AI-powered enterprises can no longer afford governance bottlenecks. The pace of demand for AI has outpaced traditionally siloed governance frameworks.
Even AI governance-mature companies, with years of experience managing data governance, traditional GRC, and MLOps processes, are drowning in the number of intake requests for new AI projects. Based on our latest enterprise AI governance market research, respondents reported high risk reviews stretching into months. In one case, an AI governance team with the capacity to approve 6 use cases faced 100 new requests during the same timeframe.
The result: enterprises have to quickly ban use cases outright – or absorb all of the cybersecurity, IP, operational, and ethical risks they haven’t had time to properly assess.
At Credo AI, we’ve watched this bottleneck form as the number of distinct AI use cases within enterprises grows into the thousands. Today, we're applying the same technology driving that growth to the governance problem it created.
Introducing GAIA: Credo AI’s Govern AI Assistant
GAIA is an AI-powered assistant built into the Credo AI platform that handles the most onerous, repetitive parts of AI use case intake — so your governance team can focus on the decisions only humans should make.
Building an AI assistant for AI governance forced us to think carefully about where automation genuinely helps and where it doesn't.
The answer isn't to automate decisions. It's to automate the work that slows teams down before a decision is even made: documentation, risk identification, control mapping. The parts that are time-consuming and repetitive, but that require accuracy.
What GAIA Does
GAIA exists to solve the scalability challenge of trusted AI: as AI adoption accelerates, governance teams can’t manually review every use case in depth. It accelerates the most onerous parts of intake and governance planning and targets specific areas where governance teams lose hours and where errors create downstream risk:
Use Case Intake, Accelerated
Governance teams spend significant time just getting a new AI use case documented properly. With GAIA, users provide a text description or upload relevant documents — product briefs, PRDs, project plans — and GAIA suggests descriptions, domains, and key metadata fields. What used to take hours of back-and-forth now takes minutes.
Questionnaire Assistance That Actually Understands Context
Intake questionnaires are thorough by design, but completing them is tedious. GAIA reads the use case information and drafts suggested responses to each question, giving reviewers a strong starting point rather than a blank page. Every suggestion can be edited, rejected, or approved individually — and GAIA explains its reasoning for each one.
Risk Scenarios You Might Have Missed
As AI use cases multiply, the risk of overlooking edge cases grows. GAIA analyzes the specific characteristics of each use case and recommends relevant risk scenarios from the Credo AI platform's library — surfacing things a stretched team might not have time to find themselves.
Controls Matched to Risk
Once risks are identified, GAIA suggests appropriate mitigating controls from the Credo AI Control Library, mapped to each risk scenario based on the context of the specific use case. Teams get a defensible, documented starting point for governance planning — not a generic checklist.
As volume of AI grows, governance teams are asked to do more—without sacrificing accuracy, defensibility, or oversight. Credo AI is here to be your partner in doing the exact mandate that caused the current AI revolution: to massively increase operational efficiency.
GAIA transforms governance from a manual, time-intensive process into an intelligent, accelerated workflow, while keeping humans firmly in control.
The Future of GAIA
This public preview is the beginning. Over the coming months, GAIA will expand into proactive monitoring, broader use case coverage, and deeper integration across the Credo AI platform — continuing to extend what governance teams can do without expanding headcount.
Public Preview: Join Us
The GAIA Public Preview is now open to a limited set of organizations. Request to be a part of it here.
Preview participants will:
- Get early access to GAIA’s AI-powered capabilities
- Influence the roadmap through direct feedback
- Help define the future of AI governance at scale
DISCLAIMER. The information we provide here is for informational purposes only and is not intended in any way to represent legal advice or a legal opinion that you can rely on. It is your sole responsibility to consult an attorney to resolve any legal issues related to this information.
