# Cyber Company Profiles: Polygraf AI

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## At a Glance

- Website: [polygraf.ai](https://polygraf.ai)
- Profile: https://cybercompanyprofiles.com/companies/polygraf-ai
- Type: Security for AI, Data Security, Governance Risk Compliance, Privacy
- Also known as: Polygraf Inc.
- Market readiness: Established (25/40)
- Defensibility: Contested (13/21)
- Last updated: 2026-07-15

## Executive Summary

This analysis is scoped to AI security and governance.

Polygraf AI sells on-premises software that inspects AI prompts and responses inside the customer's own network, strips personal data before it reaches external models like ChatGPT, and enforces AI-usage policy without sending data to the cloud. It raised a $9.5 million seed round led by Allegis Capital in October 2025. Polygraf shows more recognition, including awards from SXSW and The Hacker News, than named customer proof for its core AI products. Its clearest deployment is an unnamed county government, with an Epson case study covering adjacent secure printing and scanning. Its real edge is running where cloud-based rivals cannot, in air-gapped and classified settings. But larger platforms can absorb runtime AI controls, so that edge is a head start rather than a settled advantage.

## Contents

- [Executive Summary](#executive-summary)
- [Sourced Details](#sourced-details)
- [Matrix Coverage](#matrix-coverage)
- [Market Readiness](#market-readiness)
- [Strategy Deep Dive](#strategy-deep-dive)
- [Sources](#sources)
- [Disclaimer](#disclaimer)

## Sourced Details

| Detail | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Description | On-premise AI security and governance that enforces enterprise AI policy inline with local small language models, keeping sensitive data from reaching external LLMs and flagging AI-driven threats. | [\[f1\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| HQ | Austin, Texas | [\[f2\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Latest funding | Seed, $9.5 million (October 2025) | [\[f3\]](#company-detail-sources) |

### Products

| Product | What it does |
|---|---|
| AI Behavioral Control Plane | Inline control plane that inspects AI interactions and enforces organizational AI policy in real time, on-premises or air-gapped. |
| Secure LLM | Privacy engine that removes personal and confidential data before prompts reach external models such as ChatGPT or Claude, then restores it in the response. |
| Data Provenance | Provenance layer that authenticates prompts and calls to counter deepfake fraud and trace where content originated. |
| AI Content Detection Suite | AI-generated text, deepfake audio, and plagiarism detection tools plus AI writing aids, sold to education and marketing users. |

## Matrix Coverage

Mapped to the [AI Defense Matrix](https://aidefensematrix.com) [\[f1\]](#company-detail-sources):

| Asset | Govern | Identify | Protect | Detect | Respond | Recover |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runtime AI Data |  |  | ✓ | ✓ |  |  |
| AI Orchestration Tools |  |  | ✓ | ✓ |  |  |

Polygraf's AI Behavioral Control Plane inspects prompts and responses at runtime, removes sensitive data before it reaches external language models, and enforces AI-usage policy on tools such as ChatGPT and Claude. Polygraf is mapped to the AI Defense Matrix.

## Market Readiness

How well the company can compete in its security market, scored across eight dimensions against public evidence.

**Established (25/40)**

Analyzed 2026-07-04. Scope: AI security and governance.

| Dimension | Score | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Problem Clarity | 3/5 | Polygraf names its buyers, regulated enterprises and government teams adopting AI, and states the exposure plainly, that employee AI use leaks sensitive data to external models. The pain stays vendor-framed without independent quantification, so it reads as present rather than differentiated. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s3](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Capability Depth | 3/5 | The homepage details inline input and output controls, including personal data anonymization, prompt-injection detection, and output validation, with concrete deployment specifics across on-premises, air-gapped, and cloud targets, and press describes the small-language-model architecture. The record carries vendor claims of independent validation but no inspectable benchmark report or third-party technical evaluation of Polygraf's own detectors. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s3](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Market Timing | 4/5 | Regulatory drivers such as the EU AI Act and analyst attention to AI governance, alongside defense and intelligence demand reported around the seed round, point to buyers seeking on-premises AI controls. The enabler is enterprise generative-AI adoption since 2023 outrunning cloud-only governance in regulated settings. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s4](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Team Credibility | 3/5 | Founder and CEO Yagub Rahimov and COO Vignesh Karumbaya lead a team advised by NumPy and SciPy creator Travis Oliphant and a former House Intelligence Committee chairman, verifiable and relevant experience. Rahimov describes a prior fintech-media exit but shows no in-domain security exit or sustained publication record, so credibility sits at the competent-operator level. \[[s2](#profile-analysis-sources), [s7](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| GTM Proof | 3/5 | One documented government deployment, an unnamed county, gives the scoped line named traction without corroborated scale, and the Epson case study covers adjacent secure printing and scanning. Reputable backing from Allegis Capital supports a small indirect-signal adjustment, and no multiple named enterprise reference customers for the security line appear in the public record. \[[s5](#profile-analysis-sources), [s9](#profile-analysis-sources), [s3](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Funding Efficiency | 3/5 | The $9.5 million seed led by Allegis Capital in October 2025 is proportional to a seed-stage company shipping a broad, containerized product across many deployment targets, and no disclosed revenue or margin lets efficiency be confirmed, the honest default for a funded private startup. \[[s3](#profile-analysis-sources), [s4](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Category Clarity | 3/5 | On its own site Polygraf displays recognition as a representative vendor in a Gartner market guide, and it fits the emerging AI-governance category, but it leads with its own coined term, AI Behavioral Control, and the interview describes a category the company is still working to define alongside analyst firms, so buyers need vendor explanation. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s7](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Incumbent Defensibility | 3/5 | On-premises and air-gapped deployment depth gives Polygraf some friction against absorption, letting it serve regulated and classified buyers a cloud-only control cannot reach, but the underlying inline controls are absorbable by large platform vendors and no structural data moat appears in the record. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s2](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |

### Business Risks

- Large AI platform vendors could bundle inline AI data-loss and guardrail controls into their suites, undercutting a separately priced Polygraf purchase.
- Public traction for the security line rests on one unnamed government deployment, so if named enterprise references do not appear, buyers could discount the awards as marketing rather than proof.
- The compliance badges on the site are self-displayed, so without an inspectable third-party attestation such as a SOC 2 report or ISO certificate, regulated buyers could demand proof Polygraf has not published.
- The small-language-model architecture is the core differentiator, so a funded rival or an open-source project could replicate single-task guardrail models and erode the technical edge.
- Polygraf also sells a consumer AI-detection and text-humanizer suite, including products named Stealth AI Writer and Content Humanizer, which could conflict with its enterprise-security positioning.
- The on-premises edge depends on cloud rivals staying out of classified settings, so if platform vendors ship compliant government-cloud or on-premises options, the deployment advantage narrows.

### Problem & Market

Polygraf sells to regulated organizations that want to adopt AI without letting sensitive data leave their control. The homepage frames the problem as uncontrolled data exposure created when employees and applications send prompts to external models, and its solution pages target defense and national security, insurance, finance, healthcare, and government buyers.

Independent reporting corroborates the buyer and the moment. Pulse 2.0 describes the company securing enterprise and government AI ecosystems against deepfakes, data leaks, and AI-generated fraud, and SecurityWeek frames the seed round around demand for AI security in high-trust sectors. The pain is stated in category terms rather than quantified by a third party, so the problem is clearly drawn but not independently sized. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s4](#profile-analysis-sources), [s3](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Product Capabilities

The product inspects AI traffic inline and enforces policy before data reaches a model. The homepage enumerates input controls such as a prompt-injection detector and a personal-data anonymizer, and output controls such as validation and toxicity filtering, and it lists container deployment across air-gapped Kubernetes, private cloud, the major cloud providers, and edge devices with sub-100-millisecond enforcement latency.

Its distinguishing choice is architectural. Press and the founder interview describe Polygraf running small, single-purpose language models locally rather than one large cloud model, so screening can run offline on modest hardware. The reviewed record carries vendor claims of independent validation but no inspectable benchmark, open-source artifact, or third-party technical evaluation of Polygraf's own detectors. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s3](#profile-analysis-sources), [s7](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Competitive Positioning

Polygraf competes in runtime AI security and governance, a category large platform vendors are entering quickly. Its foothold against them is where it runs, an on-premises and air-gapped design that reaches defense, intelligence, and classified buyers a cloud-only control cannot serve, which the company puts at the center of its defense-and-intelligence positioning.

That position is a head start rather than a barrier. The inline controls Polygraf sells overlap with what the major cloud and security platforms are building, and the company holds no evidenced structural moat over them. Its edge holds while it keeps a real deployment gap and specialized-model advantage over vendors whose controls assume the cloud. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s4](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Go-to-Market & Traction

Public proof of paying customers for the security line is thin. The clearest deployment is a case study with an unnamed county government that used Polygraf for data governance, secure printing and scanning, and content validation, and a separate Epson secure-printing case study sits beside a logo wall of partners rather than attributed enterprise references.

Indirect signals carry more weight than direct traction here. Allegis Capital led the seed round, and the company has collected recognition including Best in Show at SXSW and a Global InfoSec Award. Those signals suggest real momentum, but named enterprise reference customers speaking publicly for the security product do not yet appear in the record. \[[s5](#profile-analysis-sources), [s9](#profile-analysis-sources), [s3](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Team & Credibility

Polygraf is led by founder and CEO Yagub Rahimov and co-founder and COO Vignesh Karumbaya, with a governance and detection leadership bench listed on the about page. The advisory roster is the strongest public signal: it includes Travis Oliphant, the creator of the NumPy and SciPy scientific-computing libraries, and a former House Intelligence Committee chairman advising on defense.

The operating team shows relevant experience without a category-defining track record. In an interview, Rahimov describes co-founding a fintech media group that exited to private equity in 2020, but the founders have no prior cybersecurity exit or sustained research publication record, so credibility comes from the current product and the caliber of the advisors it has attracted. \[[s2](#profile-analysis-sources), [s7](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Trust Readiness

Polygraf presents compliance readiness through self-displayed badges. The homepage shows AICPA SOC, PCI-DSS, ISO, EU AI Act, and NIST marks as images. A probe on 2026-07-04 of the trust subdomain, which did not resolve, the /security path, which returned not-found, and the homepage found those self-displayed badges but no inspectable third-party attestation report or trust portal.

The architecture itself is the trust argument. Running screening on-premises or air-gapped means sensitive data never leaves the customer environment, which fits regulated and classified buyers, and the confidential county deployment shows a government customer accepting that model. That is a product property rather than an audited attestation, so a buyer requiring a SOC 2 report or ISO certificate would need to confirm it directly. \[[s8](#profile-analysis-sources), [s5](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Competitors

| Company | Relationship | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Prompt Security | competes with | Runtime generative-AI screening and data-loss prevention for employee AI use, applications, and agents, the same inline use case. |
| Aim Security | competes with | Enterprise generative-AI security platform covering AI usage, data exposure, and application risk. |
| CalypsoAI | competes with | AI security and governance with inline enforcement, positioned for regulated and defense buyers. |
| Lakera | competes with | Runtime guardrails that screen prompts and responses for AI applications and agents. |
| Palo Alto Networks | competes with | Prisma AIRS brings AI runtime security into a large security platform that can bundle the capability. |
| Microsoft | adjacent | Purview and Copilot data controls overlap with Polygraf's AI data-governance features for enterprises already on its stack. |

## Strategy Deep Dive

A closer look at the company's product strategy, measuring how [defensible](https://zeltser.com/scoring-security-product-strategy) it is against market forces and examining the [eight areas](https://zeltser.com/security-product-creation-framework) behind it.

### Defensibility

**Contested (13/21)**

Band guidance: reinforce or reposition. Analyzed 2026-07-15. Scope: AI security and governance.

Polygraf's software is its reproducible layer. Its inline controls for inspecting prompts, redacting data, and enforcing AI policy are the kind of features larger platforms can build, and a funded rival could match them. Its SOC, ISO, and PCI badges are self-displayed, and the reviewed record names no proprietary dataset, so neither locks a customer in. The one hard-to-copy asset is deployment reach: small models that run air-gapped let Polygraf into defense and classified settings a cloud product cannot enter, a head start rather than a lasting moat. Leaving is costly mainly in the effort to re-tune policies and re-wire integrations, since the customer keeps the data. Most defensible for regulated buyers who must keep data on-site, weakest where a cloud control is good enough.

| Dimension | Score | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Value Delivery | 1/3 | Polygraf delivers software the customer deploys and configures as a container in its own environment, the software-product level. No human service layer accepting accountability for the screening decisions is evidenced. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s6](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Switching Cost | 2/3 | Wiring the control plane into AI workflows, integrating with external models, and tuning enforcement policies would accumulate meaningful friction, though no customer migration evidence is public, so leaving is expensive in effort rather than in consequence. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s6](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Compliance Moat | 1/3 | A 2026-07-04 probe found self-displayed SOC, PCI, and ISO badges but no inspectable attestation report, certification, or liability acceptance that would block a determined replacement. \[[s8](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Problem Complexity | 3/3 | Running small, single-purpose language models locally, inline, and under 100 milliseconds is machine-learning and real-time-systems engineering, well above the forms-and-dashboards level, though the reviewed evidence for it is vendor and award-page described rather than independently benchmarked. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s3](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Buyer Profile | 3/3 | The evidenced buyer is regulated and governmental, a confidential county government deployment plus a defense and intelligence go-to-market, where procurement and legal sit between the vendor and any replacement. \[[s5](#deep-dive-sources), [s4](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Layer | 2/3 | Polygraf is a control plane with application features such as a secure chat interface, more than an end-user app but not yet infrastructure other applications demonstrably depend on. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Proprietary Data, Content, or IP | 1/3 | The purpose-built small language models are proprietary work, but no named non-public dataset appears in the record and the on-premises design evidences no cross-customer data asset, so a funded team could rebuild the models. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s3](#deep-dive-sources)\] |

### Strategic Market Segmentation

Polygraf targets regulated organizations that must keep data on-site while adopting AI. Its solution pages address defense and national security, insurance, finance, healthcare, and government, and press describes it securing enterprise and government AI ecosystems, so the segmentation is by data-sensitivity and regulatory exposure rather than company size.

The clearest committed segment is government. A published case study documents an unnamed county government using Polygraf for AI data governance, and the seed round was pitched around defense and intelligence buyers. That focus fits the on-premises design, since the buyers least able to send data to a cloud model are the ones Polygraf is built to serve. \[[s4](#deep-dive-sources), [s5](#deep-dive-sources), [s3](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Product Capabilities & AI Advantages

Polygraf inspects AI traffic inline and enforces policy before data reaches a model. Its Secure LLM removes personal and confidential data before a prompt is shared with an external model such as ChatGPT or Claude and restores it in the response, and the homepage lists input controls including a prompt-injection detector and output validation, deployable on-premises, air-gapped, or in the major clouds.

Its stated advantage is running small, single-purpose language models locally rather than one large cloud model, which the founder argues lets screening run offline on modest hardware. The evidence for accuracy is vendor-authored. The reviewed record carries vendor and award-page claims of independent validation, but no inspectable benchmark report, open-source artifact, or third-party technical evaluation of Polygraf's own detectors was cited. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s7](#deep-dive-sources), [s3](#deep-dive-sources), [s6](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Sales Engagement & Go-to-Market

The public motion is demo-led direct sales aimed at security and compliance buyers. The site routes visitors to book a demo rather than to self-serve, and the seed round funds go-to-market expansion into enterprise, defense, and intelligence accounts, a high-touch motion that fits regulated procurement.

Direct traction proof is thin in public. In named terms, Polygraf points to the confidential county deployment and an Epson secure-printing case study, while the reputable Allegis Capital lead and early awards act as indirect credibility. The cited case studies do not clearly name an enterprise customer endorsing the AI Behavioral Control or Secure LLM product specifically. \[[s9](#deep-dive-sources), [s3](#deep-dive-sources), [s5](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Pricing Model

Polygraf does not publish prices on its public pages. It routes buyers to a demo or contact form, the common pattern for enterprise security vendors selling negotiated, deployment-specific deals rather than self-serve subscriptions.

The hidden price is consistent with a negotiated model matched to on-premises delivery. An air-gapped or private-cloud deployment sized to a customer's environment and compute is offered through negotiated engagements with no public pricing unit or contract structure, so the unit of value reads as a bespoke deployment rather than a published per-seat or per-token rate that a buyer could compare directly. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Product Delivery & Operations

Delivery is a container the customer runs inside its own environment. The homepage lists deployment across air-gapped Kubernetes, Docker, private cloud such as VMware and OpenStack, the major cloud providers, and edge devices, with modest compute requirements and sub-100-millisecond enforcement latency, so the buyer operates the software rather than consuming a hosted service.

Inline screening makes operations part of the promise. A control plane that inspects every AI request before it reaches a model must be fast and available or teams route around it, and Polygraf answers that with published latency and footprint figures. In the self-hosted form the vendor markets, day-to-day operations and upgrades sit with the buyer's own team. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s6](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Earning Customers' Trust

Polygraf presents compliance readiness through self-displayed badges. The homepage shows AICPA SOC, PCI-DSS, ISO, EU AI Act, and NIST marks as images. A probe on 2026-07-04 of the trust subdomain, which did not resolve, the /security path, which returned not-found, and the homepage found those self-displayed badges but no inspectable third-party attestation report or trust portal.

Architecture is the substantive trust argument. Keeping data on-premises or air-gapped means sensitive content never leaves the customer environment, and the confidential county case study documents a government deployment of its governance and content tools, without detailing the deployment model. That is a product property rather than an audited attestation, so a buyer that requires a SOC 2 report or ISO certificate would need to confirm it directly with the company. \[[s8](#deep-dive-sources), [s5](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Platform Strategy & Ecosystem Positioning

Polygraf positions itself as a control layer that sits between users and whatever AI a customer runs. It inspects interactions with external chatbots such as ChatGPT and Claude and integrates through APIs, so the company frames itself as a neutral enforcement point across a customer's AI stack rather than a single application.

The ecosystem play depends on breadth of integration the public record only partly documents. The homepage names external-model coverage and API access and lists NVIDIA and Intel as edge-device deployment targets, but the depth of connectors into enterprise tools and agent frameworks is not detailed in the reviewed pages, so how far the neutral-layer positioning extends is not fully established. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Team & Execution Capability

Polygraf is led by founder and CEO Yagub Rahimov and co-founder and COO Vignesh Karumbaya, with governance and detection leads listed on the about page. The advisory bench is the strongest public credential: it includes Travis Oliphant, creator of the NumPy and SciPy scientific-computing libraries, and a former House Intelligence Committee chairman advising on defense.

The operating team shows relevant experience without a category-defining track record. In an interview, Rahimov describes co-founding a fintech media group that exited to private equity in 2020, and the reviewed record shows no prior cybersecurity exit or sustained research publication, so the team's credibility comes from the current product and the caliber of advisors it has drawn. \[[s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s7](#deep-dive-sources)\]

## Sources

### Company Detail Sources

Cited from the Sourced Details and Matrix Coverage rows.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| f1 | [Polygraf AI homepage: AI Behavioral Control plane](https://polygraf.ai) | official | 2026-07-04 |
| f2 | [The Hacker News Cybersecurity Stars Awards 2026: Polygraf profile](https://awards.thehackernews.com/winners/2026/polygraf-ai-behavioral-control-plane/) | press | 2026-07-04 |
| f3 | [SecurityWeek: AI Security Firm Polygraf Raises $9.5 Million in Seed Funding](https://www.securityweek.com/ai-security-firm-polygraf-raises-9-5-million-in-seed-funding/) | press | 2026-07-04 |

### Profile Analysis Sources

Cited from the Market Readiness section.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [Polygraf AI homepage: Secure LLM, AI Behavioral Control plane, deployment targets, input and output controls](https://polygraf.ai) “Polygraf's Secure LLM protects your privacy by automatically removing personal and confidential data before it's shared with ChatGPT, Claude, or any other external model, then safely restoring it after processing the response.” | official | 2026-07-04 |
| s2 | [Polygraf AI about page: leadership team and advisors](https://polygraf.ai/about) “Yagub Rahimov Founder & CEO Vignesh Karumbaya Co-Founder & COO Togrul Tahirov Head of AI Governance. Dr. Travis Oliphant Machine Learning Advisor SciPy, NumPy, Numba Creator. Fmr. Rep. C. Stewart Defense & Lobbying Advisor Former House IC Chairman.” | official | 2026-07-04 |
| s3 | [SecurityWeek: AI Security Firm Polygraf Raises $9.5 Million in Seed Funding](https://www.securityweek.com/ai-security-firm-polygraf-raises-9-5-million-in-seed-funding/) “Polygraf AI announced on Tuesday that it has raised $9.5 million in a seed funding round. The funding round was led by Allegis Capital, with participation from Alumni Ventures, DataPower VC, Domino Ventures and others.” | press | 2026-07-04 |
| s4 | [Pulse 2.0: Polygraf AI $9.5 Million Seed Funding Closed](https://pulse2.com/polygraf-ai-9-5-million-seed-funding-closed-to-scale-enterprise-ai-security-solutions/) “Polygraf AI, a Texas-based artificial intelligence security company, has raised $9.5 million in seed funding to accelerate its mission of securing enterprise and government AI ecosystems against threats such as deepfakes, data leaks, and AI-generated fraud.” | press | 2026-07-04 |
| s5 | [Polygraf AI case study: US County Government AI Governance Solution (published 2025-07-11)](https://polygraf.ai/case-studies/us-county-government-ai-governance-solution/) “[Confidential] County partnered with Polygraf AI to implement a comprehensive Data governance solution. Polygraf AI provided AI-driven data governance, secure printing and scanning, and content validation tools to enhance security and compliance.” | official | 2026-07-04 |
| s6 | [The Hacker News Cybersecurity Stars Awards 2026: Polygraf, Most Innovative Cybersecurity Company](https://awards.thehackernews.com/winners/2026/polygraf-ai-behavioral-control-plane/) “Headquartered in Austin, Polygraf AI's AI Behavioral Control plane allows organizations to enforce AI policies without sending data to third-party cloud environments, and has received recognition including Best in Show at SXSW 2025.” | press | 2026-07-04 |
| s7 | [Robin Ayoub interview with Yagub Rahimov on Polygraf AI](https://robinayoub.blog/2026/06/17/he-turned-25k-into-1-9m-lost-it-then-built-ai-that-protects-your-data-yagub-rahimov/) “He rebuilt, co-founded a fintech media group, exited to private equity in 2020, and then turned his attention to a problem he calls the biggest trust issue of our time: how do you adopt AI without handing over your data.” | press | 2026-07-04 |
| s8 | [Polygraf AI attestation probe 2026-07-04: trust subdomain DNS unresolved, /security 404, homepage shows image-only AICPA SOC, PCI-DSS, ISO badges](https://polygraf.ai) “Security Standards You Can Trust. Image gallery marquee aicpa-soc, PCI-DSS Compliant, ISO, EU AI Act, NIST RMF.” | official | 2026-07-04 |
| s9 | [Polygraf AI case studies index: Epson secure printing, US County Government, regional insurance carrier](https://polygraf.ai/case-studies/) “Epson, Secure Printing and Scanning. US County Government, AI Governance Solution. Regional Insurance Carrier, Fraud Claim Detection and Claims Automation.” | official | 2026-07-04 |

### Deep-Dive Sources

Cited from the Strategy Deep Dive section.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [Polygraf AI homepage: Secure LLM, AI Behavioral Control plane, deployment targets, input and output controls](https://polygraf.ai) “Polygraf's Secure LLM protects your privacy by automatically removing personal and confidential data before it's shared with ChatGPT, Claude, or any other external model, then safely restoring it after processing the response.” | official | 2026-07-04 |
| s2 | [Polygraf AI about page: leadership team and advisors](https://polygraf.ai/about) “Yagub Rahimov Founder & CEO Vignesh Karumbaya Co-Founder & COO Togrul Tahirov Head of AI Governance. Dr. Travis Oliphant Machine Learning Advisor SciPy, NumPy, Numba Creator. Fmr. Rep. C. Stewart Defense & Lobbying Advisor Former House IC Chairman.” | official | 2026-07-04 |
| s3 | [SecurityWeek: AI Security Firm Polygraf Raises $9.5 Million in Seed Funding](https://www.securityweek.com/ai-security-firm-polygraf-raises-9-5-million-in-seed-funding/) “Polygraf AI announced on Tuesday that it has raised $9.5 million in a seed funding round. The funding round was led by Allegis Capital, with participation from Alumni Ventures, DataPower VC, Domino Ventures and others.” | press | 2026-07-04 |
| s4 | [Pulse 2.0: Polygraf AI $9.5 Million Seed Funding Closed](https://pulse2.com/polygraf-ai-9-5-million-seed-funding-closed-to-scale-enterprise-ai-security-solutions/) “Polygraf AI, a Texas-based artificial intelligence security company, has raised $9.5 million in seed funding to accelerate its mission of securing enterprise and government AI ecosystems against threats such as deepfakes, data leaks, and AI-generated fraud.” | press | 2026-07-04 |
| s5 | [Polygraf AI case study: US County Government AI Governance Solution (published 2025-07-11)](https://polygraf.ai/case-studies/us-county-government-ai-governance-solution/) “[Confidential] County partnered with Polygraf AI to implement a comprehensive Data governance solution. Polygraf AI provided AI-driven data governance, secure printing and scanning, and content validation tools to enhance security and compliance.” | official | 2026-07-04 |
| s6 | [The Hacker News Cybersecurity Stars Awards 2026: Polygraf, Most Innovative Cybersecurity Company](https://awards.thehackernews.com/winners/2026/polygraf-ai-behavioral-control-plane/) “Headquartered in Austin, Polygraf AI's AI Behavioral Control plane allows organizations to enforce AI policies without sending data to third-party cloud environments, and has received recognition including Best in Show at SXSW 2025.” | press | 2026-07-04 |
| s7 | [Robin Ayoub interview with Yagub Rahimov on Polygraf AI](https://robinayoub.blog/2026/06/17/he-turned-25k-into-1-9m-lost-it-then-built-ai-that-protects-your-data-yagub-rahimov/) “He rebuilt, co-founded a fintech media group, exited to private equity in 2020, and then turned his attention to a problem he calls the biggest trust issue of our time: how do you adopt AI without handing over your data.” | press | 2026-07-04 |
| s8 | [Polygraf AI attestation probe 2026-07-04: trust subdomain DNS unresolved, /security 404, homepage shows image-only AICPA SOC, PCI-DSS, ISO badges](https://polygraf.ai) “Security Standards You Can Trust. Image gallery marquee aicpa-soc, PCI-DSS Compliant, ISO, EU AI Act, NIST RMF.” | official | 2026-07-04 |
| s9 | [Polygraf AI case studies index: Epson secure printing, US County Government, regional insurance carrier](https://polygraf.ai/case-studies/) “Epson, Secure Printing and Scanning. US County Government, AI Governance Solution. Regional Insurance Carrier, Fraud Claim Detection and Claims Automation.” | official | 2026-07-04 |

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