Today we’re launching Zania Autonomous Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM), an industry-first approach to managing vendor risk that replaces manual vendor questionnaires with agent-led execution and human oversight.

Third-party risk management has been stuck in the same trap for years: vendor ecosystems keep expanding, but risk teams don’t. Most programs can only deeply assess a fraction of vendors, leaving the rest as an operational blind spot. As supply-chain threats grow and regulatory expectations rise, that tradeoff has become unsustainable.

Zania Autonomous Third-Party Risk Management changes what’s possible. Our agents perform third-party risk operations end to end with a full audit trail, so teams can scale coverage without scaling headcount.

Why we built Autonomous Third-Party Risk Management

A lot of “AI in GRC” has focused on assistance. It can draft a response, summarize a report, or help with a single task. Useful, but it doesn’t solve the real bottleneck: operational execution across thousands of vendors and countless workflow steps.

Autonomous third-party risk management is built to execute that work.

Instead of relying on static questionnaires and manual follow-ups, Zania’s autonomous agents run the third-party risk assessment lifecycle from intake through evidence validation and continuous monitoring. Humans remain fully in control of outcomes, including the ability to review, edit, override, and finalize findings. Every change is captured in an audit-ready trail.

Early results

In early deployments, organizations using Zania report:

• Up to 90% reduction in manual assessment effort

• Up to 80% lower cost per assessment

• The ability to scale to 100% coverage across in-scope vendors without increasing headcount

Results vary by organization, vendor mix, and assessment scope.

What Zania Autonomous Third-Party Risk Management enables

With Zania, third-party risk teams can:

• Automatically intake and scope third parties using business context, assigning risk tiers and assessment scope based on how each vendor is actually used

• Collect and enrich evidence autonomously by researching trust centers, public disclosures, attestations, and regulatory sources, reducing reliance on static questionnaires

• Run vendor follow-ups end to end by coordinating requests, responses, reminders, and clarifications so teams aren’t stuck chasing vendors

• Produce audit-ready, defensible assessments with a complete evidence trail, clear rationale, and traceability that supports stakeholder review and audits

• Maintain full human control over outcomes with configurable guardrails and approvals; teams can review, edit, override, and finalize findings, and every change is recorded in a complete audit trail

• Monitor vendors continuously for material changes, triggering reassessments when evidence expires or external risk signals change

What customers are saying

“Zania’s AI agents automate the manual burdens of vendor management, significantly reducing the time and effort teams spend gathering, reviewing, and interpreting lengthy documents—an error-prone and resource-intensive process,” said Sakshi Porwal, Global CISO, Compunnel. “This shift enables GRC professionals to focus their expertise on higher-value, strategic risk activities where they deliver the greatest impact.”

Available today

Zania Autonomous Third-Party Risk Management is available globally starting today.

Request a demo to see Zania in action.