A compliance automation alternative that proves the work instead of collecting it¶
Compliance automation tools (Vanta, Drata, Sprinto, Secureframe, Hyperproof, TrustCloud) work in much the same way. Each connects to your cloud and your identity provider. It reaches into your repositories as well, and collects evidence from all of 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. Kanonik makes every result verifiable: a server-side Verifier checks it and a named person approves it before it is sealed into a record your auditor can confirm offline.
Collecting evidence and proving the work are different jobs¶
A screenshot of a configuration proves the setting existed at that moment. It does not prove the control was assessed correctly, that a person stood behind the assessment, or that nobody edited the record afterwards. The automation platforms are built for the first job. Kanonik is built for the second.
Your AI, not our integrations¶
Kanonik holds no credentials to your AWS, Okta or GitHub. The AI client you already pay for (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Bedrock or Azure OpenAI) reaches your systems through its own connections, loads a signed Kanonik skill, and proposes the work. There is no integration catalog to maintain, no standing credentials in a vendor's cloud, and nothing of yours to revoke the day a vendor has an incident, because the reading happens on your side.
Every proposal is checked before a person sees it¶
A two-tier Verifier runs server-side inside every commit: deterministic rules first, then a second model on Kanonik's own model account, separate from the model that wrote the draft. Confidence is scored, and anything below the floor goes to a person for review rather than landing quietly.
A chain the auditor verifies without trusting anyone¶
Every change is an event on an append-only hash chain with a signed root. The Auditor Export carries the signed chain root and an open-source verifier; the auditor recomputes the chain offline, on their own laptop. On Audit-Ready, your auditor is invited free for the engagement.
Hosted for you¶
We host the service in the United States. If you need a private deployment, talk to us.
One public price¶
Starter is $3,000 a year or $300 a month, and starts with a 14-day trial (card required, one trial per organization). Audit-Ready is $6,000 a year with one audited framework of your choice: SOC 2, ISO 27001 or HIPAA. Enterprise starts at $18,000 a year. Another audited framework is $3,000 a year. Users are unlimited, and the plans as listed are for organizations up to 200 people. Your compliance work runs on the AI you already pay for, so we don't charge you for one. No per-user fees, no per-questionnaire fees. Your own AI subscription is separate. The trial converts to monthly unless you choose yearly, and a reminder goes out 7 days before the first charge.
Frameworks are versioned packages. Kanonik works with 17, among them SOC 2, ISO/IEC 27001, HIPAA, GDPR and NIST CSF 2.0, and controls are authored once and projected onto every framework you activate. For ISO/IEC 27001:2022, Kanonik uses the clause numbers with its own descriptions, and asks you to confirm you hold a licensed copy before it builds your audit package.
Vanta, Drata, Sprinto, Secureframe, Hyperproof and TrustCloud are trademarks of their respective owners. Kanonik has no business relationship with any of them and does not connect to their platforms.
Who this is for¶
The automation platforms sell a hosted service that gathers evidence for you, trains your staff, runs a trust center and manages the audit relationship. If you want a vendor to do all of that, that is what they are for. Kanonik is for the team that already does its compliance work with an AI assistant, wants to keep control of its own systems and its own model, needs a record that holds up when someone who was not in the room comes to check it, and would rather pay a line item than run a procurement project.
Questions teams leaving compliance automation ask us¶
Kanonik as an alternative to Vanta or Drata¶
For a lean team whose compliance work is done with an AI assistant, yes. The difference is architectural. The automation platforms connect to your systems and collect evidence; Kanonik never connects to your systems. Your own AI does the work, and Kanonik checks, gates and seals every change so the result can be proven rather than promised.
Evidence from your cloud or identity provider¶
No. Kanonik holds no credentials to your source systems and ships no connectors to them. Your AI client reaches them through its own tools. Kanonik records what your AI proposed, what the Verifier found, who approved it, and what changed.
What Kanonik costs¶
The plans, from Starter at $3,000 a year to Enterprise from $18,000 a year, are on the pricing page. Users are unlimited and there is no usage meter.
Whether your auditor accepts a Kanonik record¶
The Auditor Export is a bundle with a signed chain root that the auditor verifies offline with an open-source tool: the hash chain, the chain-root signature, and every Verifier verdict. The person who approved each change is on the record. On Audit-Ready, your auditor is invited free for the engagement. We build Kanonik to NIST SP 800-53, the control set FedRAMP is built on: an append-only audit log, application services that talk over mutual TLS, and Go's FIPS 140-3 module, in FIPS mode.
Running Kanonik yourselves¶
We host the service. Talk to us about private deployment.
Replacing your existing GRC platform or working alongside it¶
It replaces it for the teams it is built for. Kanonik has no connector to Vanta, Drata, Sprinto or any other platform. Your AI can read your existing exports through its own tools and propose the equivalent record in Kanonik, and every proposal passes the Verifier and your approval first.
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