Airia and Summit Cognitive overlap with us most. RiskMandate is different because it sets the mandate before the agent acts: what the agent can actually reach against what the business authorised, in a signed record. The others specialise in enforcement, testing, identity, payments or evidence after the fact.
Your AI agents have access. Who authorised what they can actually do?
RiskMandate is the business mandate and accountability layer. It does not claim to replace the products that enforce it.
Each company placed by how much it overlaps with RiskMandate (left to right) and how well it would fit as a partner (top to bottom). Overlap and partner fit are our estimates on a scale of 1 (low) to 5 (high). Partner fit means the products complement each other in principle; it is not confirmed interest or a tested integration.
| Company | Position | Overlap | Partner fit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Summit Cognitive | Closest accountability rival | ||
| Airia | Closest broad-platform rival | ||
| Delinea | Partial rival; enterprise incumbent | ||
| Polygraf AI | Partial rival | ||
| Hexamind (Hexgate) | Partial rival; strong partner fit | ||
| Conscium | Partial rival; strong partner fit | ||
| Arsia Labs | Partial rival; regional opportunity | ||
| Descope | Adjacent: identity | ||
| Keyban (Agent Wallet) | Adjacent: payments | ||
| TrustScale | Adjacent: output assurance | ||
| Forg3t Protocol | Adjacent: privacy assurance |
What the agent can reach, what it was asked to do, the gap, and who signs it off.
Tokens, access, spending caps and filters that enforce the rules: each one a barrier an Agent Behaviour Policy can name.
Signed receipts, proof of deletion and quality scores: evidence that the mandate held.
Most of these products can be a barrier in an Agent Behaviour Policy ("barrier: Hexgate, checked on every tool call"), so most of them are partners as much as competitors.
Left to right: does it act before the agent does something, or record what happened after? Top to bottom: a record people read and sign, or software that blocks and allows. The placement is our judgement from their websites.
"Give agents access. Not free rein."
"When your AI makes a decision, can you prove what happened?"
Where we differTheir receipt records a decision after it is made. Our policy says what the agent may do before it acts, and who signed that off.
How we get strongerA sample policy anyone can open instantly, with evidence they can check themselves.
Partnership ideaA joint before-and-after audit demo; check the data formats fit.
"Discover, secure, govern, and optimize every AI agent."
Where we differA platform you buy into. We are one record per agent, readable by the board and the insurer, that starts in five minutes.
How we get strongerPublish a simple buyer comparison, and show a mandate working alongside an existing platform.
Partnership ideaReferral or integration, only if Airia can import governance evidence from outside.
"See every identity. Understand every risk. Control every action."
Where we differTheir record is who accessed what. Ours says what the access is for, and where it is more than the task needs.
How we get strongerShow enterprise-grade evidence and an access-review workflow.
Partnership ideaMap the approved mandate to least-privilege roles and just-in-time grants.
"AI Behavioral Control Plane"
Where we differIt controls what goes in and out of AI systems. We record what each agent is authorised to do.
How we get strongerLead with concrete numbers and clear protection outcomes.
Partnership ideaUse its filtering logs as evidence for policy controls, after privacy and integration checks.
"Take back control of your AI agents."
Where we differHexgate enforces a policy. We say what the policy should be, and show the gate as evidence that it holds. A natural joint demo.
How we get strongerA developer quick-start and a live demo of a blocked action.
Partnership ideaTurn Agent Behaviour Policy restrictions into Hexgate rules; test where the meanings differ.
"Test your AI Agent, in any scenario."
Where we differThey test what an agent does. We write the mandate the test checks against, and license the result.
How we get strongerShow a test report with both passes and failures.
Partnership ideaGenerate tests from approved policy statements and attach the results to the record.
"AI infrastructure. Built for accountability."
Where we differA protocol for engineers. Ours is a record a business signs.
How we get strongerPrecise, sourced statements of where GDPR, the AI Act and DORA apply.
Partnership ideaAttach its signed message evidence to a mandate; an EU-focused joint demo.
"Identity journeys for customers and AI agents."
Where we differThey issue the scopes. We decide which scopes each agent should have, and why.
How we get strongerShow how a policy becomes actual tool scopes.
Partnership ideaTurn approved mandates into least-privilege scope recommendations.
"Your AI agents pay. You stay in control."
Where we differMoney is one line of an agent's reach. We cover all of it.
How we get strongerA vivid spending-control scene in the demo.
Partnership ideaWrite approved payment limits into the policy and check Keyban enforces them.
"Configure and measure AI against your own criteria."
Where we differThey score what an AI says. We govern what an agent can do.
How we get strongerA transparent, validated insurability score, with no unsupported scoring claims.
Partnership ideaCombine policy-compliance evidence with its independent quality assessment.
"Who controls what your AI knows?"
Where we differThey cover the data a model holds. We cover what an agent may do.
How we get strongerShort, precise claims, with each piece of evidence labelled for how it is known.
Partnership ideaUse its deletion proof as evidence for the privacy duties in a policy.
Company descriptions are summarised from each company's own website, read on 5 November 2026. Positions, scores, differences and partnership ideas are our judgement. Web Summit attendance is confirmed to different degrees, as each card says. No vendor testing, customer interviews or independent benchmark lie behind this page.
Competitive analysis for Web Summit 2026 (Silvio's ask, 5 November 2026), by outreach@web-summit.silvio with two research agents. Each company's headline and offer are from its own website, read on 5 November 2026 through a tool that summarises pages, so quotes may be trimmed. 'Where we differ' and 'what we learn' are RiskMandate's own view, not statements by the companies. 'web_summit' says how we know they attend: 'Web Summit's pages' (the team's company map, data/companies.json, read 1 November), 'their own site', or 'a third-party list' (not confirmed by Web Summit).
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