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.
Resources
- Video interview with Manoj Saxena
- Garner Cool Vendors press release
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