AI compliance software

Three shelves share one label. Buy by the question.

Certification tooling, policy governance, and systems of record all get sold as AI compliance software. They answer different questions from different people — and the wrong one is a year of budget spent on the right answer to a question nobody asked you.

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The taxonomy

What each shelf actually answers.

Sorted by who asks the question, because that is how budgets get approved — and how audits get failed.

Certification tooling

Security & compliance leads

“Is this company well run?” — evidence collection, control mapping and questionnaires for SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA.

Who sells it: Vanta, Drata, Sprinto, Secureframe

Buy it when: An enterprise customer asks for your SOC 2 before signing.

Policy governance

Risk & legal teams

“Do we have a defensible AI policy?” — model inventories, risk assessments, review workflows, framework alignment.

Who sells it: Credo AI, Holistic AI, OneTrust

Buy it when: The board asks who owns AI risk, and nobody has an answer on paper.

A system of record

Whoever answers the regulator

“What did the agent actually do, and can you prove nobody edited the answer?” — per-action evidence a third party can verify.

Who sells it: Auditant

Buy it when: Your agents act autonomously and someone outside the company can demand the record.

The honest overlap
Most companies deploying agents eventually need the first and third shelf, and some need all three. They are not substitutes — a certificate says your company is sound, a record says what your agent did, and neither can stand in for the other when the wrong question arrives.
The test that sorts vendors

Ask to see one action.

One request separates the shelves faster than any demo: show me what one agent did last Tuesday, and prove the record was not edited since.

  • Certification tooling

    Shows you the control that says logging exists — not the log.

  • Policy governance

    Shows you the policy the agent was meant to follow — not what it did.

  • A system of record

    Shows you the action, the rule it passed, who approved it, and a file your own auditor can verify offline.

We pass our own test in public: our trust page is computed from our live record on every request, and the demo needs no account.

Before the budget meeting

The four that decide the purchase.

Including which to buy first, where the honest answer depends on who asks you questions — not on us.

01Which one should we buy first?
Whichever question gets asked of you first. If a customer wants your SOC 2, buy certification tooling. If a regulator or auditor can demand per-action records — you run agents in finance, HR, healthcare, or anything the EU AI Act calls high-risk — the record has to exist before the question does, because it only counts if you were already keeping it.
02Do the certification tools cover AI?
Increasingly they map AI frameworks — ISO 42001, NIST AI RMF — the same way they map ISO 27001: as controls your company attests to. What they do not do is record what a specific agent did on a specific day. A control saying “we log agent actions” and the log itself are different artefacts.
03Is one platform for all three coming?
Probably, by acquisition — categories this adjacent tend to merge. Today no vendor does all three well, and a buyer who waits for the suite has none of the three questions answered in the meantime.
04What does the record cost?
Ours is published — a flat band by agent count, from $1,500 a month, unlimited recorded actions. Most of the category is quote-only, which tells you the price depends on what they think you can pay.
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The record only counts if it already exists.

Two lines in one agent, free while you evaluate. Or open the demo — it needs no account.

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