Credo AI
77 employees on LinkedIn Β· 5 known investors
Credo AI provides an AI governance platform that discovers, catalogs, risk-assesses, and governs AI systems, agents, models, and vendors across their lifecycle, including runtime, using policy packs mapped to standards such as the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, and ISO 42001. It serves enterprises in sectors including insurance, financial services, federal government, and healthcare.
Also known as Credo AI
Investors Β· 5
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Credo AI provides an enterprise platform for AI governance, positioning itself as a pure-play vendor covering model-level, application-level and agent-level governance in a single system. The platform is organized around three main components: an AI Registry that discovers and catalogs AI systems, agents, vendors and models (including detection of unsanctioned or "shadow" AI, risk classification and dependency mapping); Risk Intelligence, which provides continuous, contextual risk assessment along with a control library aimed at agent-specific risks such as tool misuse, scope drift and inter-agent risk, plus monitoring, drift detection and alerting through connections to observability tooling; and a Policy Engine that translates policy into code using pre-built policy packs, automated workflows, compliance mapping and audit-ready evidence recording. Policy packs cover frameworks including the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, OMB M-25, Colorado ADMT and NAIC AI guidance. A generative assistant called GAIA (Govern AI Assistant) is described as generally available in the platform.
Additional described capabilities include a vendor portal for third-party/vendor compliance assessment, a risk center, regulation automation workflows, advisory services, and an AI Governance Academy offering training on governance practices. Third-party listings describe generative AI guardrails and AI auditing features, API access, cloud compatibility and integration with third-party software; the company's site cites native integrations with Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, Azure, ServiceNow, Jira, Confluence, Slack, GitHub and MLflow, and references more than 300 integrations feeding a governance knowledge graph.
Business model
Credo AI sells software to enterprises, complemented by advisory services and forward-deployed governance experts, plus training via its AI Governance Academy. Pricing is not published on the company site; a third-party directory lists it as contact-for-pricing with a free trial, while another aggregator lists monthly subscription tiers (Basic $499, Pro $999, Enterprise $1,999) β figures not confirmed by the company.
Subscription-based access to the governance platform, with tiered plans by feature set and support level according to third-party listings, alongside advisory and training offerings.
Traction
The company publishes multiple customer case studies and partnerships on its site and reports analyst recognition including Forrester Wave Leader status (Q3 2025), a Gartner Market Guide mention (2025), Fast Company's Next Big Things in Tech, and a No. 6 Applied AI ranking on Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies of 2026.
Latest developments
Recent milestones include being named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: AI Governance Solutions, Q3 2025; being mentioned in Gartner's 2025 Market Guide for AI Governance Platforms; general availability of the GAIA governance assistant within the platform; the release of its State of AI Governance 2026 report, which states that 60% of enterprises are scaling AI while only 4% are governing it; and a No. 6 Applied AI placement on Fast Company's World's Most Innovative Companies of 2026.
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Market position
Credo AI describes itself as having created the AI governance category in 2020 and as the only pure-play platform governing every layer including agents, contrasting itself with security tools that observe agents without sanctioning them and GRC tools that document AI but do not see agents. It was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: AI Governance Solutions, Q3 2025, with the highest possible scores in 12 criteria including AI policy management and innovation, was mentioned in Gartner's 2025 Market Guide for AI Governance Platforms, and was ranked No. 6 in the Applied AI category on Fast Company's World's Most Innovative Companies of 2026.
Positions on purpose-built architecture rather than AI features added to an existing GRC tool; agent-level governance with a dedicated agentic risk and control library; continuous lifecycle governance instead of snapshot compliance; a contextual knowledge graph fusing regulatory intelligence with customer context; and pre-built regulatory policy packs described as reflecting six years of regulatory work.
Technology
The platform is built on a governance knowledge graph that combines regulatory intelligence, third-party risk data and model trust scores with customer business context, updated by agents and validated by human experts, so that controls vary by use-case context (for example, a claims agent in EU insurance versus a marketing agent in US retail). It treats agents as first-class governed entities that can be registered, risk-assessed and sanctioned, uses agent cards, and applies policy-to-code translation with pre-built policy packs. Governance is designed to be continuous across design, development and production rather than point-in-time, with evidence flowing back through monitoring and security stacks.
Go-to-market
Direct enterprise sales via demo requests and "talk to an expert" contact motions on its website, supported by forward-deployed governance experts and advisory services, thought-leadership content such as the State of AI Governance report, webinars, published customer case studies and partnerships, and visibility through analyst reports.
Enterprises deploying AI at scale, including large organizations in regulated sectors; third-party listings cite large enterprises, healthcare organizations, financial institutions and educational institutions as user categories.
History
Credo AI states it has been defining AI governance since 2020 and describes six years of work in the category, more recently extending its platform to governance of autonomous AI agents in what it calls the agentic era.
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Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed β not independently audited.
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launches, deals, and filingsCredo AI ranked No. 6 in the Applied AI category on Fast Company's annual list of the World's Most Innovative Companies for 2026.
Credo AI states that GAIA, its governance assistant, is generally available in the platform.
Credo AI was named a Leader, receiving the highest possible scores in 12 criteria, including AI policy management and innovation.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Credo AI do?
- Credo AI sells an enterprise AI governance platform for discovering, risk-assessing and governing AI systems, agents and vendors.
- Who are Credo AI's investors?
- Credo AI's investors include AI Fund, Booz Allen Ventures, Decibel Partners, FPV, Mozilla Ventures.