What Alinia AI does

Alinia AI is a Barcelona- and New York-based software company that builds an alignment and compliance platform for enterprises deploying generative AI in regulated industries, particularly banking, fintech, and insurance. The platform is organized around three core modules — an Evaluation Engine for red-teaming and compliance test-set authoring, a vendor-agnostic Guardrails API that performs real-time policy enforcement, flagging, blocking, redacting, or reporting on AI inputs and outputs, and a Monitoring Dashboard for continuous activity tracking and automated compliance reporting against the EU AI Act, MiFID II, and DORA. Specialized guard models include Investment Guard (fine-tuned on MiFID2 to detect unqualified investment advice), RAG Guardrails (hallucination and irrelevance detection in retrieval-augmented generation), Security Guard v2 (98% multilingual accuracy on prompt injection and jailbreak detection), PII Guard, and Accuracy Guard; the company also offers a Custom Regulatory Agent service for client-specific fine-tuning.

The business model is a B2B SaaS subscription with two primary entry points: tiered API access (500k and 5 million request quotas) for self-serve and developer-led adoption, and a quote-based Enterprise tier that bundles unlimited API requests, expert support, EU data hosting, automated regulatory reporting, and Regulatory Evaluation & Red Teaming. Go-to-market combines enterprise field sales targeting Chief AI Officers, General Counsel, and compliance teams at large financial institutions with a developer self-serve channel enabled by an open-source integration via Mozilla AI's any-guardrail framework and a public demo on HuggingFace Spaces. Named customers include Banco Santander (described by its Chief AI Officer as an 'essential building block' of the bank's AI strategy), Origin Financial, and Engivio. The company has raised approximately $9.9M across a $2.4M pre-seed (June 2024, Speedinvest and Precursor Ventures co-led) and a $7.5M seed (December 2025, Mouro Capital led), and holds SOC 2 Type 2 and GDPR certifications.

Name

Alinia AI

Legal name

ALINIA AI, INC

Website

https://alinia.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Alinia AI builds a vendor-agnostic AI compliance platform — Evaluation Engine, Guardrails API, and Monitoring Dashboard — that helps enterprises in banking, fintech, insurance, and healthcare deploy generative AI in line with the EU AI Act, MiFID II, and DORA.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Compliance and Governance Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Computer Systems Design Services (541512), Custom Computer Programming Services (541511)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

Enterprise AI Governance, Risk & Compliance Platforms (Model Risk, Audit, Policies) (HDAEANAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Responsible AI, Security & Privacy Platforms (Safety, Guardrails, PII) (HDAEANAG), Regulatory Readiness & Audit Automation (e.g., EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001) (HDAAAMAE), AI Observability, Monitoring & Evaluation Platforms (Drift, Quality, Safety) (HDAEANAF), Responsible AI, AI Governance & Compliance Services (BPAEAHAJ)

Keywords

• AI compliance platform
• AI guardrails
• LLM alignment
• AI risk management
• Regulatory AI

Headquarters

HQ city

Barcelona

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Alinia Guard API (API Tier): Tiered API access with predefined request quotas. Two tiers: API (500k requests) and Monitoring Dashboard with access to Alinia guides. Flexible API for configuring Safety & Compliance layers.
2. Alinia Enterprise: Full enterprise tier with Alinia Guard API, expert support, automated reporting, unlimited API requests, and possibility to host data in the EU. Includes Custom Regulatory Agent with advanced fine-tuning and configuration, and Regulatory Evaluation & Red Teaming services.
3. Compliance Tier: Custom Regulatory Agent (advanced fine-tuning and configuration), unlimited API requests, Regulatory Evaluation & Red Teaming with creation of metrics and test sets based on regulatory requirements, and automated compliance reporting.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Alinia AI provides a vendor-agnostic AI alignment and compliance platform that enables enterprises to deploy generative AI applications in regulated industries safely. Its core offering is the Guardrails API, supported by an Evaluation Engine for red teaming and a Monitoring Dashboard for real-time auditing and automated regulatory reporting under frameworks such as EU AI Act, MiFID II, and DORA.

Product overview

Alinia AI offers a unified AI compliance platform with three core modules (Evaluation Engine, Guardrails API, and Monitoring Dashboard) plus specialized purpose-built guard models. The Evaluation Engine enables red teaming and compliance testing of AI assistants against regulatory standards. The Guardrails API provides real-time policy enforcement with specialized detectors including Investment Guard (MiFID2), RAG Guardrails (hallucination detection), Accuracy Guard, Safety & Security Guard, and PII Guard. The Monitoring Dashboard delivers continuous activity tracking and automated compliance reporting. All products are vendor-agnostic and support both cloud and on-premise deployment.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Guardrails API Vendor-agnostic API that provides real-time policy enforcement, auditing, and risk monitoring across any AI deployment. Enables enterprises to configure custom Safety and Compliance Guards that flag, block, redact, or report AI outputs, and integrates with any foundation model via cloud or on-prem deployment.
• Evaluation Engine Module enabling domain experts and compliance teams to create compliance test sets informed by regulatory requirements, stress-test AI assistants against company policies, and craft business-specific LLM scorecards 8x faster, with adversarial testing and red teaming workflows.
• Monitoring Dashboard Real-time tracking module that monitors user and AI assistant activity, provides 100% compliance traceability of AI assistants' activity, supports risk assessment of millions of logs, and generates automated compliance reports for the EU AI Act and DORA.
• Investment Guard First guardrails expert system based on EU MiFID2 requirements, designed to detect and block unqualified investment advice given by AI assistants in financial services. Outperforms Mistral and Google financial guardrails, achieving F1 scores of 0.73-0.77 at ~175ms median latency (approximately 4x faster than GPT-4o).
• RAG Guardrails Purpose-built guard models for detecting hallucinations and irrelevance in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) applications. Built on the RAG Triad framework, with up to 40% uplift in multilingual performance across English, Spanish, Italian, French, German, and Catalan versus Amazon Bedrock, OpenAI GPT-4o-mini, and IBM Granite.
• Security Guard v2 (SecGuard v2) Multilingual security guardrail that detects prompt injection attempts, jailbreak attempts, data exfiltration, and unauthorized token access in AI assistants. SecGuard v2 achieves 98% accuracy across English, Spanish, and Catalan with a 2.43x speedup over v1 and was developed in collaboration with Barcelona Supercomputing Center and the Aina Project.
• Custom Regulatory Agent Enterprise customization offering providing advanced fine-tuning and configuration of proprietary regulatory guard models tailored to specific business requirements and regulatory frameworks, bundled with unlimited API requests and Regulatory Evaluation & Red Teaming services.

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduce risks by 4x with minimal latency
• +7 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

AI capability5 records

Feature10 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• AI AlliancecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 11 July 2024Alinia is a member of the AI Alliance, an international consortium focused on advancing safe and responsible AI. Alinia participates in the Trust & Safety Working Group (focused on understanding trust and safety risks, building tools, methods, and benchmarks) and the Advocacy Working Group (supporting regulatory policies for healthy, sustainable AI ecosystems).
• Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborated with BSC on the multilingual Security Guard v2 project. BSC and the Aina Project enable companies to accelerate development of AI tools in Catalan, a low-resource language.
• Aina ProjectminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Aina Project (projecteaina.cat) supports the use and development of AI tools in Catalan. BSC and the Aina Project enable companies to connect and share multilingual research, supporting Alinia's development of Catalan-language guardrails.
• Universitat Pompeu Fabra Business School (UPF-BSM)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAlinia designed a red teaming challenge with Data Analytics Masters students at UPF-BSM to collect adversarial attack data for improving Security Guard v2. Students were educated on guardrail models and participated in breaking through SecGuard via a gamified UI.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Direct peers

• Credo AI: Credo AI offers an AI Governance, Risk, and Compliance platform for enterprises. Closely aligned with Alinia's GRC positioning and EU AI Act readiness focus, targeting similar regulated-industry buyers.
• Monitaur: Monitaur provides AI governance and model monitoring software for regulated industries. Comparable in audience (compliance/risk teams) and overlapping Monitoring/Governance functionality with Alinia.
• Protect AI: Protect AI offers an AI security platform covering LLM vulnerabilities, model scanning, and guardrails. Overlaps with Alinia's Security Guard and Compliance Guard offerings for regulated enterprises.
• Lakera: Lakera provides AI guardrails and prompt injection defense for LLM applications via an API (Gandalf). Direct competitor to Alinia's Safety & Security Guard and broader Guardrails API across enterprise customers.
• Robust Intelligence (Cisco): Robust Intelligence (acquired by Cisco) provides an AI firewall and validation platform for enterprise AI deployments. Direct competitor in AI guardrails, now backed by a major networking/security incumbent.
• Holistic AI: Holistic AI provides AI governance, risk, and compliance software for enterprises deploying AI at scale. Competes with Alinia's Monitoring Dashboard and Evaluation Engine in the AI GRC category.

Broad incumbents

• AWS Bedrock Guardrails: AWS Bedrock Guardrails provides native content and topic filters within the Bedrock platform. Competes on the safety/accuracy dimension, bundled into a hyperscaler AI platform rather than offered as a standalone cross-vendor API.
• Microsoft Azure AI Content Safety: Azure AI Content Safety provides prompt shields, jailbreak detection, and PII filtering as part of Microsoft's AI services. Competes on safety/security guardrails but lacks Alinia's vertical-specific regulatory depth (MiFID II, EU AI Act).

Emerging players

• Arthur AI: Arthur AI provides an AI observability and monitoring platform for model performance, drift, and explainability. Adjacent to Alinia's Monitoring Dashboard, with broader ML observability rather than regulation-specific guardrails.
• WhyLabs: WhyLabs offers AI observability with LLM-specific monitoring and guardrail capabilities. Overlaps with Alinia on real-time monitoring but is more horizontally positioned across ML/LLM use cases.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors5 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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