Speakers: SANNOS’ CEO and CoreStream GRC’s GRC Strategy Director
In the session, we explored why generic AI is falling short in regulated environments, what trusted, evidence-based AI looks like in practice, and how intelligence-first GRC can help teams reduce manual effort without losing confidence, control, or auditability.
If you missed the live session, or want to revisit it, you can now watch the webinar on demand.
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97% of GRC professionals report using AI to streamline compliance and risk processes.
But in the race to keep up, Artificial Intelligence has often been bolted onto existing tools and programs in fragmented ways. While this may deliver surface‑level efficiency, generic large language models (LLMs) can actually increase risk exposure; introducing accuracy gaps and generating outputs that are difficult to defend to boards, auditors, or regulators.
“Too many GRC teams are still being forced into checker mode. They are spending too much time looking down, checking, and following up, when they should be supporting the mission, reducing risk, driving transformation, and guiding the organization.”
Anders Søborg, Co-CEO, SANNOS
SANNOS and CoreStream GRC offer a more assured approach to AI‑powered GRC.
Together, the platforms reflect a shared ex‑Big 4 DNA and a clear ambition: to redefine how modern GRC teams operate, with confidence, credibility, and control.
“The problem with generic AI in compliance is not that it sounds weak. It is that it sounds convincing without being defensible. In regulated environments, that is exactly the problem. You do not need something that simply gives you an answer. You need something grounded in real documentation and control evidence that can stand up to serious review.”
Anders Søborg, Co-CEO, SANNOS
What was covered in this SANNOS X CoreStream GRC webinar
In this session, Anders Søborg SANNOS’ Co‑CEO Anders and CoreStream GRC Strategy Director Paul Cadwallader discussed what intelligence-first GRC really means in practice, and why it matters now.
They covered:
- why generic AI often falls short in risk and compliance
- how evidence-based AI supports more defensible assessments
- where GRC teams are losing time in manual review work
- how the CoreStream GRC and SANNOS integration helps automate the mechanical heavy lifting
- what this means for controls, third-party risk, audit, and board reporting
How the CoreStream GRC X SANNOS integration works
CoreStream GRC provides a flexible, intuitive single source of truth for enterprise risks, controls, ownership, evidence, reporting and more. Designed for enterprises’ unique governance requirements, it delivers clear accountability, robust workflows, and full auditability across the organization in a way that works for them.
SANNOS adds an intelligent execution layer on top of this foundation by automating control assessments, validating evidence, and generating audit‑ready outputs mapped to regulatory frameworks. Rather than producing generic AI responses, SANNOS operates directly on real documentation and control data, delivering consistent, traceable, and defensible results.
Sannos is the only AI platform accredited by Cyber‑AB for the Secure Controls Framework (SCF), providing additional assurance for regulators, auditors, and boards alike.
This is not AI for the sake of AI. It is a more practical way to help GRC teams spend less time on repetitive manual analysis and more time on remediation, judgment, and business improvement.
“GRC teams are small, expectations are rising, and skilled people need to spend their time on judgment, remediation, and helping the business achieve its objectives, not on the mechanics of demonstrating compliance.”
Paul Cadwallader, CoreStream GRC Strategy Director
What GRC professionals benefit from with this partnership
Together, CoreStream GRC and Sannos combine auditable evidence with intelligent, automated analysis inside a mature, enterprise‑grade GRC environment, transforming how all three lines of defense operate:
- First line no longer performs manual self‑assessments
- Second line shifts from periodic testing and reviews to continuous improvement
- Third parties move away from questionnaires, submitting evidence directly, analyzed by SANNOS in minutes instead of weeks
The result isn’t a best guess. It’s traceable, defensible, regulator‑grade output, designed for the boardroom, not a chat window. This marks a shift from manual, periodic processes to continuous, evidence‑driven assurance.
If your risk and compliance workload is growing faster than your team’s capacity, this is a session worth attending.
What governance, risk and compliance teams can take from this webinar
In this session, Anders from SANNOS and Paul from CoreStream GRC showed what changes when AI is built for real GRC work, not bolted on as a chatbot.
With the right model in place:
- First line teams can spend less time on manual self-assessments
“First line functions should not need to do self-assessments anymore. It is just upload the evidence that you have done something, and it basically processes it.”
Paul Cadwallader, CoreStream GRC Strategy Director
- Second line teams can focus more on improvement and oversight
“GRC professionals should be focused on improving things and applying judgment and driving the strategic outcomes. The mechanical natures need to be automated.”
Paul Cadwallader, CoreStream GRC Strategy Director
- Third-party reviews can move away from long questionnaires and toward evidence-led analysis
“Nobody likes answering 200 questions on the questionnaire. Everybody would just prefer to say, look, I’ve invested in all this procedural documentation, these policies, these SOC 2 reports, and so forth, I’ve invested in that, we use that please.”
Paul Cadwallader, CoreStream GRC Strategy Director
- Boards and leadership teams get stronger, more defensible insight
The goal is not a faster guess. It is a better standard of assurance.
Meet the GRC expert hosts
Anders Søborg
Co-CEO, SANNOS
Anders is helping lead SANNOS’ push to rethink how compliance and assurance work gets done.
His focus is on moving teams away from manual assessments and generic AI outputs, and toward evidence-led, audit-ready analysis that can stand up to real scrutiny.
Paul Cadwallader
Strategy Director, CoreStream GRC
Paul has more than 25 years of compliance and GRC experience.
Before joining CoreStream GRC, he was a Partner at Deloitte, where he led the Global Technology Enablement Practice within Deloitte UK.
He now works with organizations to modernize governance, risk, and compliance through practical, defensible, and outcome-focused operating models.
Watch the webinar on demand
If you joined us live, thanks for being part of the conversation.
If not, you can now watch the full session on demand and see how intelligence-first GRC can help your team move faster, reduce manual effort, and improve confidence in the outputs you rely on.
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FAQ on intelligence‑first GRC: the AI webinar with SANNOS and CoreStream GRC
This session is for leaders and teams working in:
risk
compliance
internal audit
operational resilience
information security
third-party risk
governance and controls
If your workload is growing faster than your team’s capacity, this webinar is worth watching.
Intelligence-first GRC is an approach that combines strong governance, risk, and compliance workflows with evidence-based AI. Instead of relying on generic large language models, it uses real documentation, control evidence, and mapped frameworks to produce outputs that are traceable, auditable, and ready for serious review.
Generic AI can sound convincing, but that does not make it reliable in regulated environments. Intelligence-first GRC is different because it works from real evidence and control data. That gives risk and compliance teams more consistent, explainable, and defensible outputs for boards, auditors, and regulators.
The session covers what good AI integration looks like in practice, why generic AI falls short in regulated environments, how evidence-based AI can improve compliance and audit workflows, and how the CoreStream GRC and SANNOS integration supports stronger governance, controls, and third-party risk management.
CoreStream GRC provides the flexible, no-code GRC platform for risks, controls, evidence, ownership, workflows, and reporting. SANNOS adds an intelligent execution layer that automates control assessments, validates evidence, and generates audit-ready outputs mapped to regulatory frameworks. Together, they help teams move from manual, periodic work to continuous, evidence-driven assurance.
In GRC, speed on its own is not enough. Teams need outputs they can stand behind. Evidence-based AI matters because it improves accuracy, transparency, and auditability. That is critical when dealing with compliance reviews, internal audit, third-party risk, and board reporting.
