# Cyber Company Profiles: SUPERWISE

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## At a Glance

- Website: [superwise.ai](https://superwise.ai)
- Profile: https://cybercompanyprofiles.com/companies/superwise
- Type: Security for AI, Governance Risk Compliance, Data Security
- Also known as: Blattner Technologies, Deep Insight Solutions
- Market readiness: Emerging (23/40)
- Defensibility: Contested (13/21)
- Founded: 2017
- Last updated: 2026-09-16

## Executive Summary

Founded in 2017, SUPERWISE sells AI policy software and business chat to enterprises, including organizations in regulated industries. Its Sentinel gateway checks model traffic, and its AMP software manages AI policies. It names Bridgestone, Firestone AG, NuevoSono, Renova Health and Home Depot as customers. Its legal entity, Deep Insight Solutions, reported $9 million and $2 million sold in separate SEC filings. SiliconANGLE cites Tracxn’s $4.5 million funding figure and investors F2 Venture Capital, Capri Ventures and Apple Core Holdings. SUPERWISE reports inclusion in Forrester’s 2025 overview of AI governance vendors. SUPERWISE fits a buyer who wants one place to set and enforce AI policy across many model providers.

## 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 | SUPERWISE sells an enterprise AI governance platform. Its Sentinel product is a proxy that sits at the network edge, captures an organization's LLM traffic, and strips secrets, personal data, and abusive language from prompts before they reach the model. | [\[f1\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Founded | 2017 | [\[f2\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| HQ | Nashville, Tennessee, United States | [\[f2\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Latest funding | Regulation D exempt offering, $2M sold of a $7M offering, first sale 2021-05-20 | [\[f3\]](#company-detail-sources) |

### Products

| Product | What it does |
|---|---|
| SUPERWISE Sentinel | An AI gateway deployed as a proxy at the network edge that inspects LLM calls, redacts secrets and personal data, and holds raw prompts inside the customer perimeter. |
| SUPERWISE AMP | A runtime control plane between AI applications and models that applies guardrail rules to inputs and outputs and records an audit trail of each interaction. |
| SUPERWISE Chat | A business chat assistant built on the SUPERWISE platform, with guardrail checks, policy enforcement, and a per-conversation audit trail applied to each exchange. |

## Matrix Coverage

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

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

SUPERWISE Sentinel proxies an organization's LLM traffic at the network edge, redacting secrets, personal data, and toxic content before prompts reach the model and logging every interaction. 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 (23/40)**

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

| Dimension | Score | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Problem Clarity | 3/5 | The buyer and the pain are stated plainly. SUPERWISE addresses sensitive data in model traffic and the risks of AI drift, compliance failures and uncontrolled AI behavior. The quantified support is analyst research the company selects and restates, and the one figure that reaches a reader through outside coverage is an IDC finding relayed by SiliconANGLE, so the pain is documented by a single kind of outside source. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s2](#profile-analysis-sources), [s15](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Capability Depth | 3/5 | The documentation is specific and testable. Administrators configure guardrail actions and execution order, and inspect request outcomes and operational metadata. The PII documentation includes a worked example of redaction before forwarding to the model. No third-party technical evaluation of any of it appears in the cited record. \[[s5](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources), [s8](#profile-analysis-sources), [s2](#profile-analysis-sources), [s24](#profile-analysis-sources), [s25](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Market Timing | 3/5 | Buyer-side demand reaches the cited record as one kind of signal, analyst research. SiliconANGLE relays an IDC finding that 68% of companies invest in agentic AI while only 7.9% can govern these systems at scale, and Forrester's own report page confirms a Q2 2025 landscape covering 22 AI governance vendors, published in April 2025. \[[s15](#profile-analysis-sources), [s21](#profile-analysis-sources), [s11](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Team Credibility | 3/5 | Oren Razon founded the Israel-based Superwise, led it to an acquisition in January 2023, and appears on the leadership page as a senior director of product. That is one prior build with an exit in the same field, evidenced by trade press and by an interview he gave in 2022. The cited record names no second in-domain product build behind the chief executive or the chief product officer, and puts no value on the sale. \[[s10](#profile-analysis-sources), [s17](#profile-analysis-sources), [s18](#profile-analysis-sources), [s19](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| GTM Proof | 3/5 | The homepage names Bridgestone, Firestone AG, NuevoSono, Renova Health and Home Depot under a trusted-by heading, so the company names five customers. Renova Health appears again in an interview the chief executive gave, where he describes fusing the company's AI into that customer's patient calls, which is the company's own account carried by an outlet. Independent coverage of the AgentOps and guardrails releases reports the releases rather than adoption, so the customer evidence rests on the company's voice. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s19](#profile-analysis-sources), [s15](#profile-analysis-sources), [s16](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Funding Efficiency | 3/5 | SUPERWISE identifies Deep Insight Solutions as its provider in the terms of use. That issuer reported 9,000,000 dollars sold in an offering whose first sale was in November 2020. It separately reported 2,000,000 dollars sold of a 7,000,000 dollar offering whose first sale was in May 2021. That is a modest amount accumulated across staged filings rather than an outsized single round, set against visible shipping of a gateway, a control plane and a chat product. The filings disclose no revenue, so output per dollar stays unconfirmed. \[[s22](#profile-analysis-sources), [s23](#profile-analysis-sources), [s12](#profile-analysis-sources), [s1](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Category Clarity | 3/5 | AI governance is a category analysts name. Forrester's Q2 2025 landscape covers 22 vendors and IDC runs a MarketScape for unified AI governance platforms. Customers deploy Sentinel themselves, use AMP as a managed service, and buy Chat per user. Sentinel plans include AMP access. \[[s21](#profile-analysis-sources), [s11](#profile-analysis-sources), [s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s4](#profile-analysis-sources), [s13](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Incumbent Defensibility | 2/5 | The Sentinel guardrail catalog holds three checks, secret and credential detection, personal-data redaction and a rudeness filter, each configurable to redact a match or to reject the request. Applications reach the gateway by pointing at an endpoint, and the cited record evidences no retained dataset, content licence or granted patent behind any of the checks. An incumbent could add comparable gateway checks and policy configuration as features. \[[s6](#profile-analysis-sources), [s8](#profile-analysis-sources), [s4](#profile-analysis-sources), [s5](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |

### Business Risks

- The cited record evidences no retained dataset, content licence or granted patent behind the three checks in the Sentinel catalog.
- The homepage names five customers and the cited record does not say which of the three products any of them runs, so a buyer wanting a reference on the gateway specifically cannot tell from the record which account to ask about.
- Sentinel's published plans stop at $50 a month and the chat ladder at $69 per user before an Enterprise tier whose pricing is custom, so the cited record states no contract value for the accounts the company sells through its contact-sales path.
- SUPERWISE uses Forrester Wave on its About page and Landscape on its press page for the April 2025 report. Forrester uses Landscape for that report.
- SiliconANGLE cites Tracxn for $4.5M raised by Superwise. Deep Insight Solutions reported 9,000,000 dollars and 2,000,000 dollars sold in separate SEC filings. Neither cited article describes which entity Tracxn measured.
- The guardrail that the cited record leaves mechanically undescribed is rudeness and toxicity.

### Problem & Market

SUPERWISE addresses governance of model interactions and exposure of sensitive data. Prompts carry secrets, personal data and internal content out to a third-party provider, and the company frames this as a data and compliance exposure rather than a model-quality one.

The evidence for the problem is analyst research the company selects. SUPERWISE cites IBM for a finding that 63% of breached organizations lacked a formal AI governance policy. It cites Gartner for 3.4 times greater likelihood of AI effectiveness with governance. SiliconANGLE cites IDC for 68% of companies investing in agentic AI and 7.9% able to govern it at scale. Those describe the market rather than buyers searching for this product.

The framing has moved with the market. The business acquired in January 2023 sold model monitoring, incident investigation and model optimization for production machine learning, and the current pitch is runtime control over language-model traffic. Both address trust in deployed models. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s2](#profile-analysis-sources), [s15](#profile-analysis-sources), [s17](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Product Capabilities

Sentinel is the part of the line that constrains what an AI system does. It ships as a lightweight proxy through Docker, a command-line installer or a container cluster, an organization points its applications at the gateway instead of at the model, and it inspects everything routed through it with no security code inside a single application.

Each guardrail now carries two possible actions, and the documentation states both. Administrators select checks for secrets and credentials, personal data, or rudeness and toxicity, then configure the action for each. With remediation, Sentinel replaces matched values and forwards the request. With blocking, Sentinel rejects the request and returns an administrator-written error message. The personal-data page says the same in its own words, that the guardrail remediates by default and can be switched to block matching requests, so a buyer choosing between stopping a request and rewriting it is choosing per guardrail.

Guardrails run as an ordered pipeline the customer controls. The input pipeline lists active guardrails in execution order, each showing its action and its average added latency, and an administrator can drag one to run earlier, for example to redact secrets before other checks see the text. A saved policy reaches a gateway on its next heartbeat, which the docs put at about one minute.

The privacy boundary is stated precisely, and it belongs to the gateway rather than to the company. Prompts, model responses and system instructions passing through Sentinel are never transmitted to the SUPERWISE cloud, which receives volumetric counts, which rule fired without its content, and latency measurements. AMP captures requests, responses and metadata for observability. Chat routes every conversation through SUPERWISE infrastructure for governance and audit. A buyer should ask which product holds what. \[[s2](#profile-analysis-sources), [s3](#profile-analysis-sources), [s4](#profile-analysis-sources), [s5](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources), [s7](#profile-analysis-sources), [s8](#profile-analysis-sources), [s14](#profile-analysis-sources), [s24](#profile-analysis-sources), [s25](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Competitive Positioning

An AI gateway that redacts secrets and personal data sits in a crowded part of the market. The Forrester landscape the company cites covers 22 vendors of AI governance solutions, and the checks in the Sentinel catalog are secret and credential detection, personal-data redaction and a rudeness filter. The two the documentation describes mechanically work on structured patterns: the secret guardrail scans payloads for string patterns matching known API keys, cloud credentials and private token formats, and the personal-data guardrail matches structured identifiers, several of them keyed off a label beside the value. The cited record does not describe how the rudeness and toxicity check is implemented.

Sentinel combines local inspection with centrally managed policies. Traffic is captured at the network edge with no security code inserted into applications routed through the gateway, the guardrail policy lives in one control plane across every gateway, and the gateway sends SUPERWISE only operational metadata while forwarding the request to the customer's chosen model provider with matched content already redacted. The cited sources contain no description of a retained proprietary asset associated with these capabilities.

The press page counts more than 57 analyst recognitions and names an IDC MarketScape placing it alongside IBM, DataRobot and Collibra, a Gartner Cool Vendor entry from September 2020, and the Forrester landscape. Forrester's own page confirms that landscape exists, covers 22 vendors and was published on 15 April 2025 under Michele Goetz, and puts its contents behind a 2,995 dollar purchase. \[[s2](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources), [s11](#profile-analysis-sources), [s21](#profile-analysis-sources), [s24](#profile-analysis-sources), [s25](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Go-to-Market & Traction

The published motion is self-serve, and a contact-sales path runs beside it. Sentinel is free for 30 days, then costs $10, $25 or $50 a month. SUPERWISE invites business-deployment inquiries on its Sentinel product page. Chat Solo is free for a customer's first 12 months, then costs $9 per user per month. Business Plus costs $69 per user per month. Chat Enterprise includes custom contracts, volume pricing and dedicated support under a service-level agreement. So the published prices bound the self-service tiers and not what an enterprise account costs.

Customer evidence comes from the company. The homepage names Bridgestone, Firestone AG, NuevoSono, Renova Health and Home Depot under a trusted-by heading. In an interview with a technology outlet, the chief executive describes integrating the company's AI into Renova Health's patient calls.

Independent coverage tracks launches. SiliconANGLE wrote up the agent-operations launch and the release that added a dedicated guardrails page, a self-service community tier and integration of Model Control Plane servers, and the trade press covered the 2023 acquisition. Both SiliconANGLE pieces cite Tracxn for $4.5M raised by Superwise, while the SEC filings under Deep Insight Solutions report 9,000,000 dollars sold in one offering and 2,000,000 dollars in another. Neither article says which entity Tracxn measured. \[[s13](#profile-analysis-sources), [s2](#profile-analysis-sources), [s14](#profile-analysis-sources), [s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s19](#profile-analysis-sources), [s15](#profile-analysis-sources), [s16](#profile-analysis-sources), [s17](#profile-analysis-sources), [s22](#profile-analysis-sources), [s23](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Team & Credibility

Russ Blattner is chief executive and a co-founder, and John Leschorn is chief product officer and a co-founder. Mark Stadtmueller is chief technology officer. Oren Razon co-founded and led the acquired Superwise and is now senior director of product. He built a model-observability product, took it to an acquisition in January 2023, and described in a 2022 interview the gap between using AI and trusting it that the product was built to close. The cited record puts no value on that sale.

The chief executive describes acquiring a mature observability and governance engine and an Israeli research and development team. \[[s10](#profile-analysis-sources), [s17](#profile-analysis-sources), [s18](#profile-analysis-sources), [s19](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Trust Readiness

The company publishes a trust page and gates part of the evidence behind it. SOC 2 Type II is listed as active with a December 2024 audit, ISO 27001 as active with a November 2024 audit, and GDPR and HIPAA as active entries, the second dated December 2024. The trust page lists the security whitepaper and standard data processing agreement as public. It lists the SOC 2 report, penetration-test summary and business-continuity plan as requiring a non-disclosure agreement.

SUPERWISE describes Chat as SOC 2 Ready, HIPAA Ready and GDPR Ready. On its company trust page, SUPERWISE lists SOC 2 Type II as active with a dated audit.

The recognition claims differ between two of the company's pages. The about page presents a Forrester Wave Q2 2025 entry quoting an evaluation of the company's approach, alongside a Forbes AI 50 entry, a G2 rating of 4.8 out of 5 from more than 150 verified enterprise reviews and a Deloitte Fast 500 placement citing 847% revenue growth. SUPERWISE describes the April 2025 Forrester item as a landscape report on its press page. Forrester also uses Landscape for report RES182336, differing from SUPERWISE's About-page Wave wording. \[[s9](#profile-analysis-sources), [s14](#profile-analysis-sources), [s10](#profile-analysis-sources), [s11](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Competitors

| Company | Relationship | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portkey | competes with | Competes for the same buyer placing a gateway in front of model calls to apply policy in one place. |
| WitnessAI | competes with | Competes for the same buyer wanting inspection and policy on employee and application AI traffic. |
| SurePath AI | competes with | Competes for the same buyer routing outbound AI traffic through a controlled path with redaction. |
| Cloudflare | competes with | Competes for the same decision about where a customer applies policy to model calls. |
| Liminal | adjacent | Adjacent because the two meet on keeping sensitive data out of third-party models rather than on governing agent operations. |

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

SUPERWISE competes through software that checks AI traffic locally and manages policies centrally across gateways. Its Sentinel gateway applies rules in a customer-defined order and downloads policy updates about once a minute. SUPERWISE receives operational metadata from Sentinel, including counts and latency measurements, while prompt and response content stays outside its cloud. Sentinel detects secrets through known credential patterns and personal data through structured identifiers. SUPERWISE has engineering depth in coordinating live checks with central policy updates, and faces the risk that AI platforms add similar inspection and configuration features.

| Dimension | Score | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Value Delivery | 1/3 | Customers buy software they deploy and operate themselves or consume as a hosted subscription, and the tiers price usage rights on the same feature set: the company states that every Sentinel tier carries the full core product and that upgrading is about the right to operate. Nothing in the cited record moves responsibility for an AI system's behavior to the vendor. \[[s13](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s6](#deep-dive-sources), [s14](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Switching Cost | 2/3 | Customers route application model calls through Sentinel, with guardrail policies configured centrally and retrieved about once a minute. Customers would need to replace this routing and policy setup, with no estimate of migration effort in the cited sources. \[[s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s6](#deep-dive-sources), [s5](#deep-dive-sources), [s8](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Compliance Moat | 1/3 | SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR and HIPAA are what the trust page lists, and each is obtainable by a funded competitor through ordinary enterprise preparation. The cited record evidences no mandate, authorization or retained liability attached to the product that would block a replacement. \[[s9](#deep-dive-sources), [s14](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Problem Complexity | 3/3 | Sentinel is a real-time proxy that inspects and rewrites live model traffic, runs an ordered guardrail pipeline that reports each check's average added latency, and holds a split-plane design keeping gateway content inside the customer's environment while the control plane distributes policy on a 60-second heartbeat. The control plane separately advertises policy evaluation in under 10ms. Coordinating live inspection with centrally distributed policy is real-time systems work rather than configuration. \[[s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s4](#deep-dive-sources), [s8](#deep-dive-sources), [s6](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Buyer Profile | 2/3 | The company states that its chat product serves SMB, SME and mid-market organizations, and Sentinel is listed at $10 to $50 a month with developer use allowed to stay on the cheaper tiers inside a company. The homepage names Bridgestone, Firestone AG, NuevoSono, Renova Health and Home Depot as customers, and the cited record does not attribute any of those accounts to a scored product. \[[s14](#deep-dive-sources), [s13](#deep-dive-sources), [s1](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Layer | 3/3 | Applications point at the Sentinel gateway rather than carrying security code of their own, and the gateway decides whether each model request proceeds and in what form, replacing matched values or rejecting the request outright. Secrets and personal data are redacted at the edge before a request reaches the upstream provider, and AMP sits between AI applications and models as a control plane. That is a shared execution path other applications depend on, which the chat assistant and administrative interfaces sit alongside rather than replace. \[[s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s4](#deep-dive-sources), [s6](#deep-dive-sources), [s8](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Proprietary Data, Content, or IP | 1/3 | The cited record evidences no retained dataset, content licence or granted patent. SUPERWISE receives request and remediation counts, triggered-rule events and latency measurements from Sentinel. AMP captures requests, responses and metadata for observability. \[[s8](#deep-dive-sources), [s5](#deep-dive-sources), [s6](#deep-dive-sources), [s4](#deep-dive-sources), [s24](#deep-dive-sources), [s25](#deep-dive-sources)\] |

### Strategic Market Segmentation

SUPERWISE targets Chat at healthcare, financial services and legal organizations scaling AI usage. Sentinel costs $10 or $25 monthly for development use and $50 for business use. SUPERWISE says the chat product serves SMB, SME and mid-market organizations, and it draws the Sentinel segment line on use rather than on size. Developer use may stay on the cheaper tiers inside a company, and the business tier applies when Sentinel protects production or automated operational workflows. That is a usage-rights boundary of the kind a self-serve product uses, not a procurement boundary.

The names the company puts forward point at large enterprises. The homepage names Bridgestone, Firestone AG, NuevoSono, Renova Health and Home Depot under a trusted-by heading, and the cited record does not say which product any of them runs. Chat carries an Enterprise tier with custom contracts, volume pricing and support under a service-level agreement, so a large-account motion exists beside the price list. \[[s13](#deep-dive-sources), [s14](#deep-dive-sources), [s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Product Capabilities & AI Advantages

Placement is the capability, and the placement is specific. Sentinel is a proxy at the network edge that captures the model traffic of the applications pointed at it, with no security code inside them, ships through Docker, a command-line installer or a container cluster, and forwards requests upstream with sensitive content already removed.

The two checks the documentation describes mechanically work on structured patterns. The secret guardrail scans payloads for string patterns matching known API keys, cloud credentials and private token formats, and the personal-data guardrail matches structured identifiers, several of them keyed off a label beside the value, and leaves free-text names alone. The cited record does not say how the rudeness and toxicity check is built. Each guardrail takes one of two actions on a match, remediating by replacing the value and forwarding, or blocking and returning an error to the caller, and the administrator orders the pipeline.

The privacy split carries real consequences for a buyer, and it belongs to Sentinel rather than to the company. Prompts, model responses and system instructions from the gateway are never transmitted to the SUPERWISE cloud, which receives volumetric counts, which rule fired without its content, and latency measurements. The control plane is described differently, its Event primitive capturing requests, responses and metadata for observability, and the chat product routes every conversation through SUPERWISE infrastructure for governance and audit.

Latency is claimed rather than demonstrated. The platform page states policy evaluation in under 10ms, and the live-activity view reports policy latency separately from end-to-end time while the guardrail editor shows each check's average added latency, so a buyer can measure it after deployment. No independent measurement appears in the cited record. \[[s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s3](#deep-dive-sources), [s4](#deep-dive-sources), [s5](#deep-dive-sources), [s6](#deep-dive-sources), [s7](#deep-dive-sources), [s8](#deep-dive-sources), [s14](#deep-dive-sources), [s24](#deep-dive-sources), [s25](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Sales Engagement & Go-to-Market

The motion is product-led and starts free. Every Sentinel tier carries 30 days free with no credit card and the same use rights as the paid tier, the gateway ships through Docker, a command-line installer or a container cluster, and the documentation is open to anyone. The published path from that trial runs to a business tier at $50 per month. SUPERWISE also invites business-deployment inquiries on the Sentinel product page.

Analyst placement is the company's chosen proof, and the company is the one reporting it. The press page counts more than 57 analyst recognitions and names an IDC MarketScape placing it alongside IBM, DataRobot and Collibra, a Gartner Cool Vendor entry from September 2020, and a Forrester landscape covering 22 vendors. Forrester's report page confirms that landscape exists, covers 22 vendors and was published on 15 April 2025 under Michele Goetz, and offers it for individual purchase at 2,995 dollars.

The cited SiliconANGLE articles cover product launches. SiliconANGLE reported the agent-operations launch and the release that added a dedicated guardrails page, a self-service community tier and Model Control Plane integration, and trade press covered the 2023 acquisition. Neither carries a customer, a deployment or a revenue figure. \[[s13](#deep-dive-sources), [s11](#deep-dive-sources), [s21](#deep-dive-sources), [s15](#deep-dive-sources), [s16](#deep-dive-sources), [s17](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Pricing Model

Sentinel's published pricing is flat and small. Solo is $10 a month, Pro is $25 and Business is $50 a month, every tier carries the same core feature set, and 30 days of each are free without a credit card. The product page also invites a buyer who needs Sentinel deployed for a business to get in touch, so a contact-sales path runs beside the list.

Chat is priced on a separate ladder. SUPERWISE bills Chat per user per month, with no seat minimum. Solo is free for a customer's first 12 months, then costs $9 per user. Business Plus costs $69 per user, and Enterprise includes custom contracts, volume pricing and support under a service-level agreement. The tiers differ by capacity rather than by feature, and the Sentinel prices say nothing about what the chat line charges.

The company states what an upgrade buys. Upgrading is about the right to operate rather than extra features, the business tier applies once Sentinel protects production or automated workflows, and Solo includes one Sentinel deployment while Pro and Business include up to five each. The company also calls this a working launch model whose prices and soft interaction thresholds may be refined, and says launch thresholds do not force an upgrade while it learns normal usage. \[[s13](#deep-dive-sources), [s14](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Product Delivery & Operations

Who runs the software depends on which product it is. Sentinel ships as a proxy the customer deploys into its own environment through Docker, a command-line installer or a container cluster, and the customer chooses which guardrails that gateway enforces. The control plane is offered the other way round: the company describes starting with it as a fully managed service with no infrastructure to provision and no scaling to manage, and the chat product is hosted too.

Each gateway opens a secure outbound connection to it and is never exposed to inbound traffic, reports basic operational metadata on a 60-second heartbeat, and pulls down the latest guardrail configuration to enforce locally, so a saved policy is live within about a minute.

Operational visibility is metadata visibility. The live-activity view streams each interaction with its gateway, provider, outcome and policy latency, and it deliberately carries no prompt or response content, so an operator sees that a rule fired without seeing what it fired on. \[[s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s4](#deep-dive-sources), [s5](#deep-dive-sources), [s6](#deep-dive-sources), [s8](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Earning Customers' Trust

The trust page lists current entries and gates part of the evidence behind them. SUPERWISE lists active SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certifications, with audits in December 2024 and November 2024 respectively. It lists GDPR and HIPAA compliance as active, with GDPR marked ongoing and HIPAA dated December 2024. A security whitepaper and the standard data processing agreement download publicly, while the SOC 2 report, the penetration-test summary and the business-continuity plan each require a non-disclosure agreement.

SUPERWISE describes Chat as SOC 2 Ready, HIPAA Ready and GDPR Ready. On its company trust page, SUPERWISE lists SOC 2 Type II as active with a dated audit.

The recognition claims differ between two of the company's pages. The about page presents a Forrester Wave Q2 2025 entry, a Forbes AI 50 entry, a G2 rating of 4.8 out of 5 from more than 150 verified enterprise reviews and a Deloitte Fast 500 placement citing 847% revenue growth. SUPERWISE describes the April 2025 Forrester item as a landscape report on its press page. Forrester also uses Landscape for report RES182336, differing from SUPERWISE's About-page Wave wording. \[[s9](#deep-dive-sources), [s14](#deep-dive-sources), [s10](#deep-dive-sources), [s11](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Platform Strategy & Ecosystem Positioning

The gateway is model-agnostic by construction. Its live-activity view records the upstream provider as OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini or a custom provider, the control plane claims support for more than 50 providers through an SDK or API.

Agent frameworks are the second integration surface. SUPERWISE initially focused AgentOps support on Flowise and planned support for Dify, CrewAI, Langflow and n8n.

Customers point applications at Sentinel to route model traffic through the gateway without inserting security code into applications. \[[s4](#deep-dive-sources), [s5](#deep-dive-sources), [s16](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Team & Execution Capability

Russ Blattner is chief executive and a co-founder, and John Leschorn is chief product officer and a co-founder. Mark Stadtmueller is chief technology officer. Oren Razon co-founded and led the acquired Superwise and is now senior director of product. He built a model-observability product, sold it in January 2023, and set out in a 2022 interview the gap between using AI and trusting it that the product was meant to close. The cited record puts no value on that sale.

The chief executive describes acquiring a mature observability and governance engine and an Israeli research and development team. \[[s10](#deep-dive-sources), [s17](#deep-dive-sources), [s18](#deep-dive-sources), [s19](#deep-dive-sources)\]

## Sources

### Company Detail Sources

Cited from the Sourced Details and Matrix Coverage rows.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| f1 | [SUPERWISE Sentinel: The AI Gateway](https://superwise.ai/sentinel/) | official | 2026-09-16 |
| f2 | [SEC EDGAR: Deep Insight Solutions, Inc. Form D, first sale 2020-11-01](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1833194/000183319420000002/xslFormDX01/primary_doc.xml) | regulatory | 2026-09-16 |
| f3 | [SEC EDGAR: Deep Insight Solutions, Inc. Form D, first sale 2021-05-20](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1833194/000183319421000001/xslFormDX01/primary_doc.xml) | regulatory | 2026-09-16 |

### Profile Analysis Sources

Cited from the Market Readiness section.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [SUPERWISE: homepage](https://superwise.ai/) “SUPERWISE Sentinel is your AI Gateway — a live guardrail layer to observe, manage, and enforce guardrails across every interaction — SUPERWISE Chat is your safe and secure AI chat for business teams.” | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s2 | [SUPERWISE: Sentinel product page](https://superwise.ai/sentinel/) “SUPERWISE Sentinel is an enterprise AI gateway. Deploy a sentinel, a lightweight proxy at your network edge, to capture 100% of your LLM traffic, redact secrets, PII, and toxic content, and keep raw data inside your perimeter.” | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s3 | [SUPERWISE: Guardrails product page](https://superwise.ai/guardrails/) “Evaluate AI outputs against your policies in real-time. Block, modify, or flag violations automatically.” | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s4 | [SUPERWISE: AMP platform page](https://superwise.ai/platform/) “SUPERWISE AMP sits between AI applications and underlying models, acting as a control plane that governs, observes, and enforces policies across your entire AI environment.” | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s5 | [SUPERWISE docs: Live activity](https://docs.superwise.ai/docs/activity-log) “Live activity shows a live stream of every interaction passing through your Sentinel gateways — as it happens.” | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s6 | [SUPERWISE docs: Manage guardrails](https://docs.superwise.ai/docs/manage-guardrails) “Add — click Add guardrail and pick from the catalog: Secret & credential detection , PII redaction , and Rudeness & toxicity .” | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s7 | [SUPERWISE docs: Configure a Guardrail](https://docs.superwise.ai/docs/configuring-a-guardrail) “Anytime a check of a specific rule is conducted, it can result in either a "Passed" or "Violated" outcome.” | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s8 | [SUPERWISE docs: Data privacy](https://docs.superwise.ai/docs/data-privacy) “Your raw prompts and responses are never sent to SUPERWISE® — only anonymous operational metadata is. Sensitive content your guardrails catch (secrets, PII, toxic text) is redacted at the edge before the request is forwarded to your upstream LLM provider.” | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s9 | [SUPERWISE: Trust Center page](https://superwise.ai/trust-center/) “SUPERWISE maintains industry-leading security certifications and undergoes regular third-party audits.” | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s10 | [SUPERWISE: About page](https://superwise.ai/about/) “Enterprise AI demands enterprise-grade security. We’re SOC 2 Type II compliant and HIPAA compliant.” | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s11 | [SUPERWISE: Press and analyst recognition page](https://superwise.ai/press/) “57+ Industry Analyst Recognitions and Reports” | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s12 | [SUPERWISE: Terms of Use](https://superwise.ai/terms/) “the term "Provider", or "SUPERWISE" refer to Deep Insight Solutions, inc. d.b.a. SUPERWISE” | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s13 | [SUPERWISE: Pricing page](https://superwise.ai/pricing/) “30 days free on every tier, no credit card, with the same use rights as the paid tier. Then $10, $25, or $50 per month. Upgrade when the use changes, not to unlock features.” | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s14 | [SUPERWISE: Chat solution page](https://superwise.ai/solutions/chat/) “Chat is enterprise AI chat for business teams—private, safe, compliant—where governance is built in, not bolted on.” | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s15 | [SiliconANGLE: Superwise expands agentic governance platform with new real-time guardrails](https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/25/superwise-expands-agentic-governance-platform-new-real-time-guardrails/) “According to International Data Corp. research , though 68% of companies are investing in agentic AI, only 7.9% can govern these systems at scale.” | press | 2026-09-16 |
| s16 | [SiliconANGLE: SUPERWISE launches AgentOps to bring governance to AI agent operations](https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/25/superwise-launches-agentops-bring-governance-ai-agent-operations/) “According to SUPERWISE, a trade name of Deep Insight Solutions, the release marks a significant step forward in making responsible AI not just possible, but practical and scalable.” | press | 2026-09-16 |
| s17 | [Daily Research News Online: Blattner Tech Buys MLOps Specialist Superwise](https://www.mrweb.com/drno/news34475.htm) “Predictive transformation services company Blattner Technologies has acquired machine learning operations ('MLOps') specialist Superwise for an undisclosed sum.” | press | 2026-09-16 |
| s18 | [CTech: 20-Minute Leaders interview with Oren Razon](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/bkx0zcto5) “2022-06-08 10:48:19.142272 Bridging the gap between leveraging AI and trusting the technology is the mission of Superwise.ai, says Oren Razon, co-founder and CEO.” | press | 2026-09-16 |
| s19 | [Unite.AI: interview with Russ Blattner](https://www.unite.ai/russ-blattner-co-founder-and-ceo-superwise-interview-series/) “The Superwise.ai acquisition was a turning point because it gave us a mature, battle-tested observability and governance engine, and an incredibly talented Israeli R&D team that had been solving AI governance problems for years.” | press | 2026-09-16 |
| s20 | [PR Newswire: Blattner Tech Acquires Superwise](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/blattner-tech-acquires-superwise-to-expand-its-predictive-transformation-capabilities-301725375.html) “NASHVILLE, Tenn. , Jan. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Blattner Technologies announced it has acquired Superwise, a leader in Machine Learning Operations (MLOps), helping companies monitor, maintain and improve machine learning models in production.” | press | 2026-09-16 |
| s21 | [Forrester: The AI Governance Solutions Landscape, Q2 2025 report page](https://www.forrester.com/report/the-ai-governance-solutions-landscape-q2-2025/RES182336) “The AI Governance Solutions Landscape, Q2 2025 Forrester’s Overview Of 22 Vendors Michele Goetz” | research | 2026-09-16 |
| s22 | [SEC EDGAR: Deep Insight Solutions, Inc. Form D, first sale 2020-11-01](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1833194/000183319420000002/xslFormDX01/primary_doc.xml) “Name of Issuer Deep Insight Solutions, Inc. Jurisdiction of Incorporation/Organization DELAWARE Year of Incorporation/Organization Over Five Years Ago X Within Last Five Years (Specify Year) 2017” | regulatory | 2026-09-16 |
| s23 | [SEC EDGAR: Deep Insight Solutions, Inc. Form D, first sale 2021-05-20](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1833194/000183319421000001/xslFormDX01/primary_doc.xml) “Total Offering Amount $ 7,000,000 USD or Indefinite Total Amount Sold $ 2,000,000 USD Total Remaining to be Sold $ 5,000,000 USD” | regulatory | 2026-09-16 |
| s24 | [SUPERWISE docs: PII redaction guardrail](https://docs.superwise.ai/docs/pii-redaction) “The Sentinel identifies PII before the prompt is forwarded to the upstream model.” | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s25 | [SUPERWISE docs: Secret and credential detection guardrail](https://docs.superwise.ai/docs/secret-credential-detection) “**Remediation action:** Replace with `{{REDACTED}}` — The problematic credential string is identified and replaced with a redaction placeholder, allowing the request to proceed to the upstream model without exposing the secret.” | official | 2026-09-16 |

### Deep-Dive Sources

Cited from the Strategy Deep Dive section.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [SUPERWISE: homepage](https://superwise.ai/) “SUPERWISE Sentinel is your AI Gateway — a live guardrail layer to observe, manage, and enforce guardrails across every interaction — SUPERWISE Chat is your safe and secure AI chat for business teams.” | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s2 | [SUPERWISE: Sentinel product page](https://superwise.ai/sentinel/) “SUPERWISE Sentinel is an enterprise AI gateway. Deploy a sentinel, a lightweight proxy at your network edge, to capture 100% of your LLM traffic, redact secrets, PII, and toxic content, and keep raw data inside your perimeter.” | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s3 | [SUPERWISE: Guardrails product page](https://superwise.ai/guardrails/) “Evaluate AI outputs against your policies in real-time. Block, modify, or flag violations automatically.” | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s4 | [SUPERWISE: AMP platform page](https://superwise.ai/platform/) “SUPERWISE AMP sits between AI applications and underlying models, acting as a control plane that governs, observes, and enforces policies across your entire AI environment.” | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s5 | [SUPERWISE docs: Live activity](https://docs.superwise.ai/docs/activity-log) “Live activity shows a live stream of every interaction passing through your Sentinel gateways — as it happens.” | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s6 | [SUPERWISE docs: Manage guardrails](https://docs.superwise.ai/docs/manage-guardrails) “Add — click Add guardrail and pick from the catalog: Secret & credential detection , PII redaction , and Rudeness & toxicity .” | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s7 | [SUPERWISE docs: Configure a Guardrail](https://docs.superwise.ai/docs/configuring-a-guardrail) “Anytime a check of a specific rule is conducted, it can result in either a "Passed" or "Violated" outcome.” | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s8 | [SUPERWISE docs: Data privacy](https://docs.superwise.ai/docs/data-privacy) “Your raw prompts and responses are never sent to SUPERWISE® — only anonymous operational metadata is. Sensitive content your guardrails catch (secrets, PII, toxic text) is redacted at the edge before the request is forwarded to your upstream LLM provider.” | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s9 | [SUPERWISE: Trust Center page](https://superwise.ai/trust-center/) “SUPERWISE maintains industry-leading security certifications and undergoes regular third-party audits.” | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s10 | [SUPERWISE: About page](https://superwise.ai/about/) “Enterprise AI demands enterprise-grade security. We’re SOC 2 Type II compliant and HIPAA compliant.” | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s11 | [SUPERWISE: Press and analyst recognition page](https://superwise.ai/press/) “57+ Industry Analyst Recognitions and Reports” | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s12 | [SUPERWISE: Terms of Use](https://superwise.ai/terms/) “the term "Provider", or "SUPERWISE" refer to Deep Insight Solutions, inc. d.b.a. SUPERWISE” | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s13 | [SUPERWISE: Pricing page](https://superwise.ai/pricing/) “30 days free on every tier, no credit card, with the same use rights as the paid tier. Then $10, $25, or $50 per month. Upgrade when the use changes, not to unlock features.” | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s14 | [SUPERWISE: Chat solution page](https://superwise.ai/solutions/chat/) “Chat is enterprise AI chat for business teams—private, safe, compliant—where governance is built in, not bolted on.” | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s15 | [SiliconANGLE: Superwise expands agentic governance platform with new real-time guardrails](https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/25/superwise-expands-agentic-governance-platform-new-real-time-guardrails/) “According to International Data Corp. research , though 68% of companies are investing in agentic AI, only 7.9% can govern these systems at scale.” | press | 2026-09-16 |
| s16 | [SiliconANGLE: SUPERWISE launches AgentOps to bring governance to AI agent operations](https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/25/superwise-launches-agentops-bring-governance-ai-agent-operations/) “According to SUPERWISE, a trade name of Deep Insight Solutions, the release marks a significant step forward in making responsible AI not just possible, but practical and scalable.” | press | 2026-09-16 |
| s17 | [Daily Research News Online: Blattner Tech Buys MLOps Specialist Superwise](https://www.mrweb.com/drno/news34475.htm) “Predictive transformation services company Blattner Technologies has acquired machine learning operations ('MLOps') specialist Superwise for an undisclosed sum.” | press | 2026-09-16 |
| s18 | [CTech: 20-Minute Leaders interview with Oren Razon](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/bkx0zcto5) “2022-06-08 10:48:19.142272 Bridging the gap between leveraging AI and trusting the technology is the mission of Superwise.ai, says Oren Razon, co-founder and CEO.” | press | 2026-09-16 |
| s19 | [Unite.AI: interview with Russ Blattner](https://www.unite.ai/russ-blattner-co-founder-and-ceo-superwise-interview-series/) “The Superwise.ai acquisition was a turning point because it gave us a mature, battle-tested observability and governance engine, and an incredibly talented Israeli R&D team that had been solving AI governance problems for years.” | press | 2026-09-16 |
| s20 | [PR Newswire: Blattner Tech Acquires Superwise](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/blattner-tech-acquires-superwise-to-expand-its-predictive-transformation-capabilities-301725375.html) “NASHVILLE, Tenn. , Jan. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Blattner Technologies announced it has acquired Superwise, a leader in Machine Learning Operations (MLOps), helping companies monitor, maintain and improve machine learning models in production.” | press | 2026-09-16 |
| s21 | [Forrester: The AI Governance Solutions Landscape, Q2 2025 report page](https://www.forrester.com/report/the-ai-governance-solutions-landscape-q2-2025/RES182336) “The AI Governance Solutions Landscape, Q2 2025 Forrester’s Overview Of 22 Vendors Michele Goetz” | research | 2026-09-16 |
| s22 | [SEC EDGAR: Deep Insight Solutions, Inc. Form D, first sale 2020-11-01](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1833194/000183319420000002/xslFormDX01/primary_doc.xml) “Name of Issuer Deep Insight Solutions, Inc. Jurisdiction of Incorporation/Organization DELAWARE Year of Incorporation/Organization Over Five Years Ago X Within Last Five Years (Specify Year) 2017” | regulatory | 2026-09-16 |
| s23 | [SEC EDGAR: Deep Insight Solutions, Inc. Form D, first sale 2021-05-20](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1833194/000183319421000001/xslFormDX01/primary_doc.xml) “Total Offering Amount $ 7,000,000 USD or Indefinite Total Amount Sold $ 2,000,000 USD Total Remaining to be Sold $ 5,000,000 USD” | regulatory | 2026-09-16 |
| s24 | [SUPERWISE docs: PII redaction guardrail](https://docs.superwise.ai/docs/pii-redaction) “The Sentinel identifies PII before the prompt is forwarded to the upstream model.” | official | 2026-09-16 |
| s25 | [SUPERWISE docs: Secret and credential detection guardrail](https://docs.superwise.ai/docs/secret-credential-detection) “**Remediation action:** Replace with `{{REDACTED}}` — The problematic credential string is identified and replaced with a redaction placeholder, allowing the request to proceed to the upstream model without exposing the secret.” | official | 2026-09-16 |

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