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Portfolio Governance vs Workflow Enforcement

Last updated February 2026

Aguardic vs Holistic AI

Holistic AI governs your AI portfolio from the top down — model inventory, bias testing, risk dashboards. Aguardic enforces your policies from the inside out — on every AI output, code commit, and agent action in real time.

Holistic AI and Aguardic solve different problems at different layers. Holistic AI gives risk teams portfolio visibility — what AI you have, where bias exists, how your models map to regulations. Aguardic gives engineering and compliance teams operational enforcement — every event evaluated, every violation caught. Different layers. Often used together.

Two Layers of AI Governance

Holistic AI and Aguardic work at different layers. Understanding where each fits helps you build the right governance stack.

Holistic AI

Portfolio Governance

Inventory every AI model in your organization. Run bias and fairness tests. Monitor shadow AI. Generate risk dashboards for your board and regulators.

Primary buyer

CISOs and AI risk officers at large enterprises

Cadence

Quarterly review cycles and board reporting

Aguardic

Workflow Enforcement

Enforce your policies on every AI output, pull request, document, email, Slack message, and agent action — in real time. Block violations before they reach production.

Primary buyer

Engineering and compliance leads at AI-native companies

Cadence

Every event, every day — continuous enforcement

Feature Comparison

Capability
Holistic AI
Aguardic
AI model inventory & registry
Comprehensive AI model inventory and lifecycle tracking
Not available — focused on operational policy enforcement
Bias & fairness testing
Built-in bias detection and fairness metrics
Not available — governance focuses on policy compliance
Shadow AI detection
Discovers unauthorized AI usage across the organization
Not available
Board-level risk dashboards
Risk dashboards designed for executive reporting
Audit trail focused — operational dashboards, not board reporting
Real-time LLM output enforcement
Monitoring only — no real-time blocking
Every LLM call evaluated with block/warn/monitor modes
Code & PR governance
Not covered — focused on AI model portfolio
Automated policy checks on every PR across GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
Document & storage scanning
Not covered
Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive file evaluation
Email & messaging governance
Not covered
Gmail, Outlook, Slack, Teams policy enforcement
AI agent session governance
Not covered
Session-aware governance across agent action chains
Policy from your existing documents
Not available
Upload compliance docs — rules extracted automatically via AI
Pre-built compliance packs (auto-updating)
Governance frameworks for assessment
30+ enforceable packs that auto-update when regulations change
Entity-aware governance
Not available
Per-customer/patient knowledge bases with automatic policy derivation

Can You Use Both?

Yes — and many organizations will. Holistic AI gives your risk team portfolio-level visibility: which models are deployed, where bias exists, how your AI inventory maps to regulatory frameworks. Aguardic gives your engineering and compliance teams operational enforcement: every AI output, code commit, and document is evaluated against your policies in real time.

Think of it as two complementary layers. Holistic AI answers “What AI do we have, and is it fair?” Aguardic answers “Is every AI action compliant, right now?” Together, they cover the full governance stack — from board-level reporting to line-level enforcement.

Who Should Choose Aguardic Alone

If you're a 20–500 person company building with AI, you likely don't need portfolio-level model inventory yet. You need your compliance policies running on every output, every PR, and every agent action — today.

Set Up in an Afternoon

Connect your tools, upload your compliance docs, and start enforcing policies. No months-long enterprise rollout.

Built for Your Stack

GitHub, OpenAI, Anthropic, Slack, Gmail, Google Drive — 16 integrations that cover your AI and engineering workflows.

Right-Sized Pricing

Starts at $499/month. Enterprise-grade governance without the enterprise-grade contract. 14-day free trial included.

Governance that works at your scale

Connect your tools, define your policies, and start enforcing automatically — with full audit trails from day one.

14-day free trial
16 integrations
HIPAA · SOC 2 · EU AI Act policies included
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