By Todd Bishop
Publication Date: 2026-04-07 13:41:00
As a veteran engineer and product leader inside Microsoft Azure, Rohit Tatachar saw that many companies were building AI systems they couldn’t fully monitor or control in production.
In his new role at a Seattle startup, he’s doing something about it.
Tatachar is now co-founder and CTO of Glacis, which builds tamper-proof records of AI behavior — what CEO Joe Braidwood has called a “flight recorder for enterprise AI.” His arrival comes as Glacis launches new open-source tools for monitoring and controlling AI agents.
Glacis, first covered by GeekWire in November 2025, was started by Braidwood and Dr. Jennifer Shannon, a psychiatrist and adjunct professor at the University of Washington.
The company grew out of a difficult lesson: Braidwood’s previous startup, Yara, an AI-powered mental health tool, had to be shut down after he realized the models drifted from their intended…
