Airia Launches Comprehensive MRM Solution Integrated with Microsoft Foundry
Enterprise AI has moved well past the experimentation phase. Today, organizations face a sprawling and often ungoverned landscape of AI tools, models, and autonomous agents — many deployed without formal approval. Into this environment, Airia has launched its Model Risk Management (MRM) solution, fully integrated with Microsoft Foundry, offering a unified governance platform for enterprises navigating the risks of agentic AI at scale.
The solution delivers continuous validation, automated compliance reporting, and governed improvement workflows for organizations deploying autonomous and auto-improving AI agents. It arrives at a moment when shadow AI — employees using unsanctioned tools that create data privacy risks, compliance violations, and operational blind spots — has become a pervasive challenge across industries.
Model Risk Management has become a critical governance requirement. Certain regulations now mandate that organizations validate, monitor, and document everything flowing through an AI model, raising the stakes considerably for enterprises that lack a coherent oversight strategy.
"Every enterprise has AI running right now — tools they approved, tools they didn't, and tools they've never heard of. Our MRM solution integrated with Microsoft Foundry gives CIOs and CISOs a single place to see, secure, and govern every AI model and agent running in their business, with the continuous validation that autonomous systems demand."
Kevin Kiley — CEO, Airia
The Challenge: Agentic AI Without Guardrails
The governance challenge intensifies with agentic AI systems that autonomously retrieve data, trigger workflows, and execute decisions without human intervention at each step. Auto-improving agents — systems that refine their own behavior through feedback loops and self-directed optimization — require governance frameworks that operate continuously rather than at fixed validation checkpoints. This new class of AI demands a fundamentally different risk management approach, one that Airia's integrated solution is specifically architected to address.
Solution Capabilities
The Airia MRM solution addresses enterprise AI governance through deep integration with Microsoft Foundry, spanning five core capability areas designed to close the gap between rapid AI adoption and rigorous oversight.
Continuous Validation
Orchestrates Foundry's built-in evaluators for agent quality, safety, and NLP metrics within Airia's governance layer. Scheduled and event-driven evaluation runs against production traffic ensure responsible, ongoing use rather than one-time review.
Behavioral Drift Detection
Ongoing evaluation frameworks identify when agents deviate from expected performance parameters. When drift is detected, re-validation is triggered automatically and every iteration is logged for a complete, auditable trail.
Microsoft Stack Integration
Connects with Microsoft Copilot Studio agents, Foundry models, Microsoft Defender for AI, and Microsoft Purview to deliver unified governance visibility across the entire Microsoft AI deployment ecosystem.
Governed Improvement Workflows
Production evaluations surface prioritized recommendations to agent owners, with shadow traffic and canary deployment validation required before any changes reach live production environments.
Regulatory Compliance Automation
Pre-mapped control frameworks for SR 11-7, EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, HIPAA, and SOC 2, with automated evidence collection, gap analysis, and reporting built in from the ground up.
"Together with Airia, we are providing organizations a comprehensive control plane for Model Risk Management which supports responsible AI deployment, continuous validation, and regulatory alignment while integrating with Microsoft Foundry evaluations."
Anand Raman — GM Americas, AI GBB, Microsoft
Beyond Point Solutions
Unlike narrow tools that address only security monitoring or compliance documentation in isolation, Airia's platform takes a unified approach: it discovers shadow AI across the organization, secures agents with real-time guardrails, and empowers teams to build governed AI from day one. CIOs gain complete visibility and control regardless of the different platforms or models their teams are using across the enterprise.
Available Platforms
Airia has launched its MRM solution fully integrated with Microsoft Foundry, delivering continuous AI governance for enterprises managing autonomous agents at scale.
Shadow AI — unsanctioned tools deployed by employees — has become a pervasive organizational risk, creating data privacy, compliance, and operational blind spots that the platform directly addresses.
The solution provides behavioral drift detection, automatically triggering re-validation and full audit logging when agents deviate from expected performance parameters.
Pre-mapped compliance frameworks cover SR 11-7, EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, HIPAA, and SOC 2, with automated evidence collection reducing the compliance documentation burden significantly.
The solution is immediately available through both the Microsoft Marketplace and Azure Commercial Marketplace, making it accessible to Microsoft enterprise customers without additional procurement friction.
As enterprise AI transitions from controlled pilots to organization-wide deployment, the gap between innovation speed and governance capability has become a critical vulnerability. Airia's approach — unified discovery, real-time security guardrails, and governed workflows built into a single platform — represents a significant step toward making responsible AI deployment operationally viable at enterprise scale, not just a compliance checkbox.
Founded in 2024 and purpose-built to address the governance challenges of modern AI adoption, Airia continues to position itself at the intersection of security, orchestration, and compliance for enterprise AI. Learn more about the platform and the Microsoft Foundry integration at airia.com.