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Keyhold Crew
AI coworkers that run your workflows without ever seeing your API keys
- Score
- 40
- confidence 45
- Evidence
- 4
- items on the page
- Rivals
- 2
- named in sources
- First version
- 60 d
- estimate
- Type
- Desktop and mobile
- PWA: on computers and phones alike
- Market since
- 2025
- New market · AI estimate
ScreensConcept
Desktop and mobile: Workflows are set up and configured on desktop but require approvals and monitoring on phones while users are away; both are essential to the product. Sample screens on a computer and a phone, in the proposed brand. Their numbers are sample data.
New workflow
Draft5 steps
About this appAI proposal
Keyhold Crew is an AI agent platform built for work, not for personal errands. You describe a multi-step task, connect your business apps, and an agent carries it out on a trigger such as a new email, a form entry or a schedule, with conditions and loops where the task needs them.
Credentials never reach the agent. Every call to a connected service goes through a proxy that holds the keys and adds them outside the agent's container. The agent can use a tool but cannot read, copy or leak the secret behind it.
It is for knowledge workers and small teams who found general-purpose agents hard to use safely with real APIs and third-party services. Each run is logged, so a manager can see what the agent did and with which tool.
- Tagline
- Agents that do the work. Keys stay with you.
- Voice
- CalmPreciseTrustworthy
- Why this name
- Keyhold names the core promise: the keys are held apart from the agent. Crew suggests a team of coworkers that get real tasks done.
In the first version
Members say which features they would use. It tells PWAS what people want; it changes no score.
Credential isolation proxy
API keys live in a vault outside the agent. Calls pass through a proxy that attaches them, so the agent never sees a secret.
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Containerized runs
Each run starts in a clean, sandboxed container with only the tools and network access you allowed, and is discarded afterward.
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Ready-made connectors
Connect common business tools with a sign-in or key, instead of writing glue code for each service.
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Event triggers
Start workflows from emails, webhooks, new records or schedules, then add conditions and loops to handle each case.
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Brand identityAI proposal
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Palette
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Keyhold Crew
PricingAI proposal
The material gives no competitor prices. These tiers are a starting point to test, scaled by workflow count, connections and run volume as the opportunity suggests.
Free
Free
- 1 active workflow
- 3 connections
- 100 runs a month
- 7-day run history
Team
$49 a month
- 20 active workflows
- 15 connections
- 5,000 runs a month
- Approval steps
- 90-day run history
Business
$199 a month
- Unlimited workflows
- All connectors
- 50,000 runs a month
- Audit export
What it could be worthEstimate
What a software business making this much sells for today, from real deals. Pick a monthly revenue.
If it makes
Worth about
$194,000
Sale range $132,000 to $263,000
$120,000 a year in revenue
From 87 software businesses listed and sold on Empire Flippers in the last year, revenue vetted by the broker: they sell for about 19× their monthly revenue, most between 13× and 26×.
Measured on profit, the middle deal is 32× monthly net profit: about 2.7 years of profit.
An estimate, not an offer or financial advice. A real price depends on profit, growth, churn, how much of the work is the owner's, and the buyer.
How it would growAI proposal
How the product would reach new customers through its own use, and how the first ones would be found. A plan to test, not a result.
- Built-in loop
- No loop in the product. The product runs inside a customer's own systems and reaches new customers through sales, content and developer communities, not through its own use. Approval requests go to colleagues who may already be on the team.
- Do they become customers?
- Colleagues who approve steps could be invited as users, but this is untested. The test is whether approvers ask for their own workflows within the first month.
- First customers
- Small finance and operations teams of 5 to 30 people who automate invoices, reconciliations or reporting across three to five SaaS tools and worry about sharing API keys.
- Where to reach them
- Hacker News and dev forums: Post a technical write-up of the credential proxy design and invite people who discuss agent security to a trial.
- Operations communities: Offer to build one workflow free for ops leads in Slack groups and forums, in return for feedback.
- Direct outreach: Contact ops managers at small companies who mention agent or automation security problems in public posts.
- First milestone
- Five paying teams in one vertical, each running at least one workflow weekly for a month with real credentials.
Why people already pay for this
- VerifiedHacker News post received 39 points and 8 comments
- Public claimExisting AI agents lack security for API and third-party service integration needed for work tasks
- Public claimGeneral-purpose AI agents are not designed for actual work execution
- Public claimMarket demand for AI agents that can automate multi-step work workflows with multiple integrations
Tech stack
Every proposal builds on the same PWA base, installable from the browser on any phone or computer. Dashed boxes are what this app adds.
- AppNext.js and TypeScript
- PWAManifest and service worker
- UITailwind CSS
- Data and authSupabase Postgres
- PaymentsStripe
- EmailResend
- HostingVercel
- This app · Agent runtimeSandboxed container runner per runEach agent run needs an isolated environment with limited network access.
- This app · Credential proxySecrets vault with an egress proxyKeys must be injected outside the agent so the agent can't read them.
RisksAI inference
- TechnicalContainer escape or proxy misconfiguration would defeat the core promise. The isolation design needs independent security review before real customer credentials are stored.
- CommercialEvidence is a single post with 39 points and 8 comments. Demand for paid secure agents is unproven, and large AI vendors may add similar isolation.
- TechnicalBuilding and maintaining 100+ connectors is heavy for a small team. A first version must start with a few connectors for one vertical.
- AIAgents can misread inputs or take wrong actions in business systems. Approval steps and scoped permissions reduce but do not remove this.
- RegulatoryStoring third-party credentials and business data may bring security certification requests from larger buyers before they will sign.
Everything marked AI proposal or AI inference was written by a model from the evidence on the opportunity page. The proposed name must be checked against trademark registers before it is used.