The news
Two startups pitched software that does a manager's job on September 29, 2026. env zero launched EZ Control, an autonomous cloud control plane that can fix cloud problems itself, while Mojio renamed itself Force Fleet and debuted Felix, an AI fleet manager for small businesses.
env zero said EZ Control detects gaps between how a company's cloud is supposed to be configured and how it actually runs, decides what to do under the customer's policies, and carries out the fix. The company said it covers nearly 2,300 resource types across Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Kubernetes, and discovers cloud and software-as-a-service resources through more than 80 integrations. It targets configuration drift, compliance violations, oversized resources, patching and availability problems.
Customers choose how much freedom the software gets for each class of resource: observe only, propose fixes, act after approval, or act on its own within guardrails, according to the release. env zero said every action is attributable, auditable and reversible, that captured changes become pull requests against a team's code repositories, and that follow-up scans verify each fix. EZ Control is in early access as a cloud service, with an agentless, read-only initial connection. The release gave no pricing or general availability date.
env zero was formed through a merger with cloud asset inventory company CloudQuery that closed on March 12, 2026, according to Database Trends and Applications. Steve Corndell is chief executive and CloudQuery founder Yevgeny Pats is chief technology officer. "Autonomy is only ever as trustworthy as the context underneath it," Corndell said in the launch release. The company lists PayPal (PYPL), Walmart (WMT) and Visa (V) among organizations that use its platform, though the release did not say whether they use EZ Control.
Force Fleet, founded in 2012 in Vancouver as Mojio, said in a Business Wire release that it retired the Mojio brand and launched Felix in beta. The company said Felix monitors driver behavior and safety risks, fuel use and operating costs, and vehicle health and maintenance, then explains its findings in plain English and benchmarks each fleet against aggregate customer data. Chief growth officer Kyle MacDonald said Felix helps businesses simplify operations without hiring another person.
The company said its customers have tracked more than 750 million miles across the United States and that hiring a full-time fleet manager rarely makes financial sense for fleets under 50 vehicles. Pricing starts at $10 per vehicle per month with no contracts, the company said, and its website says more than 5,000 small businesses use the service.
The numbers
- Cloud resource types EZ Control covers (company figure)
- Nearly 2,300
- EZ Control discovery integrations
- 80+
- EZ Control autonomy levels
- 4
- Miles tracked by Force Fleet customers in the US (company figure)
- 750 million+
- Small businesses using Force Fleet (company website)
- 5,000+
- Force Fleet starting price
- $10 per vehicle per month
- Target fleet size for Force Fleet
- Under 50 vehicles
Why CEOs should care
For CIOs and heads of platform engineering, EZ Control's four autonomy levels are the right starting point for any agent that touches production. Ask vendors which actions the software can take without a human, how large a mistake it could make before a guardrail stops it, how every change is logged and rolled back, and how it fits your change-management and audit processes. env zero's release argues that automated systems, including AI agents, should work through a governed control layer rather than hold raw cloud credentials. CISOs should test whether any tool they buy lives up to that principle.
CFOs should press on price and proof. Both products are unfinished, with EZ Control in early access and Felix in beta, and env zero has not published pricing. When software claims to fix oversized resources or cut fuel costs, ask for measured savings from early customers and for contract terms that tie renewals to results. Agents that act change the buying model: a buyer is paying for work done, not for screens viewed, so the terms should say who is liable when the software gets it wrong.
Owners of small service businesses face a simpler calculation. Force Fleet's pitch is that a tool starting at $10 per vehicle a month can stand in for a fleet manager that a company with a few trucks cannot justify. Before relying on it, check what driver data Felix collects, how the company uses aggregate customer data for benchmarking, and whether drivers have been told they are monitored.
The bigger picture
Both launches frame software as a stand-in for a person or team rather than a report to read. env zero says the bottleneck in cloud operations is no longer spotting problems but deciding what to do and doing it safely, partly because pipelines, automation and AI agents already change cloud systems on their own. Force Fleet says Felix is built for business owners who have never had a fleet manager. Roy Illsley, chief analyst at research firm Omdia, said in env zero's release that EZ Control could help platform teams shorten the path from finding a cloud issue to a governed, verified fix.
The two differ sharply in how far they go. EZ Control can act on production systems if a customer allows it; Felix, as described, watches and explains, leaving decisions to the owner. That gap is where buyers should focus: the more a tool acts on its own, the more the contract, the audit trail and the off switch matter.
What’s next
Watch for EZ Control's general availability date, its pricing model and customer references that name the product specifically rather than env zero's platform as a whole. For Force Fleet, the test is whether Felix leaves beta, whether it moves from explaining problems to acting on them, and whether customers can show lower fuel or maintenance costs.
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