New AI agents execute risk assessments end-to-end, enabling CISOs to achieve 100% vendor coverage without adding headcount.

Zania, the agentic AI platform for Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC), today announced the launch of Zania Autonomous TPRM. This is the first platform that shifts third-party risk management from human-led processes with AI assistance to agent-led execution with human oversight.

Every CISO knows the math: a growing vendor ecosystem, a small risk team, and not enough hours to assess every third party. The result is a coverage gap that turns unassessed vendors into blind spots. This is exactly the kind of risk that shows up in board audit committees and post-breach investigations.

Unlike AI copilots that assist humans with drafting or summarization, Zania’s autonomous agents execute the assessment from intake to final determination. Agents scope vendors by business context, collect evidence from trust centers and public disclosures, coordinate vendor follow-ups, evaluate controls, and produce audit-ready output with a complete evidence trail. This enables teams to expand coverage without adding headcount.

Third-party risk continues to be a primary driver of costly data breaches, with over 30% of all breaches now involving a supply chain partner [1]. As vendor ecosystems expand, GRC teams are caught in a persistent “coverage gap,” able to deeply assess only their most critical vendors, leaving the rest as a growing blind spot. The global TPRM market is expected to reach nearly $30 billion by 2033 [2], yet legacy tools have failed to solve this core challenge, focusing on workflow organization rather than task execution.

Early Results In early deployments across Fortune 500 enterprises and Big 4 firms, organizations using Zania report:

• Assessment timelines compressed from 8+ weeks to under 1 week
• Up to 90% reduction in manual assessment effort
• Up to 80% lower cost per assessment
• Coverage scaled from 10% to 100% of in-scope vendors without increasing headcount

From the CEO “For years, ‘AI in GRC’ has meant a better autocomplete, such as drafting a response, summarizing a report, or helping with a single task. That’s not what enterprises need. They need the assessment done, defensibly, at scale, without tripling headcount.”

“We built Autonomous TPRM to execute the work end to end. It is grounded in evidence, aligned to how risk teams actually operate, and traceable enough to survive an audit. The question isn’t whether AI can help with GRC. It’s whether your AI can do the job.” — Shruti Gupta, Founder & CEO, Zania

What TPRM Teams Get

• Assess every vendor, not just the top 10%. Agents automatically intake and scope vendors based on business context, such as data types, integration depth, and regulatory exposure. Risk tiers reflect how each vendor is actually used, not a static spreadsheet classification.
• Stop chasing vendors for questionnaire responses. Agents collect evidence autonomously from trust centers, public disclosures, attestations, and regulatory filings. Questionnaires are sent only for gaps that can’t be resolved from existing evidence.
• Get audit-ready output, not drafts to rewrite. Every determination comes with a complete evidence trail, clear rationale, and traceability. Assessments are ready for stakeholder review and regulatory audit without manual rework.
• Stay in control. Configurable guardrails, review gates, and approval workflows ensure teams review, edit, override, and finalize findings. Every human decision is captured in the audit trail.
• Know when things change. Continuous monitoring for material changes, such as expiring certifications, breach disclosures, or regulatory actions, triggers reassessment automatically.

Customer Perspective “Zania’s AI agents automate the manual burdens of vendor management, specifically the time spent gathering, reviewing, and interpreting lengthy documents that used to consume our team. This shift lets GRC professionals focus their expertise on strategic risk activities where they deliver the greatest impact.” — Sakshi Porwal, Global CISO, Compunnel

Availability Zania Autonomous TPRM is available globally starting today. To see agentic risk management in action, visit www.zania.ai.

About Zania Zania is the agentic AI platform for enterprise governance, risk, and compliance. Organizations including Fortune 500 enterprises and Big 4 firms use Zania’s agents to execute third-party risk, internal risk, and compliance workflows with consistent, evidence-backed outcomes. Founded by leaders from Microsoft, Meta, Airbnb, and the Big 4, Zania is purpose-built for modern GRC teams. Learn more at zania.ai.

Performance metrics reflect early deployments and may vary by organization, vendor mix, and assessment scope.

References [1]: https://www.idtheftcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2025-ITRC-Annual-Data-Breach-Report.pdf "ITRC. (2026, January). 2025 ITRC Annual Data Breach Report." [2]: https://www.industryresearch.biz/market-reports/third-party-risk-management-market-110574 "Industry Research Biz. (2026, January). Third-Party Risk Management Market Overview."

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“We built Autonomous TPRM to execute the work end to end—grounded in evidence, aligned to how risk teams actually operate, and traceable enough to survive an audit. The question isn’t whether AI can help with GRC. It’s whether your AI can do the job.”