CoreStream GRC, the intuitive and flexible governance, risk, and compliance platform built for enterprise teams, has announced a strategic partnership with SANNOS, an AI-native compliance engine built to revolutionize risk and compliance programs trusted by Big 4 companies and large banks.
Michael Rasmussen, of GRC 2020, who has been involved with Sannos since beta, and has worked alongside CoreStream GRC for over a decade, previously awarded CoreStream GRC the Enterprise Integrated GRC Architecture & Platforms innovation award introduced the two vendors. Michael saw 2 teams with deep GRC credibility backing a partnership that is built for real-world programs, not demos.
This is the first global GRC platform partnership for SANNOS, and it brings something new that the market has been asking for: a faster, more defensible way to prove compliance against full frameworks, using real evidence, not self-declared answers.
The future of compliance is automation. What stood out to us about CoreStream GRC was their strong client focus and ability to adapt to each client’s specific needs. That mindset is a natural match with SANNOS and our AI agents, which are designed to automate complex compliance work. Together, we create a powerful combination for organizations facing rapidly increasing regulatory demand.”
Anders Søborg, Co-Founder, SANNOS
Why this partnership is a genuine step change for the broader GRC industry
That matters, because relying on off-the-shelf LLMs in risk and compliance can create its own business risk, with typical output accuracy often sitting between 50% and 60%. SANNOS takes a different approach. Built and supported by GRC veterans from Big 4 consulting and regulated industries, it delivers 98% accuracy and is the only AI platform accredited by the Secure Controls Framework (SCF).
Rather than relying on generic data, SANNOS ingests real evidence, cross-maps thousands of controls, and produces regulator-grade reporting across major frameworks. The result is not a best guess. It is a traceable, audit-ready output designed for boardrooms, not chat windows.
SANNOS reads real artifacts (policies, contracts, SOC reports, ESG documentation, vendor documents), maps them to frameworks, flags gaps, and generates audit-ready outputs with traceable citations back to the source text.
CoreStream GRC then helps you operationalize the outcome across the enterprise: ownership, workflows, remediation, approvals, and reporting.
Together, the combination of SANNOS’ intelligence and CoreStream GRC’s comprehensive single source of truth is simple to explain and hard to replicate: evidence-first assurance, delivered inside a scalable, easy-to-use GRC platform.
“The integration between CoreStream GRC and SANNOS is notable in that it keeps the user within the platform experience rather than forcing context switching across tools.
The value is not simply in improved efficiency, but in the broader impact on the effectiveness and agility of the GRC program. While speed and streamlined execution matter, the greater value is in the added depth, precision, and quality of insight that can support better decisions and more effective risk and compliance management.”
Michael Rasmussen, GRC Analyst & Pundit, GRC 2020
For CoreStream GRC users who opt in, the partnership delivers practical, audit-friendly outcomes:
- Faster framework assessments using your existing evidence base
- Clear, structured gap analysis tied back to the source material
- Outputs you can use with auditors, regulators, and internal stakeholders without a spreadsheet scavenger hunt
- A much stronger path for high-pressure regulatory environments, including US cyber and federal compliance programs
“Today’s GRC teams need to move beyond checkbox compliance toward a model where insight, judgment, and action drive real outcomes. By automating the manual input and review process, our partnership with SANNOS enables practitioners to focus on interpreting risk signals and guiding the organization toward more effective and efficient compliance. This is the shift that GRC 7.0 orchestration calls for, and it’s exactly what this collaboration delivers.”
Paul Cadwallader, GRC Strategy Director, CoreStream GRC
A GRC partnership built for global enterprises not small programs
This partnership is designed for enterprise clients with complex, time-consuming GRC needs across regions and languages. Both CoreStream GRC and SANNOS support multi-language use cases, with an operational focus across European, American, and Arabic-speaking regions.
It also reflects a shared DNA between CoreStream GRC and SANNOS:
- Both teams led by ex-Big 4 consultants who understand what “defensible” really means in audit and regulatory contexts
- Both are best-of-breed in what they do, and intentional about integrating with like-minded technology rather than forcing a closed ecosystem
Key capabilities include:
- Framework-level mapping, not checkbox scoring: Evidence is mapped to specific requirements like NIS 2, DORA, ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR across full frameworks, not surface-level control spot checks
- Explainable, audit-friendly outputs: Clear “met, partially met, missing” results with source-backed references so teams can defend conclusions
- Structured gap analysis you can act on: Findings plus remediation guidance, not vague “improve controls” language
- Compensating control recommendations: Practical options when a requirement is not fully met
- Vendor-ready third-party workflows: Vendors upload evidence once, the system evaluates it, and you standardize outputs across your third-party population
- Defensibility by design: Evidence linkage and review history that supports audit and regulator scrutiny
“Most compliance pain is not strategy. It’s reading, mapping, and proving. SANNOS was built to do that work with traceability you can stand behind. Partnering with CoreStream GRC puts that capability into a platform enterprise teams already rely on to run their programs. We’re proud to work with CoreStream GRC and their community of enterprise global brands.”
Anders Søborg, Co-Founder, SANNOS
What makes this partnership different?
A lot of compliance tooling still depends on manual interpretation, disconnected point solutions, or surface-level automation.
This is different.
SANNOS is built for evidence-based compliance analysis, not generic language generation. SANNOS helps teams automate evidence review, assessment, and remediation, turning weeks of manual work into hours of data-backed assurance. It also highlights 80% time savings, 10x faster audit prep, 80% faster contract reviews, and 70% compliance cost reduction.
CoreStream GRC is built to help enterprise teams run processes at scale, their way. Combined, the two create a model that is simple to understand and hard to replicate: evidence-first assurance inside a flexible enterprise GRC platform.
That matters at a time when compliance capacity is under strain and organizations are looking for ways to increase speed without losing control.
Teams do not need more tools for the sake of it. They need fewer bottlenecks, clearer outputs, and stronger operational follow-through. That is exactly where this partnership is focused.
With CoreStream GRC plus SANNOS, teams can:
- Cut audit and assurance cycles by up to 80% by automating evidence mapping and framework analysis
- Compress baseline compliance assessments from weeks to hours (From 2 to 3 weeks down to about 1 hour in the best cases)
- Save major internal capacity, including examples like 9,000 hours per year, the equivalent of full-time roles, and 80% workload reduction with up to 70% cost reduction in control review work
- Build toward a more scalable model for multiframework compliance and continuous assurance
- Improve third-party onboarding and assessment consistency
“Our mission at CoreStream GRC is to simplify and strengthen governance, risk and compliance processes for growing enterprises. Partnering with SANNOS allows us to introduce intelligent automation that enhances control validation, accelerates baseline assessments and modernizes third-party risk management. Together, we are delivering measurable efficiency gains while maintaining the rigor our customers and their auditors expect.”
Rich Eddolls, Chief Product Officer, CoreStream GRC
Real-world use cases
SANNOS x CoreStream GRC reduces manual review time by 80%, the evidence scanning and consistency checks are automatically completed. Along with gap detection and documentation linking, with draft sign off and control effectiveness summaries.
AI-driven third party risk management (TPRM) and faster vendor onboarding
Vendors upload evidence via their documentation. CoreStream GRC and SANNOS map documentation to requirements, flag gaps, and generate a clear path to compliance. Less time chasing questionnaires, more time making decisions.
Compliance officer workflow support
Instead of manually combing through reports, teams get fast visibility into what meets requirements, what does not, and what needs to happen next. That is how you move from “annual fire drill” to repeatable proof.
CoreStream GRC’s partner ecosystem: built for flexibility
SANNOS joins CoreStream GRC’s growing partner ecosystem, built to help enterprise teams connect the tools they already use and run their program their way. CoreStream GRC’s standardized API framework and configurability mean integrations can support real processes, not force teams into compromises.
Is your GRC workload is growing faster than your team?
If so, this session is for you.
Generic AI may promise speed, but it often creates more risk. Join SANNOS and CoreStream GRC to see how evidence‑driven AI delivers outcomes you can stand behind with regulators, auditors, and boards alike.
About CoreStream GRC
CoreStream GRC is the GRC platform that truly works for you. We are a flexible, intuitive, no-code platform that helps enterprise teams run governance at scale across compliance management software needs, audit management software workflows, and third-party risk programs. CoreStream GRC supports the full lifecycle, from onboarding to remediation, with configurable workflows, clear accountability, and audit-ready reporting.
About SANNOS
SANNOS bridges the gap between high-stakes executive judgment and advanced computing. Automates audit and compliance reviews in minutes vs. days of manual work
SANNOS is an AI-native compliance engine built for evidence-based analysis. It automates document-heavy compliance work by reading real evidence, mapping it to frameworks, identifying gaps, and generating explainable outputs with traceable citations and review history designed for audit contexts.
Frequently asked questions about CoreStream GRC and AI
The partnership combines SANNOS ‘ evidence‑based compliance automation with CoreStream GRC’s enterprise governance and workflow platform. Together, they enable organizations to accelerate framework assessments, automate documentation review, reduce manual assurance work, and deliver audit‑ready compliance outputs with traceable evidence.
Unlike generic LLMs that produce surface‑level results, SANNOS reads real evidence, policies, SOC reports, contracts, ESG documentation, and maps it to full frameworks like ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIS2, DORA, and GDPR. With 98% accuracy and SCF accreditation, the platform produces defensible, regulator‑grade outputs with clear citations back to source material.
CoreStream GRC turns AI‑generated findings into actionable governance workflows across the enterprise. Users can assign ownership, track remediation, manage approvals, monitor third‑party risks, and report progress, creating a single source of truth for complex, multi‑region compliance programs.
Enterprises can reduce audit cycles by up to 80%, compress baseline assessments from weeks to hours, and eliminate thousands of hours of manual control review work. The integration delivers defensible compliance faster, helping teams shift from administrative tasks to strategic risk oversight while maintaining audit‑ready assurance.
