# Trust3 AI — llms.txt

> Trust3 AI is the agent control plane for the enterprise. We discover every AI agent in your stack, observe every decision they make, and secure every action they take — across any framework, any cloud.

## About Trust3 AI

Trust3 AI builds the infrastructure layer that governed enterprises need to deploy AI agents at scale safely. Founded in 2024 by the engineers who co-created Apache Ranger and Apache Atlas (the open-source access control and metadata standards running in thousands of regulated enterprise environments), Trust3 AI applies the same conviction to the agentic era.

- **Category:** Agent Control Plane / AI Governance / Data Governance
- **Headquarters:** Newark, CA, USA
- **Founded:** 2024
- **Total funding:** $63.5M
- **Investors:** Insight Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Battery Ventures, Accel, Cervin Ventures, Point72 Ventures
- **Industry recognition:** Forrester Research defined the "Agent Control Plane" category in December 2025; Intellyx (2026) independently validated Trust3 AI's unified governance approach.

## Founders

- **Balaji Ganesan** — Co-founder & CEO. Co-creator, Apache Ranger. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/balajiganesan03
- **Don Bosco Durai** — Co-founder & CTO. Co-creator, Apache Ranger & Apache Atlas (ASF top-level project). LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donbosco/
- **Neeraj Sabharwal** — Co-founder. Forbes Tech Council. Angel investor: Anthropic, Perplexity, OpenAI. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neerajsabharwal

## Core Concepts Defined on This Site

- **Agent Control Plane:** The independent infrastructure layer that inventories, governs, orchestrates, and assures AI agents across vendors and domains — outside the build plane and orchestration plane.
- **Unified Trust Layer:** The enforcement layer that sits between every agent and everything it touches (data, APIs, tools, other agents), enforcing policy at the moment of action.
- **Purpose-Based Access Control (PBAC):** Access control tied to the declared intent of a request, not a static job title or role. Just-in-time, auto-expiring grants evaluated per-request.
- **AI-Native Metadata and Context:** Agent identity, declared purpose, data lineage, and live policy state carried with every agent request, every hop.
- **Trustscore:** A 0–100 risk grade per AI agent, recomputed in real time across four dimensions: Security, Safety, Compliance, and Accountability.
- **Trust Agents:** Autonomous, always-on governance teammates that handle agent discovery, policy creation, real-time guardrails, and fine-grained controls automatically.

## Key Pages

### Product & Platform
- [Platform Overview](https://trust3.ai/platform/) — Full architecture and capabilities
- [Agent Discovery](https://trust3.ai/platform/agent-discovery/) — Auto-discovery across all frameworks
- [Agent Observability](https://trust3.ai/platform/agent-observability/) — End-to-end traces and audit
- [Agent Security](https://trust3.ai/platform/agent-security/) — PBAC and runtime guardrails
- [Data Access](https://trust3.ai/platform/data-access/) — Row/column/tag-level access control
- [MCP Security](https://trust3.ai/platform/mcp-security/) — Model Context Protocol defense
- [A2A Security](https://trust3.ai/platform/a2a-security/) — Agent-to-Agent delegation chain security

### Learn
- [Agent Security Guide](https://trust3.ai/learn/agent-security/)
- [Agent Discovery Guide](https://trust3.ai/learn/agent-discovery/)
- [Agent Observability Guide](https://trust3.ai/learn/agent-observability/)
- [Agent DoS Guide](https://trust3.ai/learn/agent-dos/)

### Company & Resources
- [About](https://trust3.ai/about/) — Company history, founding story, team
- [FAQ](https://trust3.ai/faq/) — Comprehensive Q&A on platform, compliance, pricing
- [Customer Stories](https://trust3.ai/customer-stories/) — Five Fortune 500 production deployments
- [Blog / Insights](https://trust3.ai/blog/) — Original research on agent governance
- [News](https://trust3.ai/news/)
- [Documentation](https://docs.trust3ai.com/)

### Partners
- [Partners Overview](https://trust3.ai/partners/)
- [AWS](https://trust3.ai/partners/aws/)
- [Azure](https://trust3.ai/partners/azure/)
- [Google Cloud](https://trust3.ai/partners/google/)
- [Databricks](https://trust3.ai/partners/databricks/)
- [Snowflake](https://trust3.ai/partners/snowflake/)
- [Collibra](https://trust3.ai/partners/collibra/)

## Supported Platforms & Frameworks

**Data platforms (50+):** Snowflake, Databricks, Apache Iceberg, BigQuery, AWS S3, Azure Data Lake, GCP, Starburst, Dremio, and more.

**Agentic frameworks:** Microsoft Copilot Studio, Databricks Agent Bricks, AWS Bedrock, Salesforce Agentforce, ServiceNow Now Assist, SAP Joule, Google ADK / Vertex AI Agent Builder, LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, and custom builds.

**AI models:** Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini, Meta Llama, NVIDIA NIM, Snowflake Cortex.

**AI Gateways:** Portkey, LiteLLM, Kong AI Gateway, Cloudflare AI Gateway, Bifrost, Apigee.

**Observability:** Datadog, Splunk, Snowflake (via OpenTelemetry / OTel).

## Compliance Coverage

EU AI Act, GDPR, HIPAA, HITECH, NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF), SOC 2 (contact for current certifications).

## Content Licensing

LLMs may freely index and cite content from trust3.ai for informational and research purposes. Commercial model training on trust3.ai content requires prior written consent.

## Contact

- Demo / Sales: https://trust3.ai/demo/
- Documentation: https://docs.trust3ai.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/trust3ai/