Barndoor AI Extends Governance Platform to Microsoft 365 and Tightens Control of AI Agents

New updates have been reported about Barndoor AI.

Barndoor AI has expanded its enterprise governance platform to cover AI agent activity across Microsoft 365, now natively securing interactions in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneDrive under its MCP-based control layer. This move centralizes role-based access, policy enforcement, and telemetry for AI agents handling everyday knowledge-worker documents, while also extending MCP integrations to additional workplace tools including Granola, Otter, and soon ClickUp.

For CIOs and CISOs grappling with rapid AI adoption, Barndoor AI has also overhauled its policy management system to manage complex agent and user-role configurations at scale from a single access control center. The platform now lets administrators group multiple AI agents under shared policies, test policies before rollout, and trace each allow-or-deny decision back to a specific rule within a defined lifecycle of draft, active, inactive, and archived states.

These enhancements are designed to position Barndoor AI as core infrastructure for enterprises where more than half of knowledge workers already use two or more AI tools, according to the company’s own research on workplace AI usage. By offering fine-grained, auditable control across tools that employees already rely on, Barndoor AI aims to reduce governance gaps, lower compliance risk, and standardize security posture around agentic AI.

The updated access control features are available immediately on the Barndoor AI platform, giving existing customers an instant path to extend governance across Microsoft 365 environments without changing end-user workflows. Founded in 2024 as a centralized control plane for agentic AI, Barndoor AI continues to build out its ecosystem, working alongside partners like Venn.ai to address both enterprise-level oversight and secure individual access to AI capabilities across the modern workplace.