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Fast Company just named Credo AI one of the Most Innovative Companies of 2026.

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The Platform and Experts Behind Trusted AI

AI Governance,
Built for the
Agentic Era

Credo AI created the AI governance category, and is defining it for the agentic era. Powered by a Knowledge Graph fusing global regulatory intelligence with your business context, and backed by forward-deployed experts, our platform helps enterprises discover their AI, enforce policy, manage AI risk and achieve Measurable Trust across every agent, application, model, and AI vendor, from intake to runtime.
Moving the world forward

Six Years Defining AI Governance – Recognized Again in the Agentic Era

Credo AI Named to Fast Company’s Annual List of the World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2026

Credo AI is ranked No. 6 in Applied AI on Fast Company's World's Most Innovative Companies of 2026, alongside Google, Nvidia, OpenAI, and Anthropic.

Credo AI named a Leader in Forrester Wave™: AI Governance Solutions, Q3 2025

Highest possible scores in 12 criteria, - including AI policy management and innovation

Credo AI mentioned in Gartner®'s new Market Guide for AI Governance Platforms (2025) report.

AI oversight has moved beyond principles into a discipline requiring centralized inventory, risk management, and continuous monitoring. Download the report to understand the emerging architecture for enterprise AI governance.

Credo AI Named a Next Big Things in Tech by Fast Company

The world’s leading innovation authority recognizes Credo AI for making AI governance a defining force in the future of AI — alongside breakthroughs in robotics, climate tech & deep science.

The Challenge

AI is Scaling Faster Than You Can Govern It.
Agents Just Made It Autonomous.

Enterprises are deploying agents, models, and applications at unprecedented speed – and agents now act autonomously, in milliseconds, thousands of times an hour. Governance is still manual, fragmented, and stuck in spreadsheets. You cannot govern a system that acts in milliseconds with a monthly audit.

60%
of enterprise
are scaling AI
Only
4%
are governing it.
Credo AI: State of AI Governance 2026 Report
The Standard for Trusted AI

Defining AI Governance Since 2020. Now Defining Agent Governance.

Credo AI pioneered contextual, continuous, comprehensive AI governance and is now defining Agent Governance: registry for every agent, purpose-built agentic risk and controls, and governance that reaches into runtime. For agents, models, and applications with policy packs containing regulatory intelligence for every major AI standard, policy and regulation, integrated with the systems you already use.

Supports all Systems
Agents
Models
Applications
Workflows
Policy packs for every major regulatory framework
EU AI Act
NIST AI RMF
OMB M-25
CO ADMT
NAIC AI
Platform

One Platform to Govern Every AI Entity

Agents, applications, models, and vendors from pilot to production – with native integrations across your existing stack. And with GAIA (Govern AI Assistant), generally available in the platform today, weeks of governance work compress into hours.

Integrates With:
Snowflake
Databricks
AWS
Azure
ServiceNow
Jira
Confluence
Slack
GitHub
MLflow

AI Registry

Discover and catalog every AI system, agent, vendor and model. Full visibility into shadow AI.

  • Agent Registry & Agent Cards
  • Shadow AI detection
  • Risk Classification
  • Dependency mapping

Risk Intelligence

Continuous, contextual risk assessment, including a purpose-built agentic risk and control library for tool misuse, scope drift, and inter-agent risk.

  • Agentic risk & control library
  • Continuous monitoring, drift detection and real-time alerts by connecting to your observability and monitoring tools

Policy Engine

Turn policy into code: pre-built policy packs with regulatory intelligence, automated workflows, and audit-ready evidence – for AI and for agents.

  • Policy-to-code translation
  • Pre-built policy packs
  • Compliance mapping
  • Evidence recording and audit
Why Credo AI

Purpose-Built for AI Governance

We didn't bolt AI features onto a GRC tool. We built the platform for Measurable Trust from scratch – and it shows.

Continuous governance loop — AI systems are assessed, governed, and monitored in an infinite cycle.

The Only Pure-Play Platform Governing Every Layer, Including Agents

Credo AI

Model-level, application-level, and agent-level governance in one platform – with agents as first-class governed entities: registered, risk-assessed, sanctioned, and governed into runtime

Alternatives

Security tools watch agents but can't sanction them. GRC tools document AI but can't see agents at all.

Continuous, Not Point-in-Time

Credo AI

Governance across the entire lifecycle – design, development, and production – with runtime evidence flowing back through your monitoring and security stack. You cannot govern millisecond decisions with a monthly audit. We don't.

Alternatives

Snapshot compliance – already outdated by deployment.

Contextual: A Governance Knowledge Graph That Knows Your Business

Credo AI

World governance intelligence – regulations, third-party risk, model trust scores – built and updated by agents, validated by human experts, and fused with your business context from 300+ integrations and forward-deployed governance experts. A claims agent in EU insurance gets different controls than a marketing agent in US retail. Automatically.  

Alternatives

Generic checklists with no awareness of your context.

Six Years of Regulatory Authority, Out of the Box

Credo AI

Ready-to-deploy policy packs for EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, and beyond — written by the team in the room where AI governance standards are made: ISO, NIST, the EU Parliament, NATO, OECD.

Alternatives

Manual policy mapping, months of work.

Recognized for Our Pioneering Work in AI Governance

One platform to govern every AI system — from pilot to production — with native integrations across your existing stack.

"Using the Credo AI Platform, Mastercard is able to manage AI risk and responsibly implement generative AI – with better speed and scale than ever before."
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“Credo AI’s integration tackles one of the biggest blockers in enterprise AI–the communication and alignment gap between AI governance teams and developers.”
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"Working with the Credo AI platform accelerated our ability to be compliant with the EU AI Act by at least 10x the speed of trying to do it manually."
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“Credo AI’s integration tackles one of the biggest blockers in enterprise AI–the communication and alignment gap between AI governance teams and developers. The integration delivers prescriptive guidance to AI governance leaders on what to evaluate and empowers developers to run governance-aligned evaluations directly within their workflow.”

Sarah Bird
Chief Product Officer for Responsible AI

"Using the Credo AI Platform, Mastercard is able to manage AI risk and responsibly implement generative AI – with better speed and scale than ever before. Features like AI Registry and Vendor Registry have allowed us to maintain control of all AI use cases, to ensure all of our AI at Mastercard aligns to our governance frameworks and principles."

Andrew Reiskind
Chief Data Officer at Mastercard

"Through our partnership with Credo AI we get this amazing centralized platform that helps us keep up with annual technical audits. It also gives us this opportunity to get amazing feedback from industry experts at Credo AI on the work we’ve been doing... This is super helpful when planning our development cycles."

Kathleen Cachel
Senior Data Scientist

"Credo AI’s framework has complemented our internal efforts—helping us enhance existing processes, reinforce risk management, and align stakeholders around a governance model that can scale with our AI adoption."

Parth Patel
Executive Director, AI and Data Science

“Credo AI helped us rapidly stand up an enterprise-ready AI governance workflow—aligned with our stakeholders, grounded in risk, and built for scale."

Renee Langeness
Director of Data Governance at Principal®

"We're using Credo AI internally to control dozens of ongoing projects, whether they're client facing projects or solutions, but for us as an organization, we're also making sure we're compliant first and foremost with our own policies but also the EU AI Act."

Brad Mallard
CTO

“IBM’s collaboration with Credo AI on Compliance Accelerators advances this goal, pooling expertise across organizations to fuel more responsible, transparent, and explainable AI"

Heather Gentile
Director of Product

"What we saw with Credo AI was that 100% focus on helping raise the bar on enterprise [AI] trust, and create something that can be the platform for enterprises to truly work their way up the platform of maturity."

Roger Roberts
Principal, Digital Technology

"Through Credo AI we get access to the world's largest risk library, and the best mapping I've ever seen of all the risks they need to pay attention to, based on the area, region, the base model they're using, all to way to exactly what needs to be measured."

Mehrnoosh Sameki
Principal PM Manager, Generative AI Evaluation and Governance

The Agentic Enterprise Runs on Governed AI

Every platform shift produces its trust layer. Cloud had security. Data had governance. AI has Credo AI and enterprises across insurance, financial services, federal, and healthcare are already scaling on it.

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