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Runtime governance for empowered AI

Control how every model, agent, and system uses enterprise data in real time, for AI that yields ROI instead of risk.

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Legacy data governance can’t keep pace with AI adoption.

Ethyca is the governance harness for trustworthy AI that defines, evaluates, and enforces data policies at the point of access.

Govern and comply in a single layer

Govern and comply in a single layer

01Data Inventory MappingDetect your data

Discover personal and sensitive data across your infrastructure, websites, and third-party apps, or enrich existing DSPM and catalogs. The result is a unified source of data intelligence, risk, and insight to support governance obligations.

Warehouse
SNOWFLAKE · BIGQUERY
Websites
COOKIES · TAGS · SDKS
Infrastructure
AWS · IDP
Scan + classify
AUTOMATED DETECTION
PII
Financial data
Biometric data
CLASSIFIER OUTPUT
SENSITIVE DATA
42%
GAP REPORT
38need a data steward
12PCI-DSS datasets
GOVERNED
98%
02Continuous Risk AssessmentAssess risk in real time

Replace forms and template maintenance with continuous risk assessments. Astralis, made by Ethyca, knows the internal and external policies you must follow, and continually analyzes risk across your data, purpose, and vendor inventories.

RISKS · OPENRE-EVALUATED NIGHTLY
17vendors without DPA
22systems missing lawful basis
12cross-border transfers
31AI use cases unassessed
AGENTIC ASSESSMENT
You're onboarding two new AI products that handle sensitive data. Should I draft DPAs for every state you operate in?
Data catalog
3,412 DATASETS MAPPED
ROPA + vendors
87 PROCESSORS
Regulations
GDPR · EU AI ACT · CPRA
REPORT
PA-2026-014
MITIGATIONS
Route GPC to ad server
Add DPA for vendor
Gate model on consent
RISK REGISTER
AI USES · 31
DPA · 17
BASIS · 22
XFER · 12
03Purpose Based Access ControlGovern access through purpose

Purpose based access control monitors and enforces data access across AI agents, teams, and data projects. Policies provide a governance framework that proves how data is used, not just who accesses it, ready for audit.

PURPOSES TAXONOMY
operational.support
essential.service
analytics.reporting
marketing.segmentation
ai.training
personalize.content
disclosure.third_party
ASTRALISMCP GATEWAY · POLICY-CHECKED
DK
Build a list of customers from recent credit scores and risk profiles, for our next campaign.
Here's your list. It would have pulled in demographic details we don't allow for marketing, so I left those out and used credit thresholds instead.
INFERRED PURPOSEmarketing.segmentationquery rewritten
Policy check
MCP GATEWAY · EVERY CALL
POLICY · NO PROTECTED-CLASS PROFILING
Access is granted by purpose, not just identity — every agent call is checked before it runs.
04Consent & Lawful BasisCapture lawful basis everywhere

Fine-grained, high-performance consent and preference management. Model any consent or preference framework, from GDPR to CCPA, and respect user choice wherever data is accessed - models and agents included.

CONSENT · PER USE
Automated profiling
Data sharing
Marketing
CONTRACT OBLIGATIONS
CLAUSE 12.1 · DPA
"Any secondary use — including profiling — requires the customer's documented consent."
MODELED AS POLICY
CUSTOMER BASE
2.1M
1.52M · 72%
ANALYZABLE
628K · 28%
EXCLUDED · NEVER TOUCHED
I can analyze only customers who permit automated profiling — 1.52M of 2.1M. Of those, 83% show high propensity.
72%
PERMIT PROFILING
83%
HIGH PROPENSITY
628K
EXCLUDED · NO CONSENT
05Rights & De-identificationModify data on request

A flexible, policy-based data access and de-identification engine enables targeted, scaled data rights enforcement across your infrastructure, integrating with databases, warehouses, and third-parties to meet data obligations.

Deletion
process
DELETEDSR-4412 · IN PROGRESS
NAMESEMAILBIOMETRICADDRESSGOVERNMENT IDPHONEIP ADDRESSDEVICE ID
ENFORCED ACROSS 104 SYSTEMS
RETAINLAWFUL BASIS HELD
ACCOUNT NUMBERTRANSACTION HISTORY
Basis: regulatory reporting — retained 7 years, de-identified after closure.
01Original data asset
PERSONAL IDENTIFIERS · REMOVED
02Post-deletion asset
DE-IDENTIFIED · TOKENIZED
06Open-Source FoundationBuilt in the open

Ethyca's platform is built on Fides, the world's most used open-source taxonomy for data governance and privacy. It lets you consistently describe the data you process, its purposes, and ownership for consistent enforcement.

FIDESLANG · THE OPEN TAXONOMY FOR DATA GOVERNANCE
DATA CATEGORIES
DATA USES
user.contact
user.biometrics
user.demographic
user.government_id
user.health
essential.service
analytics.reporting
personalize
advertising.marketing
disclosure
CUSTOM EXTENSIONS
+ sensitivity · special_category
+ risk · high

Honestly, this is like Star Trek for data governance. Astralis has been the missing link to bring all the initiatives we’re working toward together around governance, risk, and compliance.

Read our customer stories

Built for the speed of business

AI is forcing a deep change in the way data is handled within enterprises. Traditional compliance structures are failing because they ask individuals with pre-AI era tools to watch systems operating with the full scope and power of LLMs and Agentic AI. Our new end-to-end governance approach is a single system in which policy rules are assessed based on a complete, dynamically updated mapping of all data categories in use - and the purposes for which that data is used.

6 wks → 5 min

Data access SLAs go from weeks to minutes

1 PB / day

Daily volume of data governed by Ethyca

150,000 / sec

Policy decisions enforced at runtime by Ethyca

  • 6 wks → 5 minData access SLAs go from weeks to minutes
  • 1 PB / dayDaily volume of data governed by Ethyca
  • 150,000 / secPolicy decisions enforced at runtime by Ethyca
  • 744m/yrPreferences processed annually
  • 15 hrs > 17.2 secSubject request fulfillment time
  • 200+Global brands using Ethyca
  • <1 msConsent resolution at the edge

Ready to unlock AI with runtime governance?

Speak with our mission engineers today.