# Kanonik > Kanonik is live assurance for people and agents: security and compliance > software that ties every answer to its evidence, flags what a change at your > company (a new vendor, tool, system, data location or setting) puts at risk, > and leaves a record the people you share it with can check offline. Your AI > drafts the work. Nothing it drafts reaches your record until Kanonik's Verifier > has checked it and a named person has approved it. Separation of duties is > recommended, and a single-user workspace can approve its own AI's work with a sealed > exception noting there was no second reviewer. > Runs SOC 2, ISO/IEC 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, NIST CSF 2.0, NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5, NIST SP 800-171 Rev. 2, NIST SP 800-171 Rev. 3, FedRAMP Rev. 5 baselines, CCPA/CPRA, DORA, NIS2, NYDFS Part 500, EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF 1.0 and NIST SSDF. > We attest provenance, integrity, and freshness, never the truth of an > underlying fact. This file is a curated map. Use the pages below to understand what Kanonik is, how it works, how it compares, and what it costs. ## What it is - [What it does](https://kanonik.ai/what-we-do): the program your AI runs with Kanonik (policies, controls, evidence, risks, vendors, questionnaires), Foresight, which checks a vendor change against your recorded promises, and who it is for. Use for a plain-English overview for a security or compliance buyer. - [How it works](https://kanonik.ai/how-it-works): the loop once. Your AI drafts, the Verifier checks each draft, a named person approves in the web app (separation of duties is recommended; a single-user workspace can approve with a sealed exception), the record is sealed, you share an export the recipient checks offline, and Foresight checks a planned vendor change against your promises. Use for the mechanism. - [Ask Kanonik](https://kanonik.ai/ask): @Kanonik in a team chat, tried on Harbor Ledger, a sample company. It answers a security question with the approved answer, who approved it and when, says when no answer is approved yet, and shows a Foresight check of a planned vendor change. - [Technical walkthrough](https://kanonik.ai/walk-the-chain): the engineering document for a security architect. One approved item followed through 12 steps: MCP and OAuth, skills, the Verifier, single-use signed approval tokens, the hash-chained event store, bi-temporal reads, the export checker, single-record proofs and workspace isolation. - [Trust](https://kanonik.ai/trust): data handling. We do not train, fine-tune or evaluate any AI model on your data. Cancel any time in Settings; it takes effect at the end of your billing period, and you can undo it until then. Export your record any time before your subscription ends. The record carries control ownership, not your people's personal data, and Kanonik doesn't ask for or store credentials to your systems. Use for security and privacy questions. ## Use cases and comparison - [Use cases](https://kanonik.ai/use-cases): jobs you can run today (a security questionnaire, checking a new AI tool against your promises with Foresight, the weekly list, an auditor who checks for themselves, a consultant in a client's workspace), plus live status (Coming soon) and private or self-hosted deployment (Enterprise). Use for practical jobs. - [Compare](https://kanonik.ai/compare): how Kanonik differs from legacy tools, question by question. Use for competitive framing (them and us). Vendor names (Vanta, Drata, Eramba) appear on the comparison URLs and in this file. ## Insights - [Insights](https://kanonik.ai/insights): glossary, scenarios and Kanonik guides. - [Glossary](https://kanonik.ai/glossary): general meaning and Kanonik context. - [Guides](https://kanonik.ai/guides): substantive explanations with material limits. - [Bring your own model](https://kanonik.ai/guide-byom): approved AI, source access, model choice, setup and trade-offs. - [Scenarios](https://kanonik.ai/scenarios): 88 hypothetical examples with industry and feature filters. ## Pricing - [Pricing](https://kanonik.ai/pricing): Solo $99/month, self-serve, with a 14-day trial (https://dash.kanonik.ai/signup?plan=solo); the card is checked at sign-up and charged on day 15 unless cancelled first. NIST CSF 2.0 comes with Solo. Assure and Complete add audited frameworks and audit help: talk to us. Use for plan selection. - [Talk to us](https://kanonik.ai/contact#contact-form): for Assure, Complete, private deployment, product questions and security reviews. ## All indexed pages - [Home](https://kanonik.ai/) - [What it does](https://kanonik.ai/what-we-do) - [How it works](https://kanonik.ai/how-it-works) - [Ask Kanonik](https://kanonik.ai/ask) - [Technical walkthrough](https://kanonik.ai/walk-the-chain) - [Use cases](https://kanonik.ai/use-cases) - [Use case: a vendor change, from a contract photo to a sign-off](https://kanonik.ai/use-case-vendor-change) - [Compare](https://kanonik.ai/compare) - [Compare: Vanta, Drata, Sprinto](https://kanonik.ai/compare-compliance-automation) - [Compare: enterprise GRC suites](https://kanonik.ai/compare-enterprise-grc) - [Pricing](https://kanonik.ai/pricing) - [Trust](https://kanonik.ai/trust) - [Contact Sales](https://kanonik.ai/contact) - [Terms of Service](https://kanonik.ai/terms) - [Privacy Policy](https://kanonik.ai/privacy) - [Data Processing Addendum](https://kanonik.ai/dpa) - [Insights](https://kanonik.ai/insights) - [Glossary](https://kanonik.ai/glossary) - [Guides](https://kanonik.ai/guides) - [Scenarios](https://kanonik.ai/scenarios) - [Bring your own model](https://kanonik.ai/guide-byom) - [Working with your AI through MCP](https://kanonik.ai/guide-ai-workflows) - [Review and approval](https://kanonik.ai/guide-review-and-approval) - [Connected record](https://kanonik.ai/guide-connected-record) - [Evidence and review](https://kanonik.ai/guide-evidence-and-review) - [Checking exports](https://kanonik.ai/guide-checking-exports) - [Live assurance](https://kanonik.ai/guide-live-assurance) - [Offline verifier](https://kanonik.ai/verify) - [Help center](https://kanonik.ai/docs/) - [Blog](https://kanonik.ai/blog/)