AI Governance
Know every AI system. Prove it's governed.
Inventory models and agents, map them to regulations and internal policies, and produce defensible evidence from one governed platform.
Trusted by 500+ enterprises
5x Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader, Metadata Management
Named in the Forrester Responsible AI Solutions Landscape, Q2 2026
AI is moving faster than governance can keep up
If the board or an auditor asked today, could you show which AI systems are in production, which requirements apply, who approved them, and whether the evidence is complete? When inventories, policies, and approvals live in separate systems, a defensible answer can take days or weeks.
| Stage | Without Alation AI Governance | With Alation AI Governance |
|---|---|---|
| Inventory | AI inventory scattered across spreadsheets and tools | One searchable registry for models, agents, and AI tools |
| Approvals | Approvals buried in email and Slack | Regulation-aware workflows with a complete audit trail |
| Requirements | Requirements interpreted and mapped by hand | Regulations and internal policies mapped to relevant AI use cases |
| Evidence | Evidence assembled under pressure | Evidence-backed model cards and reporting on demand |
| Risk | AI risk and data risk reviewed separately | AI assets connected to governed lineage, quality, and certification data |
From AI inventory to
defensible evidence
Replace disconnected tools and manual checks with one continuous, auditable governance process.
01
Discover every AI asset
Automatically inventory models, agents, and AI tools across connected platforms, with a searchable profile for each asset.
02
Apply the right requirements
Map regulations and internal policies to the AI assets and use cases they govern.
03
Automate evidence and approvals
Generate evidence-backed model cards, flag gaps for human verification, route reviews, and preserve every action in an audit trail.
04
Monitor and report with confidence
Track compliance posture, open risks, and outstanding tasks. Drill into the supporting assets and evidence, then export a board-ready report.
Govern the AI - and the data behind it
Standalone AI governance tools often stop at the model. Alation connects each AI asset to the lineage, quality, and certification context already governed in the platform.
That means reviews can account for both model risk and data risk - so you can defend not only how AI was approved, but what it depends on.
Move from collecting evidence to being evidence-ready
Build model cards and compliance reporting from governed metadata, policies, and live workflow activity - without starting from scratch for every review.
Named
in the Forrester Responsible AI Solutions Landscape, Q2 2026
5X
Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader, Metadata Management (2017–2020 & 2025) and Leader, Data & Analytics Governance (2025)
500+
global enterprise customers trust Alation, including hundreds of the Fortune 1000
Built for organizations where AI risk is business risk
"Governance is critical when working with limited data sets."
— Alexander Grima, Data & Analytics Architect, GKN Aerospace
Interac partnered with Alation to strengthen transparency and traceability across its AI processes and prepare for future AI initiatives.
— Mohit Sirpal, Data Governance Lead, and Shubneet Bharwani, Data Governance Specialist, Interac
"Before we would hand an agent autonomy, even to a small degree, we absolutely need clear ownership of the data it would touch and documented lineage to trace a bad decision back to its source."
— Nathalie Berdat, Data Director of Product, BBC
FAQ
We already govern AI in our cloud platform. Why add this?
Keep it. Your cloud platform governs runtime activity; Alation maintains the compliance record - what was approved, for which use case, on what evidence, and whether that evidence is still current.
How is this different from a GRC tool or a compliance spreadsheet?
Spreadsheets and GRC tools depend on manual updates. Alation connects to the platforms where teams build AI, continuously surfaces published assets and changes, and keeps every compliance claim tied to current evidence.
Alation is a data catalog. Why is that the right place for AI governance?
Spreadsheets and GRC tools depend on manual updates. Alation connects to the platforms where teams build AI, continuously surfaces published assets and changes, and keeps every compliance claim tied to current evidence.