Changelog
Buyer’s guide changelog
Version history for the AI governance tools 2026 enterprise buyer’s guide. Vendor additions, removals, and material content changes are documented here.
October 2026 refresh
16 October 2026
- ·Added eleven vendors named in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI Governance Platforms or The Forrester Wave™: AI Governance Solutions, Q3 2025: Truyo, Monitaur and Saidot (policy, compliance and GRC), Coralogix and Monte Carlo (observability), Airia and Relyance AI (runtime enforcement), Cranium AI (AI security), and SAP AI Agent Hub, Dataiku and DataRobot (enterprise platforms). FairNow and WhyLabs, which are no longer sold on their own, moved to the list of vendors not covered, and Protect AI is now listed as Palo Alto Networks Prisma AIRS, so the guide covers 31 vendors.
- ·Added each vendor’s own statement of its Gartner or Forrester placement where one is published, and the Forrester attribution to the disclosures.
- ·Recorded Harvey’s September 2026 acquisition of Guardrails AI, AIUC-1 in Credo AI’s platform, and Holistic AI’s ISO/IEC 42001 status.
- ·Updated the Modulos entry for Scout discovery, registration review, scheduled risk quantification and the 26-framework library, and noted the Official Journal citation of EN 18286:2026 on 14 October 2026.
- ·Added primary-source links for vendor and regulatory facts.
- ·Shortened the guide: a shortlist by buyer need near the top, shorter vendor profiles and segment introductions, and ten FAQs instead of fourteen. Added AI system discovery to the capability checklist and an author byline.
EU AI Act Omnibus update
26 July 2026
- ·Updated the EU AI Act timeline throughout for the Digital Omnibus, published in the Official Journal on 24 July 2026 as Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 and in force from 27 July 2026. Annex III standalone high-risk obligations move to 2 December 2027 and Annex I product-embedded obligations to 2 August 2028.
- ·Article 50 transparency duties and GPAI enforcement remain on the original 2 August 2026 date and are described as such.
Initial version
11 May 2026
- ·Initial publication of the buyer’s guide covering 22 AI governance tools across five segments: policy/compliance and GRC, observability, runtime enforcement and guardrails, red-teaming and AI security, and enterprise incumbents.
Update cadence
This guide is reviewed at least quarterly. Vendor additions, removals, and major thematic changes are recorded here; minor copy edits are not. The next scheduled review is 26 October 2026. Out-of-band updates may happen earlier when an EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001, or NIST AI RMF development materially changes the evaluation.
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