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As enterprises race to deploy artificial intelligence across every part of the business, one reality is becoming increasingly clear: successful AI adoption requires more than powerful models. It requires a trusted ecosystem of strategy, implementation, governance and security working together to help organizations deploy AI with confidence.

Today, Cinchy announced it has joined the AI Partnerships (AIP) network, expanding access to PeriMind through a growing ecosystem dedicated to helping enterprises accelerate trusted AI adoption.

PeriMind is Cinchy’s AI Action Governance platform. AI Action Governance is an emerging layer of enterprise AI infrastructure that provides runtime governance, policy enforcement and operational oversight for AI systems as they interact with enterprise data, applications and business processes. By helping organizations understand, control and audit every AI action, PeriMind enables enterprises to move AI from experimentation into trusted business operations.

The partnership reflects an important shift in the enterprise AI market. Organizations have largely moved beyond asking whether AI can create business value. Instead, they are focused on how to deploy AI securely, govern AI actions across the enterprise and build the operational trust required to move from isolated pilots to production-scale AI.

Through its AI Action Governance, PeriMind offers a new operational layer that provides visibility, policy enforcement, runtime controls and complete auditability for AI systems operating across enterprise data, applications and business processes.

Enterprise AI is becoming too complex for any single vendor to solve alone. Organizations increasingly need strategic advisors, implementation specialists, governance platforms, security technologies and integration partners working together to support successful AI adoption. The AI Partnerships partner network brings together complementary expertise that helps customers move more quickly (and more safely) from experimentation to enterprise-wide deployment.

Through the partnership, organizations working with AI Partnerships will have access to PeriMind’s AI Action Governance capabilities, including:

• Runtime governance for AI systems and autonomous agents
• Secure connectivity between AI and enterprise data and applications
• Continuous visibility into AI actions and interactions
• Policy enforcement and human oversight
• Comprehensive audit trails supporting compliance, accountability and operational trust

Together, Cinchy and AI Partnerships will help enterprises address one of AI’s biggest adoption challenges: ensuring AI remains secure, governed and accountable as it begins making recommendations, initiating workflows and taking actions across critical business systems.

For Cinchy, the partnership represents another step in advancing its vision of trusted AI adoption, helping organizations bridge the gap between AI innovation and enterprise operations through governance that enables, rather than slows, AI transformation.

Cinchy today announced the general availability of PeriMind, a new suite of AI governance solutions designed to help enterprises run AI safely, predictably and with confidence as artificial intelligence moves from pilots into business-critical operations.

The AI Trust Gap

Enterprise AI adoption is accelerating, but operational trust has not kept pace. Organizations are rapidly deploying copilots, AI agents and autonomous workflows to improve productivity, reduce costs and accelerate decision making. Yet many executives still lack visibility into where AI is being used, what systems it can access, how much it is costing the business or whether its actions align with organizational policy.

As AI becomes embedded in everyday business operations, these blind spots create new challenges. Shadow AI introduces unmanaged applications and models, AI systems consume resources without clear accountability, and security and compliance teams are expected to govern AI behavior without the operational visibility needed to understand what AI is actually doing.

The result is a growing gap between AI adoption and AI trust. 

Many enterprise AI initiatives will struggle to scale, not because the technology fails, but because organizations lack the governance, visibility and operational controls needed to deploy AI confidently in production.

Introducing AI Action Governance

Cinchy believes organizations need more than governance frameworks, policies and risk assessments. They need operational control over AI as it works across enterprise systems.

The company defines AI Action Governance as the discipline of observing, governing and enforcing policy over AI behavior in real time as AI systems access data, interact with applications and execute business actions.

PeriMind helps organizations close the AI trust gap by providing the visibility, governance and operational oversight needed to confidently scale AI across the enterprise. Rather than asking organizations to choose between innovation and control, PeriMind enables them to move faster with AI while maintaining confidence that AI systems are operating safely, responsibly and in alignment with business objectives.

Built to Help Organizations Trust AI

PeriMind is designed to help organizations:

• Build trust in AI through operational visibility and accountability.
• Reduce the risks associated with Shadow AI and uncontrolled AI adoption.
• Better understand and manage the operational cost of AI across models, agents and enterprise workflows.
• Govern how AI interacts with enterprise data and business applications.
• Strengthen security, compliance and human oversight as AI adoption expands.

Built on a Foundation of Trusted Data Access

PeriMind is built on the same governance principles that established Cinchy as a trusted provider of enterprise data access and control solutions.

Organizations worldwide rely on Cinchy’s Data Collaboration Platform to govern how information is shared across complex enterprise environments. With PeriMind, Cinchy extends that foundation to AI, giving organizations the visibility, accountability and control needed to confidently deploy AI across enterprise data, applications and business processes. 

Organizations interested in evaluating their AI readiness, governance posture and adoption strategy can schedule a complimentary trusted AI adoption assessment with Cinchy.

To learn more, visit www.cinchy.com.

Cinchy today announced the appointment of J.Paul Haynes as Chief Executive Officer, bringing decades of cybersecurity leadership experience to the company as organizations increasingly seek trusted approaches to AI adoption.

Haynes joins Cinchy following a distinguished career helping build and scale some of cybersecurity’s most recognized organizations, including playing a leadership role in the growth of eSentire from an emerging startup into one of the industry’s leading Managed Detection and Response (MDR) providers.

His appointment comes at a pivotal moment as enterprises struggle to safely move beyond AI experimentation and begin integrating generative AI, copilots and autonomous agents into critical business workflows.

While AI promises significant gains in productivity and acts to unlock  innovation, many organizations are discovering that existing governance and security models were not designed for systems capable of independently accessing data, interacting with enterprise applications and influencing business decisions increasingly in autonomous fashions.

Under Haynes’ leadership, Cinchy will focus on helping organizations accelerate AI adoption while maintaining the governance, security and operational oversight required to do so responsibly.

Founded on a vision of helping organizations govern access to enterprise data, Cinchy has spent years helping customers establish trusted access, visibility and control across complex environments. Today, the company is extending that governance foundation to address a new challenge: enabling trusted AI adoption at enterprise scale.

The appointment reflects Cinchy’s belief that trusted AI adoption is becoming the defining technology challenge of this decade.

As AI continues to take on a more active role across business workflows, Cinchy remains focused on building the governance foundation organizations need to safely scale AI adoption across enterprise systems, data and processes, while maintaining visibility, accountability and trust.

To learn more about Cinchy, visit www.cinchy.com.