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Haize Labs
AI red teaming startup, acquired into a holding company
Human-led engagementsAutomated platformAgents and toolsRuntime guardrails
Haize Labs built the Haize Suite of algorithms that automatically jailbreak and stress-test LLMs, plus guardrails, evaluation tools, red team engagements with frontier labs, and the open-source Verdict judge library. Beacon Software, a Toronto holding company, bought it in Sep 2026 and made the team its internal Applied AI Research Group. Whether outside buyers can still hire it is unclear.
Best for: Watch only: confirm it still serves outside clients before planning a project.
Acquired by Beacon Software (Sep 2026)
- – Maps to OWASP
- – Maps to MITRE ATLAS
- – Maps to the EU AI Act
- – SOC 2 or ISO 27001
Worth knowing before you sign
- Absorbed into a non-security holding company; nothing said about existing customers or products.
- Verdict library has had no PyPI release since Jul 2025.
- Funding figures conflict across sources.
Sources
- The Next Web: Beacon acquires Haize Labs
- BERI: vendor continuity analysis
- VentureBeat: algorithmic jailbreaking
- arXiv: Verdict paper
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