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Cybersecurity · Risk reduction

Third-party risk assessment automation that clears the review backlog.

Ingest vendor evidence, map it to the buyer’s risk model, identify gaps, and prepare an owner-reviewed assessment and remediation plan.

◆ human-gateda person approves every consequential action
$21,000
fixed-scope pilot
Enterprise / regulated launch
launch posture
High current buying momentum
market signal
third-party-risk-assessment-automation
// extract controls and exceptions
input: Vendor service and data flow
step: map to risk domains
citations: [ source ✓ ]   confidence: 0.93
HUMAN GATEawaiting review →

Nothing is finalized until a human approves it.

Built for
The buyer
CISO, Chief Risk Officer, Chief Procurement Officer
The champion
Third-Party Risk Director, GRC leader, Vendor Management Office
Day-to-day users
Risk analysts, procurement, legal, security SMEs and business owners

Designed, built, and evaluated by Alpesh Nakrani, VP of Growth at ViitorCloud, 14 years shipping software, writing on AI-Native engineering and evaluation.

Evals-first
built in from day one
Human-gated
judgment stays with you
The problem

Where the time and money actually go.

Vendor documents and questionnaires are inconsistent, analysts repeat reviews, evidence expires, and business owners cannot see which risks affect the service they buy.

Who feels it

Risk analysts, procurement, legal, security SMEs and business owners

Trigger to act: Vendor count is growing, supply-chain requirements tighten, critical vendors lack current evidence, or procurement cycle time is blocking business.

Outcome & ROI

The result you can model before you sign.

Illustrative, replace with your data
$240,000
per month, illustrative

Illustrative only: 500 vendor reviews/year × 6 analyst hours removed × $80 loaded hourly cost = $240,000 annual capacity. Risk avoidance is not booked as guaranteed return.

The outcome, plainly: Ingest vendor evidence, map it to the buyer’s risk model, identify gaps, and prepare an owner-reviewed assessment and remediation plan.

Assessment cycle
evidence reuse
critical gap recall
How it works

Inputs in. A cited, review-ready result out. Your expert decides.

A Document AI + grounded RAG copilot. Every material fact is grounded in an allowed source and returned with its identifier, with no invented data.

01
Extract controls and exceptions
02
map to risk domains
03
evaluate evidence freshness
04
identify contradictions
05
score transparent factors
06
draft assessment
07
request remediation
08
monitor renewal
Reference architecturegrounded · human-in-the-loop · fully auditable
Source systems · scoped access
TPRM/GRC platform
procurement/CLM
questionnaire portal
document repository
external risk ratings
Grounded reasoning core
Retrieve & extract
grounded on your sources, returns citations
Reason & draft
Claude Sonnet 4.6 or GPT-5.6 Terra
Human gateRisk, legal, privacy and business owners approve risk rating, contractual treatment, exception, onboarding, and renewal.
Action · only after approval
monitor renewal
Audit trace
sources, rules, confidence, reviewer
Tenant isolation
minimum data, never cross-tenant
Evaluation suite
baselined pre-launch, watched after
Observability
cost, latency & drift telemetry
Model strategy

Claude Sonnet 4.6 or GPT-5.6 Terra for evidence-aware extraction and reasoning; Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Claude Haiku 4.5 for high-volume classification and normalization. Amazon Textract or Azure AI Document Intelligence; PostgreSQL + pgvector; Pinecone only when scale/latency requires it.

Inputs
  • Vendor service and data flow
  • questionnaire
  • SOC/ISO reports
  • policies
  • contracts
  • subprocessors
The human gate

AI-Native, not autonomous. Judgment stays with your people.

The machine does the work; the human’s role narrows to the one thing that matters, judgment. That constraint is what makes it safe to deploy.

Non-negotiable human gate

Risk, legal, privacy and business owners approve risk rating, contractual treatment, exception, onboarding, and renewal.

What it will never do
No auto-approval or rejection
no legal interpretation of contract/SOC opinion
no reliance on external score alone
no hidden vendor surveillance.
The scorecard

A scorecard, not a demo. We baseline what breaks in production.

Every deployment ships with an evaluation suite. These are the numbers we baseline before launch and monitor after.

Primary
Assessment cycle
evidence reuse
critical gap recall
false gap
overdue remediation
procurement delay
concentration exposure
audit findings
Why this, not that

The category is crowded. Most of it isn’t built for your workflow.

The alternatives
ProcessUnityOneTrustSecurityScorecardBitSightWhisticUpGuardPanoraysVanta/Drata TPRM
This implementation

Fixed-scope, tuned to your systems and rules, grounded in your data, with the human gate and audit trail built in from day one. A price you own, not a subscription you rent.

✓ Fixed price, not a seat subscription ✓ Grounded in your data & rules ✓ Human approval on consequential actions ✓ Auditable decision trace
Systems & integrations

It plugs into the stack you already run.

No rip-and-replace. Access is scoped to the minimum data necessary, isolated per tenant, and fully logged.

TPRM/GRC platformprocurement/CLMquestionnaire portaldocument repositoryexternal risk ratingsincident/news feedsremediation ticketing
Pricing

Transparent by design. The build price buys the workflow and the proof.

A fixed implementation fee plus a monthly bill that scales with volume and governance. No hidden seats.

Pilot
$21,000
one-time · bounded proof of value
  • One process / scope
  • Live workflow on your data
  • Baseline evaluation suite
  • Measured vs. current process
Most chosen
Production
$49,000
one-time · full deployment
  • Full scope & integration
  • Human-review UI & audit trail
  • Write-back to your systems
  • Production evals & monitoring
Enterprise
$82,000
one-time · multi-entity / regulated
  • Multi-facility rollout
  • Advanced security & compliance
  • Custom control & escalation
  • Dedicated evaluation program
Monthly operating cost

8,000 to 30,000 pages per month plus retrieval, generation, vector search and evidence storage.

$1,100–6,800
usage (models, OCR, vector, storage)
$2,800/mo
managed evaluation & monitoring

Planning assumptions, not vendor quotations. Your TPRM and other platform licenses are separate and owned by you. Figures confirmed during scoping.

On working with Alpesh
“His vast knowledge of technologies and a natural problem-solving mindset consistently lead us through complex challenges with clarity and confidence.”
AM
Adil Multani
Senior Backend Developer
Why this is safe to try
01Baseline first. We measure your current numbers before we build anything.
02Fixed scope, fixed price. One process in the pilot. No open-ended engagement.
03Expand only if the scorecard earns it. You see the measured result before committing to production.
04Your people stay in control. The human gate means nothing consequential happens without a person’s approval.
FAQ

Questions serious buyers ask.

Does the AI act on its own?

No. Risk, legal, privacy and business owners approve risk rating, contractual treatment, exception, onboarding, and renewal. The system drafts and recommends; a human approves every consequential action. Explicitly excluded: no auto-approval or rejection; no legal interpretation of contract/SOC opinion; no reliance on external score alone; no hidden vendor surveillance.

How do you stop it inventing facts?

Every material claim is grounded in an allowed source record and returned with its source identifier. The system separates observed facts, model inference, and missing information, and routes to a human whenever confidence is low, evidence conflicts, or an adverse outcome is possible.

What does it cost to run each month?

A usage bill of roughly $1,100 to $6,800 per month (8,000 to 30,000 pages per month plus retrieval, generation, vector search and evidence storage), plus a $2,800 per month managed retainer for evaluation, monitoring and maintenance. Your existing platform licenses are separate and already yours. Exact figures are confirmed during scoping.

Do we need a ChatGPT or Claude subscription?

No consumer ChatGPT or Claude subscription is required for the production workflow. You need an approved API/cloud billing account. Workspace seats are optional for internal prototyping and administrator access.

How is this different from ProcessUnity?

Tools like ProcessUnity, OneTrust, SecurityScorecard are broad platforms you adapt to. This is a fixed-scope implementation tuned to your systems and rules, grounded in your data, with the human gate and audit trail built in, and a transparent price instead of a seat subscription.

How long until it is live, and how do we prove it works?

This is a enterprise / regulated launch. We baseline “Assessment cycle” first, then measure against that baseline. You see the scorecard before expanding scope, the evaluation suite ships with the system, not as an afterthought.

Book a scoping call

Bring your real numbers. Leave with a fixed-scope plan.

A 30-minute engineering-led working session, no slideware. You leave with a sized opportunity estimate, a fixed-scope pilot plan, and the integration & human-review path mapped.

VP of Growth at ViitorCloud · senior delivery owner confirmed before paid work

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