# About Hawcx: authentication for people and AI agents.

> Hawcx builds authentication for people and AI agents: passwordless sign-in on device-bound keys, and an identity for every agent, tied to a real person.

Markdown version of <https://www.hawcx.com/company>. Last updated 2026-10-04.

We started Hawcx in 2023 so signing in would feel like nothing. Now we bring the same trust to the AI agents people put to work.

- **Riya Co-founder & CEO**: Asks “how does this help the customer?” in nearly every meeting.
- **Ravi Co-founder & Chief Scientist**: The cryptographic brain behind the operation.
- **Selva Co-founder & CTO**: Systems thinker. Execution engine. Reliability-obsessed.

## Why we started Hawcx

Authentication shouldn’t cost people their security, their time or their sanity. So we started with passwords, replacing them with keys that never leave the device. Now people hand their work to AI agents. Every agent needs the same trust: an identity rooted in a real person, and a check before it acts.

## Two products. One root of trust.

Both start from the same place: a real, verified person.

- **AI agent authentication**: Every agent gets an identity tied to a real person, and each action is checked before it runs. [Explore AI agents](https://www.hawcx.com/ai-agents)
- **Passwordless authentication**: Phishing-resistant sign-in. Each device holds its own key, and the key never leaves it. [Explore passwordless](https://www.hawcx.com/passwordless)

## How we work. Four rules we hire for.

The same four, from our first hire to our next.

- **Customer first, full stop.**: Every decision starts with one question: does this help the customer?
- **Security is the floor.**: Not a feature. We build as if scale and attackers will test everything.
- **Be real. Be good.**: Sharp, kind people who speak honestly and do the right thing.
- **Build fast. Hold the chaos.**: Urgency, never recklessness. Quality and trust don’t trade for speed.

> “Hawcx has created a passwordless login solution that doesn’t have many of the downsides that we’ve been struggling with in FIDO for years.”

Dr. Michael B. Jones Advisor. A long-time contributor to the WebAuthn, FIDO2 and JWT standards.

[Read why he joined](https://www.hawcx.com/blog/why-i-joined-hawcx)

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