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The Platform and Experts Behind Trusted AI

The Trust Layer for Enterprise AI

Purpose-built AI Governance platform that combines agentic intelligence, human-validated governance, and forward-deployed expertise.
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Credo AI Named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: AI Governance Solutions, Q3 2025
Moving the world forward

We are setting the Standard for Trusted AI

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 Moving Faster Than Governance Can Keep Up

Enterprises are deploying AI agents, models, and applications at unprecedented speed. But governance, risk, and compliance processes are still manual, fragmented, and stuck in spreadsheets.

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

The Most Comprehensive, Continuous, and Context-Specific AI Governance across your Entire Lifecycle

Enterprise AI governance for agents, models, and applications — with pre-built policy packs for every major regulatory framework. Integrates 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

The Trust Layer for Global Enterprises

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

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

AI Registry

Discover and catalog every AI system — agents, models, and applications — across your enterprise. Full visibility into shadow AI.

  • Shadow AI detection
  • Risk classification
  • Stakeholder mapping
  • Auto-discovery

Risk Intelligence

Continuous, contextual risk assessment for bias, security, privacy, and compliance — not point-in-time snapshots.

  • Continuous monitoring
  • Automated red-teaming
  • Real-time alerts
  • Drift detection

Policy Engine

Enforce governance policies with automated workflows, pre-built policy packs, and audit-ready documentation.

  • Pre-built policy packs
  • Custom guardrails
  • Compliance mapping
  • Evidence generation
Why Credo AI

What Makes Us Different

We didn't bolt Al 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.

Only Platform with Multi-Layer Governance

Credo AI

Model-level, agent-level, and application-level governance in one unified platform. No other vendor covers all three. We see the full picture — from individual model risks to emergent behaviors across agent networks.

Alternatives

Others focus on a single layer — leaving dangerous blind spots.

Continuous, Not Point-in-Time

Credo AI

Continuous across the entire AI lifecycle from design to development to production. When connected into your monitoring systems, we can do it in production as well.

Alternatives

Traditional GRC tools offer snapshot compliance — already outdated by deployment.

Knowledge Graph: World Governance Intelligence and Business Context

Credo AI

Our world governance intelligence is built on third party risk intelligence, risk intelligence, regulatory intelligence, and model trust scores. Our knowledge graph also understands business context from our Forward Deployed AI Governance experts and 300+ integrations, deployments, and workflows.

Alternatives

Generic tools bolt on AI features. We were built from day one for AI.

Comprehensive Regulatory Intelligence

Credo AI

Ready-to-deploy policy packs for EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, SOC 2, and HITRUST — with automated evidence generation and audit-ready documentation that saves teams months of work.

Alternatives

Others require manual policy mapping. We deliver compliance out of the box.

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

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