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Cyphrex vs WitnessAI

WitnessAI secures human and agentic AI under one control plane.

Cyphrex is the decide-and-prove layer — every action checked, every decision recorded in a trail you can verify.

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WitnessAI governs the workforce and the tool boundary. Cyphrex proves the act: who approved, what was touched, and what stayed blocked.

Who each is for

WitnessAI

Unified AI security and governance

A control plane for teams who need to observe, govern, and protect human and agentic AI together: discovery of apps, agents, and MCP, approved-tool allow and deny, a prompt and response firewall, and audit trails for governed sessions.

Observe → govern → protect.

Cyphrex

Compliance infrastructure for agents

A decide-and-prove layer for teams who will instrument an agent or route its MCP traffic, and who need each decision kept as tamper-evident evidence.

Enforce the action → tamper-evident evidence.

Capability comparison

Capability	WitnessAI	Cyphrex
Human + agent AI workforce under one platform	Strong fit	Agent decide-and-prove path
Discovery of apps / agents / MCP (network-level + IDE)	Strong fit	Not the primary job
Approved-tool / MCP org-wide allow-deny	Strong fit	MCP gateway on instrumented / routed path
Prompt/response firewall (injection, jailbreak, PII)	Strong fit	Not an LLM firewall
Human attribution for agent actions	Strong fit	Per-agent identity + decision record
Tamper-evident, independently verifiable decision record	Granular audit trails / reports for security & compliance teams	Ed25519-signed packages + public /verify
Who approved / what touched / what stayed blocked	Audit of governed sessions & blocked tool calls	Compliance receipt designed for auditors, insurers, legal

When WitnessAI is the better fit

You need one platform for employees and agents: shadow AI, coding agents, and MCP.
The buying center wants an AI firewall, governance, and FinOps together.
The pain is an approved-tool policy that holds across IDEs, chat apps, and custom agents.
You want network-level visibility without instrumenting every agent first.
The primary need is prompt and response protection and data redaction.

When Cyphrex is the better fit

Legal, risk, or compliance asks for a receipt a third party can verify without the vendor UI.
Builders will instrument agents or route MCP through a gateway and want decide, enforce, and prove in one path.
You already have workforce AI governance. The missing piece is the durable decide-and-prove trail on high-stakes actions.
Regulated buyers want signed, hash-bound packages, not only granular audit exports.
Blocked steps must be recorded as blocked, with the rule and timestamp, as compliance infrastructure.

Better together

WitnessAI governs who may use which AI and tools across the workforce. Cyphrex proves what an instrumented agent was allowed to do on each step.

What Cyphrex evidence proves

What a signed report contains

Agent
Action and resource
Allowed or blocked
Rule and violations
Timestamp

How verification works

Every Cyphrex evidence package is signed with Ed25519 and bound with SHA-256. On /verify, someone can check it without a Cyphrex login.

Compliance mapping

Evidence artifacts map toward SOC 2 / EU AI Act / HIPAA / SR 26-2 style reporting — not certification; details on Trust.

Limits

Cyphrex signs what flows through the SDK check() or the MCP gateway. It does not invent coverage for a path it never saw. Cyphrex is not your auditor.

Frequently asked

Is Cyphrex a WitnessAI alternative or a complement?

Often a complement. WitnessAI governs the workforce and the tool boundary. Cyphrex proves what an instrumented agent was allowed to do on each step. Cyphrex does not replace WitnessAI.

Does Cyphrex provide an LLM firewall?

No. Prompt and response protection, including injection, jailbreak, and data redaction controls, is WitnessAI’s job. Cyphrex is not an LLM firewall.

Can a third party verify a Cyphrex decision without a Cyphrex login?

Yes. A Cyphrex package is Ed25519-signed and SHA-256-bound. On /verify, someone can check the decision without a Cyphrex login.

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