Tether Labs
About
I'm Naren Sathiya, a product and engineering leader exploring the intersection of autonomous systems, infrastructure, and cybersecurity.
Previously, I founded Telivy (YC S21), a security risk management platform later acquired by Cytracom, where I now lead product development for Security Risk Management. My background spans engineering, distributed systems, product strategy, and AI-native infrastructure.
Tether Labs is my workspace for rapid experiments around agent behavior, coordination, reliability, simulation, and runtime systems.
Some projects become research writeups. Some become open-source tooling. Some evolve into product ideas. Most are attempts to better understand how autonomous systems behave in the real world.
Recurring questions
- How do autonomous systems fail?
- What does trustworthy agent behavior actually look like?
- How do we constrain stochastic systems operating in the real world?
- What happens when multiple agents coordinate, compete, or evolve?
- What kinds of infrastructure will increasingly autonomous software require?
Current areas of exploration
- Agent reliability and runtime control
- Multi-agent coordination and swarms
- Adversarial evaluation systems
- Simulation and forecasting
- Agent observability and enforcement
- Human-AI interaction models
I'm particularly interested in systems that increase human leverage without reducing human agency. The long-term goal isn't just smarter software - it's trustworthy infrastructure for increasingly autonomous systems.
Tether Labs exists to explore how autonomous systems behave, fail, coordinate, and eventually become trustworthy.