About GLACIS

Trust isn’t a document.
It’s a runtime.

AI is now calling tools, touching credentials, shipping code, and operating production workflows. Glacis builds the runtime layer that hardens that behavior inside your environment and preserves signed proof of which controls ran — so every claim about your AI is something a customer, regulator, or board can actually verify.

  1. See runtime visibility
  2. Control runtime controls
  3. Prove signed receipts
See. Control. Prove. The runtime assurance loop — inside your stack.
Why We Exist

Compliance was built for systems that describe. AI now acts.

The audit trails, security questionnaires, and attestation packets the enterprise relies on were written for software that follows workflows and produces records. AI agents don’t describe risk — they take action. They call tools, use credentials, ship code, update records, and operate clinical and customer workflows. The next decade of assurance needs something the last one never had: tamper-evident proof of what the AI did at runtime.

The bet — AI is now an actor, not a recommender.

Inside fast-growing AI companies, agents already use credentials, call internal tools, modify records, and reach customers. The legacy assurance stack — written for software that follows playbooks — has nothing to say about a system that decides what to do next.

The gap — logs aren’t proof.

Enterprise security reviewers, regulators, auditors, and boards are asking the same question with growing impatience: which controls actually ran when your AI took that action? A log says something happened. A policy says it shouldn’t. Neither is the verifiable record an enterprise customer will accept before signing a contract.

The build — runtime assurance, inside your stack.

Glacis runs locally, instruments the agent and tool-call boundary, executes runtime controls when behavior drifts, and emits signed evidence receipts that assemble into review-ready packs. Built on OVERT, our open standard for runtime evidence. Sensitive prompts, outputs, customer data, and credentials never leave your environment.

50+
Combined years in AI
$250M
Exit (SwiftKey → MSFT)
1B+
Devices shipped to
FDA
Clearance experience
Leadership

We lived the problem

Between us we’ve shipped consumer AI to a billion devices, stood up infrastructure for a hyperscale cloud, and helped clear the first FDA-authorized AI diagnostic. Every one of those products had the same paradox at the seams: ship fast, or prove it works. We built Glacis so the next generation of AI teams doesn’t have to choose.

Joe Braidwood

Joe Braidwood

Co-Founder & CEO

Founding team at SwiftKey (acquired by Microsoft for $250M), scaled the keyboard AI to 300M+ devices pre-acquisition; the technology now ships on 1B+ devices globally. Chief Strategy Officer at Vektor Medical. 15+ years building AI products at scale.

Consumer AI Scale Healthcare GTM Cambridge Law
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Rohit Tatachar

Rohit Tatachar

Co-Founder & CTO

Nearly 19 years at Microsoft leading Azure infrastructure at billion-dollar scale. Most recently on the AI Foundry team building the infrastructure layer for enterprise AI. Architected the Glacis enforcement stack from first principles.

Azure Infrastructure AI Foundry Hyperscale
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Dr. Jennifer Shannon

Dr. Jennifer Shannon, MD

Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer

Board-certified psychiatrist with 15+ years clinical experience. Medical Director at Cognoa — helped develop Canvas Dx, the first FDA-authorized AI diagnostic for autism. CHAI Coalition member.

FDA Clearance Clinical AI Digital Health
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Principles

What we believe

Private by design

We architect systems so we never see your data. Trust through verification, not promises.

Built for builders

Accountability that slows you down isn’t accountability — it’s a tax. We optimize for both speed and rigor.

Prove, don’t promise

Attestations over assertions. Cryptographic evidence over policy documents.

Bring us one AI workflow. We’ll map the agent surface, identify the runtime control gaps, and produce an evidence pack you can take into enterprise security review, regulatory submission, or a board briefing.

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Careers

Join us

We’re building the runtime assurance layer for the AI economy — the proof underneath every agent, every tool call, every clinical decision. If that mission resonates, we’d love to hear from you.