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Apollo Research
Frontier AI evaluator focused on scheming and deception
Human-led engagementsAgents and toolsFrontier model safetyRuntime guardrails
Apollo Research runs pre-deployment evaluations of frontier models for strategic deception, evaluation awareness and misaligned behavior, red-teams labs’ monitoring systems and advises governments. It also sells Watcher, a runtime monitoring and control tool for AI coding agents. It converted from a fiscally sponsored nonprofit to a public benefit corporation.
Best for: Frontier labs that need scheming and deception evaluations before release.
Historically grant funded; now a public benefit corporation
- – Maps to OWASP
- – Maps to MITRE ATLAS
- – Maps to the EU AI Act
- – SOC 2 or ISO 27001
Where we recommend them
- Best for frontier model safety, an alternative.
Worth knowing before you sign
- Not a fit for typical enterprise LLM app pentests: its work targets frontier labs and governments.
- Status changed recently (nonprofit to PBC); prices for evaluations and Watcher are not published.
- Depends on the labs it evaluates for model access.
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