Built in Europe for the companies regulators forgot.

Every company using AI needs governance. Not the kind that lives inside a vendor’s admin console — the kind that sits independently, inventories what’s actually happening, and produces evidence a regulator would accept.

PanelSec exists to make that level of governance accessible to companies with 50–500 employees. The ones too large to ignore AI risk, too small for six-figure GRC platforms, and too busy to maintain spreadsheets that go stale within a week.

PanelSec was founded in 2025 in Europe after we spent months speaking with compliance leads, CTOs, and IT managers at mid-market companies across Germany, the Netherlands, and Poland. The pattern was always the same: employees adopting AI tools faster than governance can keep up, no complete inventory of what’s in use, and a growing stack of regulatory obligations with no practical tooling to meet them.

The existing market offered two options: enterprise platforms that cost six figures and take quarters to implement, or spreadsheets maintained by someone who has three other jobs. Neither works.

We started building the third option — an independent governance layer that discovers AI tools automatically, classifies risk, enforces policy, and produces audit-ready documentation. EU-native, hosted in Frankfurt, designed for the teams that actually have to make compliance work on a Wednesday afternoon.

Whether you’re a potential design partner, an investor, or just curious about AI governance — we’d love to hear from you.