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About Guardial

Built by GRC practitioners for the financial-services teams who live the work.

Guardial’s founders spent decades running compliance, risk, and technology programs inside fintechs, lenders, and banks. In all that time, they never used a piece of GRC software that didn’t fight them. So they built their own. Guardial is AI-native compliance infrastructure that stands up a program in weeks and retires the spreadsheets and review bottlenecks that used to be the job.

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2022
Founded, and built for regulated financial services
AI-native
Compliance infrastructure with agents built into every workflow
Weeks
A real program stood up from a working starting point
Decades
Built by operators with deep compliance, risk, and technology experience
The Manifesto
One paragraph
An open note

We used every GRC platform on the market, as customers. None of them were built for us.

So we built Guardial. It’s the AI-native compliance infrastructure a working compliance team would design, with agents built into every workflow and years of examiner conversations behind it.

It retires the spreadsheets and review bottlenecks that used to define the job. As a result, a lean team can ship a real program in weeks and walk into an exam without a binder.

The Guardial founders
The Principles, in Writing
Six rules

The rules we
refuse to break.

We write these down because principles you don’t write down get re-litigated every quarter. The platform and the contract enforce them, and so does our hiring bar.

  • A starting point you own.

    The playbooks, requirements, and records we pre-load give you a working baseline. So day one starts from a real program you refine, instead of one you build from nothing.

  • AI-native from day one.

    Agents work inside the workflows themselves. They take over the manual entry and the review bottlenecks that used to be the job.

  • Practitioners, not theorists.

    The team building this ran the programs first. So we build the workflows we actually lived.

  • Financial services, by choice.

    We stay focused instead of shipping general-purpose GRC for every industry. That focus is why the first conversation never starts with a generic discovery deck.

  • Cloud-native, end to end.

    Guardial ships with single sign-on (SAML/SCIM), role-based access, and an immutable audit log out of the box. Everything runs through a single user store and a single identity model.

  • Reviewed and reversible.

    The platform logs every action, and your team can review or reverse anything an agent does. The trail is the contract, and it never overwrites history.

Practitioners, not Theorists
the team

The people behind
the platform.

Decades of operating experience across the disciplines Guardial touches. We hire people who have sat in the seat, so the platform works the way practitioners actually work.

  • Compliance & Legal

    30+ years leading compliance and legal functions inside global financial institutions and consumer lenders.

  • Risk & GRC Product

    Decades building GRC programs and products, from risk assessments to controls to board reporting.

  • Banking & Fintech

    Careers spent inside banks and high-growth fintechs, on both the operating and go-to-market side.

  • Technology & Security

    A repeat software founder with deep information- security and platform engineering experience.

The Last Word

Built by the people
who had to use it.

Give us twenty minutes. Then we come back with a proposal sized to your stage and regulators, plus a live agent walkthrough on your data shapes.

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