Credo AI
A control room for every AI system a company uses — tracking what exists, what risk it carries, and whether it meets legal requirements — so compliance doesn't mean chasing spreadsheets across departments when an audit or new regulation shows up.
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Description
A company that adopts AI across many teams often ends up with no single view of what AI it's actually running, whose data it touches, or whether any of it violates a regulation like the EU AI Act — the AI equivalent of not knowing what software is installed across your organization. Credo AI is built to close that gap: it discovers, catalogs and continuously monitors AI systems and vendors, producing audit-ready documentation instead of someone manually assembling a compliance binder before a deadline.
Credo AI is an enterprise AI governance platform founded in 2020, backed by Founders Fund, Mozilla Ventures and others, that handles AI use-case intake, risk and impact assessments, regulatory compliance tracking, and vendor/model evaluation, with pre-built policy packs aligned to the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, SOC 2 and HITRUST. It's Enterprise SaaS priced on request (no public tiers), and reports customers including Mastercard, Autodesk, Microsoft and McKinsey. It was named a Leader in Forrester's Wave for AI Governance Solutions (Q3 2025) with top scores across 12 evaluation criteria, and ranked in Fast Company's World's Most Innovative Companies 2026 in the Applied AI category.
💬 Our review
The short version: Credo AI's independent recognition — a Forrester Wave Leader position with top marks across a dozen criteria, real enterprise customers like Mastercard and Microsoft — is stronger validation than most AI governance startups can point to, and its pre-built policy packs for the EU AI Act and similar frameworks save real legal-review time.
The trade-off is that this is enterprise procurement territory, not a self-serve tool: pricing is entirely 'contact sales,' with no public tier to even ballpark cost, so budgeting requires a sales conversation up front. It's aimed at large organizations with genuine multi-team AI sprawl and real regulatory exposure — a small team running one or two AI features internally likely doesn't need this level of governance tooling yet. Against Holistic AI, its closest direct competitor in this catalog, the two overlap heavily on compliance-framework coverage; Credo AI leans slightly more toward compliance-workflow automation while Holistic AI's roots are in bias auditing specifically. For a large enterprise with AI deployed across multiple business units and real regulatory deadlines (EU AI Act compliance dates), Credo AI's maturity and analyst recognition justify the enterprise sales process; for a smaller team, this is likely more governance infrastructure than currently needed.
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SaaS Enterprise, tarification sur devis uniquement — aucun palier public.
Pros
Leader reconnu par Forrester Wave AI Governance Q3 2025, meilleurs scores sur 12 critères
Packs de conformité pré-construits pour EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, SOC 2, HITRUST
Clients enterprise établis (Mastercard, Microsoft, Autodesk, McKinsey)
Cons
Aucun tarif public, procurement enterprise obligatoire pour connaître le coût
Surdimensionné pour une petite équipe sans sprawl IA réel
Fort chevauchement fonctionnel avec Holistic AI, concurrent direct