Governance, risk and compliance platforms are serious software for organisations with real regulatory exposure and auditors who arrive expecting evidence.
- ›Who these are actually for
- ›The honest test
- ›What smaller companies need instead
- ›Where Brainis fits
Who they are for
AuditBoard is built around internal audit workflow. LogicGate is a configurable risk-workflow engine. Hyperproof organises around controls and evidence collection for frameworks like SOC 2 and ISO 27001. SAI360 spans health, safety and ethics alongside compliance.
They share an assumption: you have named control owners, recurring audits, and consequences for failing them.
The honest test
Do you have an auditor? Not a plan to get certified - an actual audit with an actual date.
Is there a named owner for each control? These platforms coordinate people. Without owners they become a document library.
Do you have recurring evidence obligations? The value is collecting evidence continuously rather than scrambling the month before an audit.
Is compliance someone's job? Part of someone's job is fine. Nobody's job means the platform will not be maintained.
If those are mostly no, buying GRC software produces an expensive, half-populated system that makes you feel prepared without being prepared.
What smaller companies need instead
Policies that exist, are current, and are acknowledged by the people they apply to. Mandatory training assigned and tracked, with overdue actually chased. Documents and certifications with expiry dates that raise a signal before they lapse. A record of who changed what.
That is a tracking requirement, not a GRC platform, and it is what most companies under a few hundred people actually have.
Where Brainis fits
Compliance is a section of Admin: policy management with acknowledgements, training assignment and completion tracking, document and certification expiry with signals, and a tamper-evident audit trail across the platform. Included on every plan from $29 a month.
The honest gap: no framework-mapped control libraries, no audit workflow, no risk register of the kind LogicGate provides, and no evidence automation for SOC 2 or ISO. If you are pursuing certification, use a specialist - this is not that.
FAQ
We want SOC 2. Is this enough?
No. Use a compliance-automation specialist for certification, and come back for the operational side.
What about the audit trail?
Real and tamper-evident - entries form a hash chain, so removing or editing history is detectable. See the audit trail.
Policy acknowledgements?
Yes, assigned by role with tracking, which is the part most companies are missing.
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