We built Talarity because we got tired of maintaining the same answer in four different tools.
If you’ve worked in security or compliance over the last decade, you know the pattern. You buy a GRC platform for SOC 2. You buy a separate tool for vendor risk. You buy a third tool for evidence collection. Your auditor asks for things in formats none of those tools support, so you maintain a fourth artifact — usually in Google Drive or Notion — that becomes the canonical truth.
Then your customer asks a security question. The answer is in three of the four places, slightly different in each, and outdated in two.
This is the GRC stack as it exists today. We didn’t want to ship a fifth tool to add to it.
What we wanted
We wanted one platform where:
- Controls live alongside their evidence and their owner.
- Risks reference the controls that mitigate them, with residual risk computed automatically.
- Vendor assessments produce evidence that satisfies your customer-facing frameworks too — without copy-paste.
- Reports — the executive ones, the auditor-facing ones, the operational ones — are generated from the same data, in the same place.
We also wanted the platform to do work, not just record it. Evidence collection on a schedule. Vendor questionnaires that vendors actually fill out. Board reports that draft themselves from real data, with sourced citations.
And we wanted risk in dollars — because nobody’s CFO has ever made a decision based on a stoplight.
What we built
Talarity is five modules sharing one data layer:
- Governance — controls, policies, attestation, accountability.
- Risk — quantified in dollars via FAIR Monte Carlo, with KRI monitoring and acceptances.
- Compliance — 15+ frameworks, automated evidence, sealed audit packages.
- Vendor Management — auto-tiered, self-service portal, contract obligations tracked.
- AI Insights — board reports, policy drafting, predictions — with hallucination guardrails and budget caps.
You buy them à la carte. You can start with Compliance and add Vendor Management when you need it. Modules share data — they’re not silos with API integrations between them.
What we explicitly didn’t build
We didn’t build:
- A “fifth tool” that adds to your stack. Talarity replaces the GRC + TPRM + evidence repository combination. Existing customers consolidate; new customers don’t accumulate.
- A risk register that talks in stoplights. We support tier-based ratings for organizations that need them, but the default is FAIR-quantified — risks expressed in dollars with confidence intervals.
- AI features without guardrails. Every AI-generated artifact is sourced — click any sentence in a board report and see the underlying data. We continuously refine the inputs, prompts, and guardrails the AI works with to reduce hallucination, and we’re transparent that AI assists rather than replaces. Trust, but verify.
- A platform that gates basic features behind tiers. Modules are licensed à la carte. You can buy any combination at any tier — Professional or Enterprise.
Why now
Three things are converging in 2026.
First, AI changed the cost structure of compliance. Tasks that used to require analyst hours — drafting policies, summarizing audit findings, translating technical controls into board language — are now drafted in seconds. The platforms that built around AI primitives from day one have a structural advantage; the ones bolting AI on are finding the seams uncomfortable.
Second, frameworks are multiplying. Five years ago, most companies ran SOC 2 and called it done. Today the average mid-market security team is running SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and PCI in parallel — and adding NIST AI RMF as customers ask about AI use. Cross-mapping is the work.
Third, regulators are getting specific. The SEC cybersecurity disclosure rule, the EU AI Act, NIST CSF 2.0’s new Govern function, FFIEC’s evidence-gated maturity scoring — every recent regulatory move has demanded more documentation and tighter traceability. Spreadsheets don’t survive that.
What’s next
We’re building in the open. Roadmap items get shipped to customers within weeks of being committed. Beta features are clearly marked. Hallucination guardrails are tested adversarially.
If you’re running a GRC program and the four-tools-and-a-spreadsheet approach is no longer working — talk to us. A 30-minute walkthrough will show you exactly how Talarity replaces the stack, and whether it’s a fit for your program.
— The Talarity team