About
Clearly AI builds an AI-powered platform that automates security and privacy reviews, including threat modeling and design reviews, for security, privacy, and GRC teams. It differentiates through its founders’ Amazon-scale security experience, policy customization, and enterprise capabilities such as private-cloud deployment and integrations.
Market
Clearly AI competes in the security and privacy review automation market, spanning application security, threat modeling, privacy operations, GRC, and third-party risk. It is positioned as an AI-powered platform that combines security and privacy workflows rather than addressing only threat modeling or only privacy compliance. Its differentiation is workflow-native automation, policy customization, continuous assessment, and enterprise deployment capabilities that reduce reviews from days or weeks to minutes.
Clearly AI targets mid-to-large technology companies and regulated organizations with security, privacy, compliance/GRC, product security, engineering, or vendor-risk teams. Its primary buyers and users are security and privacy leaders, GRC managers, and product or engineering leads who need to scale reviews without creating release bottlenecks.
At a Glance
Problem
Clearly AI addresses the security and privacy-review bottleneck created when software and enterprise purchasing accelerate faster than lean security, privacy, and compliance teams can review them. Manual design reviews, threat modeling, and documentation are slow, inconsistent, and costly: the company contrasts three to six hours per review and two to four weeks of manual information gathering with reviews completed in under 15 minutes and less than a day. The consequence is incomplete coverage, critical issues buried in backlogs, and high-risk findings such as exposed PII, missing rate limiting, insecure token storage, or unclear authentication flows reaching production.
The killer use case is automating security and privacy assessments for every new feature, product, or vendor while reserving scarce specialists for the riskiest work. Customer-reported results illustrate the economic value: HID Global says threat-modeling work fell from weeks to minutes, while Rivian reports a 90% reduction in review-completion time and a fourfold increase in team capacity.
Product / Service
Clearly AI is an enterprise security-and-privacy review platform delivered as an AI-augmented workflow rather than a fully autonomous decision-maker. It connects to systems such as Jira, GitHub, Confluence, and Google Drive; ingests a company’s policies, standards, and security requirements; learns its review framework; automatically assesses new features, products, and vendors; and presents prioritized findings for human review and final approval. The platform spans threat modeling, design reviews, privacy impact assessments, vendor risk, AI risk, and broader security workflows.
The benefit is faster, more consistent review coverage without discarding human accountability. Clearly AI emphasizes human-in-the-loop validation, source references, and safeguards against hallucinations, positioning the product as a scalable security-team partner that augments engineers and reviewers. The company’s stated outcome is to help enterprises ship secure software faster while keeping documentation and risk decisions aligned with their own standards.
Market
Clearly AI competes in the emerging market for AI-native security, privacy, compliance, and GRC-review automation, with a particular focus on product-security design reviews and threat modeling. Third-party alternative listings place it alongside cybersecurity and AI-security companies including Theori, Kai Cyber, Escape Technologies, Corridor, Realm Labs, ZE ZeroPath, Darwinium, and Noru; these appear to be adjacent alternatives rather than evidence that every company is a direct substitute. Its differentiation is the combination of organization-specific policy ingestion, continuous review across the software lifecycle, and human-reviewed risk triage.
The company appears to have early commercial traction rather than being pre-revenue. Its site features customer evidence from Rivian, HID Global, and Webflow, including material time and capacity improvements; it also announced an $8.4 million seed round and selection as a Top 10 finalist for the RSAC 2026 Innovation Sandbox Contest. A third-party September 2025 estimate put annual revenue at approximately $330,000, so the business is demonstrably beyond the pre-revenue stage, although that figure is not an audited current financial disclosure.
Founders & Leadership
Funding History
Basis Set Ventures
Recent News
Clearly AI published a follow-up in its Future of Security & Privacy series examining the distinction between privacy and security and practical implementation considerations.
Clearly AI published a blog post about how artificial intelligence is changing its product-engineering workflow.
Clearly AI published a company update explaining the decision to join the company and its mission in security and privacy automation.
Clearly AI published a technical explainer of its platform and approach to automating security and privacy reviews.
GeekWire reported that Clearly AI raised an $8.4 million seed round less than two years after launching. The coverage also noted that the company was named a finalist in the RSAC 2026 Innovation Sandbox contest.
Clearly AI announced an $8.4 million seed round to scale its product-security platform and said it had been selected as a Top 10 finalist for the RSAC 2026 Innovation Sandbox Contest.
RSAC announced the finalists for its 2026 Innovation Sandbox Contest, with Clearly AI among the Top 10 finalists. The recognition highlights Clearly AI’s work helping teams automate security and privacy reviews.
Menlo Times reported that Clearly AI raised $8.4 million in seed funding for its platform, which automates security and privacy assessments, reduces backlogs, and improves visibility.
Clearly AI published a company-origin story describing why it was founded and its focus on making software security and privacy reviews more efficient.
Active Roles
1Business Model
Clearly AI monetizes through sales-led B2B enterprise software sales: it directs prospective teams to book demos and offers enterprise-grade deployments with private-cloud support, SSO/SAML/SCIM, integrations, and SOC2 certification. Public pricing and a precise billing metric are not disclosed in the available evidence.