Citadel AI Inc., a global leader in trustworthy AI, is proud to announce the launch of Lens Governance in private beta. This new solution unifies pre-deployment AI reviews and software asset inventory management.
To adopt generative AI at scale and use it safely in business, it is essential for multiple departments, including application users, development teams, and governance teams, to collaborate to conduct risk assessments efficiently, while also building an inventory that centrally manages AI systems distributed across the company.
Lens Governance is an AI governance tool that unifies these pre-deployment review processes and inventory management, visualizing enterprise-wide AI usage and risk distribution. By consolidating complex management tasks into an intuitive and simple UI, it helps organizations promote the deployment of trustworthy AI across organizational silos.
An admin dashboard that visualizes workflows for applicants and reviewersAI Governance as a Business Priority
The deployment and usage of Generative AI is essential for modern businesses. At the same time, companies’ legal and ethical responsibilities are greater than ever, directly connected to security and reputational risks. Establishing enterprise-wide AI governance to ensure a safe environment for AI utilization has become a top-level management priority directly impacting corporate value.
Evaluation methods for generative AI differ significantly from those for conventional software, both technically and operationally, and are highly complex. Establishing review flows across multiple departments and preparing evaluation datasets require substantial time and effort. As numerous AI applications and agents are introduced within enterprises, manually managing all of them and maintaining audit trails will become extremely difficult.
Automating Governance Processes by Role
Lens Governance provides dedicated interfaces for applicants and reviewers. By customizing the dashboard and processes for each role, it facilitates collaboration between Business Units (the 1st line) and Risk/Compliance Departments (the 2nd line), enabling an efficient AI governance workflow.
Reviewers can select evaluation datasets from built-in Lens Safety Datasets or customer-specific datasets, based on the application’s risk level. Applicants only need to upload the application’s output based on that dataset, and quality evaluation is performed automatically.
Next, reviewers confirm the evaluation results before granting final approval, adopting a human-in-the-loop structure that balances automation with human oversight. Citadel AI will continue to support evaluations based on laws, regulations, and guidelines, including Japan’s AI Guidelines for Business.
Lens Governance also provides an AI inventory that centrally manages and visualizes where AI is being used internally, what types of AI systems are in operation, and what risk evaluations they have received. It also supports scheduling recurring assessments across the AI inventory.
Key Features of Lens Governance
- Automated UI workflows and approval processes based on the roles (reviewer and applicant) of users of generative AI
- Inventory management and visualization of AI usage and risk distribution across the organization, with a management dashboard view
- Scheduling recurring assessments across the AI inventory, such as annual software asset inventories
- Built-in Lens Safety Datasets comprising 10 categories including safety, fairness, intellectual property, personal information leakage, and transparency, enabling fast and appropriate evaluations according to risk level
- Ongoing support for datasets based on guidelines, including the AI Guidelines for Business
- Enables customised evaluations tailored to customer-specific use cases using Custom Metrics
About Citadel AI
Citadel AI is a Tokyo-based global startup dedicated to the real-world deployment of trustworthy AI. Led by a team of world-class engineers from Google and other leading AI companies, we provide AI governance tools covering pre-deployment risk assessments to real-time guardrails. Our technology is adopted by industry leaders, such as the British Standards Institution, and is recognized in both Japanese and international markets.
If you’re interested to see how Lens Governance can help your organization, please contact us at any time.
