NuGuard Launches AI Trust Platform to Close the Behavior Gap and Accelerate Secure Deployments
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SAN JOSE, Calif. - Californer -- NuGuard announces the availability of the AI Trust Platform, an enterprise-grade solution designed to operationalize AI governance. By shifting behavioral validation left in the development lifecycle, NuGuard enables organizations to identify and close the "Behavior Gap" in agentic AI before production.

"Trust is the new speed limit for AI adoption," said Ranjan Goel, CEO and Founder of NuGuard AI. "The Behavior Gap—the distance between what an agent is intended to do and how it executes in the real world—is an unacceptable risk for the board and regulators. NuGuard provides the single source of truth that engineering and security leaders need to authorize a release: one risk score, one audit trail, and definitive proof of safety."

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Strategic Shift-Left Validation for the AI Lifecycle

The NuGuard AI Trust Platform automates a four-stage pipeline—Discover, Define, Validate, and Govern—to convert high-level intent into testable policy. By generating a comprehensive AI-SBOM, NuGuard maps the entire agent stack, including models, prompts, and sensitive data pathways. The platform then stress-tests these configurations through automated red-teaming in a secure sandbox, identifying threats such as prompt injections, data exfiltration, and permission drift—with recommended fixes—before any live traffic is touched.

Early customers are already putting the platform to work. "At aKube, we use AI to automate complex sales workflows and help companies win more deals through AI-powered deal intelligence," said Atul Garg, CEO of aKube.AI. "With NuGuard, we expect every release to ship with validated, audit-ready evidence that our agents behave as intended. This will help us innovate rapidly while giving customers greater confidence in the security and reliability of our AI-powered solutions."

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Audit-Ready Evidence and Compliance
For the CISO, NuGuard delivers an executive-ready evidence package that maps validation results directly to global regulatory frameworks, including the NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act, and OWASP LLM Top 10.

Industry analysts see the approach as well matched to the moment. "NuGuard's technology, combining the generation of AI-SBOMs with red-teaming and behavioral validation, looks well placed to address many of the security requirements created by the boom in agentic AI," said Rik Turner, Chief Analyst at Omdia.

Availability
You can experience our platform for free today at https://nuguard.ai.
Watch the launch video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlVoMHqDFOA