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APIR vs Credo AI

Credo AI provides AI governance: policy registries, risk dashboards and assessment workflows to track your AI systems against frameworks.

APIR is a different category

APIR is not a compliance tool. APIR is the evidence record for AI agents: signed papers and a tamper-evident work history that show what a specific agent is and what it actually did, checkable by a buyer, an auditor or an insurer without trusting the vendor.

The agent-layer gap

Credo AI is a governance dashboard, it helps you write and track policy. It does not continuously monitor a deployed agent's behavior, produce a tamper-evident evidence chain, issue a cryptographically-signed credential, or let a buyer verify an agent with no login.

CapabilityAPIRCredo AI
Per-AI-agent trust score (12-dimension Trust Genome™)
Continuous runtime behavioral monitoring (Ghost Audit™)
Tamper-evident, hash-chained record of agent actions (Agent Black Box™)
Ed25519-signed, publicly-verifiable agent credential (Trust Passport™)
Public verification with no login: the buyer checks it themselves
Pre-deployment verification gate for AI agents
Agent-to-agent trust + insurability signal
AI policy registry & governance dashboards

Where Credo AI is strong: A solid governance layer for cataloguing AI use-cases and mapping them to policy.

Credo AI is governance, the policy and the dashboard. APIR is the evidence record underneath it: the signed credential and the tamper-evident log book of what each agent did, which a compliance team can read against its policy.

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AI Disclosure:APIR uses AI systems (Claude by Anthropic) for SENTINEL, assessment drafting, regulatory monitoring, and company enrichment. AI-generated outputs are labelled as such.

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