StackGen Named a Cool Vendor in the 2025 Gartner Cool Vendors for AI in IT Operations
StackGen has been named a Cool Vendor in the 2025 Gartner Cool Vendors for AI in IT Operations (1). For IT operations and platform teams under pressure to move faster without breaking compliance, this is a signal: AI-driven infrastructure is moving from experiment to execution.
The company's Autonomous Infrastructure Platform (AIP) shifts infrastructure work from manual Infrastructure as Code to intent-driven automation. AI agents operate with selectable autonomy levels, so teams can start with human-in-the-loop assistance and grow to autopilot for repeatable, governed workflows.
Why this matters for I&O leaders
- Cost and efficiency: Gartner's research notes 54% of I&O leaders cite cost optimization as a key driver for AI adoption, and 47% focus on improving efficiency and performance.
- Governance at speed: As AI coding tools accelerate delivery, infrastructure becomes the bottleneck. StackGen aims to move infra at the velocity of code while keeping security and compliance intact.
- Skills gaps: AI agents can reduce toil on provisioning, policy checks, and drift remediation without adding headcount.
How StackGen's Autonomous Infrastructure Platform works
- Intent-to-infra: Teams describe outcomes in natural language; the platform generates compliant configurations and orchestrates deployments.
- Selectable autonomy: From virtual assistant (human review) to autopilot (fully autonomous), coordinated by an AI control plane.
- Policy-first outputs: Generates Terraform, OpenTofu, and Helm configs with built-in security policies and guardrails.
- Enterprise fit: Multicloud support, integration with current developer and DevOps workflows, and continuous compliance enforcement.
Learn more about the tools mentioned: Terraform and Helm.
Who benefits
- Platform engineering: Define blueprints and governance patterns once; let agents apply them consistently.
- DevOps: Streamline app-to-infra workflows, reduce handoffs, and cut wait time for environments.
- Security and compliance: Enforce continuous policy compliance for frameworks such as FedRAMP, HIPAA, and SOC 2.
"We're proud to be recognized by Gartner for our innovation in autonomous infrastructure," said Sachin Aggarwal, Founder and CEO of StackGen. "As AI coding tools accelerate development velocity, infrastructure has become the critical bottleneck preventing organizations from realizing their AI investments. StackGen's Autonomous Infrastructure Platform ensures infrastructure can move at the velocity of code while maintaining the governance, compliance, and security guardrails enterprises require."
Where it's being used
StackGen reports adoption across regulated industries including healthcare, government, and financial services-environments where automated policy enforcement is a must. Existing developer workflows and cloud ecosystems remain intact, reducing disruption during rollout.
Aiden: the AI agent behind AIP
- Aiden for Platform Engineers: Self-service provisioning with governance baked in.
- Aiden for DevOps: Connects to your toolchain to automate workflows end to end.
- Focus areas: Self-building, self-governing, self-healing, and self-optimizing infrastructure across multiple clouds.
StackGen serves enterprise and fast-growing customers, including Autodesk, SAP NS2, and Nielsen.
Practical next steps for operations teams
- Pick two to three high-toil workflows (e.g., environment provisioning, policy checks, drift fixes) as pilot candidates.
- Set autonomy levels by use case: start human-in-the-loop; move to autopilot after audit success.
- Codify guardrails: map policies, RBAC, and approvals into the control plane before scaling.
- Integrate with your SDLC: connect to CI/CD, ticketing, and secrets management for traceability.
- Track outcomes: measure lead time, change failure rate, MTTR, and policy violations pre/post rollout.
(1) Gartner, Cool Vendors in AI for IT Operations, Cameron Haight, Hassan Ennaciri, Chris Saunderson, 2 December 2025.
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