AIM Intelligence Takes Runner-Up at Singapore's SLINGSHOT 2026

Controlling what AI does, not just what it says

SLINGSHOT is organized by Enterprise Singapore, an agency under the Ministry of Trade and Industry, and is now in its tenth year. It runs during the SWITCH innovation week, with total prizes and grants above S$2.2 million. Representatives of NVIDIA and Samsung Venture Investment were among the judges.

Co-founder and CTO Ha-eon Park gave the final pitch. He argued that chatbot-era AI security focused on keeping harmful content out of answers, but that the scope has widened now that AI agents access corporate data and run systems, so security must cover what the AI actually does.

The company's answer is AIM Control Loop, which combines two products. Stinger, a red-teaming platform, attacks AI systems the way an adversary would to find vulnerabilities. Starfort, a guardrail, filters risky requests and actions while the AI is running. The presentation also covered a guardrail applied to a humanoid robot, vulnerability research on physical AI such as self-driving cars and drones, and a collaboration linking Stinger with OpenAI's Daybreak.

Next steps

The win adds to earlier results: first place at the Supernova Challenge 2.0 alongside GITEX Global in Dubai last October, and a spot among the top 10 Asia-Pacific companies in the NVIDIA Inception Grand Challenge this September.

AIM Intelligence plans to build a local team in Singapore and expand partnerships with companies and institutions there, while pushing commercialization of its enterprise AI agent control product and its physical AI security technology for robots and autonomous systems. "In an era when AI runs corporate systems and moves robots, technology that verifies and controls its decisions and actions is essential," Park said.