aid: arden
name: Arden
description: >-
  Arden (Arden AI, Inc.) is an AI-native platform for internal audit and SOX
  compliance teams, backed by Y Combinator and based in San Francisco. Arden
  builds AI agents that automatically pull evidence from a company's stack, run
  end-to-end SOX ITGC and business-process control (BPC) testing, follow up with
  control owners, and produce reviewer-ready workpapers that external auditors
  will accept - work that historically ran on spreadsheets and screenshots over
  weeks. The platform advertises read-only access by default with approval gates
  before any system writes, integrations across 20+ enterprise systems (Workday,
  Okta, NetSuite, and others), full-population or sample-based control testing
  with exception flagging, and full traceability from each conclusion back to the
  source evidence. Arden targets regulated, compliance-critical institutions
  performing automated SOX 404(a) testing. Arden does not currently publish a
  public developer API, OpenAPI definition, SDKs, or developer documentation;
  this profile is maintained as an API Evangelist network lead and will be
  enriched further as a public API surface emerges.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/arden/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://ardentech.ai/arden-logo.png
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- y-combinator
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Internal Audit
- SOX Compliance
- Audit Automation
- GRC
- Artificial Intelligence
- Agentic AI
- Financial Reporting
- Y Combinator
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/arden-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://ardentech.ai/
- type: About
  url: https://ardentech.ai/about
- type: Blog
  url: https://ardentech.ai/blog
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://ardentech.ai/legal/terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://ardentech.ai/legal/privacy-policy
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ardeninc/
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/arden-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence