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Anecdotes and the Evidence That Refused to Sit Still
A compliance record can be correct on Monday and wrong by Friday. Anecdotes built its business around that awkward interval - and the enterprises willing to stop treating an audit as an annual scavenger hunt.
Archer Built the Risk Register. Now It Wants to Make It Think.
The Kansas software veteran spent 25 years turning scattered audits, vendor questionnaires and risk registers into one enterprise system. Its next wager is that purpose-built AI can spot the trouble before the quarterly heat map does.
Diligent Put the Board Book on an iPad. Now It Wants the Whole Risk Business
The board portal pioneer survived an accounting-control stumble, a $624 million take-private and a decade of acquisitions. Its next trick is turning every risk signal into something a director can use before the meeting starts.
The Riskiest Supplier Is the One Whose Numbers You’ve Never Seen
RapidRatings built a business by asking private suppliers for the one thing risk databases rarely possess: their actual financial statements. Now it is trying to pair that deep view with coverage broad enough for the whole supply chain.
Workiva
Workiva is a cloud software company that turns the painful, deadline-driven work of regulatory, financial, and sustainability reporting into a connected, audit-ready process. Founded in Ames, Iowa, in 2008 as WebFilings, its platform links data, documents, and people in real time so finance, risk, audit, and ESG teams can collect, manage, and report critical business data with full version control and traceability. Today Workiva serves more than 6,000 organizations - including a large share of the Fortune 500 - and is layering agentic AI across finance, GRC, and sustainability workflows.