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.
A platform you administer, or a record you can prove¶
Enterprise GRC platforms are workflow engines: modules for risk, audit, policy and third parties, configured by consultants, priced per module, and operated by a team. Kanonik has no modules to configure and no workflow to administer. The work is done by your AI, checked by the Verifier, approved by your people, and kept on the chain.
The first approved record lands the same afternoon¶
Enterprise GRC implementations are measured in quarters and usually come with an implementation partner. Kanonik is self-serve: sign up, connect the AI client you already use over MCP, load a signed skill, and approve the first record from the link it sends you. There is no sales call and no professional-services line.
Your AI drafts, a person approves¶
Instead of a team keying controls, risks and policies into forms, your own AI proposes them from what is actually deployed. A server-side Verifier checks every proposal, rules first and then a second model on separate credentials, and a signed single-use approval gates every write. Nothing lands without a named person clicking.
A chain, not a report builder¶
Every change is an event on an append-only hash chain with a signed root, kept for seven years. The Auditor Export is a signed bundle with an open-source verifier the auditor runs offline. Point-in-time recall returns the programme exactly as it stood on any date, without a reporting module.
Deploy it where your policy says it has to live¶
Kanonik is one Helm chart on any Kubernetes. Take the hosted service, run it in your own cloud account on AWS, Azure, GCP or OCI, or run it in your own data centre, air-gapped if required. Self-hosted deployment is on the Enterprise plan. It is the same software in every case, engineered to the FedRAMP Moderate standard from the first commit: FIPS-validated cryptography in every security-critical path, NIST 800-53-aligned audit logging, a signed supply chain, per-tenant cryptographic isolation.
A line item, not a procurement project¶
Solo is $99 a month or $990 a year with one user and one framework. Pro is $399 a month or $3,990 a year. Extra users are $9.99 a month, additional frameworks $499 one-time, and the Proof Snapshot is free and unlimited on both plans. The base price changes only by a sealed public event and never rises at renewal. Both plans open with a 14-day trial; a card is taken at signup and first charged on day 15. Enterprise and self-hosted deployments are by contact.
Frameworks load as versioned packages: ISO 27001:2022, SOC 2, GDPR, NIST CSF 2.0 and HIPAA today. Controls and evidence are authored once and projected onto every framework you activate. New frameworks are added in days, and more are on the way now.
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Who this is for¶
The enterprise platforms are for organisations with a risk function of ten people and a hundred business units: enterprise risk across divisions, internal audit management, whistleblowing, board reporting, third-party risk at scale. Kanonik is for the 25 to 200 person company where compliance landed on a founder or an engineer, who already uses an AI assistant for the work, needs a record an auditor will accept, and wants a price that does not need a budget line. It replaces the GRC category for that team rather than shrinking an enterprise platform to fit it.
Questions teams priced out of enterprise GRC ask us¶
Is Kanonik an alternative to ServiceNow IRM, Archer or MetricStream?¶
For a 25 to 200 person company, yes. Those platforms are enterprise workflow engines configured by consultants and priced per module. Kanonik is self-serve new-gen GRC: your own AI does the work, a server-side Verifier checks every change, a person approves it, and the record is sealed for the auditor.
Does Kanonik integrate with our existing enterprise GRC platform?¶
No. Kanonik ships no connectors to any GRC platform or source system, by design. It replaces the GRC tool for the teams it is built for. 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.
Can we deploy Kanonik on-premises or in our own cloud?¶
Yes. Kanonik is a single Helm chart that runs on any Kubernetes: any cloud, your own data centre, or air-gapped. Self-hosted deployment is on the Enterprise plan and runs the same software as the hosted service.
How long does it take to get a first approved record?¶
The same afternoon. Sign up with a card, connect your AI client over MCP, load a signed Kanonik skill, ask it to draft the first control or risk, and approve the result from the link it sends you. There is no implementation project and no professional-services engagement.
What does Kanonik cost compared with enterprise GRC?¶
Solo is $99 a month or $990 a year; Pro is $399 a month or $3,990 a year. Extra users are $9.99 a month and additional frameworks $499 one-time. There is no per-module pricing, no implementation fee, and the base price never rises at renewal. Enterprise and self-hosted deployments are by contact.
Which frameworks does Kanonik support today?¶
ISO 27001:2022, SOC 2, GDPR, NIST CSF 2.0 and HIPAA, loaded as versioned packages so a control authored once maps across every framework you activate. New frameworks are added in days; ask for the one you need.
Runs ISO 27001:2022, SOC 2, GDPR, NIST CSF 2.0 and HIPAA today, in any cloud or your own data centre. Solo is $99 a month, Pro is $399, and the base price never rises at renewal. Try Kanonik free for 14 days at kanonik.ai.