Modulos vs Truyo: AI Governance Comparison (2026)

Scout, the Modulos AI agent, does not scan websites or email, but it reads the platforms where teams build and run AI. On request it lists the agents in Azure AI Foundry and the model deployments in Azure OpenAI, inventories every Microsoft Copilot Studio agent in a tenant, and reads usage from the customer’s OpenAI Platform organisation and Claude Console, which reveals who calls AI through API keys. Access is read-only, and each find arrives as a proposed Draft that a person confirms. On submission Modulos checks completeness, runs an initial risk assessment and queues the system for a Registration Manager, who approves or rejects it with a recorded reason.

Truyo builds its inventory from what an organisation publishes and stores. Its AI governance product scans websites, source code in GitHub, Bitbucket and Azure Repos, and SharePoint documents through API connectors, and Truyo says the scans can run on a recurring basis with no data kept afterwards. Its June 2026 announcement adds email to the sources and says Truyo catalogues shadow AI and AI agents for risk assessment. Manually identified use cases and use-case assessments for employees complete the inventory.

The Modulos edge: Scout reads the cloud and agent platforms themselves, so a Copilot Studio agent or an OpenAI API key reaches the register even when no repository or web page mentions it.

The Modulos library holds 26 frameworks, and its EU set is complete: the AI Act, the Cyber Resilience Act, NIS2, DORA and GDPR. On 14 October 2026 the reference of EN 18286, the quality management system standard, was published in the Official Journal. That made it the first harmonised standard under the AI Act, and a quality management system built to it now has a presumption of conformity with Article 17(1) and the first sentence of Article 11(1). Modulos maps it, with prEN 18228 on risk management and prEN 18282 on cybersecurity as drafts. ISO/IEC 42001, 27001 and 27701, the NIST AI RMF, OWASP, US state law, Singapore, the UAE and Saudi Arabia fill out the library, and 453 of its 929 controls serve two or more frameworks.

Truyo’s coverage reflects its privacy origins. The AI governance page names the EU AI Act, the Colorado AI Act, the NIST AI RMF, the CCPA, India’s DPDP Act and GDPR, followed by “+35 more”, and Truyo says it adds assessments as they become available. That list serves a privacy team well. However, we did not find a CEN-CENELEC harmonised standard among the frameworks Truyo names, nor the Cyber Resilience Act, NIS2 or DORA.

The Modulos edge: One control set answers the AI Act, its first cited harmonised standard and the EU’s cyber and resilience laws, so evidence filed once counts toward each of them.

Modulos prices AI risk. The Fermi Risk Agent estimates an annual loss in EUR, GBP or USD for each risk and runs as a step in a scheduled job, so the figure moves when controls or evidence change. The portfolio view drills from the organisation to a single threat vector, coloured by how much of each Risk Limit is in use, and the history of each value shows whether exposure is rising or falling. Modulos is also a founding member of PACT AI, a coalition with AI insurers among its members that builds shared infrastructure for AI assurance.

Truyo grades AI risk as unacceptable, high, medium or low and builds a risk register from assessment responses. Tiers rank risks against each other, but they do not say what a failure would cost. Truyo’s distinctive answer is financial: in July 2026 it announced a warranty programme, underwritten by Cysurance, that provides up to USD 1M of protection for qualified AI governance customers and up to USD 500,000 for privacy. Its programme page lists regulatory fines and authorised AI agent operational failures among the covered events, subject to a certification review and the executed contract terms.

The Modulos edge: Every AI risk carries an annual loss figure that a board can hold against a Risk Limit and an insurer can price, across the whole portfolio.

Agent Tests keep conformity current after the audit date. A team writes a check in plain English, for example that the code of a customer-facing chatbot logs every model call, and schedules it daily, weekly, monthly or quarterly. An agent with read-only tools inspects the connected systems and returns a cited pass, fail or error verdict, and every run is stored immutably. A failed verdict sets the mapped controls back to not executed and notifies their owners. An error leaves the controls as they are, and a later pass does not restore them automatically, so the control owner closes the loop.

Truyo’s testing centres on models and governance tasks. Its AI governance page offers bias and discrimination testing, in which a data science team checks pre- and post-training results, and a dashboard of governance tasks, use cases and identified risks. Its discovery scans can recur, but we did not find a scheduled conformity check linked to controls on its public pages.

The Modulos edge: When a scheduled check fails, the control reopens and its owner hears about it, which keeps the register in step with production.

Modulos put its own platform through ISO/IEC 42001 product conformity assessment, recorded in CertX certificate 213-001/24, and holds a SOC 2 Type 2 report. Evidence comes from the Claude Console, OpenAI Platform, Microsoft Copilot Studio, Azure, AWS, Snowflake, Langfuse, Datadog, Prometheus, GitHub and Vijil, and Scout connectors read Google Drive, Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket. Every AI system keeps its own history of who changed its profile, owners, frameworks, risks, sources or evidence, and when. Public references include PwC, Armasuisse, A-ZN, Beyond Gravity and Xayn, the first company in Germany certified to ISO/IEC 42001. Modulos runs as SaaS, with private cloud, on-premise and air-gapped deployment available on request.

Truyo’s homepage shows SOC certification, StateRAMP and IAPP Gold Member badges, but we found no public ISO/IEC 42001 disclosure. Its connectors cover code repositories and SharePoint for AI discovery, next to a prebuilt connector library for privacy data mapping and DSAR automation. Deployment options are not described on its public pages.

The Modulos edge: Your auditor can check an ISO/IEC 42001 certificate issued for the Modulos platform, and the evidence behind each control comes straight from the systems where your AI runs.