TL;DR
Open-source chatbots offer flexibility, but also introduce serious safety and security risks as agents become more autonomous. Alice’s partnership with Parlant bridges this gap by combining Parlant’s open-source agent framework and behavioral controls with Alice’s real-time guardrails, red teaming, and threat intelligence. Together, they deliver an end-to-end solution for building, deploying, and scaling open-source conversational AI that stays secure, compliant, and aligned with enterprise standards, without sacrificing innovation.
Ensuring Open Source Doesn’t Mean Open Risk
Open-source chatbots are proliferating, and with them, new safety and security vulnerabilities are emerging.
Enterprises are embracing open frameworks for flexibility and control, but that openness also invites risk: prompt injection, adversarial manipulation, compliance drift, and unpredictable agent behavior. As chat agents become increasingly autonomous and connected, embedding safety from the start is essential.
That’s why we partnered with Parlant.io, an open-source engine that enables developers to build conversational agents with fine-grained behavioral control and service reliability. Parlant gives organizations the tools to ensure agents follow business rules and protocols consistently. Together, we’re closing the gap between innovation and protection by helping enterprises build safer open-source chatbots, stay aligned with enterprise protocols, and operate responsibly at scale, balancing flexibility with enterprise-grade safety.
Securing Open-Source Chatbots from the Ground Up
By integrating Parlant’s open-source agent framework with Alice’s real-time guardrails, red-teaming, and threat intelligence, developers can build and deploy chat agents that adhere to both business rules and safety standards, even in dynamic, open environments.
Parlant provides a structured foundation for defining and enforcing agent behavior. Alice ensures those agents remain secure and compliant through real-time monitoring, red-team validation, and safety enforcement. Together, we’re delivering the first end-to-end solution for safe, compliant conversational AI built on open infrastructure.
Avi Golan, Chief Product Officer, Alice:
“As AI becomes more open and accessible, safety must scale with innovation. Our partnership with Parlant ensures developers and enterprises can harness open-source flexibility while maintaining the highest standards of security, compliance, and trust.”
Yam Marcovitz, CEO, Parlant:
“When you train a human agent, you don’t just tell them what not to do; you teach them how to do the job right. Parlant ensures AI agents understand and follow service protocols, while Alice ensures they never cross safety lines. Together, we’re closing the loop on AI compliance for the enterprise.”
The Bottom Line
Open-source doesn’t have to mean open risk.
With Alice and Parlant, organizations can build openly and deploy safely, combining the power of open frameworks with the protection of real-time AI safety and security infrastructure. Because innovation shouldn’t come at the cost of trust.
We’re thrilled to welcome Parlant into our safety ecosystem!
To learn more about how to integrate Safety and security into your Agentic workflows, book a demo with our team.
Together, Alice and Parlant deliver the AI guardrails and LLM guardrails that enterprises need to deploy conversational agents with confidence.
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About Parlant -
Parlant is the builder-friendly AI alignment engine that enables enterprises to create and fully own advanced AI agents that reliably follow business rules and service protocols. By ensuring strict behavioral reliability, Parlant empowers enterprises to scale customer-facing automation safely and compliantly. Learn more at parlant.io.
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