The rapid rise of open-source AI frameworks has reshaped the landscape of conversational agents. Enterprises now have unprecedented access to powerful models and agent architectures. Yet, this opportunity comes with escalating risk. As organizations move beyond experimental chatbots and into large-scale automation, they confront a difficult truth: open source may accelerate innovation, but it also exposes them to prompt injection, adversarial manipulation, and compliance failures.
This pressure is pushing the industry toward one of its most important evolutions yet: the merging of open-source flexibility with production-grade safety. ActiveFence and Parlant, two companies operating at the forefront of AI security and agent reliability, have just announced a strategic partnership designed to bring that union to life.
A Partnership Built for Enterprise-Grade AI
ActiveFence, widely recognized as a global leader in AI safety and security, is joining forces with Parlant, the open-source engine for creating reliable conversational agents. Their goal is clear: enable organizations to deploy open-source chatbots that perform complex tasks without compromising compliance, trust, or predictability.
Parlant offers developers granular control over an agent’s actions and reasoning, solving a major challenge for enterprises that need chatbots to operate within strict business and service procedures. ActiveFence layers in the missing infrastructure: real-time guardrails, powerful threat intelligence enriched by decades of online safety experience, and continuous red-teaming capabilities that pressure-test models under real-world attack conditions.
Combined, these technologies allow organizations to embed safety natively into their open-source chatbot stacks rather than bolting it on after deployment.
Addressing the Expanding Risk Surface
As enterprises lean more heavily on conversational AI, the attack vectors have evolved just as quickly. A single vulnerable chatbot can trigger data leakage, regulatory violations, reputational damage, or downstream operational errors. This partnership targets the entire risk spectrum, from preventing harmful outputs to enforcing correct and consistent agent behavior.
Avi Golan, CPO of ActiveFence, emphasizes the urgency: “As AI becomes more open and accessible, safety must be as scalable as innovation itself. Our partnership with Parlant ensures developers and enterprises can harness the power of open-source while maintaining the highest standards of security, compliance, and trust.”
What makes this collaboration especially timely is its dual approach. Instead of focusing solely on preventing harmful interactions, the companies are addressing the full operational lifecycle of chatbot behavior.
Yam Marcovitz, CEO of Parlant, highlights this often-overlooked dimension: “Preventing harmful interactions is a crucial part of an AI safety plan, yet there’s another crucial part newcomers often miss. When you train a human agent, you don’t just tell them what not to say; you teach them the exact service protocols they should follow. AI agents need the same. Parlant excels at ensuring agents understand and follow your service procedures, while ActiveFence ensures they never cross safety lines while doing so. With this new and exciting partnership, we’re closing the circle on AI compliance for the enterprise.”
Expanding the Impact of AI in Regulated Industries
Sectors such as finance, insurance, healthcare, and government have been slow to adopt open-source conversational agents, precisely because of compliance and predictability concerns. ActiveFence and Parlant’s collaboration offers a pathway to overcome these barriers by aligning open-source development practices with enterprise security needs.
ActiveFence offers unmatched harmful-content detection across 117+ languages, a long track record of protecting more than 3 billion users, and advanced guardrails designed for fast-changing threat environments. Parlant brings an alignment engine (supported by industry veterans from Microsoft, EverCompliant, and the Weizmann Institute) that enables enterprises to build and refine agents that strictly adhere to internal policies and service logic.
Together, they create a dynamic feedback loop: Parlant ensures correct behavior, while ActiveFence ensures safe boundaries.
Toward a New Standard of AI Reliability
The partnership between ActiveFence and Parlant signals a pivotal moment for the AI industry. As organizations push open-source agents deeper into customer interactions and mission-critical operations, safety and reliability can no longer be optional.
By integrating best-in-class guardrails with an alignment-first agent framework, the two companies are not just reacting to the risks of open-source AI; they’re defining a new standard for how enterprises should deploy it.