Software is being given authority. Trust must be provable, not assumed.

At Caution, we're building open-source infrastructure for verifiable applications: software whose users can check what code is running and who they're trusting.

We help teams deploy sensitive workloads into secure enclaves and cryptographically link what runs in production to specific, auditable code. Users, customers, and counterparties get evidence they can check for themselves, not assurances they have to accept.

As Chief Product Officer, I lead product: turning deep security engineering into something teams can actually deploy.

The question that has followed me across every role (what must someone trust, and what can they independently verify?) is the foundation of the product.

I work on systems that hold or delegate authority — keys, credentials, agents, policies, and privileged actions — and on making that authority constrained, auditable, and provable.

The recurring question is simple: under what conditions should a system be allowed to release authority?

A private key. A signing capability. An access token. A privileged API call. A delegated permission into a system too complex to simply trust.

My focus is on the primitives that make this provable: confidential computing, remote attestation, ZK proofs, and policy-bound credentials that constrain what a system can do before it acts — and let it demonstrate that constraint to the parties relying on it.

Once systems can act, security is not only about preventing compromise. It is about deciding what they are allowed to do, under which conditions, and what they can prove before authority is granted.

Outside Caution, I'm developing practical frameworks for agent credential control, policy enforcement, and verifiable execution — the missing security layer between increasingly capable AI systems and the real-world authority they are being given.

What I've built

Vincent Kobel

Over more than a decade, I have worked on and shipped production systems with high security requirements across cybersecurity, digital assets, applied cryptography, confidential computing, key management, and infrastructure.

I have built security functions from scratch, designed custody and wallet security architectures, supported institutional blockchain and staking infrastructure, and worked with product and engineering teams to turn complex trust assumptions into concrete systems.