How Alinia AI is Powering Compliance for High-Stakes AI Agents

Alinia AI, the company on a mission to make the deployment of Generative AI safer, led by Ariadna Font Llitjós and Carlos Muñoz Ferrandis, has secured a $7.5 million seed round led by Mouro Capital, with participation from Raise Seed For Good, Speedinvest, and Precursor Ventures.

Development of the enterprise-grade Guardrails API and AI Compliance Platform is set to accelerate, enabling regulated organizations to deploy generative AI with embedded real-time auditing, policy enforcement, and risk controls. The technology delivers scalable AI governance for leading innovators, including Santander Group and U.S. fintech firm Origin Financial.

The vision centers on a future in which compliance is inherently embedded within autonomous systems and guided by human expertise. The objective is to position business and compliance specialists as pivotal enablers, ensuring that AI assistants can be deployed responsibly and at scale in the most critical operational scenarios.

Expert AI assistants are reshaping financial services by serving as financial guides, debt managers, and wealth advisors, delivering substantial productivity gains. A single AI investment assistant can now interact with 10,000 users per day, producing highly tailored recommendations informed by proprietary and user data. As this scale increases, regulatory exposure expands as well. Functions once handled by human experts, around whom existing regulations were built, are increasingly performed by agents capable of operating at far greater volume. Manual oversight of tens of thousands of daily AI interactions is no longer feasible, and regulatory scrutiny continues to intensify.

Ariadna Font Llitjós, Co-founder & CEO of Alinia, noted that as global spending on generative AI approaches $644 billion by 2025, adoption in regulated sectors is increasingly constrained by compliance barriers. Alinia is positioned as a secure gateway that provides centralized visibility and control for compliance teams across the enterprise.

Carlos Muñoz Ferrandis, Co-founder & COO, emphasized that generic guardrails often fail to capture jurisdiction-specific nuances. Effective detection and restriction of sensitive AI outputs, such as investment advice governed by EU Delegated Regulation 2017/565 and ESMA guidelines, requires precise, context-aware enforcement.

Alinia offers enterprises a unified framework that delivers transparency, accountability, and structured control across AI systems. Its proprietary multilingual Guard models, including Investment Guard and Hallucination Detector, operate through a flexible Guardrails API that supports real-time policy enforcement, auditing, and risk monitoring for any AI deployment. Each Guard can be calibrated to an organization’s specific risk profile and sensitivity thresholds, enabling precise compliance management in high-stakes environments. Fully vendor-agnostic, Alinia integrates with any AI assistant or platform, functioning as the compliance backbone that keeps AI systems aligned, auditable, and safe to operate at scale.

Collaboration is already underway with several forward-leaning financial institutions, including one of the world’s largest banks and fintech AI scale-ups such as Origin Financial, where the technology serves as the compliance backbone for their customer-facing financial AI assistant.

Arian Hassanalizadeh, General Counsel at Origin Financial, noted that Alinia functions as one of the company’s most critical back-end controls.

Iñaki Bernal, Chief AI Officer at Santander Group, described Alinia as a foundational component of the bank’s AI strategy, providing the control infrastructure needed across diverse use cases. Generic guardrails often either over-restrict AI systems, undermining product value, or fail to capture nuanced violations tied to legal and business requirements.

The next Alinia platform will launch Compliance Controllers tailored to specific policies, enabling rapid, real-time assessment of risk in user–AI interactions and scalable monitoring of AI behavior. R&D is expanding to support expert-driven Controllers aligned with proprietary knowledge and sector regulations, including off-the-shelf solutions for EU AI Act high-risk scenarios in finance and insurance. Focus has shifted from box-ticking to real-time governance with auditable compliance. Alinia is also scaling AI engineering, research, sales, and customer success teams across Europe and the U.S. to meet growing enterprise demand.

Manuel Silva Martínez, General Partner at Mouro Capital, emphasized that innovation cannot scale without trust, and AI cannot transform financial services without responsible, explainable, and auditable deployment. The contributions of the Alinia team are seen as advancing the overall maturity of the AI industry.

Thibaut Schlaeppi, Managing Partner at Raise Seed For Good Ventures, highlighted that as AI adoption grows, governance remains under-resourced compared to operational, regulatory, and systemic risks. Alinia’s compliance engine provides enterprises, particularly in highly regulated sectors like finance and healthcare, with a practical path to deploy AI at scale safely, ensuring verifiable compliance, robust security, and credible oversight.