Daybreak Labs is an AI lab that specializes in agentic workforces, built on an unusually strong foundation of compliance and governance. The point is simple: the people who run regulated operations can trust what the agents do, prove it to an auditor, and therefore actually put them to work. Lightwork is the product that carries all of it.
Frontier labs build smarter models. That race is commoditizing by the month. The hard part, and the durable one, is the workforce around the model: governance bound to every action, an audit trail that's tamper-evident and verifiable offline, service levels the runtime enforces, and a workforce that improves under proof. Trust is not a feature we added; it is the foundation everything else is built on, because in regulated work an agent nobody can vouch for is an agent nobody is allowed to use.
Every action checked for scope, policy, safety and budget, then a signed audit.
The Operating Record: signed, hash-chained, verifiable offline.
Enforceable service levels and an exception desk when a whole function moves onto the workforce.
Every change proven on held-out work, shipped as a watched canary, reversible and audited. What it learns lives in Cortex, the company brain.
Everything below runs on the same governed spine: every action checked for scope, policy, safety and budget, then written to a signed audit.
The governed runtime, with the Operating Record underneath. Self-hosted, air-gapped, or hosted by Daybreak Labs: log in and go.
How it works → 02 · The company brain NewThe company brain: the governed, tenant-exact memory the whole workforce reads from and writes to, never pooled across customers.
Inside Cortex → 03 · Specialist departmentsTurnkey departments of specialist agents across finance, tax, legal, privacy, GRC, operations and more, each with a fixed job, least-privilege tools, and a human who signs off.
See the departments → 04 · Govern any fleetGovern and learn from the agents you didn't build: Agentforce, Copilot, in-house, open-source. They deposit into and recall from Cortex under one audited, tenant-isolated memory.
How it governs → 05 · Replace the platform NewThe compliance platform that does the work: AI governance, privacy automation, consent, tech risk & compliance, third-party management and data use governance, run by governed agents.
See the six suites → 06 · Move a function NewA whole function moved to a governed agentic workforce, in your environment or ours: the offering for work you would otherwise send to a BPO.
Scope a function → 07 · Custom workBespoke departments synthesized from a description or a demonstration, delivered into regulated or air-gapped environments.
What we build →How they fit. The platform governs. Cortex remembers. The departments do the work. Fleet Governance brings outside agents under the same record. Autonomous Compliance replaces the compliance platform with governed agents. Forge builds what no department covers. Autonomous Shoring is the engagement that moves an entire function onto all of it.
We're working with a small number of design partners in regulated industries. If that's you, the fastest start is a short call on one real workflow.
