Scott Buchanan

CMO

Scott Buchanan is the Chief Marketing Officer at Stacklok, where he leads the go-to-market effort to bring the company's enterprise MCP platform to market. Scott leads Stacklok's first-party research efforts, quantifying enterprise progress towards being MCP-native and capturing core use cases. Scott has held marketing leadership roles at Heptio, Forter, VMware and more, and has a knack for distilling highly technical concepts into simple ideas.

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July 27, 2026

What retail enterprises should demand from an AI control plane

AI agents are already repricing products, replenishing inventory, and triaging contact center queues in production, and many are touching customer purchase history and pricing engines before any policy exists to …

July 27, 2026

What financial services firms should demand from an AI control plane

AI agents are already in production at financial services firms, and many are touching customer data and regulated records before any governance policy exists to control them. Our new AI …

June 13, 2026

Your developers are already running MCP servers you don’t know about

Your developers are already running MCP servers you don’t know about. Every ungoverned server is a potential compliance failure, a blast radius waiting to happen, and a security audit you …

June 13, 2026

Navigating the AI Infrastructure Landscape: Lessons from Kubernetes Creators

Earlier this week, Stacklok’s CEO, Craig McLuckie and CTO, Joe Beda, joined the Founded and Funded podcast hosted by Tim Porter, Managing Director at Madrona Venture Group. You can watch …

June 03, 2026

How to build a local MCP registry your security team will actually approve

AI agents are connecting to your production systems right now. The question is whether you know which ones, what they accessed, and who authorized them. Here’s what you’ll learn in …

June 02, 2026

MCP security best practices for Kubernetes teams

Every MCP server you deploy is an access point into your internal systems. Leave one ungoverned and you have a blast radius with no defined boundary. The good news for …