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Credo AI

Review what this vendor says publicly, the security topics those statements may support, what remains unverified, and factual company context. This is not an assessment of product effectiveness or fit.

Company scale

Growth stage
?Growth stageA provider with at least $25M in known funding or at least 51 employees that has not reached the scaled threshold.This is a company-scale signal, not a product-quality rating.

A descriptive band derived from retained public revenue, workforce, ownership, or funding signals.

Company scale is separate from product features, effectiveness, and suitability.
  • $50M known funding
  • 50-250 employees
  • Founded 2020

Company context

Private independent company; reviewed Credo AI-controlled sources do not identify an acquirer or parent company

Credo AI says its customers include Global 2000 and Fortune 500 enterprises

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Vendor statements
19 records
Source-checked records
14
Evaluation requirements
19 in this research model
Unresolved requirements
5

Company intelligence

Who is behind the product

Company facts provide evaluation context. Each signal is kept separate because tenure, workforce, funding, and hiring answer different questions.

Founded2020
HeadquartersUnited States
OwnershipPrivate independent company; reviewed Credo AI-controlled sources do not identify an acquirer or parent company
Employees50-250
Capital and scaleIndependent company

Credo AI

Known funding
$50M

Credo AI announced a $12.8 million Series A led by Sands Capital with participation from Decibel VC and AI Fund

Operating scale
Credo AI says its customers include Global 2000 and Fortune 500 enterprises
Backing context
Credo AI announced a $12.8 million Series A led by Sands Capital with participation from Decibel VC and AI Fund
Founders and leadership1 person listed
  • Navrina Singh

    Founder & CEO

    Current role listed
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Company tenure
2020
Workforce scale
50-250
Hiring activity
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Open research questions
  • A current hiring source is not available, so the count is not shown.
Company sources and research limits3 linked public sources

Only company facts supported by retained public sources are shown. Missing values remain unknown, and company scale does not establish product effectiveness.

Company sourceCredo AI company pageCredo AI says it was founded in 2020 and builds an AI governance platform.Company sourceCredo AI Series A announcementCredo AI announced a $12.8 million Series A led by Sands Capital with participation from Decibel VC and AI Fund.Company information sourceStored company websiteSupports the company facts shown in this profile.

Solution areas

These areas describe how the vendor approaches enterprise AI security. They do not establish product quality or fit.

AI governance, risk, and complianceCore product focusAI asset and configuration securityRelated coverageAI testing and adversarial assuranceRelated coverageAction-taking agent safeguardsRelated coverage

Buyer context

  • Treat Credo AI as an enterprise AI governance and AI TRiSM platform, not as a replacement for SSE, browser data loss prevention (DLP), non-human identity (NHI), or endpoint controls.
  • Public evidence supports AI and agent inventory, governance workflows, policy and regulatory mapping, continuous risk assessment, audit evidence, automated red teaming, and runtime trace evaluation.
  • Public pages describe modular packaging but do not expose a per-user, per-system, or usage-based commercial unit.

Related frameworks

Where public vendor statements relate to framework requirements

11 related frameworks · expand when needed
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Current referenceCSA AI Controls Matrix
Requirements with public support
13
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14
References
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Current referenceCIS Critical Security Controls
Requirements with public support
12
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11
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58
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Current referenceISO/IEC 42001
Requirements with public support
12
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12
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35
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Current referenceMITRE ATLAS
Requirements with public support
12
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12
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71
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Current referenceNIST AI RMF Playbook
Requirements with public support
12
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13
References
39
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Current referenceNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0
Requirements with public support
12
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12
References
39
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Informative referenceOWASP Agentic AI Security Solutions Landscape
Requirements with public support
12
Related requirements
12
References
31
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Informative referenceOWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape
Requirements with public support
12
Related requirements
11
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27
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Current referenceOWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications
Requirements with public support
12
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13
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31
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Current referenceOWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications
Requirements with public support
12
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13
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25
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Commercial Metadata
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3
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Evaluation questions

What to verify beyond public claims

These questions come from security requirements with some public support. Use them as starting points for demonstrations, documentation review, customer references, or a buyer-observed pilot.

  1. 01
    Unapproved AI use discovery

    An unmanaged AI app used by a test user appears in discovery inventory with user, app or domain, and timestamp.

  2. 02
    Unapproved AI use discovery

    The test user's AI usage activity can be filtered or exported with AI-specific context.

  3. 03
    AI-feature discovery in business applications

    A software as a service (SaaS) app with an embedded AI feature appears in the software as a service (SaaS) AI inventory with app, provider, and feature context.

  4. 04
    AI-feature discovery in business applications

    The inventory shows which users, data classes, integrations, or providers are associated with the AI-enabled software as a service (SaaS) app.

  5. 05
    Approved AI usage monitoring

    Approved AI workspace activity appears with user, workspace or tenant, model or provider, and timestamp.

  6. 06
    Approved AI usage monitoring

    Prompt, model, or admin activity can be exported or correlated for the selected approved AI platform.

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    Controls for unapproved AI use

    A policy blocks, coaches, redirects, or contains a test interaction with an unapproved AI destination.

  8. 08
    Controls for unapproved AI use

    The control event records policy reason, user, destination, action, and timestamp.

Detailed security-requirement research18 evaluation items · supporting evidence and open research are shown separatelyExpand
Security requirementPublic supportRelated frameworksWhat to verify
AI-feature discovery in business applications

Inventory software as a service (SaaS) applications that embed AI features, expose enterprise data to AI capabilities, or create AI-driven data movement.

Limited public support
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A software as a service (SaaS) app with an embedded AI feature appears in the software as a service (SaaS) AI inventory with app, provider, and feature context.

Browser and business-application controls

Apply session-level controls in browser and software as a service (SaaS) workflows, including uploads, downloads, copy/paste, sharing, and identity-aware access decisions.

No supporting claim found
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A session-level policy controls upload, download, copy, paste, sharing, or form submission in a browser or software as a service (SaaS) workflow.

Generative AI application security

Protect enterprise-built large language model (LLM) applications, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, prompts, application programming interfaces (APIs), model calls, tools, and production runtime behavior.

Limited public support
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A test large language model (LLM) application event records prompt, application programming interface (API), model, retrieval, or tool interaction context.

AI governance, risk, and compliance

Inventory AI systems and owners, translate policy and regulatory obligations into governed workflows, assess risk, manage approvals and exceptions, and retain audit evidence across the AI lifecycle.

Strong public support
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A test AI system is registered with owner, intended use, risk tier, lifecycle state, and applicable obligations.

AI assurance and adversarial testing

Test models, applications, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, and agents before release and continuously thereafter using adversarial probes, evaluation suites, attack simulation, and security release gates.

Strong public support
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A controlled test campaign exercises an AI model, application, or agent against named AI attack classes.

AI model and supply-chain security

Discover, inventory, scan, validate, and monitor models, datasets, model artifacts, registries, dependencies, and AI development assets for tampering, unsafe serialization, provenance gaps, or malicious content.

Limited public support
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A test model or AI artifact appears in inventory with origin, version, hash or provenance, and deployment context.

AI gateway, tool-connection, and runtime controls

Mediate model, agent, tool, application programming interface (API), connector, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) traffic through an enforcement point that applies identity-aware policy, content controls, routing, rate limits, and auditable allow or deny decisions.

Limited public support
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A model, agent, tool, or Model Context Protocol (MCP) request passes through a named policy enforcement point.

Non-human identity and service-account security

Inventory, least privilege, credential hygiene, monitoring, and lifecycle management for non-human identities, workloads, service accounts, application programming interface (API) keys, and machine credentials.

No supporting claim found
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A test service account, agent identity, or non-human identity appears in inventory with owner and privileges.

AI agent identity and permissions

Register AI agents as accountable identities, bind them to owners and delegating users, authorize task- and tool-level access, issue short-lived credentials, review access, and revoke or suspend agent authority.

Limited public support
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A test agent is registered with a unique identity, accountable owner, purpose, and permitted resources.

AI coding-agent and workstation security

Discover and govern AI coding agents, integrated development environment (IDE) assistants, command-line agents, skills, hooks, extensions, Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools, filesystem access, commands, network activity, secrets, and software-supply-chain actions on developer workstations and build environments.

No supporting claim found
NIST AI RMF PlaybookNIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0CIS Critical Security ControlsISO/IEC 42001OWASP GenAI Security Solutions Landscape

A test coding agent and its skills, hooks, extensions, or Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools appear in an attributable inventory.

Licensing model

Publicly discoverable commercial model such as per user, per seat, per app, per token, per integration, or enterprise platform license.

Limited public support
Commercial MetadataCSA AI Controls Matrix

The vendor can map the sourced commercial model to per-user, per-seat, per-app, per-token, per-integration, or platform packaging.

Public sources

Vendor statements and quoted evidence

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Unapproved AI use discoverySource checkedStrong public support for this requirement

Credo AI claims its governance platform discovers and classifies shadow AI across the enterprise.

Shadow AI discovery and classification
AI-feature discovery in business applicationsSource checkedLimited public support for this requirement

Credo AI claims a centralized inventory of agents, models, applications, and shadow AI with enterprise auto-discovery.

Centralized inventory of every AI system, including agents, models, apps, and shadow AI, with auto-discovery across your enterprise.
Approved AI usage monitoringSource checkedStrong public support for this requirement

Credo AI claims its AI Registry records governed systems, agents, models, and applications in a central inventory.

register every system in a central inventory
Controls for unapproved AI useSource checkedRelated public context only

Credo AI claims policy enforcement and production monitoring, with planned enforcement integrations for CI/CD, cloud access security broker (CASB), and application programming interface (API) gateways.

Planned enforcement integration with CI/CD, CASBs, and API gateways
Sensitive-data protection for generative AINo supporting claim found

Credo AI materials reviewed did not provide a public claim for inline detection, redaction, or blocking of sensitive data in prompts, responses, files, retrieval, or memory.

No quoted source text is recorded for this claim.
Browser and business-application controlsNo supporting claim found

Credo AI materials reviewed did not provide a public claim for browser session controls over upload, download, copy, paste, sharing, or form submission.

No quoted source text is recorded for this claim.
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Generative AI application securitySource checkedLimited public support for this requirement

Credo AI claims runtime observability and trace-level policy enforcement for governed AI systems.

Runtime observability with trace-level policy enforcement
AI governance, risk, and complianceSource checkedStrong public support for this requirement

Credo AI claims regulatory policy packs, governance workflows, approval gates, automated evidence generation, and audit trails.

Pre-built policy packs for EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, and SOC 2 with automated governance workflows and audit-ready evidence.
AI assurance and adversarial testingSource checkedStrong public support for this requirement

Credo AI claims automated red teaming and drift detection within its Risk Intelligence module.

Automated red-teaming and drift detection
AI model and supply-chain securitySource checkedLimited public support for this requirement

Credo AI claims third-party model tracking, model and vendor lineage graphs, and model metadata in its agent governance inventory.

Model + vendor lineage graphs
AI gateway, tool-connection, and runtime controlsSource checkedLimited public support for this requirement

Credo AI claims platform and Model Context Protocol (MCP) server governance while describing CI/CD, cloud access security broker (CASB), and application programming interface (API) gateway enforcement integration as planned.

Platform & MCP Server governance
Action-taking agent monitoringSource checkedStrong public support for this requirement

Credo AI claims continuous evaluation of agent traces with escalation, monitoring, and alerts.

Continuous evaluation of agent traces to detect policy violations, drift, and unsafe behavior, with human-in-the-loop escalation.
Agent-to-agent communication securitySource checkedLimited public support for this requirement

Credo AI claims dependency mapping across agents, models, tools, and data, plus agentic risk coverage for inter-agent risk.

Dependency graph mapping across agents, models, tools, and data
Non-human identity and service-account securityNo supporting claim found

Credo AI materials reviewed did not provide a public claim for service-account, workload-identity, application programming interface (API)-key, secret-rotation, or machine-credential lifecycle management.

No quoted source text is recorded for this claim.
AI agent identity and permissionsSource checkedLimited public support for this requirement

Credo AI claims agent cards containing purpose, tools, data sources, and guardrails, with ownership and accountability in the Agent Registry.

Agent Registry with agent cards (purpose, tools, data sources, guardrails)
AI coding-agent and workstation securityNo supporting claim found

Credo AI materials reviewed did not provide a public claim for controlling coding-agent commands, filesystem or network actions, skills, hooks, integrated development environment (IDE) extensions, packages, or workstation activity.

No quoted source text is recorded for this claim.
AI cost and usage controlsNo supporting claim found

Credo AI materials reviewed did not provide a public claim for model or agent spend attribution, budgets, rate limits, chargeback, or anomalous token-cost controls.

No quoted source text is recorded for this claim.
Licensing modelSource checkedLimited public support for this requirement

Credo AI claims modular product packaging whose modules can operate independently.

Each module works independently but is more powerful together.
Approved AI platform contextSource checkedStrong public support for this requirement

Credo AI claims integrations across cloud, agent, GRC, DevOps, and MLOps platforms, positioning it as a governance layer over enterprise AI systems.

AWS, Azure, GCP, Databricks, Snowflake