A Breakthrough Year for Enterprise AI, and Why Trust Matters More Than Ever

Posted on February 4, 2026 - 10:08 am by Tripti Gupta

A Breakthrough Year for Enterprise AI, and Why Trust Matters More Than Ever

By Manoj Saxena, CEO & Founder of Trustwise

In 2025, something remarkable happened in the world of enterprise AI: many organizations went from simply experimenting with AI to entrusting it with a portion of their real business outcomes. The success of that shift from curiosity to operational reliance continues to hinge on the realization that AI capability without trust creates risk.

At Trustwise, we’re built on the belief that AI systems must be both innovative AND dependable. Not at the cost of safety and compliance, but because of it. We’ve designed the Trustwise platform to provide that foundation of trust, and this past year proved our technology in some of the most demanding, high-stakes environments.

Why Awareness of “Trust Posture Management” Began to Grow in 2025

The adoption of agentic AI, which can act autonomously on behalf of businesses, has exposed both challenges and opportunities in how enterprises should think differently about AI risk and governance going forward. Leaders have begun to realize that while traditional monitoring tools are useful for observability, they aren’t able to govern decisions as they happen at runtime.

To deploy AI safely at scale, you have to control it at the moment it acts, not after the fact.

This insight is why Global 500 institutions in healthcare, financial services, and professional services implemented Trustwise to move their AI pilots into production. Our AI Control Tower delivered real-time governance, policy alignment, and measurable safety across autonomous deployments:

Over 90% runtime policy alignment, even across complex workflows
83% reduction in operational AI costs
64% decrease in carbon emissions
Safe governance of hundreds of thousands of agents simultaneously

These stats represent measurable improvements in safety, efficiency, sustainability, and trust. They show that when AI systems are governed proactively, enterprises can do more than just mitigate AI risk, but also unlock value from their AI deployments, which boards, investors and executive teams are actively seeking.

Industry Recognition

In addition to achieving significant real-world impact for our customers this past year, we were honored to be named Gartner® Cool Vendor™ in Agentic AI for Banking and Investment Services. This recognition reinforced Trustwise’s industry leadership in enabling financial institutions to deploy AI with confidence and validated our mission to make fleets of agentic AI systems safe, efficient, and secure at scale.

Partnerships, Collaboration, and the Road Ahead

None of this progress has happened in isolation. Last year, we strengthened our strategic partnerships, from joining the NVIDIA Inception Program to breakthrough research collaboration with NYU, which accelerated innovation that makes AI safer, more efficient, and more accountable. We’ve also been fortunate to work with customers and ecosystem leaders who don’t just deploy AI but trust it to make decisions that matter. Their insights, feedback, and operational requirements have continued to shape the roadmap for the entire industry.

AI Will Transform Business, But Only If It Can Be Trusted

To the leaders who are considering enterprise AI in 2026 and beyond: the race is now more about confidence than it is about capacity. Ask yourself: can your AI systems act autonomously and still remain aligned with your policies, safety requirements, and business goals?

That shift in mindset from hope to structured trust is the defining theme of 2026. And it’s why we’re more convinced than ever that trust posture management is the control plane for responsible AI.

We believe the future belongs to systems that are trustworthy by design and governed at runtime. Autonomous AI is powerful and transformational, but transformation only lasts when organizations can rely on outcomes that are safe, compliant, and aligned.

How leaders themselves are thinking about AI:

CISOs are no longer asking whether AI can deliver value. They’re asking how to guarantee it doesn’t create unacceptable risk.
Innovation teams are prioritizing safe speed, not speed alone.
Executives are no longer willing to trade safety for capability.

The momentum we saw in 2025 tells us one thing clearly: Trust isn’t an afterthought. It’s the foundation of AI that works.

Let’s build the future of AI responsibly together.

— Manoj Saxena

Press Release: Trustwise Reports Strong Enterprise Momentum as Trust Posture Management Becomes Critical for Agentic AI

Posted on January 14, 2026 - 3:53 pm by Tripti Gupta

Press Release: Trustwise Reports Strong Enterprise Momentum as Trust Posture Management Becomes Critical for Agentic AI

Gartner recognition, customer success, and platform innovation underscore Trustwise’s leadership in AI trust across large fleets of generative and agentic AI systems

AUSTIN, TX — January 14, 2026 — Trustwise, the AI trust management company, today announced a year of significant milestones that positioned the company as the leading provider of runtime governance and control for enterprise agentic AI. Throughout 2025, Trustwise delivered measurable results for Global 500 institutions operating in high-stakes environments, earned major industry recognition, and forged strategic partnerships that accelerate the safe deployment of AI at scale.

Founded by Manoj Saxena, former General Manager of IBM Watson, Trustwise addresses a critical gap in enterprise AI adoption: runtime governance of autonomous and agentic AI systems at runtime, when decisions are made and risk is highest. As enterprises move AI from experimentation into high-stakes and regulated workflows, traditional monitoring and post-hoc controls are no longer sufficient.

Trustwise serves as the AI Control Tower for agentic AI, delivering centralized visibility, real-time governance, and enforceable controls across fleets of generative and agentic AI systems. Through Guardian Agents and modular AI Shields, Trustwise supervises agent behavior, constrains tool usage, and enforces enterprise policies in real time, ensuring AI systems remain safe, compliant, efficient, and aligned as they operate at machine speed.

“2025 was the year enterprises realized that observing AI behavior isn’t enough. You have to control and align it,” said Manoj Saxena, CEO and founder of Trustwise. “Every conversation we had with AI leaders and CISO’s reinforced what we’ve known since day one: the future of enterprise AI demands runtime control. Our customers proved it works. Major awards validated our approach. And strategic partnerships positioned us to scale this capability across the industry.”

Looking ahead, Saxena added: “We’re entering the era of autonomous AI. Agents will make decisions at machine speed, acting as trusted members of the digital workforce. AI holds massive potential to transform business, and the extent of its success depends entirely on whether enterprises can trust it to do so. That’s where Trustwise comes in. We’re building the trust layer that makes autonomous AI not just possible, but provably safe.”

Industry Recognition Validates Market Leadership

Trustwise earned multiple prestigious awards in 2025, demonstrating the industry’s recognition of its innovative approach to AI trust management. The company was named a 2025 Gartner^® Cool Vendor™ in Agentic AI for Banking and Investment Services, reinforcing its leadership in enabling financial institutions to deploy AI with confidence. The Trustwise platform was recognized as Most Innovative AI Product and Manoj Saxena was recognized as a Most Innovative Tech Startup leader in theCUBE Tech Innovation Awards 2025, building on the company’s 2024 InfoWorld Technology of the Year Award.

“Recognition as a Gartner Cool Vendor validates our mission to make fleets of agentic AI systems safe, efficient, and secure at scale,” said Saxena. “Financial services organizations and other highly regulated industries need AI solutions that deliver both innovation and accountability. Our approach to governance at runtime through the Trustwise Harmony AI platform enables leaders to accelerate AI deployment for high-stakes use cases while maintaining the highest standards of safety, compliance, security and operational control.”

Proven Results in High-Stakes Environments

The Trustwise platform is in production at leading financial services, healthcare, and professional services organizations where AI failures carry material operational, regulatory, and reputational risk. In 2025, enterprise deployments demonstrated Trustwise’s ability to move agentic AI from pilots into production, delivering measurable improvements in safety, efficiency, and governance across high-stakes use cases, including:

Large healthcare platform: Supporting thousands of medical learners with over 90% clinical guideline alignment, 64% lower carbon emissions, 40% reduced token costs, and 40% improved hallucination detection compared to baseline systems.
Global professional services firm: Delivering 20% improvement in hallucination detection, 80% reduction in LLM spend, and 10X faster knowledge retrieval across a workforce of 17,000+ users.
Tier-one global financial institution: Governing 200+ autonomous agents while achieving a 20% reduction in carbon emissions and maintaining alignment with ISO/IEC SCI 1.0 and enterprise sustainability standards.
Multinational consumer brand: Enforcing safety and corporate brand policies in real time while reducing evaluation latency in a customer service voice agent.

Across deployments, Trustwise delivered 90-100% runtime policy alignment, 83% operational cost reduction, 64% carbon emissions decrease and governance for hundreds of thousands of agents simultaneously.

“The financial services industry demands AI solutions that deliver both performance and accountability,” said Dr. Paul Dongha, head of responsible AI and AI strategy at NatWest Group. “Trustwise understands this balance. I feel their recognition as a Gartner Cool Vendor validates what we’ve experienced firsthand: our proof of concept with Trustwise showed clear promise, reducing costs, cutting response latency and lowering carbon emissions, all while meeting the strict safety and governance standards financial services require.”

Strategic Partnerships Expand Market Reach

Trustwise joined the NVIDIA Inception Program in August 2024, gaining access to cutting-edge technology and go-to-market support to accelerate innovation. The company also announced a breakthrough research collaboration with NYU in April 2025, enhancing enterprise AI reliability, speed and cost efficiency through advanced optimization techniques.

The company is backed by leading investors including Hitachi Ventures, Allstate Strategic Ventures, Firestreak Ventures, and Grit Ventures.

“Trustwise is not just a technological solution but a strategic partner in our journey towards safe, efficient and sustainable AI adoption,” said Gayathri Radhakrishnan, Partner at Hitachi Ventures. “We are confident that Trustwise has the ability to unlock the full potential of generative AI for enterprises across various sectors by being the foundation of trust.”

2025 Trustwise Product Innovations and Deployment Reach

Throughout the year, Trustwise continued to enhance its platform with innovations designed to meet the evolving needs of enterprise AI:

AI Control Tower: Enhanced centralized governance providing enterprise-wide visibility, policy management and risk control across AI agents
Agentic AI Shields: Introduced runtime enforcement layers (Prompt Shield, Compliance Shield, Brand Shield, Cost Shield, Carbon Shield) that secure agent behavior, tool usage and policy alignment at the moment of action
Guardian Agents: Advanced supervisor agents that govern fleets of agents at scale with autonomous trust and human-in-the-loop oversight
THEO Engine: Trustwise High-Efficiency Optimization engine that continuously evaluates agent decisions and enforces runtime guardrails

The platform:

Supports compliance coverage across 17 global standards including ISO 42001, NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act, HIPAA, FCA and ISO/IEC 21031:2024 SCI standards.
Integrates with all major agent frameworks (LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, LangChain)
Supports leading foundation models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, Mistral, Llama)
Is deployed in on-premises, edge and cloud environments across AWS, Azure and GCP.

About Trustwise

Trustwise provides AI Trust Management that enables enterprises to deploy safe, compliant and efficient AI at scale. The company’s platform serves as the AI Control Tower for agentic AI, providing real-time governance and control through Guardian Agents and modular AI Shields. Co-developed with leading financial and healthcare institutions, Trustwise helps Global 500 enterprises keep AI trustworthy and aligned at runtime in high-stakes environments. The company was named a Cool Vendor in the 2025 Gartner^® Cool Vendors™ for Agentic AI in Banking and Investment Services report and received the InfoWorld 2024 Technology of the Year Award.

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