Opus Guard

What Opus Guard does

Opus Guard, Inc. is a Delaware-incorporated, San Francisco-headquartered SaaS company founded in 2024 that develops native Atlassian Cloud applications for information governance and content retention management across Confluence and Jira. Its two core products, Content Retention Manager for Confluence and Content Retention Manager for Jira, are built on the Atlassian Forge platform and are available in Lite and Standard editions, with a separate Government Cloud edition. The products automate retention policy enforcement, content classification, immutable audit logging, and defensible deletion, and map to a broad set of regulatory frameworks including FINRA, DORA, GDPR, CCPA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27701, HIPAA, and PCI DSS. Standard-edition customers also receive an AI Content Classification agent integrated with Atlassian Rovo and Confluence Automation, positioning the platform as a data-hygiene layer that prepares enterprise content for AI consumption by tools such as Glean and Rovo.

The company operates a hybrid go-to-market combining a self-serve product-led growth motion through the Atlassian Marketplace with 30-day free trials and a parallel enterprise sales motion targeting compliance, legal, IT, and security buyers. Distribution is anchored by its Atlassian Marketplace Partner status and reinforced by Atlassian Ventures, which led an undisclosed early-stage funding round in October 2024. Named customer logos span financial services (Betterment), technology (ServiceRocket, Kintsugi, and others), and healthcare (Healthbridge), and the company has achieved SOC 2 Type II certification as well as Atlassian's Cloud Fortified and Runs on Atlassian designations. With 1-10 employees, Opus Guard remains an early-stage venture-backed company in active product development through 2025, with stated use-of-funds directed at enterprise certifications, feature expansion, and go-to-market acceleration.

Name

Opus Guard

Legal name

Opus Guard, Inc.

Website

https://opusguard.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Opus Guard builds native Atlassian Forge applications that automate content retention, classification, and audit logging across Confluence and Jira for compliance, legal, IT, and security teams in regulated enterprises.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Compliance and Information Governance Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Data Privacy, Consent & Compliance Management (HDAEADAG)

akta.pro secondary industry

Security Audits & Compliance (ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOX) (BPAKADAC)

Keywords

• Content retention management
• Information governance software
• Atlassian cloud apps
• Compliance automation
• Data retention policies

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. SaaS Subscription (Standard Edition): Full-featured subscription with policies, classification, audit log, content audit, admin bulk operations, automation, delegation, and non-admin user access. Sold via Atlassian Marketplace.
2. SaaS Subscription (Lite Edition): Limited edition allowing administrators to establish retention policies and audit content without destructive permissions. Stepping stone before advancing to Standard edition.
3. Enterprise Editions: Government Cloud edition available with same features as Standard. Premium/Enterprise tier required for certain features like bulk archiving and automatic archiving.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Opus Guard develops and sells native Atlassian Cloud applications, branded as Content Retention Manager, that automate content retention policies, data classification, and compliance auditing for Confluence and Jira. The apps run on the Atlassian Forge platform, enforce granular retention rules at global, space, and user levels, purge or archive outdated content automatically, and produce immutable audit logs to help organizations comply with regulations such as FINRA, DORA, GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS.

Product overview

Opus Guard provides a dual-core product architecture for AI-ready content retention management across the Atlassian ecosystem. Content Retention Manager for Confluence and Content Retention Manager for Jira are native Atlassian Cloud applications available in Lite and Standard editions. Both products offer policy-driven retention automation, data classification, content auditing, and compliance reporting. The Standard edition adds AI-powered classification via Atlassian Rovo agents, bulk operations, delegation capabilities, and automation features. The products share a unified governance framework enabling organizations to manage retention policies across both Confluence and Jira from a consistent compliance posture.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Content Retention Manager for Confluence: AI-Ready content retention management solution for Atlassian Confluence that automates policies, purges outdated data, and ensures compliance.
• Content Retention Manager for Jira

Products and services

• Content Retention Manager for Confluence
• Content Retention Manager for Jira

Quantifiable outcome

• Demonstrate compliance in minutes instead of months using immutable audit logs
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability4 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• AtlassiancoreTechnology or IntegrationAtlassian Marketplace Partner with apps built on Atlassian Forge platform. Opus Guard participates in mandated security programs by Atlassian Marketplace including Ecoscanner monitoring and Vulnerability Disclosure Program.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• AvePoint: Direct competitor in Microsoft 365 and Atlassian data governance, retention, and compliance management. AvePoint's Confluence and Jira governance products overlap directly with Opus Guard's Content Retention Manager in target buyer, use case, and platform.

Broad incumbents

• OneTrust: Large-scale privacy, consent, and compliance management platform. While OneTrust focuses on consent/DSAR workflows, it increasingly competes for the same CISO/GC budget that funds retention and governance tooling across the enterprise.
• Collibra: Enterprise data intelligence and governance platform serving regulated industries. Collibra competes for the same information governance budget as Opus Guard, though at a much broader enterprise scale and with deeper data catalog capabilities.
• Varonis: Data security and governance platform covering retention, classification, and audit. While focused on file systems and email rather than Atlassian, Varonis targets the same compliance buyer and increasingly supports SaaS content systems.
• Diligent (Galvanize/ACL): GRC and compliance platform serving regulated enterprises and boards. Diligent competes for the same compliance and audit-readiness budget as Opus Guard, particularly in financial services and public sector.

Emerging players

• BigID: Data intelligence platform for privacy, security, and governance. BigID overlaps with Opus Guard on data classification and retention enforcement, particularly for enterprises needing to map and govern personal data across systems.
• Egnyte: Content governance and collaboration platform for regulated industries. Egnyte competes for compliance-driven content retention use cases, especially in financial services and life sciences, with similar compliance framework positioning.
• BetterCloud: SaaS operations and governance platform. While BetterCloud focuses on Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 today, it represents a category competitor pursuing content lifecycle and compliance automation for SaaS-native enterprises.
• Hyperproof: Compliance operations platform supporting SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and similar frameworks. Overlaps with Opus Guard on the audit-readiness and evidence-collection side of enterprise compliance programs.
• Onspring: GRC and information governance platform with retention and policy management capabilities. Onspring is a comparable mid-market competitor in the same compliance and information governance category.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/opus-guard

Compliance7 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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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