# Cyber Company Profiles: PromptArmor

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## At a Glance

- Website: [promptarmor.com](https://www.promptarmor.com/)
- Profile: https://cybercompanyprofiles.com/companies/promptarmor
- Type: Security for AI, Governance Risk Compliance, Threat Intelligence
- Also known as: Board Security Inc.
- Market readiness: Emerging (24/40)
- Defensibility: Defensible (15/21)
- Founded: 2023
- Last updated: 2026-09-16

## Executive Summary

PromptArmor, founded in 2023, sells AI vendor assessment and monitoring software to security, vendor-risk, privacy and legal teams. It also helps AI vendors present their controls and test results to prospective customers. Customers include HubSpot, Ropes & Gray and Texas Mutual Insurance. HubSpot uses PromptArmor to assess AI vendors and internal tools. The Register covered PromptArmor's findings on attacks that trick Slack AI into exposing private data. PromptArmor alerts customers to changes in vendors' models and data access, and supplies research guidance alongside its software. It fits teams that need ongoing AI vendor reviews informed by vulnerability research.

## 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 | PromptArmor sells an AI risk intelligence platform that helps security and third-party-risk teams review the AI their vendors run, scoring a vendor's applications, agents, models, connectors and plugins across 26 risk vectors, testing for indirect prompt injection, and alerting on AI changes. | [\[f1\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Founded | 2023 | [\[f2\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| HQ | San Francisco, California, US | [\[f2\]](#company-detail-sources) |

### Products

| Product | What it does |
|---|---|
| PromptArmor | Scores the AI risk of a vendor's applications, agents, models, skills, connectors and plugins across 26 risk vectors, tests for indirect prompt injection, and monitors vendors for AI changes. |

## Matrix Coverage

Mapped to the [AI Defense Matrix](https://aidefensematrix.com) [\[f3\]](#company-detail-sources):

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

PromptArmor scores the risk of the AI applications, agents, models, skills, connectors and plugins that vendors run, across 26 vectors mapped to NIST AI RMF, OWASP LLM Top 10, and MITRE ATLAS, and tests vendor AI for indirect prompt injection. These capabilities are 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.

**Emerging (24/40)**

Analyzed 2026-09-16. Scope: whole company.

| Dimension | Score | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Problem Clarity | 3/5 | PromptArmor names the buyer and the pain in one line: its homepage sells accelerated AI governance reviews for third-party-risk, information-security, privacy and legal teams across every asset a vendor runs. Independent reporting on its Slack AI and Claude Cowork findings shows the underlying exposure is real rather than vendor framing, which is what keeps this above the floor. No cited source puts a number on what the review backlog costs a buyer, so the problem is specific and credible without independent quantification. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s7](#profile-analysis-sources), [s8](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Capability Depth | 3/5 | The captured pages set out concrete mechanics: risk scoring across 26 vectors mapped to NIST AI RMF, the OWASP LLM Top 10 and MITRE ATLAS, indirect prompt injection assessment across application construction, connector scope and data access, and a repository of per-vendor reports a reader can open. The Claude Cowork writeup shows the same attack class working end to end, which is craft rather than a marketing claim. The reviewed record carries no third-party technical evaluation of the product itself, so the depth rests on the company's own pages and its own research. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s12](#profile-analysis-sources), [s16](#profile-analysis-sources), [s19](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Market Timing | 3/5 | The enabler is concrete and dated. PromptArmor's monitoring feed names vendors changing their AI under customers, including Dynatrace enabling generative AI by default for all new tenants as of March 23, 2026, and THE DECODER's January 2026 coverage shows a major agent shipping with an exploitable exfiltration path days after launch. PromptArmor names Ropes & Gray and Texas Mutual Insurance as customers on its homepage. The cited sources do not establish multiple independently documented kinds of buyer demand. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s8](#profile-analysis-sources), [s16](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Team Credibility | 4/5 | The founders are named with in-domain backgrounds, and the researchers have published a run of original disclosures rather than one. Y Combinator's news list carries The Register on Slack AI in August 2024, The Information on Claude for Excel in November 2025 and The Register on an IBM agent in January 2026, and THE DECODER covered the Claude Cowork finding separately that month. That is a plural publication record with independent evidence behind it, in the mechanism the product tests. The cited pages do not document a prior founder exit, which holds it below the top rung. \[[s9](#profile-analysis-sources), [s7](#profile-analysis-sources), [s8](#profile-analysis-sources), [s16](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| GTM Proof | 3/5 | Three buyers are named: HubSpot, whose vendor risk and security lead is quoted on the homepage and in a case study, plus Ropes & Gray and Texas Mutual Insurance in the homepage trusted-by section. Alteryx's chief information security officer endorses the company's expertise without the record showing Alteryx as a buyer. Named references at this stage are real traction, which keeps this above the floor. PromptArmor publishes these customer names and attributed testimonials on its own site. No cited independent source reports customer scale or revenue. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s5](#profile-analysis-sources), [s11](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Funding Efficiency | 2/5 | The output side is documented: a priced product with a free entry tier, a repository of published vendor reports, a monitoring feed and open engineering, operations and sales roles in San Francisco. The capital side is silent. Y Combinator's profile places the company in the Winter 2024 batch and records no amount, round or date of a raise, SEC EDGAR company searches for PromptArmor and for Board Security under form type D return no matching companies, and no captured page states revenue or margin. Evidence on one side and silence on the other is one-sided rather than proportional. \[[s9](#profile-analysis-sources), [s17](#profile-analysis-sources), [s18](#profile-analysis-sources), [s2](#profile-analysis-sources), [s15](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Category Clarity | 3/5 | Buyers can place PromptArmor beside a third-party-risk program they already run. The site organizes around TPRM, security operations, product security, governance and assurance, and the partner program addresses GRC, TPRM and security platforms that would embed the intelligence, so the stack slot is legible without much coaching. The AI-specific slice is still forming and no cited analyst names or places the category, so the fit is to a nascent category rather than a settled one. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s14](#profile-analysis-sources), [s10](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Incumbent Defensibility | 3/5 | The absorption path is visible in the company's own material: its partner program invites GRC, TPRM and security platforms to embed AI risk intelligence, and those platforms already hold the vendor-review workflow. Friction is real without being structural. The product wires into a customer's program through a real-time API, role-based access across the whole TPRM program and single sign-on, and the indirect prompt injection testing takes a research practice a bundling vendor would have to staff. Neither reaches a moat that bundling could not eventually replicate. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s14](#profile-analysis-sources), [s16](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |

### Business Risks

- The third-party-risk and governance platforms PromptArmor connects into could add AI vendor-risk assessment themselves, and its own partner program invites them to embed it.
- PromptArmor publishes its vendor-report index, so a rival can read which vendors it has already covered. The full reports stay behind an unlock.
- PromptArmor publishes customer names and attributed testimonials on its own pages.
- The free tier assesses five applications and monitors them for a month, and the step up to paid is an unpublished enterprise quote a prospect cannot compare in advance.
- PromptArmor assesses vendor AI for security teams and, through its transparency product, helps AI vendors present their own controls to those same reviewers, so a buyer could question how independent an assessment is.

### Problem & Market

PromptArmor treats the AI inside a company's suppliers as the risk its customers have to assess. The buyer is the third-party-risk, information-security, privacy and legal function that approves or blocks a vendor, and the homepage pitch is to accelerate AI governance reviews for those four teams across every asset a vendor runs.

Independent reporting shows the exposure is real rather than vendor framing. The Register covered PromptArmor's 2024 finding that Slack AI could be made to fetch data from private channels through prompt injection, and THE DECODER covered its January 2026 finding that Claude Cowork could be made to upload a user's confidential files to an attacker's account. Those are the concrete version of the pain the product sells against.

Vendors can change their AI between security reviews. PromptArmor's monitoring feed names vendors turning generative AI on by default, opting accounts into training data and widening what an AI feature can reach, and it dates the Dynatrace change to March 23, 2026. A review signed off last quarter can be wrong by this one. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s7](#profile-analysis-sources), [s8](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Product Capabilities

The platform runs a vendor-AI review workflow rather than a single scan. It produces full vendor reports scoring risk across 26 vectors mapped to NIST AI RMF, the OWASP LLM Top 10 and MITRE ATLAS, and the pricing page lists the asset types in scope as applications, agents, models, skills, connectors and plugins.

PromptArmor assesses how vendor applications, connector permissions and data access allow file theft and phishing. Its researchers demonstrated file theft through hidden instructions in an uploaded file. Claude Cowork uploaded user files to an attacker's Anthropic account.

Monitoring turns the point-in-time review into a feed, and the reports are published as a library. PromptArmor watches a customer's vendor portfolio and alerts when a vendor ships a new model, widens data access or flips a default, and it maintains a public AI Vendor Risk Repository whose per-vendor pages preview a report and hold the full version behind an unlock. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s2](#profile-analysis-sources), [s12](#profile-analysis-sources), [s16](#profile-analysis-sources), [s19](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Competitive Positioning

PromptArmor sells into the buyer's existing stack. Its partner program invites GRC, third-party-risk and security platforms to embed AI risk intelligence, which names the same platforms that could carry the capability themselves.

The company draws its own line at adjacency. It writes that it does not want a buyer purchasing something solvable with existing vendors such as AI data-loss prevention, AI cloud asset management or shadow AI tooling, and that it works on the net-new problems instead. That is a narrow claim a buyer can test against tools already licensed.

The edge the cited record shows is research standing and focus. Original disclosures against Slack AI and Claude Cowork, covered by The Register and THE DECODER, give the company a public track record in the exact mechanism its product tests, so a buyer reviewing it meets a supplier whose own research is the argument for its testing. \[[s14](#profile-analysis-sources), [s13](#profile-analysis-sources), [s7](#profile-analysis-sources), [s8](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Go-to-Market & Traction

One customer speaks on the record by name. HubSpot's vendor risk and security lead is quoted on the homepage saying the product cut the time his team spends evaluating AI-related vendors, and a case study describes PromptArmor decomposing the threat models for Claude Chat, Code and Cowork and naming which controls to lock down before launch.

The homepage trusted-by section names Ropes & Gray and Texas Mutual Insurance, and the transparency page quotes Jessie Karabiyik of HubSpot's security enablement team, alongside an endorsement from Lucas Moody, chief information security officer at Alteryx. No cited independent source reports a customer count or revenue.

Research and a free tier do the top of the funnel. The published disclosures keep PromptArmor in front of the security teams it sells to, the pricing page offers five applications assessed at no cost with a month of monitoring, and the partner program recruits resellers and managed security providers to carry it further. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s5](#profile-analysis-sources), [s11](#profile-analysis-sources), [s2](#profile-analysis-sources), [s14](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Team & Credibility

PromptArmor is a San Francisco company built by security researchers, and it draws its standing from what it publishes. Y Combinator's directory names Shankar Krishnan as founder and chief executive, with prior roles at Snappr, Observe, Tesla and Accenture, and Vikram Jayanthi as founder and chief technology officer, with prior infrastructure and security work at Google, Roblox and Symantec.

The publication record spans seventeen months of dated coverage. Y Combinator's news list for the company carries The Register on Slack AI in August 2024, SC Media on the Slack AI patch, The Information on Claude for Excel in November 2025 and The Register on an IBM agent in January 2026, and THE DECODER covered the Claude Cowork finding separately that month.

The basis is recognized craft rather than a record of exits. The cited pages document founder backgrounds and a run of independently covered disclosures in the mechanism the product tests. The cited pages do not document a prior founder exit. \[[s9](#profile-analysis-sources), [s7](#profile-analysis-sources), [s8](#profile-analysis-sources), [s16](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Trust Readiness

PromptArmor states a SOC 2 Type II certification and regular third-party penetration testing on its security page. For a vendor asking enterprises to route vendor-assessment data through it, that is the baseline a security review opens with.

The posture is framed around holding little. The company says it does not store customer vendor-assessment data beyond what the service needs, encrypts data at rest and in transit, isolates customer environments, runs background checks on employees, and limits and logs access to customer data by role.

A public trust center exists at trust.promptarmor.com, and an automated capture of it returned a client-rendered shell carrying no readable content, so the certification claim in this record rests on the security page rather than on the trust center. The cited record does not show that attestation or routine penetration testing as unique to PromptArmor, so the collateral eases procurement without setting the company apart. \[[s3](#profile-analysis-sources), [s4](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Competitors

| Company | Relationship | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Cranium | competes with | Competes for the same enterprise AI-governance budget, with PromptArmor entering through the review of a supplier's AI rather than of a company's own. |
| Knostic | adjacent | Adjacent rather than overlapping: PromptArmor's assessment product reviews the AI a supplier runs. |
| ServiceNow | adjacent | Adjacent as a third-party-risk and governance platform of the kind PromptArmor's partner program invites to embed AI risk intelligence, and a plausible absorber of the capability. |

## 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

**Defensible (15/21)**

Band guidance: press the advantage. Analyzed 2026-09-16. Scope: whole company.

PromptArmor, founded in 2023, sells AI vendor assessments and monitoring to security and risk teams. Its customers include HubSpot, Ropes & Gray and Texas Mutual Insurance. PromptArmor develops vendor risk reports, offers free previews and restricts access to full reports. It publishes research on attacks that trick AI into exposing data, including Slack AI findings covered by The Register. PromptArmor has a library of vendor assessments and research expertise that take time to reproduce. A customer replacing PromptArmor also needs to arrange ongoing tracking of vendor AI changes and connect assessments to existing review workflows.

| Dimension | Score | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Value Delivery | 2/3 | The enterprise package sells dedicated research guidance and 24-hour premium support alongside the platform, and the HubSpot case study describes PromptArmor decomposing the threat models for Claude Chat, Code and Cowork, a platform HubSpot's team found did not fit neatly into traditional vendor risk frameworks, and setting out what needed to be locked down before launch. Code and expertise blend there rather than features standing alone. The cited sources do not document PromptArmor accepting accountability for customers' decisions. \[[s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s5](#deep-dive-sources), [s1](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Switching Cost | 2/3 | PromptArmor is an assessment and monitoring overlay with documented API access, native connectors and role-based access across a customer's third-party-risk program, and a team that leaves reabsorbs the ongoing tracking of vendor AI changes and the reassessment work. That is meaningful friction of the integration and learned-workflow kind. The cited record documents the integration and the monitoring but does not size the migration: no exit duration, multi-party procedure or non-portable state appears in it. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Compliance Moat | 1/3 | PromptArmor states SOC 2 Type II certification and regular third-party penetration testing, which a funded competitor obtains through ordinary enterprise-market preparation rather than a requirement that blocks replacement. PromptArmor maps vendor-risk reports to NIST AI RMF, the OWASP LLM Top 10 and MITRE ATLAS. The cited sources document no regulation mandating the product class. \[[s3](#deep-dive-sources), [s1](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Problem Complexity | 3/3 | Working out how a vendor's application construction, connector scope and data access combine into exfiltration paths, and proving it end to end, is specialized adversarial-AI work. PromptArmor demonstrated file theft through hidden instructions and the permitted Anthropic API. The Register covered Slack AI in August 2024. THE DECODER covered Claude Cowork in January 2026. Years of expertise in that mechanism is the entry cost. \[[s16](#deep-dive-sources), [s7](#deep-dive-sources), [s8](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Buyer Profile | 3/3 | The evidenced buyers are regulated enterprises. The homepage trusted-by section names Ropes & Gray, a law firm, and Texas Mutual Insurance, an insurer, under a heading for the security and risk teams it serves. HubSpot staff from Vendor Risk & Security and Security Enablement speak for the product on its pages. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s11](#deep-dive-sources), [s5](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Layer | 2/3 | PromptArmor produces risk intelligence that governs a customer's vendor-adoption decisions and feeds their third-party-risk controls through a real-time API and native connectors, which sits above an end-user application for a single use case. The vendor AI it assesses belongs to other companies and runs whether or not PromptArmor watches it. The cited sources do not establish that other applications depend on PromptArmor to operate. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Proprietary Data, Content, or IP | 2/3 | PromptArmor maintains an AI Vendor Risk Repository of per-vendor risk reports covering prompt injection, data training and 26 risk vectors, indexed by vendor on its site, and the Cursor page previews a report while holding the full version behind an unlock. The corpus accumulates from the team's assessments of vendor AI and accrues to PromptArmor rather than sitting in a customer's tenant. The public index shows a rival the coverage, and rebuilding the corpus would take time and effort. \[[s12](#deep-dive-sources), [s19](#deep-dive-sources), [s1](#deep-dive-sources)\] |

### Strategic Market Segmentation

PromptArmor targets the enterprise security organization that has to vet the AI its suppliers run. The homepage addresses third-party-risk, information-security, privacy and legal teams together, and the pricing page frames the unit of work as the assets a vendor runs: applications, agents, models, skills, connectors and plugins.

PromptArmor targets enterprise security and risk teams. The homepage trusted-by section names Ropes & Gray and Texas Mutual Insurance under a heading for the security and risk teams it serves.

A second segment buys the mirror image. The transparency page sells to companies that ship AI and need to answer their own customers' security reviews, offering model cards with red-teaming results, and it quotes Jessie Karabiyik of HubSpot's security enablement team, with an endorsement of the company's expertise from Lucas Moody, chief information security officer at Alteryx. The same research points at buyers in one product and at sellers in the other. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s11](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Product Capabilities & AI Advantages

The core capability turns a vendor's AI into a structured assessment. Full vendor reports score risk across 26 vectors mapped to NIST AI RMF, the OWASP LLM Top 10 and MITRE ATLAS, and the public repository shows the shape a customer receives, with per-vendor feature detail and framework coverage previewed and the full report held back.

Indirect prompt injection is where the research edge shows. PromptArmor assesses how vendor applications, connector permissions and data access allow file theft and phishing. Its researchers demonstrated file theft through hidden instructions in an uploaded file. Claude Cowork uploaded user files to an attacker's Anthropic account.

Monitoring is the recurring half. PromptArmor watches a customer's vendor portfolio and alerts when a vendor ships a new model, widens data access or flips a default, and the enterprise tier adds dedicated research guidance alongside the software. The recurring signal, rather than any single scan, is what could make the product hard to drop. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s12](#deep-dive-sources), [s16](#deep-dive-sources), [s19](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Sales Engagement & Go-to-Market

Original research is the prominent public demand-generation channel. PromptArmor's disclosures against Slack AI in 2024 and Claude Cowork in January 2026 were covered by The Register and THE DECODER, and the homepage points readers at research on data exfiltration across Claude, Google, Slack and Writer.com platforms.

HubSpot uses PromptArmor to assess AI vendors and internal tools. Its vendor risk and security lead is quoted by name saying the product cut the time his team spends evaluating AI-related vendors, and a case study describes PromptArmor decomposing the threat models for Claude Chat, Code and Cowork during that evaluation. Jessie Karabiyik of HubSpot's security enablement team endorses PromptArmor's transparency product. Alteryx chief information security officer Lucas Moody endorses PromptArmor's expertise. PromptArmor names Ropes & Gray and Texas Mutual Insurance as customers on its homepage.

The motion is enterprise-direct with two on-ramps. A free tier assesses five applications at no cost with a month of monitoring, the enterprise tier routes to a demo, and a partner program recruits resellers, managed security providers, systems integrators and GRC platforms, naming SHI among the platforms PromptArmor partners with. \[[s7](#deep-dive-sources), [s8](#deep-dive-sources), [s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s5](#deep-dive-sources), [s11](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s14](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Pricing Model

PromptArmor publishes a two-tier price list. The free trial costs nothing for a customer's first five applications and lists risk assessment across 26 vectors, indirect prompt injection and data exfiltration analysis, mapping to the OWASP Top 10 for LLM, NIST AI RMF and MITRE Atlas, and one month of continuous monitoring for AI scope, permission and data-access changes.

The paid tier carries no number. Enterprise is listed as custom and routes the buyer to a demo booking, and it adds coverage scaled to vendor volume up to unlimited applications, API access and native connectors, role-based access control with single sign-on or OAuth, and dedicated research guidance with 24-hour premium support. The captured pages state no rate, no per-unit list price and no contract term for that tier.

The free trial covers five applications. PromptArmor offers Enterprise coverage scaled to vendor volume, up to unlimited applications. \[[s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s1](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Product Delivery & Operations

PromptArmor delivers as software the customer's own security team operates, with research guidance attached. The enterprise tier bundles dedicated research guidance with 24-hour premium support, and the HubSpot case study describes PromptArmor decomposing the threat models for Claude Chat, Code and Cowork and naming what needed to be locked down before launch.

The operational envelope is built for enterprise scale. Single sign-on or OAuth, role-based access across a whole third-party-risk program, native connectors and real-time API access are the controls a large security team expects before it routes vendor data outward.

The recurring work is triage rather than a one-time review. PromptArmor continuously monitors vendor AI changes and sends alerts. Customers could use those alerts for ongoing reviews during the free trial's month of monitoring. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s5](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Earning Customers' Trust

PromptArmor states a SOC 2 Type II certification and regular third-party penetration testing on its security page. Because the product asks enterprises to route their vendor-security intelligence through it, that own-house attestation is where a review of PromptArmor itself starts.

The posture centers on holding as little as possible. The company says it does not store customer vendor-assessment data beyond what the service requires, encrypts data at rest and in transit, isolates customer environments, runs background checks on employees, and limits and logs access to customer data by role.

A public trust center exists at trust.promptarmor.com, and an automated capture of it returned a client-rendered shell carrying no readable content, so the certification claim in this record rests on the security page rather than on the trust center. The cited record does not show that attestation or routine penetration testing as unique to PromptArmor, so the collateral eases procurement without evidencing a durable advantage. \[[s3](#deep-dive-sources), [s4](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Platform Strategy & Ecosystem Positioning

PromptArmor positions itself as intelligence that plugs into an existing vendor-review stack rather than as a new system of record. It connects into tools a customer already runs through native connectors and a real-time API, so assessments and alerts land in the workflow a security team already uses.

The partner program is the outward reach. PromptArmor recruits channel partners and resellers, managed security providers, systems integrators, and GRC, TPRM and security platforms that want to embed AI risk intelligence, and it names SHI among the platforms it partners with. Partners could distribute PromptArmor or embed its AI risk intelligence in their platforms.

The research output is the other half. A public repository of per-vendor risk reports and a stream of original disclosures put PromptArmor's name on the record about vendor AI behavior. That position is built on the company's own output: its partner program describes resellers, service providers and platforms rather than outside developers building on the product. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s14](#deep-dive-sources), [s12](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Team & Execution Capability

PromptArmor is built by security researchers and draws its standing from what it publishes. Y Combinator's directory names Shankar Krishnan as founder and chief executive, with prior roles at Snappr, Observe, Tesla and Accenture, and Vikram Jayanthi as founder and chief technology officer, with prior infrastructure and security work at Google, Roblox and Symantec. The company came through the Winter 2024 batch and works from San Francisco.

The publication record spans seventeen months of dated coverage. Y Combinator's news list for the company carries The Register on Slack AI in August 2024, SC Media on the Slack AI patch, The Information on Claude for Excel in November 2025 and The Register on an IBM agent in January 2026, and THE DECODER covered the Claude Cowork finding separately that month.

The basis is recognized craft in the exact mechanism the product tests. The cited pages document founder backgrounds and a run of independently covered disclosures. The cited pages do not document a prior founder exit. \[[s9](#deep-dive-sources), [s7](#deep-dive-sources), [s8](#deep-dive-sources), [s16](#deep-dive-sources)\]

## Sources

### Company Detail Sources

Cited from the Sourced Details and Matrix Coverage rows.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| f1 | [PromptArmor homepage (AI Risk Intelligence)](https://www.promptarmor.com/) | official | 2026-09-16 |
| f2 | [Y Combinator: PromptArmor company directory profile](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/promptarmor) | other | 2026-09-16 |
| f3 | [AI Defense Matrix Catalog mapping (aligned to catalog)](https://catalog.aidefensematrix.com/products/promptarmor/) | other | 2026-09-16 |

### Profile Analysis Sources

Cited from the Market Readiness section.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [PromptArmor homepage (AI Risk Intelligence)](https://www.promptarmor.com/) | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s2 | [PromptArmor pricing and packaging page](https://www.promptarmor.com/pricing) | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s3 | [PromptArmor security practices page](https://www.promptarmor.com/security) | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s4 | [PromptArmor trust center (probe: automated capture returned a client-rendered shell carrying no readable content)](https://trust.promptarmor.com/) | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s5 | [PromptArmor: HubSpot Claude implementation case study](https://www.promptarmor.com/hubspot-claude-implementation-case-study) | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s6 | [PromptArmor: Data Exfiltration from Slack AI via Indirect Prompt Injection](https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/data-exfiltration-from-slack-ai-via-indirect-prompt-injection) | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s7 | [The Register: Slack AI can be tricked into leaking data from private channels via prompt injection](https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/21/slack_ai_prompt_injection/) | press | 2026-09-16 |
| s8 | [THE DECODER: Claude Cowork hit with file-stealing prompt injection days after Anthropic's launch](https://the-decoder.com/claude-cowork-hit-with-file-stealing-prompt-injection-days-after-anthropics-launch/) | press | 2026-09-16 |
| s9 | [Y Combinator: PromptArmor company directory profile](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/promptarmor) | other | 2026-09-16 |
| s10 | [AI Defense Matrix Catalog: PromptArmor product page](https://catalog.aidefensematrix.com/products/promptarmor/) | other | 2026-09-16 |
| s11 | [PromptArmor AI transparency and assurance page](https://www.promptarmor.com/transparency) | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s12 | [PromptArmor AI Vendor Risk Repository index](https://www.promptarmor.com/vendors) | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s13 | [PromptArmor: Our Story page](https://www.promptarmor.com/our-story) | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s14 | [PromptArmor partner program page](https://www.promptarmor.com/partner-program) | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s15 | [PromptArmor careers page](https://www.promptarmor.com/careers) | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s16 | [PromptArmor: Claude Cowork Exfiltrates Files](https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/claude-cowork-exfiltrates-files) | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s17 | [SEC EDGAR: company search for PromptArmor, form type D (probe returned no matching companies)](https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&company=promptarmor&type=D&dateb=&owner=include&count=40) | other | 2026-09-16 |
| s18 | [SEC EDGAR: company search for Board Security, form type D (probe returned no matching companies)](https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&company=board+security&type=D&dateb=&owner=include&count=40) | other | 2026-09-16 |
| s19 | [PromptArmor: Cursor AI features, security and risk report](https://www.promptarmor.com/vendors/cursor-ai-features-security-risk-report) | official | 2026-09-16 |

### Deep-Dive Sources

Cited from the Strategy Deep Dive section.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [PromptArmor homepage (AI Risk Intelligence)](https://www.promptarmor.com/) | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s2 | [PromptArmor pricing and packaging page](https://www.promptarmor.com/pricing) | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s3 | [PromptArmor security practices page](https://www.promptarmor.com/security) | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s4 | [PromptArmor trust center (probe: automated capture returned a client-rendered shell carrying no readable content)](https://trust.promptarmor.com/) | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s5 | [PromptArmor: HubSpot Claude implementation case study](https://www.promptarmor.com/hubspot-claude-implementation-case-study) | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s6 | [PromptArmor: Data Exfiltration from Slack AI via Indirect Prompt Injection](https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/data-exfiltration-from-slack-ai-via-indirect-prompt-injection) | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s7 | [The Register: Slack AI can be tricked into leaking data from private channels via prompt injection](https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/21/slack_ai_prompt_injection/) | press | 2026-09-16 |
| s8 | [THE DECODER: Claude Cowork hit with file-stealing prompt injection days after Anthropic's launch](https://the-decoder.com/claude-cowork-hit-with-file-stealing-prompt-injection-days-after-anthropics-launch/) | press | 2026-09-16 |
| s9 | [Y Combinator: PromptArmor company directory profile](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/promptarmor) | other | 2026-09-16 |
| s10 | [AI Defense Matrix Catalog: PromptArmor product page](https://catalog.aidefensematrix.com/products/promptarmor/) | other | 2026-09-16 |
| s11 | [PromptArmor AI transparency and assurance page](https://www.promptarmor.com/transparency) | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s12 | [PromptArmor AI Vendor Risk Repository index](https://www.promptarmor.com/vendors) | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s13 | [PromptArmor: Our Story page](https://www.promptarmor.com/our-story) | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s14 | [PromptArmor partner program page](https://www.promptarmor.com/partner-program) | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s15 | [PromptArmor careers page](https://www.promptarmor.com/careers) | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s16 | [PromptArmor: Claude Cowork Exfiltrates Files](https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/claude-cowork-exfiltrates-files) | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s17 | [SEC EDGAR: company search for PromptArmor, form type D (probe returned no matching companies)](https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&company=promptarmor&type=D&dateb=&owner=include&count=40) | other | 2026-09-16 |
| s18 | [SEC EDGAR: company search for Board Security, form type D (probe returned no matching companies)](https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&company=board+security&type=D&dateb=&owner=include&count=40) | other | 2026-09-16 |
| s19 | [PromptArmor: Cursor AI features, security and risk report](https://www.promptarmor.com/vendors/cursor-ai-features-security-risk-report) | official | 2026-09-16 |

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