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Vendor comparison · 2 companies

Archipelo vs Credo AI

Archipelo develops Salmon, Execution Verification Infrastructure for establishing cryptographically verifiable execution history and state lineage. Credo AI sells a platform that helps enterprises discover their AI, enforce policy and manage AI risk across every agent, application, model and AI vendor. CISO Tribune files both under AI model and agent security. This page sets the two records side by side: what each sells, where it is based, who owns and funds it, the customers it names and its recent news, each fact numbered to its source.

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  • Archipelo
  • Credo AI
Archipelo vs Credo AI: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
ArchipeloArchipelo develops Salmon, Execution Verification Infrastructure for establishing cryptographically verifiable execution history and state lineage.archipelo.comCredo AICredo AI sells a platform that helps enterprises discover their AI, enforce policy and manage AI risk across every agent, application, model and AI vendor.credo.ai
What it sells
  • Salmon[1][2][3][4][5]Execution Verification Infrastructure for establishing cryptographically verifiable execution history and state lineage.
  • AI Governance Platform[1][4][12]Helps enterprises discover their AI, enforce policy and manage AI risk across agents, applications, models and AI vendors.
  • AI Registry[4][11][13][14]A centralized source of truth for tracking AI and ML products across the enterprise.
  • Policy Packs[1][4][8][15]Standardize governance requirements for AI with pre-built packs for regulations and standards.
  • Model Trust Scores[16]A framework that helps enterprises assess which foundation models meet their requirements.
Categories
Headquarters
Not stated on its pagesSan Francisco, United States[3]
Founded
Not stated on its pages2020[2]
Ownership and funding
Not stated on its pagesPrivately held[4][7]
Named customers
Not stated on its pagesNot stated on its pages
Recent news
Not stated on its pages
  • April 28, 2026Credo AI announced that it has joined a partner program.[6]
  • February 20, 2026G42 and Credo AI announced a memorandum of understanding to advance Responsible AI across the Global South.[5]
G2 and Gartner Peer Insights
  • G2: Not stated on its pages
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
  • G2: listed, seen November 4, 2026[7]
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
Who it fits
From its own pages, Archipelo's Salmon addresses software in which autonomous agents, tools, runtimes, and controllers perform consequential actions. Archipelo describes incident investigation teams as needing to work backward from a consequential state change toward the execution associated with it. Archipelo names systems that investigate, evaluate, govern, and depend upon execution as the systems for which verifiable execution history matters.From its own pages, Credo AI sells mainly to enterprises deploying agents, models and applications that need to govern them. Credo AI offers procurement teams a standardized way to collect and evaluate AI risk-specific evidence from AI vendors. A customer example on its pages is a provider of higher education enrollment solutions.
Last verified
September 30, 2026September 27, 2026

Where they overlap

  • Archipelo and Credo AI are both filed under AI model and agent security.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Archipelo's primary category is Software supply chain security; Credo AI's is AI governance.
  • Archipelo is also filed under Insider risk management.
  • Archipelo lists Salmon. Credo AI lists AI Governance Platform, AI Registry, Policy Packs and Model Trust Scores.
  • Credo AI is headquartered in San Francisco, United States.
  • Credo AI was founded in 2020.
  • Credo AI is privately held.

What it sells: Archipelo

What Salmon does[1][2][3][4][5]
Salmon is Execution Verification Infrastructure for establishing cryptographically verifiable execution history and state lineage. Execution is represented as a cryptographically signed event with explicit context. Salmon captures execution as it occurs upstream within supported environments.

What it sells: Credo AI

What AI Registry does[4][11][13][14]
AI Registry provides a centralized source of truth for tracking AI/ML products in development or uses across the enterprise. AI Registry can be used to map all Gen AI projects and track ownership. Credo AI's platform automatically evaluates metadata about use cases to identify and suggest potential risks and business impacts.
What Policy Packs does[1][4][8][15]
Credo AI's Policy Packs standardize governance requirements for AI. Pre-built policy packs cover EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001 and SOC 2, with automated governance workflows and audit-ready evidence. Customers can apply Credo AI Policy Packs to vendor solutions to set specific requirements.
What Model Trust Scores does[16]
Credo AI developed Model Trust Scores to address the challenge of AI model selection. Model Trust Scores help enterprises establish which foundation models meet their non-negotiable requirements, such as security and infrastructure compatibility, and contextualize complex evaluations into use-case specific insights.

Questions about Archipelo and Credo AI

What do Archipelo and Credo AI sell?
Archipelo sells Salmon. Credo AI sells AI Governance Platform, AI Registry, Policy Packs and Model Trust Scores.
Are Archipelo and Credo AI in the same category?
They share AI model and agent security. Archipelo's primary category is Software supply chain security and Credo AI's is AI governance.
Where are Archipelo and Credo AI headquartered?
Credo AI is headquartered in San Francisco, United States.
When were Archipelo and Credo AI founded?
Credo AI was founded in 2020.
Who owns Archipelo and Credo AI?
Credo AI is privately held.
Who are Archipelo and Credo AI sold to?
From its own pages, Archipelo's Salmon addresses software in which autonomous agents, tools, runtimes, and controllers perform consequential actions. From its own pages, Credo AI sells mainly to enterprises deploying agents, models and applications that need to govern them.
What have Archipelo and Credo AI announced recently?
April 28, 2026: Credo AI announced that it has joined a partner program.

About Archipelo

Archipelo develops Salmon, Execution Verification Infrastructure for establishing cryptographically verifiable execution history and state lineage. Archipelo builds Salmon for autonomous multi-actor software systems. Archipelo, Inc. is the company developing and stewarding Salmon.[1][3][4][5]

Archipelo states that autonomous agents, tools, runtimes, and controllers increasingly perform consequential actions themselves. Archipelo states that the resulting state alone cannot show which execution occurred, in what order, or how each state transition derived from the ones before it. Archipelo develops infrastructure that makes autonomous multi-actor software execution independently verifiable. Archipelo states that safe and reliable agents need verifiable evidence of their execution history.[4][5]

Archipelo points to Git as showing the value of persistent, linked source code history. Archipelo says Execution Verification Infrastructure addresses a different problem, which is establishing a verifiable record of state transitions and the resulting state.

Archipelo describes execution as represented by a cryptographically signed event with explicit context. Archipelo states that Salmon captures execution as it occurs upstream within supported environments, not downstream after the event has already taken place. Archipelo states that Salmon does not visually or structurally manufacture execution continuity when execution continuity has not been established.

Archipelo states that agent generated changes can involve delegated execution, tools, subprocesses and multiple state transitions. Archipelo states that execution history provides a durable record of supported execution relationships to verify outcomes. Archipelo states that during incident investigation, teams need to work backward from a consequential state change toward the execution associated with it, to determine what caused the outcome.

One principle is that downstream systems should not be forced to establish execution history solely through retrospective inference where it can be captured during supported execution. Archipelo states that what an actor was permitted or instructed to do is distinct from what it actually executed. Archipelo states that machine-speed software systems require execution evidence that other software systems can consume and verify. Archipelo describes identity, policy, observability, security, engineering, and governance systems as solving adjacent problems.[5]

Archipelo describes itself as a deep tech company building foundational infrastructure for verifiable autonomous systems.[1][3][4][5]

Archipelo on the record

Sources

Archipelo full record

  1. [1]archipelo.comArchipelo · archipelo.com · undated page, accessed September 30, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Archipelo - Making Autonomous Software Execution VerifiableArchipelo · undated page, accessed October 30, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Terms of Service — SalmonArchipelo, Inc. · published September 20, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Archipelo - This page has been retiredArchipelo · undated page, accessed October 30, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]About — SalmonArchipelo · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A

Credo AI full record

  1. [1]Credo AI - The Trusted Leader in AI GovernanceCredo AI · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Credo ai closes 12 8 million series a funding round led by sands capital 301548311Credo AI via PR Newswire · prnewswire.com · published May 17, 2022 · Tier A
  3. [3]Credo artificial intelligence governanceAxios · axios.com · published October 19, 2021 · Tier B
  4. [4]Credo AI - The Leader in Responsible AI - ProductCredo AI · undated page, accessed October 24, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]G42 Joins Forces with Credo AI To Advance Responsible AI Adoption Across Global SouthBusiness Wire · published February 20, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Credo AI Advances AI Governance in Healthcare Through Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) PartnershipBusiness Wire · published April 28, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Credo AI Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features - G2G2 · undated page, accessed October 24, 2026 · Tier C
  8. [8]Credo AI - Vendor ComplianceCredo AI · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]AI Governance Insights Hub | Credo AICredo AI · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Credo AI - Create Artifacts for AuditCredo AI · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Customers - The Leaders of AI Governance | Credo AICredo AI · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Credo AI - Regulations and StandardsCredo AI · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]Credo AI - AI AdoptionCredo AI · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]Credo AI - Gen AICredo AI · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  15. [15]Credo AI - Risk ManagementCredo AI · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  16. [16]Model Trust Scores: Evaluating AI Models with Credo AICredo AI · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A

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