AI Governance Has Become a Board-Level Priority - Gartner Releases the 2025 Market Guide

To us, the Gartner® Market Guide for AI Governance Platforms confirms a pivotal shift: 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.

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The shift Gartner just confirmed

The rapid adoption of generative, predictive, and agentic AI is outpacing traditional governance structures. Organizations are extending GRC and assurance processes — yet struggle with distributed oversight, Shadow AI, and rising regulatory pressure.

We believe the Gartner Market Guide signals that AI governance platforms (AIGPs) have become essential infrastructure, providing the centralized inventory, policy enforcement, and runtime controls enterprises require to manage AI at scale.

This report is foundational reading for leaders responsible for AI trust, risk, and security.

What this report reveals

The Emerging Mandate for Enterprise AI Governance

Why organizations are aligning governance with frameworks such as NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001

How AIGPs are differentiating themselves from GRC, AI security, DSML, and metadata management tools

The shift from periodic audits to continuous monitoring and runtime enforcement

Why board oversight, assurance collaboration, and structured accountability are becoming non-negotiable

Regulatory & Compliance Acceleration

Impact of the EU AI Act and emerging global regulations driving AI compliance spend toward $1B by 2030

How AI governance platforms help operationalize complex regulatory requirements

The rise of AI audit coverage and expectations for evidentiary reporting

Mapping policies, risks, and controls into unified, auditable workflows

Governance as Infrastructure

The role of centralized AI inventories in managing applications, agents, datasets, and models

Why interoperability across data governance, security, AI development, and enterprise systems is now critical

Oversight of built, blended, embedded, and third-party AI across the entire lifecycle

How continuous risk scoring, observability, and runtime guardrails reduce incidents and protect brand trust

Why This Matters Now

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Why Credo AI Aligns to Gartner's Direction

Credo AI offers a centralized AI governance platform built to align to frameworks such as the NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, and the EU AI Act, helping organizations inventory AI assets, assess risk, manage policies, and generate audit-ready evidence. Advisory services complement the platform to help organizations accelerate governance readiness and operationalize oversight programs.

Governance you can prove. AI you can trust.

Who should download this report?

CISOs, CAIOs, CIOs

Enterprise Risk, Compliance & Audit Leaders

AI Governance Officers & Assurance Teams

Security, Legal, and Data Executives

Lead with Confidence

Join the enterprises shifting from AI experimentation to enterprise-wide adoption—with governance built-in, not bolted on.

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Gartner, Market Guide for AI Governance Platforms, Lauren Kornutick, Sumit Agarwal, Avivah Litan, Svetlana Sicular, Priya Sundararaman, Souparna Palit, 4 November 2025.
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About Credo AI

Credo AI is the category-defining leader in AI governance, enabling the world’s most iconic enterprises to adopt and scale AI with trust.

Our AI Governance Platform and Advisory Services empower organizations to confidently adopt and scale trusted AI — from Generative to Agentic. Our centralized platform measures, monitors, and manages AI risk, enabling customers to maximize AI’s value while mitigating security, privacy, compliance, and operational challenges. With Credo AI, teams gain a single command center for AI oversight across use cases, closed and open source models, datasets, agents, and vendors. By ensuring alignment with global AI regulations, industry standards, and company values, we help future-proof AI investments and drive long-term value.

Credo AI supports public and private sector customers across high-stakes use cases, helping federal teams ensure oversight and compliance aligned with AI in Action, the NIST AI RMF, EO 13960, and ISO 42001.

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