Why we built Proxara
We built the thing we kept wishing for.
We have been on both sides of this. The people who wanted to use AI at work, and the people answerable for what it touched. The friction felt the same from either chair, and we never believed it had to stay that way.
The friction was always the same.
AI showed up in the work before anyone decided how to handle it. It made the slow parts fast and the hard parts easier, and people reached for it the way they reach for anything that genuinely helps.
But sitting in the seat that answers for security and compliance, we could not see any of it. Where the data went. What was being pasted into which tool. Whether a prompt carried a client name or an account number out the door. So the answer, almost every time, was restraint. Throttle it. Wait. Lock it down.
And restraint never actually worked. The tools people relied on got slower or vanished, the work backed up, and the usage simply moved somewhere we could see even less: a personal account, a phone, a second laptop on the desk. Everyone lost something, and no one ended up any safer.
And the cure looked like more work.
The other thing that wore us down was the shape of the supposed solution. Governing AI properly, the story went, meant standing up a team, buying another dashboard for an already-crowded stack, and watching a review queue fill faster than anyone could ever read it.
It landed hardest on the people already stretched thinnest. At most firms the person accountable for all of this is one person wearing the compliance hat and the security hat at once. Telling them that safety requires a second full-time job is not a plan. It is how good intentions quietly die.
We understood why teams reached for the wall instead. Given the tools at the time, we might have reached for it too.
We never believed it had to be that way.
So we built the opposite of the thing we were dreading. Not another screen to watch. Not another queue to clear. Not a report that tells you what already left. Something that sits quietly in the path the AI already runs through, catches the risk before it becomes one, and keeps an honest, complete picture simply because it is there.
The sensitive data stays home. The dangerous action stops on its own. The work keeps moving, and the people using AI rarely feel a thing. The person accountable finally gets the part that was always missing: real governance they never have to tend, a record already written when someone asks for it, and not one more thing to log into. Governance that resolves in the background, the way good infrastructure always has.
What we believe
The way we think it should work.
We are infrastructure.
We would rather be the road than the camera: the thing that keeps AI safe by being where it runs, not a report you read after something has already gone wrong.
The safe path is the easy path.
People keep the tools they like and the speed they need. If anyone has to change how they work to stay compliant, we have not done our job.
You should never feel us.
The day a team forgets Proxara is running is the day it is working. Quiet is the whole point, not a side effect.
We lead with calm.
The regulation is real, and the record is there the moment anyone needs it. We will not sell panic, and we will never make a deadline the reason you act.
We build as peers.
Security and compliance people, building for security and compliance people. No slides, no theater, just the conversation we wish someone had had with us.
From the two of us
If any of this sounds familiar, let us talk.
We built Proxara for the version of ourselves that kept wanting to say yes to AI and kept having to say wait. If you have sat in that seat, on either side of it, we would genuinely like to hear about it. Not a demo. A conversation, the kind we wish someone had had with us.
Hemanth TadepalliCEO
Jex PearceCTO