Vigilant AI.ai secures £585K to expand its AI teammates platform for regulated industries, blending compliance, transparency, and real-time oversight.
Vigilant AI.ai, a Derby-based platform delivering AI teammates for regulated businesses, has raised £585,000 in pre-seed funding led by Haatch. The round draws on three Haatch-managed sources, including Haatch, the East Midlands Combined County Authority, and the British Business Bank.
Regulated enterprises recognize AI’s efficiency potential but face a trust gap, as they must demonstrate that every AI action complies with relevant policies. Vigilant AI.ai addresses this by embedding generative AI directly into existing workflows as “AI Teammates,” operating within real-time compliance guardrails and generating an immutable audit trail. The platform deploys quickly, integrates natively with tools like Slack, and enables domain experts, not just IT, to build and govern teammates.
Vigilant AI.ai is built on three principles. First, protection must be real-time. Compliance is enforced as work progresses, not only through advance reviews or post-fact audits. Second, effectiveness depends on meeting people where they work, so AI teammates operate inside existing systems rather than as another standalone app. Third, teams should be empowered to build, govern, and evolve their own teammates, ensuring solutions stay practical and responsive to real needs.
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The new funding will support hiring and go-to-market, productizing the platform for broader rollout (including intuitive controls, enterprise-grade security certifications, and self-service onboarding), and converting in-flight pilots into revenue in Q4 2025 alongside additional deployments with regulated customers.
