Building AI Tools with Guardrails (Part 2 w/ Peter Holcomb)

AI for Founders with Ryan Estes · Apr 17, 2025 · 32m

🎙️ AI for Founders: Building Secure AI Tools (Part 2 with Peter Holcomb)

Guest: Peter Holcomb – AI Governance Expert, Founder of Optimal IT

Host: Ryan Estes

🔑 Key Takeaways

Start with Governance: Define security and compliance standards before adopting or building AI tools.

Prompt Injection is Real: A top risk per OWASP; design with defenses in place.

Test Before You Launch: Use red/blue team testing to secure your tool pre-market.

Legal vs. Guardrails: Terms of service help, but secure code is better protection.

Cross-Team Governance: Security, Legal, Privacy, and Engineering should all…