Vendict Recognized in the 2026 Gartner(R) Coolest Vendor Innovations for Assurance: GRC and TPRM Report
Vendict's AI and TPRM experts take on the operational work of third-party risk management across every vendor, at the
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Vendict’s AI and TPRM experts take on the operational work of third-party risk management across every vendor, at the cost of software, while risk teams keep every decision.
NEW YORK CITY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 9, 2026 / Vendict today announced that it was recognized in the 2026 Gartner® Coolest Vendor Innovations for Assurance: GRC and TPRM report.
Organizations rely on growing networks of vendors and suppliers, but third-party risk management still runs on manual work, so it’s bound by budget and headcount. Most TPRM teams can review only the 5 to 10% of vendors marked critical, and the rest go unseen until risk shows up as a surprise. Meanwhile, 48% of breaches now involve a third party, according to Verizon’s 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report.
“In the AI era, TPRM needs a new operating model,” said Michael Keslassy, co-founder of Vendict. “We believe the number of vendors a company can assess should not be determined by how many analysts it can hire. At Vendict, our AI and TPRM experts own the operational work, and the risk team owns the decisions, with the evidence and visibility it needs to make them.”
Changing the Economics of TPRM
For the price of software, Vendict customers get the work of a full TPRM team, without adding headcount or paying consultant rates.
Vendict continuously monitors 100% of vendors for security, privacy, compliance, legal, financial and AI risk, without requiring vendor participation. It flags significant changes and maps fourth parties and subprocessors to help teams see dependencies beyond their direct vendor relationships.
For vendors that need a closer look, Vendict’s AI analyzes evidence across more than 650 document types, checks for stale, draft, tampered or wrong-recipient materials, evaluates controls against more than 40 frameworks, and benchmarks results across Vendict’s vendor network. Targeted questionnaires cover only what the evidence could not answer, so vendors get shorter questionnaires and respond faster. Prefilled answers stay linked to source evidence.
TPRM experts handle the operational work around it, including vendor outreach, follow-ups and remediation tracking. Customers see every step in the Vendict platform: what was collected, what was found and why each risk was raised. Every risk decision stays with them.
“Most of what a TPRM program surfaces is noise for that particular business, and sorting through it eats the team’s week,” Keslassy added. “Vendict screens out what doesn’t apply and learns from every decision the team makes, so the noise keeps shrinking and the team spends its time on the risks that matter.”
For more on Vendict’s approach to third-party risk management, visit https://vendict.com/tprm-managed-solution.
About Vendict
Vendict is a third-party risk management company that is changing the economics of TPRM. Today, TPRM is bound by budget and headcount, so TPRM teams either slow the business down or lose sight of most of their vendors. Vendict breaks that tradeoff: its AI and TPRM experts do the operational work, so organizations can act on real, relevant risk across every vendor and AI tool, at the cost of software. Founded in 2020, headquartered in New York, and with offices around the world, Vendict is backed by Moneta VC, JAL Ventures, NFX, Disruptive AI, Cardumen Capital, Cyber Club London, and others. Learn more at https://vendict.com.
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Head of Product Marketing, Vendict
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Source: Gartner, Coolest Vendor Innovations for Assurance: GRC and TPRM, Jie Zhang, Antonia Donaldson, Zachary Ginsburg, Sep 9, 2026.
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