.
① Whether Tines discloses Explore Edition workflow counts and retention; ② Whether any enterprise publicly says it runs 3B in production — so far the only; cited voice is Fin, one financial firm; ③ The revenue mix between Stories and 3B — if the old business keeps growing while 3B; is a separate cur…
Keep watching. It promises a simpler way to complete this job: Takes the automations staff spin up with AI and runs them where the company can see, sandbox, and audit them. The exact adoption motive and repeat use are not yet verified.
make security the default path, not a checkpoint — admin dashboards, branch approvals, Autotune auto-fixes. A security product sells peace of mind, not restrictions. the free tier is "3 workflows + unlimited users" — even the top of an enterprise security funnel is free. Move the shadow work into visible space first, talk about money second.
Free Explore Edition (3 workflows to start) plus enterprise subscription (pricing not; public). The parent company has raised $272M total, with a $125M Series C at a $1.125B; valuation in February 2025. ① Whether Tines discloses Explore Edition workflow counts and retention; ② Whether any enterprise publicly says it runs 3B in production — so far the only; cited voice is Fin, one financial firm; ③ The revenue mix between Stories and 3B — if the old business keeps growing while 3B; is a separate cur…
Takes the automations staff spin up with AI and runs them where the company can see, sandbox, and audit them.
It promises a simpler way to complete this job: Takes the automations staff spin up with AI and runs them where the company can see, sandbox, and audit them. The exact adoption motive and repeat use are not yet verified.
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The stuff employees build with AI — agents, apps, automations — gets a secure place to run: isolated execution, credentials injected through a proxy, everything auditable, inside an environment IT and security can actually see.
Tines, the Dublin-founded workflow automation company (2018), co-founded by Eoin Hinchy (CEO; ex-DocuSign, eBay, Deloitte) and Thomas Kinsella (ex-security engineer). The original Tines Stories product served security and IT teams for eight years. 3B, launched 2026-08-11, is a ground-up new platform — the launch platform daily #1 (405 upvotes).
Read: a company that has raised $272M and serves major banks publicly declaring that its own core category has an expiry date is a stronger signal than any startup pitch. When models can write code, visual drag-and-drop builders are over — the money moves to the run-and-govern layer that comes after everyone can build.
Two layers. Directly, it replaces manual management of shadow AI work: finance and marketing used to build things in Claude Code or Codex on personal laptops or personal Vercel accounts, with API keys pasted straight into code — invisible to IT and security, cleaned up by hand when something broke. 3B gives that work a default governed home — making the governed path the easy path.
Indirectly, it replaces Tines's own old product: the CEO states plainly that "low-code has a sell-by date." Once models can write code, the visual builder gives way to natural-language generation plus deterministic code execution. The eight-year-old Stories product runs in parallel, awaiting the handover.
Free Explore Edition (3 workflows to start) plus enterprise subscription (pricing not public). The parent company has raised $272M total, with a $125M Series C at a $1.125B valuation in February 2025.
Read: 3B has no pricing page yet, which means it is still in "get enterprises to use it first" mode. Products like this eventually price by workflow/seats/execution volume; the free tier exists to move shadow work into visible space before anyone talks money.
| Dimension | Call |
|---|---|
| Founder-product fit | Founders came from security engineering; for 8 years the question was "who gets access to what and who can see it" — the new category is the same question extended |
| Product insight | Saw the new-era contradiction: employees using AI is what the boss asked for, but the boss cannot see what the AI is being used to build |
| Execution quality | Isolated execution, credential proxying, full audit — eight years of security-automation engineering behind it |
| Timing | Dead center on the pivot from "get AI working" to "lock down what AI built" |
One of the strongest signals in the enterprise-AI-governance category. Not a startup telling a story — a company with $272M raised and Coinbase/SAP/Reddit on its roster declaring its own eight-year core dead and betting on the new layer. Three things to take:
First, shadow work is the real enterprise entry point for AI procurement. The boss does not fear employees using AI; the boss fears employee-built AI outside the sightline. 3B's positioning ("You told everyone to use AI. Now give them a secure place to do it.") talks to the CEO's actual dread, not to a feature list.
Second, the right way to build a security product is to make the governed path the easiest one. Isolated execution, credential proxying, Autotune auto-fixes, branch approval — following the rules is less effort than not following them, so people stay inside. Security built as a checkpoint gets routed around; security built as the default path gets inhabited.
Third, a reference architecture for agent runtimes now exists: ephemeral-sandbox isolation, secrets that never enter code, end-to-end audit, self-hostable. Anyone building agent infrastructure can copy this baseline directly.
Risks: 3B just launched with no standalone revenue or adoption numbers yet; the old Stories product still runs in parallel, so it is not yet clear whether 3B is a second curve or a label on the old product.
① Whether Tines discloses Explore Edition workflow counts and retention ② Whether any enterprise publicly says it runs 3B in production — so far the only cited voice is Fin, one financial firm ③ The revenue mix between Stories and 3B — if the old business keeps growing while 3B is a separate curve, the call needs updating
Product logic: make security the default path, not a checkpoint — admin dashboards, branch approvals, Autotune auto-fixes. A security product sells peace of mind, not restrictions.
Pricing structure: the free tier is "3 workflows + unlimited users" — even the top of an enterprise security funnel is free. Move the shadow work into visible space first, talk about money second.
Worth watching. Direction, team, and capital are all validated. What remains to be validated is whether 3B grows standalone adoption. Check back in three months against its disclosures and customer voices.
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