trail Governance Agents (GRC and AI governance agents)

Vendor: trail (trail GmbH, part of Collibra since Oct 2026) · HQ: Germany · Category: Compliance · Risk

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What it does

Per trail's own pages, its 'Governance Agents' are 'purpose-built agents for IT compliance and governance' that 'run in the background, connect to your existing tools' and handle tasks such as evidence collection ('find and link suitable evidence from your sources to controls. Continuously, instead of point-in-time'), control assessments, control identification, classification of systems and AI use cases, risk assessments, project analysis against a framework, and policy drafting. Agents can be linked into flows with triggers to 'run full workflows on autopilot'; for mid-market teams trail lists automated vendor risk screening against your policies, AI-based control gap analysis with source citations and automatic questionnaire processing. trail's 'Copy-on-Write' mechanism means 'agents propose, but never commit without your approval'. The same platform covers AI governance (AI registry, EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001, AI risk management), deploys as SaaS (EU data centres), on-premises or BYOC, and integrates with OneTrust, Collibra, ServiceNow, SAP LeanIX, Jira, Confluence, GitHub and others. Collibra announced its acquisition of trail on Oct 5, 2026. Pricing is not published (demo request).

Frameworks (vendor-stated)

EU AI ActISO 42001

Vendor-claimed EU AI Act, ISO 42001, NIST AI RMF

Pricing (as published)

Not published (demo request on trail-ml.com, checked 2026-10-26)

Tasks

evidence collectioncontrol testingrisk assessmentvendor riskpolicy managementgap analysisquestionnaire automationai governanceworkflow automation

Integrations (vendor-listed)

OneTrustCollibraServiceNowSAP LeanIXJiraConfluenceGitHubGitLabSharePointNotionDatabricksMLflow

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Sources

  1. trail-ml.com/agents (primary)
  2. trail-ml.com/
  3. trail-ml.com/imprint
  4. collibra.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/collibra-acquires-trail-ml-to-automate-ai-governance-from-policy-to-production

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FAQ (from this dataset)

What does trail Governance Agents do?

Munich-based trail's Governance Agents run GRC busywork in the background: they read your project files and sources to collect and link evidence, assess controls, classify systems, run risk and vendor assessments and draft policies, proposing changes that a human approves before anything is written.

How much does trail Governance Agents cost?

Not published (demo request on trail-ml.com, checked 2026-10-26)

Where is trail (trail GmbH, part of Collibra since Oct 2026) headquartered?

Germany

Which frameworks does trail Governance Agents support?

Frameworks (vendor-stated): EU AI Act, ISO 42001. Framework tags indicate relevance, not certification.

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