CTGT × PepsiCo Labs | Enterprise AI Governance for Multi-Brand Portfolios
Confidential
Prepared for PepsiCo Labs

Governing AI Across
a Multi-Brand Portfolio

How CTGT's Policy Engine delivers deterministic compliance, hallucination mitigation, and auditable governance for consumer-facing AI at enterprise scale.

Prepared by
James Connolly, Head of Growth
Date
February 2026
Classification
Confidential
The Challenge

Why Fine-Tuning and Prompt Engineering
Cannot Scale a 30-Brand Portfolio

When every brand in your portfolio runs its own AI pipeline, the result is not innovation. It is fragmentation: inconsistent outputs, unauditable decisions, and compliance gaps that compound with every new deployment.

01

Compliance Drift at Scale

Each brand team fine-tunes its own model. Without centralized governance, regulatory requirements get interpreted differently across business units. A policy change at the corporate level takes weeks to propagate, if it propagates at all.

02

Hallucination as Liability

Consumer-facing AI that fabricates product claims, nutritional information, or ingredient details creates real legal and reputational exposure. Standard guardrails catch less than half of these errors. For a portfolio the size of PepsiCo's, that failure rate is unacceptable.

03

No Defensible Audit Trail

When a regulator asks why your AI made a specific claim, "the model generated it" is not a sufficient answer. Today's stack produces outputs with no record of which policies were evaluated, which were violated, and what remediation occurred.

04

Brand Cross-Contamination

Shared infrastructure means Gatorade's voice can bleed into Quaker's. A model trained on your full corpus does not inherently understand where one brand identity ends and another begins.

Our Approach

A Governance Layer That Sits Above
the Model, Not Inside It

CTGT does not replace your AI infrastructure. It governs it. Our Policy Engine intercepts every model output, evaluates it against your organization's full policy landscape, and remediates non-compliant content before it reaches the consumer.

Hallucination Reduction: 50% → 4%

Our multi-stage verification pipeline catches fabricated claims, incorrect entity relationships, and unsupported assertions. Each output receives a continuous confidence score from 0.0 to 1.0, enabling your compliance team to set granular thresholds for blocking, flagging, or approving content.

Full Audit Trail for Every Decision

Every policy considered, every collision resolved, and every remediation applied is logged. The trail maps to your organizational hierarchy, giving legal and compliance teams a defensible record that satisfies regulatory scrutiny.

Model-Agnostic Architecture

CTGT governs any foundation model: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or open-source. As you experiment with new providers, every deployment inherits your complete compliance posture from day one. No vendor lock-in.

Multi-Brand Policy Isolation

Each brand operates within its own policy namespace. Gatorade's compliance rules, tone parameters, and approved claims library are fully isolated from Quaker Oats, Lay's, or any other brand in the portfolio. One engine, zero cross-contamination.

96%
Policy compliance rate on sensitive queries
<100ms
Synchronous feedback latency
0
Model weights permanently modified
In Production

Governing 40+ Brand Voices for a Global CPG Leader

A Fortune 100 beauty and personal care conglomerate faced the same structural challenge: dozens of distinct consumer brands, each with its own voice, regulatory obligations, and audience expectations, all running through a shared AI infrastructure.

Live Deployment
Global Beauty Conglomerate · 40+ Brands · Consumer-Facing AI

The problem was not AI capability. It was governance at scale.

Their existing customer engagement platform treated all AI-generated responses identically. A professional salon brand sounded the same as a mass-market drugstore line. Responses were repetitive, brand-indistinguishable, and impossible to audit. CTGT's Policy Engine was deployed as a lightweight governance overlay, converting each brand's style guide and compliance requirements into deterministic, machine-enforced rules. No changes to the underlying platform. No API integration delays. No retraining cycles.

40+
Distinct brand policies enforced concurrently
100%
Brand isolation across all consumer touchpoints
Zero
Changes required to existing AI infrastructure
Compliance Architecture

Built for the Scrutiny That Consumer Brands Face

Consumer packaged goods companies operate under overlapping regulatory frameworks: FDA labeling, FTC advertising standards, state-level consumer protection laws, and internal brand governance policies. CTGT's policy hierarchy handles all of them simultaneously.

For consumer-facing use cases, governance does not need to be strictly deterministic in the mathematical sense. It needs to be confined to the brand parameters, ensuring every output stays within the bounded range that your legal, regulatory, and brand teams have defined as acceptable.

Capability Prompt Engineering Fine-Tuning / RAG CTGT Policy Engine
Multi-brand policy isolation Prompt-level only Requires separate models Native namespace isolation
Defensible audit trail No decision logging Black box outputs Full policy-level receipts
Real-time policy updates Minutes to hours Days to weeks (retrain) Instant propagation
Hallucination mitigation Inconsistent efficacy Partial (data-dependent) Multi-stage verification
Model-agnostic Provider-specific Model-specific weights Any LLM, any provider
Policy collision resolution Not addressable Not addressable Weighted vector adjudication
Deployment & Security

Enterprise-Grade Infrastructure,
Frictionless Integration

CTGT is designed to augment your existing digital ecosystem, not disrupt it. Our architecture operates under the principle of least privilege and deploys without touching your core AI infrastructure.

Deployment Models
Multi-tenant SaaS, single-tenant VPC, or fully on-premise. For on-premise deployments, no data traverses the public internet. Your security requirements determine the model.
Data Security
SOC-2 compliant. All data encrypted in transit (TLS 1.3) and at rest (AES-256). Multi-region active-active architecture with recovery time under five minutes.
Scalability
Kubernetes-orchestrated horizontal auto-scaling. Sub-100ms synchronous feedback with deep asynchronous analysis running in parallel. Built for sustained high-throughput across global deployments.
Integration
Lightweight client-side overlay or API. No changes to your existing AI models or customer engagement platforms. Audit logs stream to your existing compliance archive via secure API.
Validated By

Trusted by the Architects
of Modern AI

CTGT is productizing mechanistic interpretability. They make it possible to edit the behavior of LLMs to add safety policy guarantees without retraining, in a way that is much more reliable than simple prompting.
François Chollet
Creator of Keras, ARC-AGI
Governance cannot remain a separate process; it has to become part of the solution itself. CTGT illustrates this direction, leveraging the reasoning of LLMs while constraining behavior through policy-driven execution.
Naheed Kunnummal
Chief Engineer & Managing Director, PwC
The Wall Street Journal
Business Insider
InfoWorld
Forbes
Next Steps

From Conversation
to Technical Validation

01

Technical Deep Dive

CTGT founder Cyril Gorlla will walk your AI Leads through the policy engine architecture, focusing on how deterministic governance is enforced across multi-brand content generation without heavy fine-tuning.

02

Define Pilot Scope

We propose a focused proof-of-concept: ingest the compliance and brand guidelines for two distinct PepsiCo brands and demonstrate concurrent, isolated policy enforcement with zero cross-contamination.

03

Measure & Expand

Establish success metrics on hallucination rate, policy adherence, and audit trail coverage. Successful validation provides the blueprint for portfolio-wide rollout.

James Connolly Head of Growth, CTGT
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