Transcend Privacy & Agent Governance Platform

Transcend is a privacy infrastructure company founded in 2017 by Harvard computer science graduates Ben Brook and Mike Farrell and headquartered in San Francisco. It helps large companies enforce customer consent, data rights and internal data policies automatically across their systems instead of through manual privacy processes.

The platform covers consent and preference management for web, mobile, backend, marketing and AI systems, closed-loop fulfillment of data subject requests with system-level proof, and a Policy Engine that encodes regulatory and business rules as policy-as-code. Newer modules, Transcend Rails and Agent & Data Controls, apply the same policy layer to AI agents through an MCP-native decision API with audit logs. The Sombra architecture encrypts data end to end and can run in the customer's own environment.

• Consent and preferences: Enforces consent across web, mobile, backend, marketing and AI systems.
• DSR automation: Fulfills data subject requests across connected systems with system-level proof.
• Policy Engine: Encodes regulatory, business and customer-preference rules as policy-as-code.
• Transcend Rails: Sets runtime limits, owners and audit trails for each AI agent.
• Agent & Data Controls: MCP-native decision API that agents call before acting on data.
• Sombra: End-to-end encrypted architecture that can run in the customer's environment.

A Vietnamese bank or fintech can automate customer requests to access or delete data across core banking, CRM and marketing tools. A retailer can enforce marketing consent before audiences are sent to ad platforms. An enterprise deploying AI assistants can control which customer data each agent may read.

Privacy rules are written once and enforced automatically by connected systems, reducing manual work for privacy and engineering teams. Data subject requests are fulfilled end to end across systems with proof for regulators. Consent is enforced at the data layer so marketing and AI teams only use permitted data. AI agents run under spend limits, owners, audit trails and a kill switch. The site reports 208 billion automated data decisions.

Privacy regulation is spreading across Asia, including Vietnam's Personal Data Protection Law, while companies roll out AI agents that touch customer data. This creates demand for tools that turn consent, data rights and AI usage rules into automated controls with audit evidence rather than spreadsheets and manual tickets.

Founded in 2017 by Ben Brook (CEO) and Mike Farrell (CTO); based in San Francisco. Raised a 40 million USD Series B in 2024; investors include Index Ventures, Accel, South Park Commons and StepStone. IDC MarketScape Leader 2025, Deloitte Technology Fast 500 two years running, Snowflake Native App partner. First customer was Patreon in 2019.