ProofAgent is the AI agent governance platform, founded by Fouad Bousetouane. We turn agent risk into deployment evidence: evaluate, gate, comply, and assure — built on the open-source ProofAgent Harness (Apache 2.0).
Capability is no longer the bottleneck. The risk that keeps AI agents out of production is behavior under pressure. Our mission is one continuous governance loop: evaluate how an agent behaves under adversarial multi-turn pressure across six metrics, gate every release on the result so a failing agent cannot ship, map each result to a compliance posture across the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, and SOC 2, and keep agents assured in production with regression tracking and drift detection.
Production AI agents fail differently from models. They break three turns into a conversation, under pressure, through domain-specific failure modes a single answer test never sees. We built ProofAgent because the agent layer needs its own evaluation infrastructure, and because a launch decision should rest on evidence, not optimism. We started with the open-source Harness so any engineer could stress-test an agent locally, with their own model, and the governance platform scales that same engine into gated releases and compliance evidence across every agent a team runs.
Fouad Bousetouane, Ph.D., works on Generative AI, AI agents, enterprise AI, and AI governance. He is the Founder of ProofAgent, a Lecturer in Generative AI at the University of Chicago, and the author of the book AI Agents for Everyone. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, has authored more than 50 AI publications, patents, and trade secrets, and has led AI transformation initiatives for Fortune 500 organizations. He is also the author of the research ProofAgent is built on: the ProofAgent Harness whitepaper (arXiv:2605.24134) and the Human-on-the-Bridge paradigm for scalable agent evaluation (arXiv:2606.16871). His work has been recognized with the Timmy Award for Best Tech Manager in Chicago, selection among the Top 30 AI Scientists by MIT Technology Review, the Marquis Emerging Leaders honor, and inclusion on Fortune's list of America's Most Innovative Teams, and he serves as a judge for the AWS Generative AI Awards.