Fieldguide, an agentic AI-native platform for audit and advisory, announced May 6 that its AI agents, Field Agents, have achieved AIUC-1 certification from the Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company.
The San Francisco-based company says it’s the first artificial intelligence platform in the audit and advisory category to meet the world’s reference standard for AI agent security, safety, and reliability.
The certification, conducted by Schellman, the only top 100 accounting firm to specialize in IT audit and cybersecurity, validates that Fieldguide’s AI agents operate safely in the high-stakes engagement environments where CPA firms deliver their most important work.
AIUC-1 provides independent verification that AI agents meet rigorous standards across data protection, operational boundaries, attack resistance, and error prevention.
The certification also provides Fieldguide customers with third-party assurance that the agents working alongside their practitioners meet the bar set by enterprise security, legal, and procurement teams.
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“Audit and advisory firms are the trust infrastructure of the economy, and the AI that supports them has to meet an equally high bar,” Jin Chang, co-founder and CEO of Fieldguide, said in a statement. “Becoming the first AI platform for audit and advisory to achieve AIUC-1 certification reflects a commitment we’ve made from day one: to build agentic AI that firms can deploy with confidence on their most sensitive engagements.”
“The most important feature of AI agents is how they behave on real engagement data, under pressure, against attacks designed to break them,” added Chris Szymansky, co-founder and chief technology officer of Fieldguide. “Our Field Agents were built for that from the start, with traceability, human oversight, and guardrails in the core of how they work. That’s what AIUC-1 certifies.”
AIUC-1 operationalizes leading frameworks, including ISO 42001, the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, MITRE ATLAS, and the OWASP Top 10 for LLMs. Certification involves thousands of adversarial scenarios derived from real-world incidents, with agent behavior tested at least quarterly.
Fieldguide’s certification builds on its existing ISO 42001 certification and SOC 2 Type 2 report.
“AI agents are only as trustworthy as the standards behind them and the discipline used to evaluate them. Fieldguide put its platform through some of the most rigorous technical testing we’ve seen across our AI governance practice, and that matters,” Schellman CEO Avani Desai said in a statement. “When firms are relying on agentic AI for critical work, trust cannot be assumed. It must be earned. Independent validation is no longer a nice-to-have—it is the baseline.”
“The stakes of auditing AI agents deployed by enterprises are extremely high,” added Rajiv Dattani, co-founder of the AIUC. “Fieldguide’s Field Agents are now AIUC-1 certified, and its platform supports AIUC-1 audits. This means auditors can now confidently certify AI agents are safe to deploy for enterprises, at scale. With this, Fieldguide firmly positions itself as a category leader for AI safety.”
More information about Field Agents can be found here.
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