trail

What trail does

trail transforms complex, manual Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) work into continuous, automated results, integrating with existing enterprise tools. It enables enterprises to deploy AI and software projects to production quickly while maintaining compliance. The platform offers solutions for AI Governance, helping enterprises scale AI safely by meeting compliance requirements and managing novel risks, and AI for GRC, automating IT governance tasks for GRC teams. trail provides up-to-date regulatory and GRC content, AI risk libraries, and governance agents to automate tasks like evidence finding, assessments, and report creation. It supports regulatory compliance like the EU AI Act and ISO 42001, and offers an AI Governance Bootcamp for organizations to build their AI governance systems.

Products

• AI Governance PlatformA purpose-built platform for enterprises scaling AI, combining trust and speed to enable safe AI deployment. It helps meet compliance requirements and manage novel risks, supporting everything from ML to Agentic Systems.
• GRC AgentsTransparently automate software compliance busywork across all surfaces in your environment for GRC teams. These headless agents handle tasks like finding evidence, running assessments, and creating reports.
• AI Governance BootcampA guided program to help organizations establish their individual AI Governance system, providing practical knowledge, methods, and expert support over an 8-week cohort program.

Key capabilities

• Automated compliance busywork
• AI asset tracking and governance
• Up-to-date regulatory and GRC content
• Custom framework builder for individual requirements
• AI risk libraries
• Automated documentation and evidence collection
• Governance agents for IT compliance and governance
• Agent Flows to turn checklists into automated workflows
• Integrations with existing GRC stack
• Human-in-control mechanism (Copy-on-Write)
• Fully customizable to environment and processes
• Regulatory requirement tracking
• Audit trail and certification support
• Centralized AI project management
• Integrated governance into development workflows
• Traceable and documented model iterations with model cards
• Structured machine learning development
• Easy collaboration between teams
• AI risk identification and mitigation

Use cases

• Govern AI and software at scale
• Automate compliance
• Manage novel AI risks
• Automate IT governance for GRC teams
• Prepare for AI regulation (e.g., EU AI Act)
• Achieve ISO 42001 certification
• Automate vendor screening
• Prepare audit documentation
• Oversee and move AI use cases into production
• Identify and treat AI risks as they emerge
• Automate manual governance activities
• Track and fulfill regulatory requirements
• Create high-quality development documentation and reports
• Manage and oversee all AI projects in one central place
• Operationalize governance requirements into daily workflows
• Structure machine learning development
• Relieve manual documentation overhead for AI teams
• Improve collaboration between business, IT security, legal, compliance, ICT management, privacy, tech, and risk management teams
• Identify and mitigate AI risks during development

AI approach

trail offers a platform for AI Governance and GRC automation. It uses AI to automate compliance busywork, assess governance activities, and keep controls up-to-date. The platform is purpose-built for AI, from ML to Agentic Systems, and includes AI risk libraries. It also features 'GRC agents' that automate IT compliance and governance tasks, finding evidence, running assessments, and creating reports. The company also provides an 'AI Governance Bootcamp' with expert guidance.

Tech named: Machine Learning model, AI Agent, Agentic Systems, GRC Agents

What it says sets it apart

• Purpose-built AI governance platform
• Keeps pace with AI's development speed (ML to AI Agents)
• Automates compliance busywork across tools and processes
• Integrates with existing GRC stack without replacement
• Human-in-control mechanism for agent actions
• Fully customizable to environment, governance process, and team's way of working
• Prepares risk and compliance teams for regulation without requiring technical AI expertise
• Provides expert-guided AI Governance Bootcamp
• Enables joint operationalization of governance requirements for technical and compliance teams
• Centralizes machine learning development and tracks experiments
• Mitigates compliance gaps by integrating governance measures during development

Funding rounds we track

From the AI funding tracker — rounds as reported by the linked publications.