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Transcend is the only real-time data governance and decision layer that answers “Can I use this data?” to unblock AI, agentic, and first-party data initiatives.

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93% of initiatives are stalled due to data governance issues. Learn more.

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IS YOUR DATA AI READY?

Only Transcend encodes consent, permissions, and business policy directly in the systems that process customer data

Govern as code

Enable policy as code, with humans in the loop only where you want them. Every use defined & enforced. No manual backlogs. Audit-ready.

Why 81% of AI initiatives stallBest practices from Governance champions

Activate growth

Market to your full addressable audience by solving the fragmented permissioning issues. Launch your 1st party data initiatives more quickly.

Calculate your audience lift opportunityBest practices from Data champions

Scale with confidence

Deploy once. Use everywhere at enterprise scale. Designed for the most sensitive data use cases. Unblock revenue for AI and agents.

Unlocking personalization and AIBest practices from AI champions

THE DATA DECISION GAPFragmentation and unclear permissions are a challenge

Messy data, in the form of fragmented consent, preferences, and policy rules, creates a structural barrier that freezes AI transformation, stalls personalization, and blocks billions in new revenue. And with the rise of agentic AI, the cost of not solving this problem compounds daily.

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Transcend’s data permissioning layer
unifies every record, agent, and system

YOUR SYSTEMS

CUSTOMER DATA

SOMBRA

Transcend enables data activation by encoding data permissions

directly into the systems

that process customer data.

With Sombra, secure-by-design architecture protecting

even the most sensitive data use cases with end-to-end encryption.

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Unblock your revenue driving initiatives

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1st party data personalization

The new data decision infrastructure that encodes business rules

Meet Policy Engine, the first data decision infrastructure built to encode business policy, regulatory context, and customer permissions into a single, real-time decision, so every system, and every agent, already knows exactly what to do before it acts.

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Encoded AI Governance: the new enterprise imperative

AI governance isn't documentation, it's enforcement. Learn why enterprises need Encoded AI Governance to answer "Can I use this data?" in real time and enable AI, personalization, and growth initiatives without more risk and technical debt


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Every team. One platform.
Drive ROI.

Build once. Deploy everywhere.

Transcend encodes data use permissions once and applies them across every system, brand, and region, so governance scales automatically.

  • Govern once. Scale everywhere: New AI models, regions, and systems inherit permissions automatically
  • Ship faster: Runtime policy enforcement replaces manual compliance reviews
  • Build, don't maintain: Eliminate custom permission scripts with one centralized API
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Launch faster without privacy & governance debt

Focus your team’s time on innovation, not data debt. With Transcend, every feature, model, and agent inherits the governance automatically.

  • Agent-ready at runtime: MCP-native decision API, no data plane rewrite
  • Close the DSR ticket queue:
Automated fulfillment across every system, zero backlog
  • Ship on trusted data:
Consent enforced at the data layer, no delays to launch
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Data is ready. AI cleared.

Govern data once. Activate it everywhere. Unify preferences, policies, and regulatory requirements in real time to unlock AI, personalization, and larger permissioned audiences.

  • Know what data is clear: Column-level classification, updated in real time
  • Activate your full audience:
Consent propagated across CDP, AdTech, loyalty
  • Review queue is encoded automatically:
Governance encoded in infrastructure, not a manual process
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Activate more users. Increase ROAS & LTV.

Unify consent and preferences across every brand, channel, and system, so campaigns reach their full permissioned audience and personalization runs on clean data.

  • Increased addressable market: More opted-in users, larger audience reach
  • Real-time campaign clearance:
Compliance at the data layer, no 3-week legal review cycles
  • Unified consent across every channel:
Web, mobile, agents, CRM one source of truth, in real-time
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Set the policy. Prove it held. Enable growth.

The gap between what your governance framework says and what your systems do is where liability lives. Transcend closes it - automatically, across every system.

  • Encode rules & policy once: Every connected system enforces it automatically
  • DSR fulfillment, closed-loop:
System-level proof of every request, in real-time
  • Audit-ready by default:
Complete records for regulators, M&A, litigation
Explore Privacy & Compliance practices
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Data decision infrastructureA category of one

Most vendors solve one piece of the problem: consent, discovery, or policy management. Transcend governs the entire data lifecycle, from business policy and customer intent to runtime enforcement, across every system.

The only runtime data decision layer, Transcend answers "Can I use this data?" by encoding policy and permissions wherever customer data is processed, so AI, personalization, and first-party data initiatives launch faster.

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Why leading brands trust Transcend

“Every initiative we want to pursue as a business runs through data: new products, new markets, new personalization solutions. We chose Transcend to give us the clarity, confidence, and real-time control of our customer data across the full tech stack.”

Gary Cohen

CEO

“At Robinhood, we empower our customers to take greater ownership of their financial future, and we believe this extends to their personal information. Transcend's data infrastructure helps facilitate the way we give our customers control over their data.”

Karthik Rangarajan

Head of Security

“Every initiative we want to pursue as a business runs through data: new products, new markets, new personalization solutions. We chose Transcend to give us the clarity, confidence, and real-time control of our customer data across the full tech stack.”

Gary Cohen

CEO

“At Robinhood, we empower our customers to take greater ownership of their financial future, and we believe this extends to their personal information. Transcend's data infrastructure helps facilitate the way we give our customers control over their data.”

Karthik Rangarajan

Head of Security

Resources for driving growth at enterprise scale

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2026 State of Customer Data in the World of AI Report

BCG projects $2 trillion in revenue will shift to personalization leaders over the next five years, but most enterprises won’t capture it. Not because they lack data, models, or talent, but because they still can’t answer the question: Can I use this data?

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On-demand: Unlocking first-party data for AI and personalization in 2026

AI initiatives stall. Audiences shrink. Roadmaps slip. The issue isn’t policy, it’s enforcement. In this session, Transcend CEO Ben Brook walks through a practical maturity model for moving from static data policies to real-time enforcement across your stack.

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Transcend named a Leader by IDC MarketScape

Transcend was recognized as a 'Leader' in this year’s IDC MarketScape for ​​​Worldwide Data Privacy Compliance Software Vendor Assessment, 2025.

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Migration is easy

Switching off OneTrust is simpler than you think, and we’re here to help every step of the way.

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Report: Customer Data Readiness in 2026

Exclusive research reveals why 81% of enterprises have delayed, scaled back, or abandoned at least one AI initiative in the past 12 months, and what it takes to finally close the gap.

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