WILMINGTON — November 12, 2026 -- EnterpriseDB (EDB) has hired the agent-native engineering team formerly of CMRD, which built the audit and evidence layer of EDB's agent governance for EDB Postgres AI, to take that work in-house. Christopher Mitchell, CMRD's former managing partner, is now a principal engineer at EDB.
IDC's agent forecast sets the enforcement workload EDB cites
EDB bases the hire on an IDC projection of more than 1 billion AI agents actively deployed worldwide by 2029, executing over 217 billion actions per day. At those floor values, the figure works out to about 217 actions per agent per day. EDB says each action must be permitted or blocked before it runs, recorded as it happens and explainable afterward, on both Postgres and ClickHouse software.
Contract engineers become EDB staff, and the work stays the same
Mitchell says the team built for EDB Postgres AI across several engagements. Working with EDB's sovereign control plane and governance engineering teams, it built three things:
- the audit and evidence surface for the governance layer;
- guided tooling for designing and deploying distributed Postgres environments;
- tools that help EDB's forward-deployed teams provision customer data and AI systems faster.
EDB says joining the company changes where the engineers sit, not what they work on. Customers using the audit layer therefore keep the people who built it.
EDB describes the team as having more than 55 years of combined professional experience across more than 10 regulated and enterprise domains, including defense and government, healthcare and life sciences, and financial services. It says CMRD's hiring process accepts fewer than 1% of applicants. Every engineer is paired with an AI agent on each build, a practice the company calls "1+1".
CEO Kevin Dallas said: "We give customers the controls and the proof they need to trust their agents."
EDB plans one policy set for Postgres and ClickHouse across four deployment modes
The hire follows EDB's acquisition of Altinity, which brought the ClickHouse software expertise under the same company as Postgres. EDB will extend the team's audit and evidence work so that agent policy, audit and evidence apply under one set of controls to both engines. The Altinity integration roadmap includes a shared Apache Iceberg catalog and consistent access controls across the two engines.
EDB's goal is for the same governance to apply in bring-your-own-cloud, developer cloud, on-premises and physical far-edge deployments, the last for air-gapped, local hardware. EDB did not disclose the size of the team, the financial terms of the hire or delivery dates for the cross-engine controls.