Trust at the Speed of AI: How Drata and its Customers Are Shaping the Future of Governance, Risk, and Compliance
Turning GRC from a defensive necessity into a proactive driver of business success.
When Daniel, Troy, and I started Drata, it wasn’t just a company—it was a solution to a pain we’d experienced firsthand. Compliance, especially for SOC 2, was slow, manual, and deeply frustrating. But from the beginning, we envisioned Drata as more than just a compliance tool. Our goal was to create a platform that could transform the burden of compliance into a strategic enabler for businesses—with automation and AI at its core.
AI in the Product: The Heartbeat of Drata’s Platform
AI is not an afterthought at Drata—it’s foundational. Early on, we embedded AI into our platform to automate evidence collection, streamline SOC 2 compliance, and enable continuous compliance monitoring. These weren’t superficial add-ons; they were designed to proactively identify risks, eliminate manual errors, and free up resources for our customers.
As Drata expanded from a single-product solution to a multi-product platform, we embraced a bigger vision: transforming GRC from a cost center into a revenue accelerator. Our platform is purpose-built to reduce inefficiencies, automate compliance workflows, and help customers provide assurance to close business faster, so they can earn trust, remove sales friction, and scale with confidence.
Key innovations include:
AI-generated SOC 2 summaries and Vendor Risk Management, which extract actionable insights from complex reports.
AI-powered Questionnaire Automation, leveraging Trust Center content to answer security questions accurately and at scale.
Automated evidence collection and continuous compliance monitoring, giving customers real-time visibility into their security and compliance posture.
Here in Q2, we’re launching AI-powered search, Chrome extension, policy-control mapping, and automated cloud control tests.
These are not standalone features—they are evidence of Drata’s DNA as an AI-native platform, built to deliver continuous, intelligent trust management for our customers. AI is rewriting the rules of trust management, and Drata is leading a massive transformation that will reshape how every company approaches Governance, Risk, and Compliance.
AI in Our Operations: How Drata Works, Every Day
AI drives how we operate as a company. From engineering to marketing, sales to customer success, and finance to HR, AI powers our workflows to deliver faster, higher-quality, and more innovative solutions.
In engineering, AI helps us build scalable, high-quality solutions with faster release cycles.
In marketing, AI ensures targeted, timely content delivery that meets our customers’ needs.
In sales and customer success, AI enables us to be present for customers whenever they need us.
In finance and operations, AI streamlines processes, enhances compliance, and improves forecasting.
This is not just a cultural commitment—it’s how we work, every day, to help our customers build trust and stay ahead.
AI for Our Customers: Enabling Ethical, Secure, and Scalable AI
Drata’s mission extends to helping customers build and govern AI responsibly. We enable our customers to align with the evolving AI standards and regulations, while scaling securely.
We provide:
Support for frameworks like ISO 42001 and NIST AI RMF, helping customers demonstrate AI governance readiness.
Pre-built policies, risk scenarios, evidence collection, and automated compliance workflows to reduce manual overhead and prepare for audits.
Private-tenant architecture by design, ensuring every customer’s data is isolated, secure, and never shared – peace of mind in the AI era.
A dedicated auditor portal and automated tests that empower proactive risk management and continuous control monitoring, from code to pipeline to production.
This is Drata’s commitment: to enable customers to build AI solutions with security, integrity, and confidence.
Trust Meets AI: A New Era for Drata and Its Customers
Today, we stand at a pivotal moment where trust management and AI converge. Drata is proud to lead the way as the industry’s fully AI-native Trust Management platform, trusted by over 7,500 companies globally, including more than 30% of the Cloud 100.
This journey isn’t about Drata—it’s about these incredible companies we serve. Together with our customers, we’re building a future where compliance and risk management become enablers of growth and innovation, not barriers.
Our mission is bold and clear: to become the de facto platform for continuous, automated trust management—turning GRC from a defensive necessity into a proactive driver of business success.
