Trustward by RoboCFO · Now in private preview
Let your finance team build with AI. Stay in control of every app they ship.
Governance for the apps your finance team builds with AI.
Your team is already building with AI. Trustward, RoboCFO's governed environment for finance and ops teams, keeps them shipping while you get a live map of every app, the data each one touches, and an off switch. You stay in control without reading a line of code.
The CFO's live registry: every app, its owner, the data it touches, its status.
The shift
Your team can build now. That's the upside, and the problem.
AI compresses finance work first: the reconciliations, the variance analysis, the six-system data pull, the report nobody wants to build by hand. The analyst who used to file a ticket and wait two sprints now ships the dashboard over lunch. The controller who needed a data team stands up a cash-forecast app by describing it. What's gone is the person who used to catch the security problem before it shipped.
The reviewer is gone.
Vibe coding erased the distance between an idea and a running app, along with the senior engineer who used to catch the gap. The model optimizes for code that runs. Whether it leaks is a question it never asks, and the numbers bear that out. Veracode's 2025 review of more than 100 models found roughly 45% of AI-generated code fails security tests, and the pass rate has held near 55% even as coding benchmarks climbed.
- A builder pastes a schema and a live connection string into an outside model to debug.
- An app pulls the whole general ledger when it needed one AR table.
- A long-lived credential lands in the code, or in the chat history.
- A sidecar data store quietly becomes a permanent copy of sensitive data nobody can turn off.
- A dead app stays wired to production, owned by no one.
One in five organizations has already taken a breach traced to shadow AI, and those breaches run well above an ordinary incident (IBM, 2025 Cost of a Data Breach). Risk committees can't sign off on apps they can't even list. That's the gap Trustward closes.
How we solve it
Keep your tool. We govern what leaks.
Trustward sits between your team's AI coding tool and your real systems. The tool writes the app. Trustward runs it, hands it only the data it's cleared for, and logs everything it does. Real data and real credentials stay behind the broker, where the AI tool never reaches them.
Scoped
Each app reads the rows and columns it needs, masked and logged. Nothing else.
Contained
Apps run isolated in your own cloud, behind an SSO-gated URL, with outbound traffic denied by default.
Accounted for
Every app enrolls in a registry with an owner, a purpose, the data it touches, and a governance tier.
You stay in control
Control of code you never have to read.
You won't read a line of what your team builds. You get a plain-language map: every app, who owns it, what data it touches, and whether it's cleared. When something needs your call, it shows up in words you already use, with an approve or a deny. If an app should stop, you stop it. The controls run underneath. You see the part that matters.
Every read logged and attributed. Source to dashboard, captured.
For PE-backed teams
A clean control environment, before diligence asks for it.
If a sponsor sits one level up, the apps your team builds are part of the control environment a buyer inspects at exit. Trustward gives the portfolio company a live inventory and an audit trail for every AI-built app, so a question that used to have no answer becomes a clean line item. For the sponsor, it's the same visibility across the portfolio: what every company is building, and where the data goes.
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Common questions
What is Trustward?
Trustward is governance for the apps your finance team builds with AI. It sits between your team's AI coding tool and your real systems, and gives you a live map of every app, the data each one touches, an audit trail, and an off switch, all without reading a line of code.
Will this slow my team down?
No. They keep the tool they already use and the way they already work. Trustward governs the data connection and the runtime around them, so the build stays fast and the controls run on their own.
Can my team keep the AI coding tools they already use?
Yes. Your team keeps Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or a hosted builder. Trustward governs the data connection and the runtime around the tool. It doesn't touch the authoring, so you never have to vet each new AI tool your team adopts. One mechanism, the broker, protects them all.
Is my data safe with you?
Your data stays inside your own cloud. Trustward runs there, reads data in place, and never copies it out to us. Real data never reaches the AI coding tool, at build time or after.
How is Trustward different from tools like Vanta or Drata?
Vanta and Drata became the control layer for your security posture. Trustward is the control layer for the apps your team builds with AI: a live inventory, lineage, and an attestation a CFO can sign honestly. It's finance-native and bring-your-own-tool, which the security-posture and platform incumbents don't reach.
Does Trustward work for PE-backed or portfolio companies?
Yes. If a sponsor sits one level up, the apps your team builds are part of the control environment a buyer inspects at exit. Trustward gives the portfolio company a live inventory and audit trail for every AI-built app, and gives the sponsor the same visibility across the portfolio.
See what your team is building before someone else does.
Trustward is live as a private demo. Request access, we review every request, and approved members get a sign-in link to the governed environment.
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