Agentic Index
Denki vs Fieldguide (2026)
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Both automate audit work. That verdict is the Agentic Index coverage score, graded from each vendor's own published materials.
Fieldguide is a platform for audit and advisory firms automating workpapers, testing and engagement workflows, sold through a demo with no public pricing. Denki runs autonomous audit agents for Sarbanes Oxley and anti money laundering evidence, control testing and reconciliation with full audit traces. Fieldguide serves the firm doing the audit. Denki serves the company being audited, which is a different buyer with a different budget.
On the Agentic Index agent observability ranking, neither Denki nor Fieldguide clears the bar, which asks for all three reliability loop capabilities documented in full. Denki does not document testing and evaluation in full, nor human oversight and guardrails; Fieldguide does not document testing and evaluation in full, nor observability and auditability. 85 of the 554 platforms it grades clear it. See the agent observability ranking
This comparison is published by Agentic Index, an independent agentic AI vendor research platform. Denki and Fieldguide are each graded against the same 14 capability Agentic Index taxonomy, from the vendor's own public materials under the Agentic Index verification standard, alongside 1,084 researched vendors. No vendor pays for placement and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded
Choose Denki if
- You are the company under audit and internal control testing is your recurring burden.
- Sarbanes Oxley and anti money laundering evidence collection is the specific work.
- Complete audit traces on agent actions are what your external auditor will examine.
Choose Fieldguide if
- Workpapers, testing and engagement workflows should run in one platform built for audit firms.
- You are an audit or advisory firm and workpapers are the deliverable.
- Engagement workflow, not just testing, is what you need automated.
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Integrations & Tool Calling Ability to connect agents to real systems through native integrations, OAuth-authenticated actions, custom tools, APIs, webhooks, or MCP-compatible tools. |
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DenkiIntegrations & Tool Calling The Denki Assurance Platform works on AuditBoard, Workiva and ERPs, collecting evidence and testing controls from them. Denki names no authenticated action it takes inside those systems and no framework for custom tools or connectors. The named integrations all sit in the audit stack and read from it. SourceDenki, ycombinator.com/companies/denkiread 2026-09-06 |
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FieldguideIntegrations & Tool Calling The platform takes in prior year files, client evidence and engagement data. Fieldguide MCP lets engagement status flow into Teams, SharePoint and email through the practitioner's own assistant. Fieldguide does not say whether the agents themselves take authenticated action in an outside system. SourceFieldguide, fieldguide.com/products/platform/fieldguide-mcpread 2026-09-06 |
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Workflow Orchestration Ability to sequence, branch, retry, route, and combine deterministic workflow nodes with autonomous agent steps. |
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DenkiWorkflow Orchestration Internal auditing runs on Denki's own platform across planning, testing and documenting. The platform maps controls to COSO, collects evidence from connected systems, runs walkthrough interviews, executes control tests and produces workpapers. Denki says the work is 99 percent software and 1 percent services. SourceDenki, ycombinator.com/companies/denkiread 2026-09-06 |
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FieldguideWorkflow Orchestration Field Orchestrator takes a natural language direction and activates Field Agents across planning, execution and review, with dependencies sequenced automatically. Field Planner builds the engagement plan from prior year files, and Field Auditor runs population, sampling, extraction and evaluation end to end. Field Reviewer checks workpapers and Field Financials drafts statements. The agents work every engagement in parallel on Fieldguide's own runtime. SourceFieldguide, fieldguide.com/products/agents/field-orchestratorread 2026-09-06 |
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Triggers & Channel Coverage How agents wake up and where they work: schedules, webhooks, message events, CRM events, inbox events, chat, email, voice, and collaboration tools. |
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DenkiTriggers & Channel Coverage Denki does not say whether a schedule, an event or a person starts a run. SourceDenki, denki.ai and ycombinator.com/companies/denkiread 2026-09-06 |
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FieldguideTriggers & Channel Coverage Field Agents start when a practitioner directs them in natural language, through Field Orchestrator or through Fieldguide MCP from an outside assistant, and then work every engagement in parallel. Fieldguide names no event, schedule or webhook that starts agent work, including client evidence arriving through Request Management. SourceFieldguide, fieldguide.com/products/agents/field-orchestrator and fieldguide.com/products/platform/fieldguide-mcpread 2026-09-06 |
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Knowledge Grounding & RAG Ability to ground agent behavior in company data through document ingestion, retrieval, external knowledge APIs, semantic search, or RAG layers. |
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DenkiKnowledge Grounding & RAG Control testing is grounded in evidence collected from the customer's audit and ERP systems and mapped to the COSO framework. The platform assembles that evidence from connected systems at run time. Denki names no store of the customer's own knowledge that the platform keeps and queries, such as a control inventory or a corpus of prior audits. SourceDenki, ycombinator.com/companies/denkiread 2026-09-06 |
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FieldguideKnowledge Grounding & RAG Plans and execution are grounded in the firm's own methodology and standards, applied consistently across every engagement. A Methodology and Frameworks module carries libraries for SOC, HIPAA, PCI, HITRUST, ISO and other frameworks, and Field Planner takes in prior year files and engagement history. SourceFieldguide, fieldguide.com/products/agents/field-orchestratorread 2026-09-06 |
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Memory & State Persistence Ability to persist context across a run, conversation, workflow, user, team, or longer-term memory layer. |
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DenkiMemory & State Persistence Nothing published says whether Denki's agents keep memory between runs. SourceDenki, denki.ai and ycombinator.com/companies/denkiread 2026-09-06 |
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FieldguideMemory & State Persistence Field Orchestrator works as a running conversation that builds on every prior decision, direction and result. Context carries forward, so a practitioner can jump between engagements and continue. Prior work, client responses and review notes feed every next step. That state lasts beyond a single session for each engagement and lives in the engagement's own records. Fieldguide names no separate memory layer with its own lifetime or delete path. SourceFieldguide, fieldguide.com/products/agents/field-orchestratorread 2026-09-06 |
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Human Oversight & Guardrails Approval steps, consent checkpoints, escalation rules, structured guardrails, policy constraints, and pause/resume controls. |
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DenkiHuman Oversight & Guardrails Denki names no step where a person reviews or approves the agents' work. SourceDenki, denki.ai and ycombinator.com/companies/denkiread 2026-09-06 |
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FieldguideHuman Oversight & Guardrails Practitioners choose when agents pause for review, change that cadence at any time, and approve or redirect work at every checkpoint. Every Field Agent returns its work for review, and Field Reviewer surfaces exceptions before partner sign off. Fieldguide MCP actions are shown in their exact wording for review before anything changes. SourceFieldguide, fieldguide.com/products/agents/field-orchestrator and fieldguide.com/products/platform/fieldguide-mcpread 2026-09-06 |
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Security, Identity & Governance RBAC, SSO, auditability, encryption, least-privilege tool access, compliance posture, and data handling policy. |
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DenkiSecurity, Identity & Governance No security, identity or compliance detail is published for Denki. SourceDenki, denki.ai and ycombinator.com/companies/denkiread 2026-09-06 |
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FieldguideSecurity, Identity & Governance Three attestations back the platform's security. Fieldguide holds ISO 42001 certification, an annual SOC 2 Type 2 examination covering security, availability and confidentiality, and an AIUC-1 attestation of its agents. A trust center sits at trust.fieldguide.io, data is encrypted with AES-256 at rest, and every account uses multi factor authentication. Access follows engagement permissions, so through Fieldguide MCP each practitioner sees only the engagements and data they can already access. Fieldguide names no SSO, SAML or SCIM through the customer's identity provider. SourceFieldguide, fieldguide.com/trust and fieldguide.com/products/platform/fieldguide-mcpread 2026-09-06 |
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Observability & Auditability Traces, logs, execution histories, metrics, audit events, and debugging detail for production agent behavior. |
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DenkiObservability & Auditability Every step is recorded for traceability, and the platform produces working papers with a full audit trace. An auditor and an external reviewer inspect the workpaper, so the reasoning behind each step can be reconstructed from a document the customer sees. Denki does not say whether an action log exists beyond the workpapers. SourceDenki, ycombinator.com/companies/denkiread 2026-09-06 |
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FieldguideObservability & Auditability Field Financials ties every figure to its source and flags exceptions. Field Reviewer surfaces exceptions in completed workpapers before sign off, and work returns for review at each checkpoint. Fieldguide names no run trace of an agent's steps, no audit log of agent and user actions and no export. SourceFieldguide, fieldguide.com/products/agents/field-orchestratorread 2026-09-06 |
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Deployment & Data Residency Deployment modes and options, including SaaS, dedicated cloud, VPC, on-prem, hybrid, local runtime, and self-hosting. |
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DenkiDeployment & Data Residency No hosting location is published, and Denki does not say where customer data is stored. SourceDenki, denki.ai and ycombinator.com/companies/denkiread 2026-09-06 |
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FieldguideDeployment & Data Residency Hosting is on AWS data centers in the United States, managed by Fieldguide. A Data Processing Addendum and Standard Contractual Clauses cover EU to US transfer. A customer cannot select a region or bring its own cloud, and there is no on premises or dedicated tenant option. SourceFieldguide, fieldguide.com/trustread 2026-09-06 |
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Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Ready-made workflows, packaged employees, templates, blueprints, industry solutions, and role-specific agents that reduce time-to-value. |
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DenkiPrebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs The Assurance Platform is presented as one product, with no separately named agents. SourceDenki, denki.ai and ycombinator.com/companies/denkiread 2026-09-06 |
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FieldguidePrebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Five named Field Agents (Planner, Auditor, Reviewer, Financials and Orchestrator) are sold as separate products, each doing a distinct job in the engagement. Alongside them sits a Methodology and Frameworks library of templates across SOC, HIPAA, PCI, HITRUST and ISO. SourceFieldguide, fieldguide.com/products/agents/field-orchestrator and fieldguide.com/trustread 2026-09-06 |
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Model Flexibility & Routing Ability to work across multiple foundation models, route tasks to different models, or let buyers bring their own providers and keys. |
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DenkiModel Flexibility & Routing No model provider is named for Denki's agents. SourceDenki, denki.ai and ycombinator.com/companies/denkiread 2026-09-06 |
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FieldguideModel Flexibility & Routing No customer or admin can select a model, and Fieldguide names no model provider behind its agents. It lists a limited number of subprocessors at fieldguide.com/subprocessors. SourceFieldguide, fieldguide.com/trustread 2026-09-06 |
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APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility Composability layer: stable APIs, SDKs, MCP tool consumption/serving, custom tools, and integration into internal systems. |
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DenkiAPIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility No API, SDK or MCP surface is published for Denki. SourceDenki, denki.ai and ycombinator.com/companies/denkiread 2026-09-06 |
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FieldguideAPIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility Fieldguide MCP is an MCP server through which a practitioner's own assistant, whether Copilot, Claude or OpenAI, or any MCP compatible tool, queries live engagement data and takes approved actions in Fieldguide, such as posting a comment or starting an engagement from a template. Each user's existing permissions carry over, and the call runs from outside into the platform. No endpoint, auth scheme or configuration reference is published, and there is no REST API or SDK. SourceFieldguide, fieldguide.com/products/platform/fieldguide-mcpread 2026-09-06 |
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Testing, Debugging & Optimization Testing, debugging, scoring, retries, fallbacks, quality gates, and optimization loops for improving agent workflows before and after deployment. |
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DenkiTesting, Debugging & Optimization No account of how Denki tests or improves its agents is published. SourceDenki, denki.ai and ycombinator.com/companies/denkiread 2026-09-06 |
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FieldguideTesting, Debugging & Optimization No evaluation harness, scored test cases, quality gate or optimization loop is named for testing a change to an agent. AIUC-1 is a third party attestation of Fieldguide's agents. The configurable review cadence gates each output as it comes. Fieldguide has quoted a sub one percent error rate from its own benchmark of its own product. SourceFieldguide, fieldguide.com/trust and fieldguide.com/products/agents/field-orchestratorread 2026-09-06 |
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Browser & Computer Use Browser, desktop, or remote/local computer control for workflows that cannot be handled through stable APIs alone. |
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DenkiBrowser & Computer Use Denki does not say whether its agents drive browsers or desktop applications. SourceDenki, denki.ai and ycombinator.com/companies/denkiread 2026-09-06 |
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FieldguideBrowser & Computer Use The Field Agents work over evidence, prior year files and workpapers inside Fieldguide's own platform, and outside tools reach them through Fieldguide MCP. Fieldguide names no browser, desktop or computer control. SourceFieldguide, fieldguide.com/products/agents/field-orchestrator and fieldguide.com/products/platform/fieldguide-mcpread 2026-09-06 |
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Pricing snapshot
Sourced from the Index pricing dataset · open each vendor's profile for full detail.
| Pricing | D Denki |
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
Contact for pricing | Contact for pricing |
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Pricing confidence How public the numbers are |
Contact only | Contact only |
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Billing Primary billing axis |
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Variable cost Workload / overage exposure |
Medium variable cost | Medium variable cost |
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Free tier / trial Try before you buy |
No free tier
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No free tier
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Buying motion Self-serve vs sales call |
Sales call | Sales call |
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Pricing verified When this pricing was last checked |
Product updates
Newest first, each linked to its source.
Fieldguide
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· Agent capability
The Request Analysis Agent now marks request documents that only partly satisfy the request details in yellow.
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· MCP / tool calling / API
Fieldguide introduced an MCP integration that connects its audit and advisory platform to AI tools such as Claude, Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT.
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· Security / enterprise
Fieldguide achieved FedRAMP Moderate Authorization in partnership with Knox Systems.
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