Ch. 01 The new playbook

Transform third party risk
with AI-powered intelligence.

Nothing falls through the cracks. Every vendor, every control, tracked in one organized system — not ten disconnected tools. AI speeds through the busywork; your team still makes every call. Shaped to your process, never someone else's template.

LIVE
1,284 vendors assessed
across portfolio
"We didn't build an AI that decides for you — we built one that never lets you decide blindly. Speed without oversight isn't speed, it's risk."
"We didn't design this from a whiteboard. We lived the gaps of third-party risk for years, then built the platform that closes them."
— The team behind ThirdGuardian
100%
portfolio visibility
every vendor, every subprocessor
SCF
frameworks mapped
SCF, mapped to NIST
9
AI capabilities
configurable per deployment
source of truth
no more parallel spreadsheets
Ch. 02 AI in every step

Nine capabilities. One configurable engine.

The ThirdGuardian AI layer is woven through every workflow — not pasted in as a chatbot. Each capability runs independently, with its own system prompt, its own model choice, and its own data access policy.

01

Questionnaire Generation

tier-aware

From a plain-language prompt, the AI assembles a tailored question assessment tuned to vendor tier, data types, and applicable frameworks.

02

Questionnaire Autofill

vendor experience

Vendors don't start from a blank form. The AI pre-fills responses from documents they've already submitted, turning a new questionnaire into a quick review instead of hours of re-typing.

03

Risk & Impact Suggestion

context-aware

Reads Business Impact Analysis documents and proposes CIA impacts, eliminating manual classification work for every use case.

04

Legal AI Analysis & Recommendations

contracts · DPAs · NDAs

Upload a contract, DPA, or NDA — the AI flags non-standard clauses and missing protections, then recommends exactly what to fix before anyone signs.

05

Vendor Document Analysis

grounded answers

Ask questions directly against a vendor's submitted assessment — answers are grounded in their actual documents and responses, with reasoning you can trace back to the source.

06

BIA Generation

draft → review

Use-case intake flows directly into a business impact draft — ready for review the moment it's submitted.

07

Remediation Suggestions

per-issue

For every issue, the AI drafts compensating controls and remediation language aligned to your playbook.

08

Tech & 4th-Party Detection

subprocessor graph

Extracts sub-processors and underlying tech stacks from vendor documentation — so you know your full supply chain.

09

Breach Intel & Notifications

HIBP-powered

The moment a vendor turns up in a new breach, the AI summarizes what's actually exposed and notifies your team automatically — no manually checking breach databases yourself.

Ch. 03 What the AI sees

Every signal, in one picture.

Most vendor risk programs see fragments — a questionnaire here, a contract there, a spreadsheet of subprocessors no one updates. ThirdGuardian's AI reads every signal and assembles them into a single, defensible view.

01 · DOCUMENTS
SOC 2 Type II
DPA · v3.2
Pen-test report
Security questionnaire
BIA draft
streaming · 5 signals
02 · RELATIONSHIP MAPPING
AWS · shared subprocessor Acme Cloud Stripe Datadog Notion Labs
1 subprocessor · 4 vendors mapped
03 · SUBPROCESSOR GRAPH
AWS · core infra
Cloudflare · edge
Snowflake · data
Twilio · comms
+14 more
streaming · 5 signals
04 · RISK PICTURE
Tier 1 · High
PII + Financial
3 open issues
EU residency
Audit trail · 100%
streaming · 5 signals

Documents

SOC 2 reports, DPAs, security questionnaires, BIAs, contracts. The AI reads them all — flags non-standard clauses, missing controls, and stale attestations.

Relationship Mapping

See every vendor that shares a subprocessor, and every use case tied to that vendor — the hidden dependencies a spreadsheet would never surface.

Subprocessor Graph

The AI extracts every fourth-party from vendor documentation and assembles a live graph of your real supply chain — the dependencies you didn't know you had.

Risk Picture

Tier, data classification, residency, and outstanding issues — assembled into a single defensible view of every vendor relationship and the portfolio as a whole.

Ch. 04 How it works

From intake to oversight. One continuous workflow.

Six stages, every vendor, every time — connected end-to-end so nothing falls through the gaps between teams, tools, and tabs.

Stage 01

Vendor intake

A use-case owner answers a handful of questions about the engagement. The AI drafts a Business Impact Analysis from the intake context — no blank page.

Use case owner · AI
Stage 02

Automatic tiering

The platform classifies data sensitivity, residency, and criticality, then assigns the right tier and maps the engagement to the controls that actually apply.

AI engine
Stage 03

Tailored assessment

A questionnaire is generated specifically for this vendor — only the questions that matter for this tier, this data, this framework. The vendor responds in their own portal.

Platform
Stage 04

AI review of responses

Every answer is checked against your standards. The AI flags missing evidence, drafts remediation language, and tracks every issue against an SLA.

AI engine
Stage 05

Legal & contract review

Upload the DPA — the AI surfaces non-standard clauses, missing SCCs, and indemnity gaps. Legal reviews exceptions, not boilerplate.

Legal
Stage 06

Continuous oversight

After approval, the vendor stays in view. New attestations, expiring certs, subprocessor changes — all surfaced automatically with a complete audit trail.

Audit trail
One platform. Every stage. Always defensible.
Less time chasing artifacts. More time on the risks that actually matter.
without

Fragmented
spreadsheets.
Blind spots everywhere.

  • No single view of vendor risk
  • Frameworks tracked by hand
  • Subprocessors are a guess
  • Audit prep is a fire drill
with ThirdGuardian

One platform.
AI-powered.
Defensible decisions.

  • Portfolio view, every vendor
  • Findings mapped to your frameworks
  • Subprocessor graph kept current
  • Audit trail, always ready
Ch. 05 Who we serve

Built for regulated, high-scrutiny teams.

01

Financial Services

Meet regulatory expectations with comprehensive audit trails, data classification, and risk-based tiering.

02

Healthcare

HIPAA-grade data element tracking, vendor workflows, and impact analysis — purpose-built for PHI.

03

Technology

Scale vendor risk with your business. Automated assessments for cloud, SaaS, and partners.

04

Enterprise Security

Centralize third-party risk with configurable workflows, issue tracking, and SLA-managed remediation.

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