SAN JOSE, Calif. — Sept. 18, 2026 — Chapter Enterprise, whose agentic AI platform powers onboarding, coaching, performance and compliance workflows for more than 75 enterprise clients, and NuGuard AI, maker of the open-source-based AI Trust Platform for behavioral validation, today announced a strategic partnership that unites role-intelligent agentic AI with pre-production trust and safety validation. The alliance is built to close the "Behavior Gap" — the distance between how an AI agent is intended to act and how it actually behaves in production — for enterprises in regulated industries such as financial services, insurance, manufacturing and healthcare.
"Chapter purpose-builds AI agents that embed role intelligence directly into enterprise workflows, and this partnership lets them accelerate enterprise adoption with confidence," said Ranjan Goel, CEO and Founder of NuGuard AI. "Using our AI Trust Platform, Chapter can validate and prove the security and safety of its AI agents for every customer it serves."
Powerful Agentic AI. Provable Trust.
The combined offering is designed to remove the biggest blocker to enterprise agentic AI adoption: unresolved trust and risk. Chapter Enterprise contributes a customizable, agentic Gen AI platform embedded across the full customer-facing employee lifecycle, built over many years and proven across more than 75 enterprise clients in 13-plus sectors, including BFSI and manufacturing, with role-specific access to information that requires no heavy IT lift.
NuGuard AI brings continuous behavioral validation of AI applications to ensure their safety and security match company policies and relevant frameworks. NuGuard AI discovers every model, tool and API in an organization's AI stack, defines a behavioral policy for each application, and runs more than 1,000 adversarial tests per AI application inside a sandbox. Every deployment ships with an audit-ready evidence package — behavior policy, test results and reporting aligned to OWASP, NIST AI, and PCI requirements — for security, risk and compliance sign-off. Customers who use both solutions can see up to a 50% improvement in AI risk posture, with production deployment measured in days rather than months.
"NuGuard's AI Trust Platform ensures the safe and secure adoption of our agentic AI platform while accelerating the path to production," said Rohit Kumar, CEO of Chapter Enterprise. "Its real-time risk assessment and audit-ready reports are a valuable addition to Chapter, and NuGuard's proactive behavior validation lets us assure customers that our agents behave as intended and keep their data secure."
A Widening Trust Gap
The partnership addresses a gap the market has been slow to close. According to Cisco's 2025 State of AI Security research, just 11% of organizations say they fully trust AI for mission-critical applications, and separate research from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) found that a large majority of organizations still lack a formal behavioral policy for the AI agents already running in production. Chapter Enterprise and NuGuard AI built this partnership to close that gap before deployment, not after an incident.
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About Chapter Enterprise
Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Chapter Enterprise builds purpose-built AI agents that embed role intelligence directly into enterprise workflows for sales, service and operations. The platform serves more than 75 enterprise clients across 13-plus sectors — including financial services and BFSI, insurance, manufacturing and field services, the public sector, healthcare and enterprise technology — automating operations at scale with no heavy IT lift required. Learn more at chapterenterprise.com.
About NuGuard AI
NuGuard AI is the open-source-based AI Trust Platform for agentic AI, helping enterprises close the Behavior Gap — the distance between an AI agent's intended behavior and its real-world execution — before production. The platform is trusted by developers worldwide with over 46,000 downloads of our open-source toolkit in the last few months. NuGuard AI is headquartered in San Jose, California. Learn more at nuguard.ai.
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