Runtime security and authorization for AI agents
Block, approve, escalate, and audit each connected agent's actions before they happen — fed by daily regulation discovery and policy rules your team can review and test.
$ npm install @rends/agent-sdk@2.0.0Discover engine
Find unregistered AI across 8 scan types
Translate engine
Regulations → policy drafts for review
Govern engine
Runtime enforcement & kill switch
Comply engine
Audit-grade evidence
Works with LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, OpenAI Agents, Google ADK, Haystack, LlamaIndex and PydanticAI in Python, and LangChain, OpenAI Agents and Google ADK in TypeScript.
Where Rends sits in your stack
Discover finds your agents. Translate converts regulations into policies. Govern enforces at runtime. Comply proves it.
Regulatory Radar feed
EU AI Act · NIST · ISO 42001 · NYC LL144 · Colorado SB 205 · 32 more
New regulations enrich within hours of publication.
Your AI agents
Rends Runtime Layer
SDK · Gateway8 scan types
Find shadow agents
Regulation → policy
Drafts for your review
Enforce per-call
Policy · kill switch · audit
Evidence auto-gen
51 regulations tracked
Downstream targets
Shadow Detection
Your enterprise has AI agents you don't know about
Rends Shadow Detection looks for the signatures of 25 AI providers in your code, dependencies, DNS, cloud audit logs and traffic — without requiring any SDK integration or agent cooperation.
- Detection Vectors
- 8
- AI Provider Signatures
- 25
- Confidence Levels
- 4
- SDK Integration Required
- 0
Detects shadow AI across
- AWS
- Azure
- Google Cloud
- GitHub
Scan source code, lockfiles, DNS traffic, cloud audit trails, environment variables, HTTP egress logs, and process inventories. Schedule continuous monitoring with automated guardian alerts when new agents appear.
Four engines
Discover. Translate. Govern. Comply.
One pipeline from regulation to runtime. Govern is the center of gravity — runtime interception sits between every agent and every tool it tries to use, with policies fed by Translate on every regulation change.
Find the AI in your environment that nobody registered. Eight scan types check source code, packages, lockfiles, DNS, cloud audit logs, environment variables, HTTP egress and running processes against 25 AI provider signatures. No SDK required.
New regulations enter our system within hours of publication. Our Translate engine converts each one into specific policy rules your team can review and test — with citations.
Regulations become policy drafts that your team reviews, approves and tests in a shadow run. Agents connected through the Rends SDK or API check each action before it runs: block, log, escalate, or pass through — based on the rules your compliance team approved.
Every enforcement decision generates audit-grade evidence. When a regulator asks how you ensure compliance, your answer is a continuously-generated evidence trail — not a manual memo. Every decision record pins the exact policy revision in force — cryptographically verifiable.
Product
See Rends in action
A live governance loop on real infrastructure — an agent action allowed, an exfiltration blocked, and a tamper-evident audit trail that catches a forged record.
Built for teams in regulated and AI-forward industries
Rends is taking design partners across the industries below — apply for early access.
Compliance
Compliance coverage across 51 tracked regulations
Comparison
Runtime governance capability comparison
| Capability | Rends | Microsoft Agent 365 | IBM watsonx.governance | OpenAI Frontier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Multi-model support | M365 ecosystem + preview | IBM + partner | OpenAI only | |
| Kill switch | ||||
| Runtime interception SDK | Open-source toolkit | |||
| Synchronous policy enforcement | ||||
| Tamper-evident audit trail (SHA-512) | ||||
| Vendor-neutral (any cloud/framework) | Hybrid | |||
| Automated compliance evidence generation | ||||
| Regulation mapping (51 tracked) | ||||
| No ecosystem lock-in required | Partial | |||
| Open policy language standard | ||||
| Policy marketplace (industry packs) | ||||
| Agent identity & permissions | Entra-coupled | |||
| Starting price | $1,500/mo | $15/user/mo + M365 | ~$38K/year | Custom enterprise |
See full comparison vs Microsoft Agent 365, IBM watsonx, and OpenAI Frontier →
Runtime governance required
Where AI agents need guardrails
The frameworks listed on each card are the regimes those teams are governed by — not certifications Rends holds. Our own attestation status is on the security page.
Financial Services
Trading copilots, underwriting agents, and AML triage need synchronous policy enforcement before any tool call hits a market or a customer record.
Regimes these teams operate under:
Healthcare
Clinical decision support and patient-facing assistants must stay inside HIPAA scope, with auditable evidence for every prompt that touches PHI.
Regimes these teams operate under:
Defense & Government
Mission and analyst agents operate in environments where data residency, classification handling, and export control are non-negotiable.
Regimes these teams operate under:
Enterprise Copilots
Internal copilots reach into source code, customer data, and billing systems — every tool call needs identity, scope, and DLP checks at runtime.
Regimes these teams operate under:
Internal Automation
Back-office agents that move money, provision access, or change configuration require role-based limits and spend ceilings before they execute.
Regimes these teams operate under:
ROI
Compliance gaps have a price tag
Regulatory exposure, shadow agents, and time-to-visibility — the measurable case for governing every model before an auditor or regulator asks the question first.
€35M
Maximum EU AI Act penalty for prohibited AI practices
Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Article 99(3): administrative fines up to €35 000 000 or 7 % of total worldwide annual turnover for the preceding financial year, whichever is higher, for non-compliance with the Article 5 prohibited practices. Lower tiers apply to other obligations (Art. 99(4)-(5)); for SMEs the lower of the two applies (Art. 99(6)).
Product
See what governance looks like
Agent dashboard, emergency controls, and compliance artifacts — the surfaces your security and GRC teams actually use.
Support Triage
Claude 3.5
Claims Copilot
GPT-4o
Research Scout
Gemini 1.5
Ops Runner
Llama 3.1
Emergency
Requires org admin + second factor.
Compliance artifacts
EU AI Act · Q2 2026
- Conformity assessmentGenerated
- AI risk classificationHigh-risk
- Bias audit documentationPassed
- Model registry entryComplete
- Impact assessmentDraft
4 of 5 artifacts ready
80%
Support Triage
Claude 3.5
Claims Copilot
GPT-4o
Research Scout
Gemini 1.5
Ops Runner
Llama 3.1
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Knowledge Base — 42 expert answers on AI agent governance
Definitions, regulations, implementation patterns, audit evidence, and incident response — every question linkable on its own page.
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