Fairly AI
Fairly AI Inc.
AI GRC in a box for regulated industries.
Last checked September 21, 2026Quick facts: Fairly AI is an AI compliance vendor founded in 2020 and headquartered in Kitchener, Canada. The vendor publicly documents coverage for EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001, Colorado AI Act (SB 24-205, repealed), and NIST AI RMF. Pricing is available on request. Profile last checked September 21, 2026; sources are cited at the bottom of this page.
About Fairly AI
Fairly AI is an AI governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) platform founded in 2020 by David Van Bruwaene and Fion Lee-Madan, incubated at Accenture's FinTech Innovation Lab. Headquartered in Kitchener, Ontario with a Toronto presence, Fairly AI targets regulated industries — finance, healthcare, and government — with an on-premises or private-cloud platform that benchmarks models against internal policies and external regulations.
Featured in
Fairly AI is ranked in the following independent collections.
- Top 6 EU AI Act Compliance Tools (2026): Pricing & CoverageRanked #5
- Top 6 NIST AI RMF Tools (2026): Implementation SoftwareRanked #6
- Top 5 AI Bias Detection Tools (2026): Vendors ComparedRanked #3
- Top 6 NYC LL 144 AEDT Compliance Tools (2026)Ranked #5
- Top 6 Texas AI Act (TRAIGA) Compliance Tools (2026)Ranked #3
- Colorado AI Law Vendors for Financial Services (SB 26-189)Ranked #2
Frameworks supported
Regulations, voluntary standards and compliance programs Fairly AI documents support for on their own materials. Chip shading reflects the strength of the claim, not an independent audit.
Regulation · EU · Phased — in force; high-risk rules deferred
Voluntary standard · Global · voluntary
Regulation · US · Repealed & replaced — new law effective 1 Jan 2027
Voluntary standard · US · voluntary
Regulation · US · in force
Fairly AI features
Capabilities Fairly AI markets publicly. Inclusion means the feature is documented on the vendor's site — not that it's best-in-class. Last checked September 21, 2026.
AI Model Inventory
Centralized registry of all AI/ML models in use across the organization, with ownership, lifecycle stage, and risk classification.
Policy Management
Authoring, versioning, and distribution of AI usage policies mapped to regulations.
Risk Assessment Workflow
Guided workflows for completing AI impact assessments, risk scoring, and approval routing.
Bias & Fairness Testing
Automated statistical testing for disparate impact across protected attributes, with audit-ready reports.
Explainability
SHAP, LIME, counterfactual, and feature-importance explanations for model decisions.
Model Monitoring
Production monitoring for performance, drift, data quality, and fairness regressions.
LLM Red Teaming
Automated adversarial testing of LLMs for jailbreaks, prompt injection, and unsafe outputs.
Audit Evidence Collection
Automated collection, hashing, and retention of evidence (model cards, test results, approvals) for audit.
Third-Party AI Vendor Risk
Intake and assessment of AI features in third-party SaaS used by the organization.
Regulatory Intelligence
Ongoing tracking of AI laws, standards, and enforcement, mapped to your model inventory.
Industries served
Integrations
Documented by Fairly AI in public product materials.
- MLflow
Fairly AI pricing
On-premises or private-cloud deployments; quote-based.
Pros and cons of Fairly AI
Pros
- On-prem/private cloud deployment — attractive to highly regulated orgs
- Canadian HQ useful for Canadian federal procurement
- Deep FI and public-sector grounding
Cons
- Smaller company — narrower support footprint than US peers
- Marketing/brand distinguishable from FairNow but commonly confused
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Frequently asked
Is Fairly AI the same as FairNow?+
No. Fairly AI is a Canadian company founded in 2020 in Kitchener, Ontario. FairNow is a US company. Different founders, different HQ, different products.
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