The Trusted Data Layer Blueprint
This whitepaper introduces the Trusted Data Layer. By turning reactive compliance into real-time control, leading organizations can scale AI responsibly and speed up innovation.

The Trusted Data Layer Blueprint:
Infrastructure for Scalable, Responsible AI
As enterprises race to deploy AI, most remain constrained by data infrastructure that was never designed for AI’s speed, sensitivity, or scale. Traditional governance models built on policy PDFs, periodic audits, and manual enforcement, are breaking down under the weight of modern data pipelines and growing regulatory complexity.
In this whitepaper, discover how the Trusted Data Layer transforms governance from a reactive bottleneck into a proactive foundation for AI growth. Learn how leading organizations are embedding real-time policy enforcement directly into their data systems, enabling safe, compliant data use across every team, system, and jurisdiction. This is not a theory. It’s a blueprint already in use by forward-looking enterprises to scale AI without compromising trust.
Michael Brown
A veteran of product and infrastructure engineering, Michael leads the product strategy and roadmap at Ethyca. His work focuses on building real-time, enforceable privacy infrastructure that can scale with modern AI workloads. He was a principal architect behind the Trusted Data Layer framework.
Founder & CEO, EthycaCillian Kieran
Cillian founded Ethyca to solve the foundational problems of data trust in modern software systems. With a background in engineering and a career at the intersection of data, regulation, and infrastructure, he brings a systems-level perspective to the future of AI governance and the role of code in compliance.
CTO, EthycaNeville Samuell
Neville leads Ethyca’s engineering teams, bridging architecture with execution. He played a critical role in translating the vision of the Trusted Data Layer into working systems, integrating policy-as-code capabilities into real-world enterprise stacks.
Ethyca
Congratulations are in order it seems - you're officially part of the 0.01% who don't just take things at face value.
And since you're here, yes, we take privacy seriously too.
Stay curious, stay private.
– Ethyca
Congratulations are in order it seems - you're officially part of the 0.01% who don't just take things at face value.
And since you're here, yes, we take privacy seriously too.
Stay curious, stay private.
– Ethyca
Congratulations are in order it seems - you're officially part of the 0.01% who don't just take things at face value.
And since you're here, yes, we take privacy seriously too.
Stay curious, stay private.
– Ethyca