ZeroDrift Emerges from Stealth to Make Enterprise Communication Compliant in the AI Era
ZeroDrift is launching from stealth with a $2 million pre-seed round to automate compliance in real time and unlock business velocity while giving compliance teams infrastructure to scale oversight.
The pre-seed round was led by a16z speedrun and the capital will support the company’s go-to-market launch, product expansion across communication channels, and continued development of its AI-driven compliance engine.
According to the company, firms are under pressure to move faster, scale digital outreach, and adopt AI, while regulatory requirements continue to demand strict oversight of every external communication.
Traditional compliance models rely on manual redlines, approval queues, and post-hoc sampling. These processes were built for a different era and cannot scale with today's communication volume, leaving compliance teams stretched thin and business teams waiting.
ZeroDrift takes a fundamentally different approach by shifting compliance from a gate at the end of the process into an automated guardrail that operates in real time, the company said.
ZeroDrift is an AI-native communication firewall that validates and fixes content before it is sent, giving compliance teams control at scale and business teams the speed to execute.
The platform encodes SEC, FINRA, and firm-specific policies into machine-readable rulepacks, then enforces them at the point of creation. ZeroDrift integrates directly into tools teams already use, including email, browsers, CRMs, websites, social platforms, and AI systems.
Content is checked instantly, issues are flagged with suggested fixes, and compliant messages move forward without delay. Compliance teams retain full visibility through centralized dashboards, audit trails, and exam-ready evidence generated automatically, the vendor said.
“People do not want to be non-compliant. They just have no way to know if what they are writing is acceptable until it is too late,” said Kumesh Aroomoogan, founder and CEO of ZeroDrift. “Compliance should be a guardrail that lets teams move faster, not a gate that slows everything down. Our goal is to make compliance happen automatically at the speed of work.”
ZeroDrift initially launched in financial services, serving registered investment advisors, asset managers, broker-dealers, and wealth platforms.
Early use cases include faster campaign launches, higher sales velocity, safe deployment of client-facing AI, and instant exam readiness without last-minute scrambles.
“Compliance has quietly become a limiting factor for how fast regulated companies can operate,” said Troy Kirwin from a16z speedrun. “ZeroDrift flips that dynamic by preventing violations before they happen and making compliance a built-in part of everyday workflows.”
Looking ahead, ZeroDrift plans to deepen its coverage across financial services before expanding its rule-based compliance engine into other regulated sectors, including insurance, healthcare, ESG disclosures, and AI governance.
As per the company, the long-term vision is to become the universal trust layer for any system that communicates, ensuring that as AI and automation scale, trust, safety, and compliance scale with them.
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