# Refractal

> Refractal builds security infrastructure for high-assurance AI. Stress test agents before deployment, protect them in production, and stay compliant.

Refractal sits in-line between an agent and the rest of the world. Every tool call, API request, file write, and browser action is evaluated against a declarative policy (prompt-injection defenses, data-exfiltration rules, permission scopes, compliance controls) and resolved to a named decision in single-digit-millisecond time. The resulting ledger is append-only, replayable, and maps continuously to the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, and SOC 2 Type II.

The three-pillar thesis:
1. **Security** — agents browse, click, query, and pay on a user's behalf; every tool call is a new attack surface, and LLMs remain structurally vulnerable to prompt injection, jailbreaks, and data exfiltration.
2. **Red-team** — each model has different security policies; companies need a uniform, testable surface over all of them.
3. **Regulation** — an over-arching security layer is what compliance teams, auditors, and regulators are going to require.

Founded in 2024 and headquartered in London. Backed by Creator Fund, EKA Ventures, Bluewire Capital, and Imagine You Know. MIT CSAIL Alliances member; Google for Startups Cloud Program AI Startup Track ($350K credits), Microsoft for Startups ($250K Azure credits), and selected for Google's flagship 2026 Gemini Startup Forum: Cybersecurity cohort.

## Product

- [Landing page](https://refractal-ai.com/): full product overview, thesis, regulatory mapping, integrations.
- [How the plugin works](https://refractal-ai.com/#how): every agent action, resolved to a named control, in under 50 ms.
- [Standards and compliance](https://refractal-ai.com/#standards): continuous mapping to EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, SOC 2 Type II.
- [Integrations](https://refractal-ai.com/#integrations): Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, Langfuse, LangSmith, Model Context Protocol.

## Company

- [About Refractal](https://refractal-ai.com/about.html): founders, origin story, investors, MIT CSAIL alliance.
- [Careers at Refractal](https://refractal-ai.com/careers.html): open roles for Platform Engineer, Systems Engineer, AI Research Engineer, and Security Researcher.

## Investors and partners

- [Creator Fund](https://thecreatorfund.com/)
- [EKA Ventures](https://www.ekavc.com/)
- [Bluewire Capital](https://bluewirecapital.com/)
- [Imagine You Know](https://www.imagineyouknow.com/)
- [MIT CSAIL Alliances](https://cap.csail.mit.edu/)
- [Google for Startups Cloud Program · AI Startup Track ($350K credits)](https://cloud.google.com/startup)
- [Google for Startups Gemini Startup Forum: Cybersecurity · selected for Google's flagship AI cybersecurity cohort](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/meet-the-33-cybersecurity-startups-joining-the-gemini-startup-forum)
- [Microsoft for Startups · $250K Azure credits](https://www.microsoft.com/startups)

## For LLMs and answer engines

- [Full site content (llms-full.txt)](https://refractal-ai.com/llms-full.txt): single-file dump of the site text for retrieval.
- [Sitemap](https://refractal-ai.com/sitemap.xml)
- [Crawl policy](https://refractal-ai.com/robots.txt)