Airia and Nephos Technologies today announced a strategic partnership aimed at helping enterprises extend data governance to the AI platforms and agents increasingly consuming their data. Announced on September 24, 2026 in London, the partnership combines Airia's enterprise AI control plane with Nephos' data and AI governance expertise to address critical gaps in visibility, security and governance.
As AI adoption accelerates across industries, models, agents and applications are spreading across multiple platforms, often beyond centralized oversight. While enterprises have established data governance programs, those controls rarely extend to the AI layer.
The partnership combines Airia's enterprise AI control plane with Nephos' data and AI governance expertise. Together, the companies will help enterprises connect control over AI platforms and agents with the data governance foundations that support them, across sanctioned and unsanctioned AI.
As enterprises scale AI adoption, AI platforms and agents are operating outside centralized IT and security oversight. This creates exposure where data governance programs exist but do not govern how AI platforms consume, process and share enterprise data.
Airia brings real-time control over the AI platforms and agents consuming enterprise data, while Nephos brings the data governance foundations that make AI trustworthy. The joint offering is designed to give organizations a complete picture of both data and the platforms using it.
The collaboration positions data governance and AI platform governance as two sides of the same problem. By integrating platform-level discovery, security and optimization with operational data capability, enterprises can adopt AI with confidence and proactive control.
“Data governance and AI platform governance are two sides of the same problem, and today most organizations only have visibility into one of them,” said Kevin Kiley, CEO of Airia. “Airia brings real-time control over the AI platforms and agents consuming enterprise data, while Nephos brings the data governance foundations that make AI trustworthy. Together, we can give organizations the complete picture they need to adopt AI with confidence.”
“Organizations need proactive control over the AI platforms themselves and the data flowing through them,” said Lee Biggenden, CCO and co-founder of Nephos Technologies. “Airia is a natural complement to our existing data governance capability, and together we can give enterprises real control over both their data and the platforms they're using it in.”
This partnership enables enterprises to extend existing data governance investments to the AI layer, ensuring security, compliance and IT teams have full visibility and control over every agent, model and workflow. It supports enterprises seeking to operationalize AI governance while closing the gap between data strategy and operational data capability.
ABOUT AIRIA
Airia is the enterprise AI platform for discovering, securing, governing, and optimizing AI at scale, giving security, compliance, and IT teams full visibility and control over every agent, model, and workflow. Named a Visionary in the 2026 AI Governance Magic Quadrant and trusted by 500+ enterprises.
ABOUT NEPHOS TECHNOLOGIES
Nephos Technologies is a data and AI governance enablement business, helping enterprise organisations turn data investment into data capability. Positioned between strategy consultants and technology vendors, Nephos combines advisory expertise with hands-on delivery under a single relationship, working with some of the world’s leading brands to close the gap between strategy and an operational data capability.
