Guardian Framework · Regulatory Policy Gate

The Only AI Framework with
Regulatory Policy Gates

LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen, and OpenAI have none. Sturna Guardian blocks non-compliant outputs before they reach your users.

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Competitive Analysis

The Policy Gate Gap

Every major AI framework is missing the one feature regulated industries require. Sturna Guardian is the only framework built from the ground up with regulatory enforcement.

Feature	LangChain (131K ⭐)	CrewAI (49K ⭐)	AutoGen (56K ⭐)	OpenAI	Sturna Guardian
Policy-before-dispatch gate	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅
Human approval states	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅
Cryptographic audit evidence (HMAC-signed)	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅
Multi-domain intent handling	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅
Regulatory trigger detection	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅
zk-SNARK proof generation	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅
4-round hallucination detection (MUG)	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅
Government data source integration (38 sources)	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅

Competitive Moat

12–18 Months and $500K+ to Replicate

This is not a wrapper around a model. Guardian is a purpose-built regulatory enforcement layer — and no one else has built it.

12–18mo

Estimated replication timeline for any well-funded team

$500K+

Estimated build cost based on regulatory-domain engineering rates

Major AI frameworks with native policy gates as of 2026

Zero major AI frameworks have native policy gates as of 2026 — LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen, and OpenAI leave compliance enforcement entirely to the application layer.
Sturna Guardian is not a wrapper — it's a purpose-built regulatory enforcement layer trained on compliance frameworks across 8 verticals.
Guardian operates at the pre-output stage, blocking non-compliant content before it is returned to the caller — not after logging it.
Every Guardian decision is HMAC-SHA256 signed and appended to an immutable audit log, satisfying SEC 17a-4(f) record-keeping requirements.

8 Compliance Verticals

HealthcareHIPAA · PHI exposure · OCR enforcement

Financial ServicesSEC · Reg S-P · 17a-4(f) records

LegalABA Model Rules · UPL prevention

FranchiseFTC Franchise Rule · disclosure

EU AI ActArt. 9 · Art. 99 · Annex III risk tiers

DORADigital operational resilience · ICT risk

NIST North AmericaAI RMF · cybersecurity framework

General ComplianceCross-vertical policy synthesis

The Only AI Framework with
Regulatory Policy Gates

The Policy Gate Gap

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12–18 Months and $500K+ to Replicate

The Only Compliant Option

The Only AI Framework withRegulatory Policy Gates

The Policy Gate Gap

Submit a Prompt to Guardian

12–18 Months and $500K+ to Replicate

The Only Compliant Option

The Only AI Framework with
Regulatory Policy Gates