Product · Aval

AI safety guardrails, built for banking

Aval is an enterprise-grade safety classifier purpose-built for BFSI. It controls model behavior at runtime, ensures regulatory compliance, and detects malicious intent — with zero changes to your models.

0.994
HackaPrompt R
0.5%
False-positive rate
184M
Parameters · 44× smaller than LlamaGuard-3-1B
11.6ms
Inference latency
Capabilities

Control behavior at runtime

Aval sits in front of every prompt and response, classifying intent across 22 safety axes spanning the FinProof BFSI threat taxonomy before anything reaches your customers.

Runtime protection

Detects prompt injection, jailbreaks and malicious intent in real time — blocking what's harmful before it executes.

Compliance-ready

Aligned to RBI, SEBI, DPDP, ISO 27001 and SOC 2 from day one, with audit-ready evidence for every decision.

BFSI-focused

Trained on financial-services adversarial data so it distinguishes genuine attacks from legitimate banking queries.

Zero model changes

Deploy as a guardrail layer in front of any LLM — no retraining, no fine-tuning, no architectural rework.

Low latency

11.6ms inference on a single RTX 4090 — fast enough for real-time customer and agent workflows.

Explainable output

Every inference returns a structured confidence vector across safety axes — not a binary flag.

KV Cache Governance

Your AI infrastructure shares memory to go fast. That shared memory is ungoverned.

Zytra is the only platform that governs the KV cache layer — the one place where tenant data mixes and identity disappears.

Detect before damage

Published research shows shared inference caches can leak up to 99% of a prompt through timing alone. Zytra detects cross-tenant leakage in real time — before it reaches your incident log.

Prove isolation

Every cache access is signed, attributed, and recorded in a tamper-evident chain. When a regulator asks whether tenant A's data ever served tenant B, you show them proof, not a policy.

Delete with certainty

Subject erasure requests touch the cache too. Zytra tracks what entered the cache, scopes it to the right owner, and produces a signed deletion certificate — with honest disclosure of what was cleared and when.

Works alongside vLLM, llm-d, and other inference engines. No engine fork required.

Reproducible evaluation

Accurate — and safe to ship

On raw prompt-injection recall the field is close — Meta’s PromptGuard edges Aval (1.000 vs 0.994). What separates a benchmark from production is false positives, where Aval leads by a wide margin.

ModelSizeHackaPrompt RAgentHarm FPRWildGuardMix F1Latency
Aval v1.5184M0.9940.5%0.30311.6ms
PromptGuard-86M Meta86M1.00096.9%0.0958ms
LlamaGuard-3-1B Meta1B0.0%0%0.0~60ms

PromptGuard’s 96.9% AgentHarm FPR flags nearly every legitimate banking query as harmful — not deployable in production; Aval’s 0.5% reflects BFSI-specific training. HackaPrompt R (recall) and AgentHarm FPR come from different benchmark suites, so a high recall score does not imply a low false-positive rate. Meta’s PromptGuard is faster (8ms vs 11.6ms) but unusable at that FPR. Source: reproducible evaluation on the public FinProof set · RTX 4090.

Enterprise control

Minimal overhead, total oversight

Governance without friction across all four layers of AI infrastructure.

Model registry

Centralized inventory of every model in production, with versioning and lineage tracking.

Safety guardrails

Runtime protection with Aval classifiers preventing hallucinations and prompt injection.

Drift detection

Real-time monitoring for data drift, performance degradation and behavioral anomalies.

Audit & explainability

Complete decision trails with SHAP/LIME explanations for every prediction.

Multi-layer governance

Model, agent, application and network-level controls for comprehensive oversight.

Compliance-ready

Pre-configured for RBI, SEBI, DPDP Act, ISO 27001 and SOC 2 requirements.

Platform Architecture

8 capability sections · 59+ modules

One unified platform. Eight integrated capability groups. Deployed as SaaS, on-premise, or hybrid.

01

AI Asset Registry

8 modules

Catalog · Discovery · Scan · Registration

02

GRC & Policy

7 modules

Risk Tiering · Compliance · Policy Packs · Controls

03

Assessment & Evidence

5 modules

Questionnaires · Evidence · Approvals · Collaboration

04

Workflow & Process

5 modules

Control Plane · SLA · Task Library · Stakeholders

05

Evaluations & Scanners

6 modules

Evals · Red-team · Scanners · Benchmarks

06

Guardrails & Runtime

5 modules

Policy Engine · Prompt Guard · Output Filters · Aval

07

Agent Mesh & FinOps

8 modules

Agent Registry · Orchestration · Cost Tracking · Budgets

08

Observability & Infra

5 modules

Dashboards · Alerting · Audit Logs · Infra Config

Deploy AI safety in days, not quarters

See Aval running against your toughest adversarial prompts.