Vendors answer without a seat. You review without an inbox.
Send a questionnaire, the vendor completes it in their own workspace, and the response lands against their record with the obligations, documents, and review dates attached. No licences for third parties, no spreadsheets in email.
Sound familiar?
Questionnaires go out as spreadsheets and come back as spreadsheets — often the wrong version.
You can't tell which vendors are outstanding, which are late, and who owns the chase.
Contractual obligations live in the contract PDF; nobody tracks whether they're being met.
Every vendor gets the same depth of review because tiering is a column nobody maintains.
Reassessment dates pass quietly and are noticed only when something goes wrong.
Third-party risk fails in the follow-up, not the questionnaire.
Most third-party risk programs have a decent questionnaire. What they don't have is a reliable way to get it answered, keep the answer attached to the vendor, and act on what it said. The questionnaire goes out as an attachment. It comes back — eventually, sometimes in an older version — and is filed. The findings inside it become someone's note. The reassessment date becomes a calendar entry that outlives whoever set it.
The tiering problem compounds it. Without a maintained criticality view, every vendor gets a similar depth of review, which means the critical ones get less attention than they need and the trivial ones absorb effort they don't warrant. And obligations — the security commitments, notification windows, and audit rights that were actually negotiated — stay in the contract PDF, unowned and unmonitored.
Talarity runs the whole loop in one place. Vendors answer in their own workspace without needing a licence from you. Responses land against the vendor record, tiering drives review depth, obligations are tracked as items with owners and dates, and reassessment is scheduled by the system rather than remembered by a person. When something changes at a vendor, the record shows what you asked, what they said, and what you did about it.
The capabilities, in your context.
Governance, Risk & Compliance
Compliance
Reuse third-party evidence in the frameworks that ask for it — vendor oversight requirements answered from the vendor program rather than recollected.
Explore ComplianceGovernance
Vendor controls drawn from the same library as internal ones, so a third-party finding maps to the control it actually threatens.
Explore GovernanceRisk
Vendor findings raised as risks with owners and treatment, and concentration visible where several critical services sit behind one provider.
Explore RiskAdd-on modules
Attach to GRC Professional or Enterprise Governance — same flat price on either.
Third-Party Risk Management
Intake, tiering, seatless questionnaires, obligation tracking, document collection, and scheduled reassessment — the full third-party loop in one record per vendor.
AI Insights
Available as an add-on: summarize returned questionnaires and vendor documents into the findings that need a decision, each traced to the source response.
What you'll be able to say.
What changes when Talarity is the system of record for the program — not the spreadsheets surrounding it.
Know at any moment which vendor assessments are outstanding and who owns each one.
Send assessments to third parties without buying them a seat.
Track negotiated security obligations as work, not as contract text.
Spend review effort in proportion to what a vendor actually touches.
Frameworks for Vendor Risk Management.
GRC Professional
Everything in Starter, plus run the entire program — work items, remediation, control testing, incidents, and audits.
Packages move up as your program does. Seats, storage, vendors, frameworks, and entities scale with add-ons.
Further reading for Vendor Risk Management
Practitioner walkthroughs from the Talarity library.
- Compliance·9 min readSave a security package once, send it on demandA prospect's security team asks for your SOC 2, your pen test, and your current security policies — again. Package Templates save that set as a reusable definition of pinned items plus rules like 'every current SOC 2 report', resolve it fresh each time you send, and hand it over as a redacted, watermarked, time-limited copy with a record of who received what.
- Compliance·6 min readSystem Configuration — turn a completed assessment into enforceable, drift-tracked baselinesEvery safeguard you scored in an assessment becomes an enforceable expected value. Talarity re-checks the observed state, flags drift, opens remediation automatically, and lets you attach evidence per control — so your controls stay implemented, not just documented once.
- Governance·6 min readExport and verify your audit trail for SOC 2Pull your full audit trail as a SOC 2 evidence file in any format, then prove it wasn't altered with a one-click tamper-evidence check — backed by a per-row hash chain and a Merkle root your auditor can re-verify offline.
- Compliance·8 min readPackage your audit evidence once — for the auditor, regulator, or customerAn auditor asks for your evidence and it's scattered across framework reports, vendor attestations, policy sign-offs, and resilience tests. Evidence Distribution Packages assemble the signed artifacts you already produced into one immutable package, then hand it to each audience as a redacted, watermarked, time-limited copy — with a record of who received what.
Ready to see Talarity for Vendor Risk Management?
Start a 7-day readiness trial and see it on your own frameworks — then buy online in-app when you're ready.