Forbes · Jan 2026
Forbes included CTGT among its CES 2026 companies redefining personalization, highlighting the company’s relevance in AI governance and decision infrastructure.
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Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
CTGT is a San Francisco enterprise AI governance and interpretability startup building a deterministic control layer for LLMs and agents. Its core product compiles policies into enforceable graphs / runtime controls (Mentat / Policy Engine) to reduce hallucinations and bias, enforce compliance, and produce audit trails for regulated enterprise deployments.
Primary product
CTGT Policy Engine / Mentat deterministic AI governance platform
Founded
2023
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA, United States
Team size
1-10
Work style
Onsite
Industry
Research Services
Sub-industry
Enterprise AI governance / AI interpretability software
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Leadership
Co-Founder and CEO
VP, Engineering
Co-Founder & CTO
Head of Operations & Strategy
Investors
Research-heavy and mission-driven, with a frontier-interpretability / applied-AI-lab identity. Public hiring signals show an on-site San Francisco team focused on high-agency engineering for regulated enterprise use cases.
Work style
Onsite
Compensation
Public job listings show Machine Learning Engineer and Senior Software Engineer roles at roughly $175K-$250K salary plus 0.50%-1.00% equity, and a Software Engineering Intern role at about $8K-$12K per month. Current open roles are listed as full-time and on-site in San Francisco.
Pricing
Annual enterprise subscription; TechCrunch reported the on-premises and managed plans carry the same annual fee.
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Forbes · Jan 2026
Forbes included CTGT among its CES 2026 companies redefining personalization, highlighting the company’s relevance in AI governance and decision infrastructure.
VentureBeat · Jun 2025
VentureBeat reported CTGT won a presentation award at VB Transform 2025 and described its feature-level model customization approach, including an example with DeepSeek and an early customer, Ebrada Financial.
GlobeNewswire · Jun 2025
CTGT announced a platform upgrade for DeepSeek and other open-source models, claiming it removed bias and hallucinations and improved sensitive-question response rates from 32% to 96%. The release also said CTGT won VentureBeat Innovation Showcase 2025 and had early enterprise traction.
Business Insider · Feb 2025
CTGT raised a $7.2M seed round led by Gradient Ventures, with participation from General Catalyst, Y Combinator, Liquid 2 Ventures, and several notable angels. The article described CTGT’s enterprise AI reliability and risk-management focus and cited Ebrada Financial as an early customer.
TechCrunch · Oct 2024
TechCrunch profiled CTGT after Disrupt 2024, explaining its approach to improving AI reliability by exposing and modifying internal model concepts. The piece noted on-prem and managed deployment options and early customers, including unnamed Fortune 10 brands.