An enterprise GRC alternative for teams of 25 to 200¶
The big GRC suites (ServiceNow IRM, Archer, MetricStream, IBM OpenPages, OneTrust, Diligent, Riskonnect, SAI360, NAVEX, SAP GRC, LogicManager, Workiva, AuditBoard, LogicGate) are built for enterprises with a risk function and a procurement department. They also expect 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. It is self-serve with one public price, and your own AI does the work. Every change is checked and approved by a person before it is 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.
First drafts arrive the day you connect¶
Enterprise GRC implementations 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 Kanonik's own model account, and a signed single-use approval gates every write. Nothing your AI drafts reaches the record without an approval from a named person's signed-in account; the few things saved without an approval are listed in Why you approve every change.
A chain, not a report builder¶
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 runs offline. Point-in-time recall returns the program exactly as it stood on any date, without a reporting module.
Hosted for you, built to NIST SP 800-53¶
We host the service in the United States. If your policy says it has to live somewhere else, talk to us about private deployment on Enterprise. 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, row-level security on the core record tables, and Go's FIPS 140-3 module, in FIPS mode.
A line item, not a procurement project¶
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. Private deployment is offered on Enterprise; talk to us.
Frameworks load as versioned packages. Kanonik works with 17, among them SOC 2, ISO/IEC 27001, HIPAA, GDPR and NIST CSF 2.0. For ISO/IEC 27001:2022, Kanonik uses the clause numbers with its own descriptions, never the standard's text. Controls and evidence are authored once and projected onto every framework you activate.
The platform names on this page 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 enterprise platforms are for organizations 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¶
Kanonik as an alternative to ServiceNow IRM or Archer¶
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.
Integrating with your 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.
Deploying Kanonik on-premises or in your own cloud¶
We host the service. Private deployment is offered on Enterprise; talk to us and we test it with you.
Time to a first approved record¶
The first drafts arrive the day you connect your AI. 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 Kanonik costs¶
The plans, from Starter at $3,000 a year to Enterprise from $18,000 a year, are on the pricing page. There is no per-module pricing, no per-user fee and no implementation fee.
Which frameworks Kanonik works with¶
Seventeen: SOC 2, ISO/IEC 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, NIST CSF 2.0, NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5, NIST SP 800-171 Rev. 2 and Rev. 3, FedRAMP Rev. 5 baselines, GovRAMP Rev. 5 baselines, CCPA/CPRA, DORA, NIS2, NYDFS Part 500, EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF 1.0 and NIST SSDF. For ISO/IEC 27001:2022, you confirm you hold a licensed copy of the standard before Kanonik builds your audit package. They load as versioned packages so a control authored once maps across every framework you activate.
Works with 17 frameworks, including SOC 2, ISO/IEC 27001, HIPAA and GDPR. Start your 14-day trial.