Open-source AI has transformed the way organizations approach conversational agents. Developers now have access to flexible frameworks that enable rapid experimentation and deployment. Yet with this freedom comes a critical challenge: scaling open-source chatbots safely and reliably across enterprises, especially in regulated industries. Without proper safeguards, these systems risk producing harmful outputs, violating compliance rules, or behaving unpredictably under adversarial conditions.
Recognizing this growing need, ActiveFence, a global leader in AI safety and security, has partnered with Parlant, the open-source engine for building reliable conversational agents. Together, they aim to deliver a production-ready solution that combines the adaptability of open-source development with enterprise-grade safety, compliance, and operational reliability.
Integrating Safety Directly into Open-Source Agents
Parlant provides developers with a framework that allows precise control over chatbot behavior, ensuring agents act consistently with organizational rules. ActiveFence contributes real-time guardrails, threat intelligence, and continuous red-teaming, protecting against prompt injection attacks, harmful content, and other adversarial threats.
The partnership enables organizations to “build open” while safely deploying at scale, merging open-source flexibility with the kind of security infrastructure typically reserved for large enterprises. This integration means companies can now leverage AI innovation without compromising trust or compliance, a challenge that has slowed AI adoption in sensitive sectors such as finance, healthcare, and government.
“As AI becomes more open and accessible, safety must be as scalable as innovation itself,” says Avi Golan, CPO of ActiveFence. “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.”
Closing the Compliance Gap
Preventing harmful interactions is only one piece of the enterprise AI puzzle. Equally important is ensuring chatbots consistently follow defined service protocols and business rules. Parlant addresses this gap by providing an alignment engine that enables enterprises to design agents capable of reliably executing real-world tasks. ActiveFence’s safety framework ensures these agents never cross critical safety or compliance boundaries.
Yam Marcovitz, CEO of Parlant, explains: “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.”
A Holistic Approach to Enterprise AI
ActiveFence secures more than 3 billion users worldwide and protects major foundation models with advanced harmful-content detection in 117+ languages. Parlant, founded by experts from Microsoft, EverCompliant, and the Weizmann Institute of Science, provides a platform, Emcie, that allows business stakeholders to refine agent behavior in real time. This creates a continuous improvement loop that transforms customer interactions into actionable intelligence.
By combining these capabilities, organizations can deploy open-source chatbots that are safe, compliant, and operationally reliable without sacrificing the agility and innovation that open-source tools provide.
The Blueprint for Safe, Scalable AI
As conversational AI becomes central to enterprise operations, the need for built-in safety and compliance is no longer optional. The ActiveFence-Parlant partnership demonstrates a clear path forward: one where open-source development and enterprise-grade safety coexist seamlessly. For companies looking to scale AI responsibly, this collaboration provides a blueprint for deploying chatbots that are not only capable but also trustworthy and compliant.
