Autonomous third-party risk management

Zania’s AI agents collect vendor evidence, review security documents, and handle follow-ups. Your team reviews findings and makes risk decisions with the supporting sources in view.

Zania’s AI agents collect vendor evidence, review security documents, and handle follow-ups. Your team reviews findings and makes risk decisions with the supporting sources in view.

Zania’s AI agents collect vendor evidence, review security documents, and handle follow-ups. Your team reviews findings and makes risk decisions with the supporting sources in view.

90% less manual assessment work
100% vendor coverage at scale
80% lower cost per assessment

“Zania’s agents turned our risk assessments from a manual marathon into an automated sprint, slashing the effort to a fraction of what it was.”

Kenneth Moras

Kenneth Moras

Head of Security at Plaid

Set review depth from vendor risk

AI agents classify vendors using data access, integration depth, criticality, and your own risk methodology—then launch the right workflow automatically.

Zania collects evidence and validates them against trust centers, breaches, and public records to surface real risks.

Vendor intake and risk tiering panel showing business context inputs and total risk score

Review the evidence behind vendor answers

Agents collect and validate current evidence from trust centers, public records, breach data, and security documentation—then surface the gaps that matter.

Agents collect and validate current evidence from trust centers, public records, breach data, and security documentation—then surface the gaps that matter.

Third-party profile view showing evidence uploads and agent research sources such as trust center, court filings, SEC filings, and news.

Autonomous vendor follow-up

Agents generate targeted follow-ups, interpret responses, and keep vendors moving without your team managing every thread.

Zania collects evidence and validates them against trust centers, breaches, and public records to surface real risks.

Automated third-party follow-up requesting updated SOC 2 report and bridge letter.

Keep findings and decisions traceable

Every finding is evidence-cited, mapped to your controls, and packaged with clear rationale for review, escalation, or audit.

Zania collects evidence and validates them against trust centers, breaches, and public records to surface real risks.

Assessment view showing sourced findings with rationale and linked evidence.

Connect monitoring to reassessment

Monitor vendor posture between assessments and automatically trigger reassessments when material changes appear—without relying on annual check-ins.

Zania collects evidence and validates them against trust centers, breaches, and public records to surface real risks.

Continuous monitoring dashboard showing detected events and automated response actions.

Tier vendors based on inherent risk

Use the service, data access, and business criticality to set assessment depth. Two services from the same supplier may need different reviews.

Zania collects evidence and validates them against trust centers, breaches, and public records to surface real risks.

  • Automatically classify vendors using business context.

  • Route vendors into the appropriate assessment workflow.

  • Focus analyst time on high-risk third parties.

  • Maintain consistent risk scoring across the program.

Autonomous evidence collection, beyond questionnaires

Zania collects evidence and validates them against trust centers, breaches, and public records to surface real risks.

Zania collects evidence and validates them against trust centers, breaches, and public records to surface real risks.

  • Collect evidence from multiple trusted sources.

  • Reduce manual document requests.

  • Validate evidence against security and compliance requirements.

  • Build richer assessments beyond questionnaire responses.

Vendor follow-ups, so your team can stop chasing

Agents generate real-time follow-ups and manage vendor back-and-forth so assessments keep moving without constant coordination.

Zania collects evidence and validates them against trust centers, breaches, and public records to surface real risks.

Consistent assessments with full audit trail

Complete, traceable assessments with sourced findings, clear rationale, and full audit context for review or escalation.

Zania collects evidence and validates them against trust centers, breaches, and public records to surface real risks.

  • Capture complete assessment history.

  • Record evidence, findings, and reviewer decisions.

  • Support audit readiness and regulatory reviews.

  • Improve consistency across assessments.

Continuous monitoring, with automated reassessments

Track vendor posture over time and trigger reassessments when key changes occur—so your approvals stay current without manual check-ins.

Zania collects evidence and validates them against trust centers, breaches, and public records to surface real risks.

  • Detect meaningful vendor posture changes.

  • Automatically trigger reassessments.

  • Keep vendor risk decisions current.

  • Reduce manual follow-up work.

Vendor intake and risk tiering panel showing business context inputs and total risk score
Third-party profile view showing evidence uploads and agent research sources such as trust center, court filings, SEC filings, and news.
Automated third-party follow-up requesting updated SOC 2 report and bridge letter.
Assessment view showing sourced findings with rationale and linked evidence.
Continuous monitoring dashboard showing detected events and automated response actions.

Trusted by Enterprise Security Teams

Security and GRC leaders use Zania to reduce manual effort, improve assessment consistency, and scale third-party risk programs without expanding headcount.

“Zania’s AI agents eliminate the manual burden of vendor management, significantly cutting down the time spent reviewing evidence. This allows GRC professionals to focus on higher-value, strategic risk work."

Kenneth Moras

Sakshi Porwal

Global CISO at Compunnel

Why Enterprise Teams Choose Zania

Traditional TPRM

Manual evidence review

Static annual assessments

Analysts manage every workflow

Multiple disconnected tools

Programs scale with more headcount

Zania

AI agents analyze evidence automatically

Continuous monitoring with automated reassessments

AI agents execute repetitive assessment tasks

Unified platform for assessment, monitoring, and reporting

Scale vendor reviews without proportional staffing increases

Zania combines autonomous AI agents, continuous monitoring, and enterprise workflows in a single platform, helping security teams complete more assessments with greater consistency and less manual effort.

Zania combines autonomous AI agents, continuous monitoring, and enterprise workflows in a single platform, helping security teams complete more assessments with greater consistency and less manual effort.

Built for Enterprise Third-Party Risk Programs

Whether you’re assessing hundreds or thousands of vendors, Zania helps security and GRC teams standardize assessments, automate repetitive work, and maintain continuous visibility across the vendor lifecycle.

Enterprise Security Teams

Reduce manual assessment work while maintaining consistent, evidence-based risk decisions.

GRC & Risk Teams

Standardize workflows, improve audit readiness, and manage vendor risk from a single platform.

Global Organizations

Support multiple business units, custom workflows, and enterprise-scale vendor programs without increasing operational complexity.

What your team records, and what agents carry out

What your team records, and what agents carry out

Legacy system of record

Routes work between people. Teams still own collection, review, follow-up, and reassessments.

AI-assisted point tools

Accelerates isolated tasks, but leaves your team coordinating the full workflow and stitching evidence together.

Zania autonomous platform

Agents execute the workflow across systems. Your team sets policy, approves decisions, and governs exceptions.

See a vendor assessment from intake to review

Bring a representative vendor review. Examine how agents collect evidence, prepare findings, and handle follow-ups, then use the AI TPRM pilot checklist to test the work left for your team.

Frequently asked questions

How does AI improve third-party risk management?

AI reduces manual work by reviewing security evidence, analyzing questionnaire responses, identifying potential risks, and helping prioritize vendor assessments. This allows security teams to complete more assessments with greater consistency while maintaining oversight.

What features should I look for in third-party risk management software?

Look for automated assessments, security questionnaire automation, continuous monitoring, customizable workflows, enterprise integrations, reporting, and AI capabilities that reduce repetitive manual work rather than simply automating workflows.

How long does it take to implement TPRM software?

Implementation timelines vary depending on the size of your vendor program, existing processes, and integrations. Most organizations begin by onboarding high-priority vendors and expanding adoption as workflows become standardized.

Can TPRM software scale with a growing vendor ecosystem?

Enterprise TPRM platforms should support thousands of vendors, multiple business units, customizable workflows, and continuous monitoring without requiring proportional increases in manual effort.

What is third-party risk management (TPRM) software?

TPRM software helps organizations identify, assess, monitor, and reduce risk across vendors, partners, contractors, and other external relationships. It replaces manual spreadsheets and one-off reviews with a repeatable process for collecting evidence, documenting findings, and tracking risk throughout the relationship.

What’s the difference between vendor risk management (VRM) and third-party risk management (TPRM)?

VRM focuses specifically on suppliers and service providers, while TPRM covers a broader set of relationships, including partners, contractors, and affiliates. In practice, both rely on the same core process: evaluating risk, gathering evidence, and monitoring for change over time.

What risks should a third-party risk management program cover?

A complete program should evaluate cybersecurity, compliance, operational, financial, privacy, and fourth-party risk. This means looking beyond a vendor’s own controls to also account for their subcontractors and cloud dependencies.

How does AI improve third-party risk management?

AI reduces manual work by reviewing security evidence, analyzing questionnaire responses, identifying potential risks, and helping prioritize vendor assessments. This allows security teams to complete more assessments with greater consistency while maintaining oversight.

What features should I look for in third-party risk management software?

Look for automated assessments, security questionnaire automation, continuous monitoring, customizable workflows, enterprise integrations, reporting, and AI capabilities that reduce repetitive manual work rather than simply automating workflows.

How long does it take to implement TPRM software?

Implementation timelines vary depending on the size of your vendor program, existing processes, and integrations. Most organizations begin by onboarding high-priority vendors and expanding adoption as workflows become standardized.

Can TPRM software scale with a growing vendor ecosystem?

Enterprise TPRM platforms should support thousands of vendors, multiple business units, customizable workflows, and continuous monitoring without requiring proportional increases in manual effort.

What is third-party risk management (TPRM) software?

TPRM software helps organizations identify, assess, monitor, and reduce risk across vendors, partners, contractors, and other external relationships. It replaces manual spreadsheets and one-off reviews with a repeatable process for collecting evidence, documenting findings, and tracking risk throughout the relationship.

What’s the difference between vendor risk management (VRM) and third-party risk management (TPRM)?

VRM focuses specifically on suppliers and service providers, while TPRM covers a broader set of relationships, including partners, contractors, and affiliates. In practice, both rely on the same core process: evaluating risk, gathering evidence, and monitoring for change over time.

What risks should a third-party risk management program cover?

A complete program should evaluate cybersecurity, compliance, operational, financial, privacy, and fourth-party risk. This means looking beyond a vendor’s own controls to also account for their subcontractors and cloud dependencies.

Related Third-Party Risk Resources

Related Third-Party Risk Resources

Define your TPRM software requirements, then compare the assessment workflow with your own process.

Define your TPRM software requirements, then compare the assessment workflow with your own process.