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Vizco

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London, GB · Founded 2025 · 2 known investors

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VizCo provides a policy enforcement layer that controls AI access to enterprise systems and data. The platform sits between AI clients and applications across cloud, on-premise, and air-gapped environments, managing identity, data access, actions, and connectivity on every AI call.

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Founders & leadership

Vizco was founded in 2025 by Chris Kelly, Daniel Kharitonov, Chris Kelly, Ph.D., and Daniel Kharitonov, Ph.D..

CKChris Kelly
Chris KellyinCo-Founder & CEOChris Kelly is an AI researcher who did his PhD work at MIT and University College London and held a Human-Centered AI Fellowship at Stanford, studying how people interact with, learn from, and are influenced by AI systems. He is first author on papers in Nature Human Behaviour and Nature Communications covering machine learning methods for language, image, and large-scale behavioural data.
DKDaniel Kharitonov
Daniel KharitonovinCo-Founder & CTODaniel Kharitonov has worked as an engineer in Silicon Valley for 18 years, and studied causal data machine learning during his master's in computer science and PhD at Stanford. He later was a founding product manager at Datachain AI, where he applied deep learning models to large-scale data processing.
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Chris Kelly, Ph.D.Co-Founder & CEO
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Daniel Kharitonov, Ph.D.Co-Founder & CTO

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Company profile

researched Aug 2026

VizCo positions itself as an "adoption layer" for enterprise AI: a control plane that sits between an organisation's systems and the AI models and clients that consume them. According to the company's website, the platform enforces security and spend policies on every request before any data leaves the customer's environment, with the stated aim of allowing enterprise leadership to approve broad AI use.

The product connects three categories of AI surface to existing corporate systems: vendor-controlled platforms such as ChatGPT Enterprise, Claude, Gemini and Copilot; internally built chat applications, agents and APIs; and applications the enterprise already runs, such as Microsoft 365. Across all of these, VizCo applies the same policy set. Five enforcement areas are described: policy and identity (roles, permissions and approvals checked before a call runs), data control (blocking or redacting sensitive fields before they reach an external model), agent and action control (constraining read, write, send, edit and delete actions across systems), secure connectivity (reaching internal systems without exposing credentials or keys externally), and an audit trail logging every call, policy decision, action and data outcome on the customer's own infrastructure.

A second product area covers budget enforcement and usage visibility. VizCo lets administrators set budgets by team, project or use case, enforces those limits on each request, and reports spend by team, project and model as well as the workflows and themes of AI usage that the spend supports.

Business model

The website markets the product to enterprises via a "Book a Demo" motion, indicating a direct enterprise software sales approach; the sources do not disclose pricing or contract structure.

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Market position

Positions itself as an enabling control layer that lets enterprises approve frontier AI at scale; the sources provide no market share, customer counts or competitive benchmarking.

The company frames its offering as governed access rather than a marketplace, emphasising that sensitive data and credentials remain inside the customer's environment, that policies are enforced identically across vendor AI platforms and internally built agents, and that both security and spend controls are applied on the same layer.

Technology

A middleware layer intercepting AI calls between AI clients (vendor chat platforms, internal agents and APIs) and enterprise systems. It applies identity and permission checks, field-level blocking and redaction so that only policy-approved context reaches external models, action-level constraints on connector calls (for example denying an outbound email send based on a role policy), credential-free connectivity to internal systems, and logging of every call and policy decision on customer infrastructure.

Go-to-market

Inbound demo requests from the company website, with demos framed around a prospect's existing AI platforms and internal systems.

Enterprises adopting frontier AI models that need governance over what AI can access, what actions it can take and what it costs; the site references teams already using ChatGPT Enterprise, Claude, Gemini, Copilot and Microsoft 365.

Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Companies House · registry record

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Registered name
VIZCO LIMITED
Company number
07275011
Status
Dissolved
Company type
Private limited company
Incorporated
7 Jun 2010
Dissolved
13 Oct 2015
Registered office
21 Caliban Mews, Heathcote, Warwick, Warwickshire, CV34 6FS
Nature of business (SIC)
62090 — Other information technology service activities
Accounts
last made up to 30 Jun 2014

Current officers

  • Immad Mir director, appointed 7 Jun 2010

Source: Companies House public register · retrieved 21 Aug 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Research sources · 8

primary sources listed

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Frequently asked questions

What does Vizco do?
VizCo is a London-based startup selling a policy enforcement layer that governs enterprise AI access to internal systems, data and spend.
Who founded Vizco?
Vizco was founded by Chris Kelly, Daniel Kharitonov, Chris Kelly, Ph.D., Daniel Kharitonov, Ph.D. in 2025.
Who are Vizco's investors?
Vizco's investors include Entrepreneur First, NextGen Venture Partners.
Where is Vizco headquartered?
Vizco is headquartered in London, GB.