Rules exist for a reason. We make them enforceable.
Every organization has rules — compliance policies, brand guidelines, contracts, regulatory frameworks, security requirements. These rules represent hard-won knowledge about what “right” looks like.
The problem is that rules and systems are completely disconnected. Rules live in PDFs, wikis, and people's heads. Meanwhile, AI models generate content, code ships through pipelines, contracts get drafted, and messages flow out — none of it verified against the rules that supposedly govern the organization.
When something goes wrong — an AI agent quoting an unauthorized guarantee, a hiring decision that violates the Colorado AI Act, PHI leaked in a chatbot response — the organization says “but we had a policy for that.” They did. It just wasn't enforced.
Unenforced rules are just wishes. We built Aguardic to change that.
What We Believe
Enforcement, not monitoring.
Monitoring tells you what went wrong after the fact. Enforcement catches it before it reaches the customer, the patient, or the public. We build for prevention, not forensics.
Evidence by default.
Every evaluation, every violation, every resolution is logged. Audit trails aren't an add-on — they're a natural output of enforcement. When someone asks “prove it,” the evidence already exists.
Rules are living infrastructure.
Static rule sets in PDFs don't keep pace with evolving regulations. Rules should be versionable, testable, and deployable — treated with the same rigor as code.
Context is everything.
Generic rules miss nuance. Real governance evaluates context — the same AI action can be appropriate in one workflow and a violation in another. Governance without context is just noise.
Why Now
The gap between rules and reality has always existed. Three forces are making it existential.
Volume.
AI generates content at a scale humans can't review. A team that wrote 50 emails a week now generates 500. A developer who committed code once a day now ships 10 times a day with AI copilots. Manual review doesn't scale.
Speed.
AI agents take actions autonomously — sending messages, making API calls, modifying documents. There's no human in the loop to catch violations before they happen.
Stakes.
EU AI Act fines reach up to €35M or 7% of global annual turnover for the most severe violations. HIPAA breaches average $1.5M per incident. One wrong AI output seen by thousands of customers can trigger lawsuits, regulatory action, and reputational damage overnight.
Regulation.
The shift isn't theoretical. Colorado SB 24-205 was repealed and replaced by SB 26-189 in May 2026 — a narrower consumer notice + appeal regime taking effect January 1, 2027, with enforcement contingent on AG rulemaking. EU AI Act high-risk obligations were postponed by Omnibus VII to December 2, 2027 (standalone) and August 2, 2028 (embedded in products), but Article 50 transparency tightens to December 2, 2026. HIPAA enforcement of AI-driven PHI handling is active now, with HTI-1 PDSI certification requirements layered on top. Every quarter brings new deadlines — and amendments, rewrites, and stays of existing ones — a single person can't track manually.
What Aguardic does
Aguardic enforces policies across every surface where AI shows up — model prompts, agent actions, code, documents, messages, integrations.
You install a policy pack — HIPAA, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, SOC 2, or your own. Aguardic evaluates every AI action against the rules in real time, and logs every decision as audit evidence with framework citations.
The marketplace ships pre-built packs that auto-update when regulations change. Network policy sharing lets organizations push controls to vendors and receive controls from customers, with attestation flowing back continuously. Free tools let you classify your AI system, audit your exposure, or draft vendor questionnaire answers without an account.
Who builds Aguardic
Aguardic is built by a team with combined decades of experience shipping enterprise software, building compliance products, and operating at companies selling into regulated industries. We have been on both sides of the compliance conversation — as vendors answering security questionnaires and as operators asking the questions. That dual perspective shapes how Aguardic works. The product reflects what we wished existed when we were trying to make compliance real at the speed AI now moves.
We are based in San Francisco.
The Name
Aguardic — from “agentic” + “guard.”
As autonomous AI systems proliferate — agents that write, decide, communicate, and act — the need for a guard layer between human intent and machine behavior becomes critical infrastructure.
Every organization knows what right looks like. Aguardic makes sure it happens.
Get in Touch
Aguardic · San Francisco, California
Try Aguardic
Start a free trial at app.aguardic.com.
Try a free tool — no signup required — at aguardic.com/tools. Classify your AI system, audit compliance exposure, or draft vendor questionnaire answers.
Browse pre-built compliance packs at aguardic.com/marketplace.