Zania
Agentic AI platform whose domain specific agents execute security governance, risk, and compliance work end to end rather than just tracking it.
Zania is an agentic AI platform for security governance, risk, and compliance, building domain specific agents it calls AI teammates that do the compliance work itself rather than just tracking it on a dashboard. Founded in 2023 in Palo Alto by Shruti Gupta, whose leadership team previously ran AI and security roles at Microsoft, Deloitte, Bain, Airbnb, and PwC, the company raised an eighteen million dollar Series A in September 2025 led by New Enterprise Associates, with participation from Anthropic and Menlo Ventures through the Anthology Fund, Palm Drive Capital, and angels including CrowdStrike founder George Kurtz. Its bet is that GRC teams do not lack visibility, they lack leverage, and that legacy tools produce compliance theater by illuminating manual work without doing it.
The agents autonomously run end to end workflows across third party risk, internal risk, and compliance: risk assessments, evidence collection, controls testing, security questionnaires, and gap analyses, all with visible reasoning for explainability. A Gap Assessment module ingests thousands of policy and evidence files in more than eighty languages and maps them against hundreds of control requirements to surface deficiencies in a single pass. The platform covers frameworks including SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, and NIST CSF, offers a natural language Ask Zania interface, and runs on private models that do not train on customer data, with the company deepening its investment in proprietary models trained on GRC data.
Zania reports results up to thirty times faster than manual work at ninety percent lower cost with accuracy above ninety four percent, and ten times ARR growth in the six months since launch. It is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and counts Plaid, Grant Thornton, Stanford University, KPMG, and a Big Four accounting firm among early customers, with distribution alliances through Tata Consultancy Services and HCLTech. For a Fortune 500 or audit firm that wants agents to execute the grind of continuous compliance rather than another dashboard, Zania is a strong purpose built option; teams wanting a broad horizontal agent platform or customer choice of underlying model will find it deliberately narrow.
Vendor details
Canonical URL
https://zania.ai
Category
Enterprise operations agent
Subcategory
Governance, risk, and compliance
Funding status
Independent, headquartered in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2023 by Shruti Gupta. Raised an eighteen million dollar Series A in September 2025 led by New Enterprise Associates, with participation from Anthropic and Menlo Ventures via the Anthology Fund, Palm Drive Capital, and angel investors including CrowdStrike founder George Kurtz, former Airbnb head of engineering Mike Curtis, and Persistent Systems founder Anand Deshpande. Reports ten times ARR growth in six months, with customers including Plaid, Grant Thornton, Stanford University, and a Big Four accounting firm, and distribution alliances with Tata Consultancy Services and HCLTech.
Company status
independent
Use cases & customers
Primary use cases
Target customers
Deployment options
Integrations
Connects to enterprise systems of record, security tooling, and collaboration tools such as Slack to collect evidence and run controls testing, and ingests policy and evidence files in more than eighty languages. Exposes a natural language Ask Zania interface and maps findings to frameworks including SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, and NIST CSF.
In practice
Your compliance team spends months manually collecting evidence and testing controls for SOC 2 and ISO 27001 audits. Zania's agents run evidence collection and controls testing end to end, compressing that marathon into minutes with visible reasoning.
A third party vendor review means digging through breach history, policies, and controls by hand. Zania analyzes vendor controls and supply chain risk automatically and flags deficiencies mapped to your frameworks.
You have thousands of policy documents in many languages and no way to check them against every control. The Gap Assessment module ingests them across eighty plus languages and maps each to the right control to expose gaps in one pass.
Sources & related URLs
Research sources
Agentic Index coverage score
9.5 / 14 capabilities · 68%
| Integrations & Tool CallingAgents connect to enterprise systems of record, security tooling, and collaboration tools such as Slack to collect evidence and test controls across the stack, Zania docs 2026-07-07 | Full |
|---|---|
| Workflow OrchestrationDomain specific agents autonomously orchestrate complex end to end GRC workflows across third party risk, internal risk, and compliance, executing multi step work from start to finish, Zania docs 2026-07-07 | Full |
| Knowledge Grounding & RAGThe Gap Assessment module ingests thousands of policy and evidence files in more than eighty languages and maps them against hundreds of control requirements, grounded in proprietary models trained on GRC data, Zania docs 2026-07-07 | Full |
| Human Oversight & GuardrailsAgents execute with visible reasoning for explainability while elevating human experts to strategic judgment and oversight rather than removing them from the loop, Zania docs 2026-07-07 | Full |
| Security, Identity & GovernanceThe product is a security and compliance posture in itself, is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant, and runs on private models that do not train on customer data, Zania docs 2026-07-07 | Full |
| Observability & AuditabilityBuilt for audit work, the agents expose visible reasoning and traceable evidence trails so their conclusions can be reviewed and defended, Zania docs 2026-07-07 | Full |
| Memory & State PersistenceAgents run continuous compliance with an understanding of a company's unique context, but a persistent agent memory that learns per user over time is not documented as a distinct feature, Zania docs 2026-07-07 | Partial |
| Deployment & Data ResidencyDelivered as cloud SaaS with private models that do not train on customer data, though on premise or explicit multi region residency options are not documented, Zania docs 2026-07-07 | Partial |
| Prebuilt Agents, Templates & PacksShips a library of domain specific agents for risk assessment, evidence collection, controls testing, security questionnaires, and gap analysis out of the box, Zania docs 2026-07-07 | Full |
| Triggers & Channel CoverageAgents run continuous compliance and evidence collection, but a broad scheduled and event driven trigger and channel framework is not detailed beyond the Ask Zania interface, Zania docs 2026-07-07 | Partial |
| Model Flexibility & RoutingRuns on its own private and proprietary models trained on GRC data and does not expose customer choice or routing across external model providers, Zania docs 2026-07-07 | Unable to verify |
| APIs, SDKs & MCP ExtensibilityIntegrates with enterprise tools and offers a natural language interface, but a public developer SDK, MCP server, or plugin ecosystem is not documented as a first-class surface, Zania docs 2026-07-07 | Partial |
| Testing, Debugging & OptimizationEmphasizes accuracy above ninety four percent and controls testing as its domain, but a user facing agent testing, evaluation, or debugging surface is not documented, Zania docs 2026-07-07 | Partial |
| Browser & Computer UseWorks by ingesting documents and connecting to systems through integrations rather than driving a browser or operating a computer interface, Zania docs 2026-07-07 | Unable to verify |
The Agentic Index coverage score grades every vendor Full, Partial or Unable to verify against the same 14 buyer facing capabilities, from public evidence only. Each capability links to how all vendors in the index score on it. How this evidence is graded
Pricing
Not public; enterprise annual subscription quoted through sales
enterprise subscription scoped to programs and frameworks
What is public
No list pricing. Zania routes commercial terms through sales and publishes no self serve tier.
Billing mechanics
Enterprise annual subscription scoped to the GRC programs, frameworks, and agent coverage a customer needs.
Cost watchouts
Confirm whether additional frameworks, third party risk modules, or higher evidence volumes move the subscription to a higher tier.
Variable cost rationale
Sold as an enterprise subscription scoped to the customer's GRC programs and frameworks, so cost is largely fixed once sized rather than metered per action.
Additional watchouts
With no public rate, benchmark against other GRC and security compliance platforms and clarify how pricing scales with frameworks and entity count.
Sales call required
Yes, required for paid access
Free / trial
Demo on request; no public free tier
Key ambiguities
No entry rate or per seat figure is published; all pricing is quoted under sales.
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