Enterprise AI Governance Platform Private Cloud Deploy

AI Governance Software Engineered to Make Company AI Safe to Scale.

AI Guardian is AI governance software that gives every employee one approved path to AI, while every prompt, document, agent, model, and business action passes through the same identity, policy, security, cost, and audit controls. Deploy it inside your own cloud, connect Teams, Slack, web, and mobile, and start governing AI usage in days.

AI Guardian enterprise governance infrastructure hero
One governed workplace

Microsoft Teams, Slack, Web App, Mobile, approved LLMs, internal agents, company knowledge, and business actions, all governed together.

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See How AI Guardian Governs Enterprise AI in Real Time.

Watch how identity checks, pre-ingress PII scrubbing, fit-for-purpose model routing, and audit logging protect company workflows without adding employee friction.

AI Guardian by Folio3 AI · Live Walkthrough
01 / Identity SSO & Role Context
02 / Protection Real-Time Data Masking
03 / Economics Fit-for-Purpose Routing
04 / Assurance Attributed Audit Trails
Deploy Inside Your Cloud Runs natively in private Azure/AWS hyperscaler environments.
Native Workspaces Microsoft Teams, Slack, Web App, and Mobile access.
Model Agnostic Centralized governance across approved commercial and custom LLMs.
Enterprise Security SSO, RBAC, policy controls, and identity-attributed audit evidence.
The problem Speed versus control enterprise dilemma diagram

Stop Choosing Between Speed and Control.

Restricting AI outright drives usage into the shadows. Ignoring it expands organizational risk. AI governance software gives employees a useful way forward without giving IT, Security, Finance, or Risk less control.

Invisible by default

Shadow AI Is Already Here.

Personal accounts, unapproved tools, sensitive uploads, fragmented subscriptions, and missing audit evidence leave most organizations unable to see how AI is actually being used. Shadow AI detection software only solves half the problem, since seeing unapproved usage does not give employees a better option.

Unmanaged AI use AI Guardian control plane Governed outcomes
Personal AI Accounts Unsanctioned access
Browser Tools No shared policy layer
Rogue Agents Shadow workflows
AI Guardian
Identity Match
SSO
Prompt + File Inspection
PII
Policy-Based Routing
Route
Agent Orchestration
Agent
Audit Logging
Trace
Approved Access Teams, Slack, Web
Protected Data Masked and controlled
Audit-Ready Evidence Attributed activity
Employee entry point One governed workplace
Runtime controls Identity, policy, routing, audit
Business result Safer AI at scale
The AI Guardian approach

One governed path. Every AI interaction.

Before a request reaches a model, company knowledge base, agent, or business system, AI Guardian verifies identity, enforces policy, masks sensitive data, routes the request, and logs the outcome. It is one AI governance solution in place of separate proxies, filters, and spreadsheets stitched together.

How it works

Five controls run inside the enterprise AI governance platform before the answer comes back.

A single employee request moves through identity, data protection, policy, model routing, agent execution, and audit logging, without forcing the employee to manage the complexity.

01 / Identity

Start where employees already work.

The employee asks a question or uploads a file inside Microsoft Teams or the AI Guardian Web App. SSO matches the user to their role, department, and policy set.

02 / Inspection

Inspect data before it leaves.

The gateway scans prompts and documents for PII, secrets, prompt injections, and off-domain compliance violations before the request reaches an external model.

03 / Routing

Choose the approved model automatically.

Policy verifies departmental quotas, user permissions, and model access before routing the request to the approved LLM for that role and task.

04 / Orchestration

Let governed agents do the work.

When needed, specialized agents collaborate, retrieve company knowledge, and execute approved API actions while inheriting the same identity and security controls.

05 / Audit

Return the answer with evidence.

The sanitized response is delivered to the employee while token usage, cost, policy decisions, model activity, and the identity-attributed conversation trace are logged.

AI Guardian / Governed Request
Employee workspace
Ask AI Guardian
Finance Analyst · SSO verified
Review this vendor agreement and identify anything that conflicts with our procurement policy.
IdentityMatched
PII shieldReady
BudgetWithin quota
High-cost model
Approved model
Unapproved model
Document Agent
Policy Agent
Action Layer
Governed response ready

Policy checks completed. Sensitive identifiers masked. Full identity and cost trace logged.

Production Control Plane Folio3 AI Production Gateway
Capabilities at a glance

One enterprise AI governance platform, seven layers deep.

Everything An Enterprise AI Governance Platform Needs, Already Built In.

Gateway routing, orchestration, data protection, governance, audit, security, and deployment run as one system, so nothing has to be re-integrated as usage grows.

Gateway core Foundation

Route every request to the right model, every time.

Multi-provider access with policy-based routing, automatic fallback if a provider fails, and caching and rate limits to keep performance predictable under load.

Included capabilities
Multi-Provider Access Policy-Based Routing Automatic Fallback Caching & Rate Limits
Orchestration Automation

Run fixed workflows or let the platform plan the response.

Deterministic workflows handle repeatable processes on demand or on a schedule, while smart, AI-planned orchestration routes open-ended requests through the agent registry.

Included capabilities
Deterministic Workflows Scheduled (Cron) Runs Smart, AI-Planned Routing Agent Registry
Data protection Security

Catch sensitive data before it ever reaches a model.

PII is redacted at the point of capture, prompt-injection attempts are shielded, secrets are blocked from leaving the tenant, and content moderation runs on every request.

Included capabilities
PII Redaction at Capture Prompt-Injection Shield Secrets Blocking Content Moderation
Governance Policy

Give admins and department heads their own controls.

Super Admin and line-of-business heads set department and role policy, maintain model allow and block lists, and reuse policy templates instead of configuring each team from scratch.

Included capabilities
Super Admin & LOB Head Roles Department & Role Policy Model Allow / Block Lists Policy Templates
Observability & audit Evidence

Turn every request into an exportable audit record.

Real-time dashboards, full prompt history and traces, cost and token metering, and direct export to SIEM or CSV give Risk and Finance the evidence they need without asking IT for a report.

Included capabilities
Real-Time Dashboards Prompt History & Traces Cost & Token Metering SIEM / CSV Export
Security & compliance Assurance

Built to sit inside a regulated environment.

Encryption in transit and at rest, data residency controls, and tenant isolation are designed around SOC 2, GDPR, and HIPAA alignment.

Included capabilities
SOC 2, GDPR & HIPAA Aligned Encryption in Transit & at Rest Data Residency Tenant Isolation
Deployment & service Infrastructure

Runs on your hyperscaler, not a shared black box.

Deployed on your own cloud, Azure today with AWS and GCP ready, with managed model updates and a shared-IP, private-deploy model that keeps your data inside your tenant.

Included capabilities
Runs on Your Hyperscaler Azure Now, AWS & GCP Ready Managed Model Updates Shared IP, Private Deploy
One platform. Seven layers of control, working together.

Each layer above is part of the same enterprise AI governance platform, so adding a new team, model, or agent does not mean adding a new tool to manage.

AI spend optimization

Stop Paying Frontier-Model Prices for Routine Work.

AI Guardian can govern model access by role and workload, so simple tasks use cost-efficient models while advanced reasoning is reserved for work that actually needs it.

Without model governance Spend leakage

One expensive model gets used for everything.

When organizations cannot see which models employees use for which tasks, low-complexity work can consume the same premium model capacity as high-value analysis and reasoning.

TXT
Read text from an image Basic extraction / transcription
Frontier model
QA
Answer a routine policy question Simple retrieval and response
Frontier model
SUM
Summarize a short document Routine summarization
Frontier model
Example simple-task cost comparison
Premium route 100
→
Fit-for-purpose route 25
With AI Guardian Right model. Right role.

Match model capability to the work being done.

Role-based access, workload rules, approved model sets, and spend controls help route routine work toward lower-cost options while preserving premium models for complex reasoning, analysis, and high-impact workflows.

Operations / Support
Extraction, classification, simple Q&A
Cost-efficient model
Managers / Analysts
Summaries, drafting, structured analysis
Mid-tier model
Specialists / Executives
Complex reasoning, high-impact decisions
Frontier model
Example overall opportunity ≈30% lower AI spend in a modeled mixed-workload scenario.
Governance logic Role → Model Approved access, quotas, budgets, and routing rules by role and workload.

Example blended AI spend

Example only — actual savings depend on workload mix and model pricing.
100%
70%
Microsoft guidance Microsoft supports the economics behind model-rightsizing.

Microsoft guidance recommends matching model capability to requirements, restricting access to approved models, and controlling usage patterns to avoid unnecessary AI spending.

View Microsoft governance guidance ↗
Model selection Use less expensive models when they meet the workload requirement.
Role & access control Use policy and RBAC to control which models and resources users can access.
Microsoft Model Router Simple interactions are typically 50–60% of agent traffic.
Microsoft cost optimization Routing can move 60–80% of suitable traffic to cheaper models without measurable quality loss.

The ≈30% savings figure and 100-to-25 task example above are example AI Guardian scenarios, not Microsoft benchmarks or guaranteed savings. Actual results depend on workload complexity, model mix, token usage, pricing, routing rules, and user behavior.

Real-time guardrails

Control the moments that create risk.

Instead of relying on after-the-fact monitoring, AI Guardian applies identity, content, data, model, and budget rules while the request is happening.

01 / Data protection

Shield sensitive data before LLM ingress.

Automatically detect and mask IBANs, National ID numbers, phone numbers, financial details, and confidential content in prompts and multi-page attachments before data reaches the model.

Prompt and multi-page file redaction
Sanitized document previews before transmission
Identity-attributed policy decisions and logs
AI Guardian document data protection interface
02 / Policy

Keep business AI on-domain and compliant.

Prevent misuse of organization-funded AI by declining off-domain requests and applying content controls that reflect corporate policy and ethics requirements.

Context-aware off-domain restrictions
Content moderation and discriminatory-content shields
Rules applied consistently across models and agents
Policy compliance and off-domain shield dashboard
03 / Cost control

Match model power to role and budget.

Set monthly spend caps, token quotas, and model permissions by department or user role so high-consumption models are reserved for the work that warrants them.

Department and role-level monthly caps, applied to everyone in the role at once
Role-based model availability
Cost and token traces at request level
Departmental budget and quota control screen
Advanced capability

Move from basic chat to governed multi-agent work.

AI Guardian is not only a proxy for prompts. It can run fixed, repeatable workflows for routine processes, or plan a response dynamically when a request does not fit a template, orchestrating specialized agents, company knowledge, and business actions under the same governance layer.

Finance analyst conversing with AI Guardian in Teams
Finance analyst in Teams

@ChatBuddy approve-invoice
Review the attached vendor invoice against procurement policy and the associated purchase order.

Agent Teaming Workflow
Invoice AnalyzerExtract line items and validate totals.
Policy CheckerCross-reference procurement rules.
PO RetrievalRetrieve approved purchase order.
AI Guardian
Control Plane
Governed result

Reject the invoice. It includes an unlisted charge of $1,200 that is not listed on the Purchase Order and lacks written procurement approval.

Hierarchical governance

AI governance software that gives every decision-maker the right level of control.

Department heads manage local quotas and model access. Risk and executive leadership see organization-wide usage, spend, blocked events, and identity-attributed audit history, with HRIS-driven sync keeping roles and access current automatically.

Department Head Local operational control

Set quotas, dollar caps, model availability, and monitor active departmental users.

CRO / Executive Organization-wide evidence

See spend, security events, model distribution, user history, and complete audit traces.

Executive dashboard telemetry overview
AI Guardian / Executive Console
Chief Risk Officer
Active users1,284
Governed queries24.8K
Blocked events186
AI spend and model usage
Security and policy activity
PII detected and redacted09:42
Approved model route09:41
Off-domain request blocked09:36
Agent workflow completed09:31
Secret token detected09:24
Adopt it in stages

Start with shadow AI. Expand the same platform when you are ready.

The scope of governance widens over time, but it is the same control plane at every stage, so nothing gets re-bought, re-integrated, or re-governed as you extend it.

Start here

Control shadow AI

  • Give every employee one approved way to use AI.
  • Gain enterprise-scale visibility, control, and cost management over usage from day one.
  • Replace personal-account AI use with a governed alternative.
As you build

Govern your own agents

  • Agents built in Foundry or Copilot Studio register with AI Guardian.
  • They run behind the same control plane without a line of their code changing.
  • Identity, guardrails, and audit trail apply automatically.
As you extend

Govern bought and BYO agents

  • Knowledge agents grounded in your own content join the same registry.
  • Third-party agents that act inside your existing tools through MCP are governed the same way.
  • No separate policy layer for purchased tools.
At full scope

The platform for all AI

  • Workflows, future agents, and knowledge systems plug into the same plane.
  • One policy model, one audit trail, and one cost view across every AI system in the business.
  • Whatever comes next runs under the same enterprise AI governance platform.
AI Guardian investment

A Clear Investment to Launch and Scale.

Start with a one-time implementation investment, then continue with a predictable quarterly AI Guardian platform license.

01 One-time
Setup Cost
From $15K

Covers the implementation phase required to align, configure, deploy, validate, and prepare AI Guardian for go-live in your environment.

02 Recurring
AI Guardian Platform License
As low as $8K per quarter

Ongoing quarterly licensing for continued use of the AI Guardian platform after the initial implementation and launch.

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Final commercial terms may vary based on implementation scope, organizational complexity, integrations, deployment requirements, and licensing needs.

Implementation approach

From Alignment to Deployment in Days.

A focused two-phase rollout aligns this enterprise-ready AI governance framework software to your policies, users, controls, and cloud environment before go-live.

01
Align the rollout
Requirements & Alignment
2–4 Hour Sessions

Understand your business, governance needs, and implementation scope.

  • Review AI policies, governance, compliance, and regulatory requirements.
  • Map LOBs, teams, organization hierarchy, and priority use cases.
  • Define guardrails, model access, and policy requirements.
  • Identify user roles, permissions, and approval boundaries.
  • Align budgets, quotas, reporting needs, and governance ownership.
Outcome Approved rollout blueprint ready for configuration and deployment.
02
Configure and launch
Configure, Deploy & Go Live
4–5 Business Days

Configure AI Guardian to your requirements and deploy it in your environment.

  • Configure the AI Guardian platform and organization hierarchy.
  • Implement guardrails, policies, roles, and permissions.
  • Set model access, budgets, quotas, and usage controls.
  • Customize dashboards, reporting, and administrator views.
  • Deploy inside your tenant and validate connectivity and configurations.
  • Run smoke testing, go live, and hand over operational controls.
Outcome AI Guardian live, configured, and ready for governed adoption.
Rollout structure 2 Focused Phases
Deployment window 4–5 Business Days
Timing may vary based on organizational complexity, number of LOBs, policies, integrations, and security requirements.
Industry + Function Use Cases

Where AI Guardian fits first.

Govern AI Around the Work People Actually Do.

AI Guardian can sit across industries and business functions to give employees approved access to models, agents, company knowledge, and business actions while applying the right identity, data, policy, model, cost, and audit controls.

Banking & Financial Services Risk + Finance

Govern document analysis without exposing sensitive financial data.

Analysts can review policies, agreements, reports, and internal knowledge through approved AI while sensitive identifiers are masked, model access is controlled, spend is governed, and activity remains attributable to the user.

Relevant AI Guardian controls
PII Redaction Role-Based Access Model Routing Audit Trails
Healthcare Operations + Administration

Give administrative teams governed access to AI for sensitive workflows.

Operations teams can use approved AI for internal documents, procedures, summaries, and knowledge access while identity, sensitive-data protections, model permissions, and usage controls remain consistently enforced.

Relevant AI Guardian controls
Sensitive Data Controls Approved Models Permissions Usage Logging
Cross-Industry Legal + Compliance

Use AI for contract and policy work without losing governance.

Legal and compliance teams can analyze internal policies, contracts, and supporting documents through approved models while AI Guardian applies document protection, role-aware access, off-domain restrictions, and traceable activity.

Relevant AI Guardian controls
Document Redaction Policy Enforcement Role Controls Audit Evidence
Cross-Industry HR + People Operations

Make employee AI useful without opening unrestricted model access.

HR teams can use AI for policy questions, internal knowledge, drafting, and routine employee-support tasks while access is limited by role, approved model, department, quota, and organizational policy.

Relevant AI Guardian controls
Department Policies Role-Based Models Spend Caps Knowledge Access
Cross-Industry Procurement + Finance

Review vendor documents with governed agents and company policy context.

Procurement teams can compare agreements, invoices, and vendor information against internal policy using approved agents and knowledge while AI Guardian preserves the same identity, redaction, model, budget, and audit controls.

Relevant AI Guardian controls
Agent Governance Company Knowledge PII Shielding Cost Controls
Cross-Industry IT + Security

Replace scattered shadow AI with one governed employee access layer.

IT and Security can centralize approved model and agent access, define role and department policies, monitor usage and spend, block prohibited activity, and retain identity-attributed evidence across employee AI interactions.

Relevant AI Guardian controls
SSO + RBAC Model Governance Policy Controls Executive Visibility
One governance layer. Different rules for different work.

AI Guardian is designed to apply controls by user, role, department, model, agent, and business context instead of forcing every team into the same AI access pattern.

Competitive position

More than an API gateway. More than a prompt filter.

AI Guardian combines the employee workplace, security enforcement, agent orchestration, spend governance, and executive visibility inside one control plane. Most developer AI gateways stop at routing; an enterprise grade AI gateway solution has to cover all five.

Capability
Traditional developer gateways
Point security tools
AI Guardian control plane
Primary design focus
API routing for developers
Keyword prompt filtering
Business-ready governed workplace
Employee workplace
✕ Requires custom UI
✕ No native interface
✓ Teams, Slack & Web Apps
PII & document redaction
△ Basic text filters
△ Simple regex masking
✓ Prompt & multi-page file masking
Multi-agent teaming
✕ Single-model proxy
✕ Not supported
✓ Multi-agent orchestration
Off-domain enforcement
✕ Unrestricted query types
△ Basic blocking
✓ Contextual task rejection
Executive governance
△ Technical API logs
△ Security alerts only
✓ CRO & department dashboards
Gaps in native Azure governance

Business-ready governance Azure leaves for IT to build.

AI Guardian is built Azure-first and closes the gap between what Azure ships natively and what a business-owned AI governance solution needs to run day to day.

Business need
Native Azure AI tooling
AI Guardian control plane
Department-managed governance
△ Left for IT to manage
✓ Business-owned AI governance
Identity-driven access
△ HRIS integration for identity only
✓ HRIS-integrated AI governance
Dashboards and reporting
△ Technical platform monitoring
✓ Business dashboards, insights & audit reports
Document workflows
△ Sensitive-content detection only
✓ End-to-end governed document workflow
Vendor flexibility
✕ Limited to Azure ecosystems
✓ One governance layer across every AI vendor
Consistency across deployments
△ Features vary by deployment
✓ Consistent AI capabilities everywhere
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Explore the controls behind confident AI adoption.

From discovering unauthorized AI use to managing agents and model access, explore the governance capabilities that help your organization stay in control.

FAQ

Questions teams ask before rollout.

AI governance software sits between employees and every model, agent, and company system, enforcing identity, data protection, policy, model routing, cost caps, and audit logging on each request. AI Guardian delivers this as enterprise AI governance software plus a governed employee workplace in Teams, Slack, web, and mobile, going further than typical AI gateway software for enterprise developer teams by adding the business-facing controls IT, Risk, and Finance need.

AI Guardian is an enterprise AI control plane and governed workplace. It gives employees approved access to models, agents, company knowledge, and business actions while enforcing identity, security, PII protection, model routing, cost caps, and audit logging.

Standard AI gateways focus primarily on API routing and developer metrics. AI Guardian adds a complete employee workplace, multi-page PII redaction, multi-agent orchestration, and executive governance for department heads and risk leadership.

Yes. AI Guardian is designed for private deployment within enterprise cloud environments such as Azure, AWS, or GCP, aligned with network security, encryption, data residency, and tenant isolation requirements.

The platform intercepts prompts and uploaded documents in real time. Sensitive identifiers and confidential details can be redacted before the request is routed to a model provider.

Yes. Third-party and custom internal agents can plug into the agent registry so requests inherit the same identity controls, data redaction, spend tracking, and audit logging used for standard prompts.

By preventing organization-funded LLM capacity from being used for non-business tasks, teams can keep AI spend aligned to approved business use cases and make consumption more predictable.

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Take control of enterprise AI today

Your employees will use AI either way. Choose the environment you can govern.

Move AI out of the shadows and onto a platform your organization owns, governs, measures, and can defend with identity-attributed audit evidence.

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