Our Story

From Classified Systems to Commercial Innovation

Containment.ai was founded by security engineers who spent decades building high-assurance security architectures for national security and defense systems. We know firsthand that probabilistic alignment approaches fail in high-stakes environments - you need mathematical guarantees, not statistical confidence.

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Our Mission

Enable every organization to deploy AI with confidence. We believe that powerful AI models should be accessible to all, but only with deterministic controls that guarantee safety and compliance.

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Our Vision

A world where AI deployment is no longer constrained by fear of uncontrolled behavior. Where organizations can innovate rapidly while maintaining perfect compliance and security.

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Our Approach

Containment > Alignment. We don't try to make AI models "safe" - we contain their behavior with deterministic policy enforcement that works regardless of the model's internal state.

Our Core Values

The principles that guide everything we build and every decision we make

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Trusted Security Partner

Dedicated to earning and maintaining customer trust through unwavering integrity and technical excellence. We build long-term partnerships with our customers, treating your security and compliance requirements as our own - because your success is our success.

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Cyber Industry Leaders

Pioneering the future of cybersecurity, we lead with expertise and a forward-thinking approach. We're constantly pushing the boundaries of what's possible in AI governance - from formally verified parsers to real-time policy engines, we invest in R&D that matters.

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Exceptional Products

Our solutions are designed to optimize performance and product reliability, not temporary fixes. Deploy in minutes, not months - our browser extension approach means no infrastructure changes, no lengthy procurement cycles, no integration nightmares.

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Tenacious Problem Solvers

We tackle complex challenges with relentless determination to achieve customer success. We bring decades of experience solving the hardest security challenges in the most critical environments to every customer engagement.

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Compliance by Design

HIPAA, GDPR, FedRAMP, SOC 2 - compliance isn't bolted on, it's baked into our architecture. Deploy with confidence knowing you meet regulatory requirements.

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Transparency

Complete visibility into how your AI systems behave. Full audit trails, real-time monitoring, and exportable logs mean you always know exactly what's happening.

Leadership

Meet the Founder

Irby Thompson

CEO & Founder

Irby Thompson is a national security executive and serial entrepreneur with a track record of building successful cybersecurity companies. As CEO and Founder of containment.ai, Irby brings decades of experience in high-assurance security architectures to the challenge of AI governance. He previously launched and grew Pikewerks (acquired by Raytheon), Star Lab (acquired by Wind River/Aptiv), and OP[4] (acquired by Kudu Dynamics/Leidos), where he built technologies addressing critical security gaps in aerospace & defense, embedded systems, and critical infrastructure security. A Vanderbilt and Georgia Tech graduate, Irby is a recognized voice on AI security challenges, particularly the fundamental risks in LLM architectures that mix instructions & data from both trusted & untrusted sources without distinction — i.e. the core problem containment.ai solves.

NSA-Certified Technology

Battle-Tested in the Most Demanding Environments

Our highest-assurance AI cross-domain gateway offering is built on formally verified parsers and one-way data diodes originally developed for classified government systems where failure is not an option

Formally Verified Parsers

Mathematical proof of correctness - no vulnerabilities, no exploits. Our parsers are verified using formal methods to guarantee they behave exactly as specified.

One-Way Data Diodes

Physical guarantee against information leakage. Data can flow in only one direction, making exfiltration physically impossible.

Zero-Trust Architecture

Defense-in-depth with continuous verification. Every request is validated, every response is inspected, and nothing is trusted by default.

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Building the Future of AI Governance