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Notes from the team building new-gen GRC: how the platform is built, why we made the calls we made, and what it takes to make compliance work you can actually prove.

A Vanta, Drata and Sprinto alternative that proves the work instead of collecting it

Vanta, Drata, Sprinto, Secureframe, Hyperproof and TrustCloud connect to your cloud, your identity provider and your repositories, and collect evidence from them on a schedule. Kanonik never connects to your systems at all. Your own AI does the compliance work through the connections it already has, and Kanonik makes every result verifiable: checked by a server-side Verifier, approved by a named person, and sealed into a record your auditor can confirm offline.

An enterprise GRC alternative for teams of 25 to 200

ServiceNow IRM, Archer, MetricStream, IBM OpenPages, OneTrust, Diligent, Riskonnect, SAI360, NAVEX, SAP GRC, LogicManager, Workiva, AuditBoard and LogicGate are built for enterprises with a risk function, a procurement department and an implementation budget. A 45-person fintech has none of those and still has to pass the same audit. We built Kanonik for that team: self-serve, $99 a month, your own AI doing the work, and every change checked, approved by a person, and sealed into a record your auditor can verify offline.

An open-source GRC alternative that keeps what you chose it for

Teams pick Eramba or CISO Assistant for a reason that has little to do with price. Nobody can hide the record from you. You can read every table, export every row, and audit the tool itself. We built Kanonik to keep that property and take away the part you were still doing by hand. Your own AI drafts the controls, the risks and the policies. Every change it proposes is checked, approved by a person on your team, and sealed into a record your auditor can verify without asking us anything.

  • in Security
  • 3 min read

We engineered to the FedRAMP Moderate standard before we had a customer

Security posture in a young software company usually arrives in a particular order. First the product, then the customers, then the enterprise buyer who sends a 300-question spreadsheet, then the engineer whose job for the next two quarters is to make the answers true. Cryptography gets swapped for a validated module. Logging gets extended to cover what the framework asks for. A supply-chain story is assembled from whatever the build pipeline happened to do.

  • in Product
  • 3 min read

No demo. No sales call. Real compliance work before the trial's first coffee.

Somewhere in the history of enterprise software, "book a demo" stopped being a courtesy and became a gate. The button is the same on every compliance vendor's site, and behind it is the same sequence: a qualification call, a scripted walkthrough of someone else's tenant, a quote that depends on how the call went, and an onboarding plan measured in weeks. For a 50-person company with an audit in four months, that sequence costs more than the licence.

  • in Product
  • 3 min read

GRC platforms sell you a connector library. We sell you the opposite.

Ask anyone who has implemented a legacy GRC platform what the first three months looked like and you will hear about forms. Configuring the control library. Loading the framework crosswalk. Setting up the risk taxonomy, the ownership model, the review workflow, the evidence request cadence. Deciding which of the four hundred fields on the vendor entity are mandatory. None of that is compliance. It is the setup cost of a tool built for a world where humans typed everything in.