Kyūdō
AI-native GRC platform · Compliance simplified

Governance that runs continuously. So compliance isn't a scramble.

Kyūdō is an AI-GRC platform that deploys inside your environment, turns your security stack into audit-ready evidence, and keeps your governance, risk and compliance current across every framework you answer to, not just the week the auditor arrives.

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Trusted by design partners in financial services, healthcare, defense, and SaaS.

○ Microsoft Defender · Sentinel · Purview · Entra ID · Azure · AWS · GCP · OCI○ 1,400+ controls · 80+ frameworks · AI Governance
The Problem with GRC Today

Your security stack delivers. Your GRC tooling doesn’t.

You’ve invested in platforms that produce real operational data. Microsoft Security, AWS, GCP, Oracle, and others. The signals are there. What’s missing is the layer that turns them into governance artifacts your auditors, regulators, and customers will accept.

Legacy GRC can’t read your environment. SaaS compliance tools pull your posture data into their cloud. The vendors who automated the old model didn’t solve the problem, they scaled it for themselves. GRC was never built to be operational, and no amount of automation changes that.

Readiness shouldn’t be summoned for an audit. It should be how the organization operates. Evidence shouldn’t just be collected. It should be continuously validated. AI can’t be relied on if it produces unsupported findings and can’t show its work. And if your security and compliance data leaves your tenant for someone else’s cloud, why should your customers trust you?

The GRC reality: disconnected sources like spreadsheets, screenshots, and vendor questionnaires, and the missing governance layer
The Governance Operating Model

Governance that operates. Compliance that proves itself.

For organizations where security readiness and compliance is not an event but a posture, Kyūdō unifies client-hosted deployment, Microsoft-native evidence, Compliance Graph reasoning, and operational AI governance in one system. Together, they are structurally defensible. Enterprise-grade governance, without enterprise drag.

This is governance as operational infrastructure. Compliance becomes the byproduct, not the destination. The audit becomes a confirmation, not an event. The board, the regulator, and the customer all encounter the same posture that exists on every other day.

Kyūdō is the drawn bow. The steady breath. The final alignment. The audit is uneventful when readiness is the operating condition.

Vector I
/deployment

Sovereignty-grade deployment

Kyūdō runs inside your Azure tenant - including the AI that reasons over your governance. Your data. Your identity plane. Your policies. No vendor access.

Vector II
/evidence

Microsoft-native evidence

Detection telemetry, identity posture, data classification, policy enforcement - your security stack already generates the signals. Kyūdō converts them into governed artifacts.

Vector III
/reasoning

Compliance Graph reasoning

Controls, evidence, risks, policies, and frameworks are typed entities in a unified graph. AI reasons over the graph. Every output is cited.

Vector IV
/ai-governance

Operational AI governance

156 AI governance controls. EU AI Act, ISO 42001, and NIST AI RMF built in. Govern the AI you deploy - using the platform that governs your controls.

What changes for your business

The business case, for fewer scrambles, clearer evidence, and governance and compliance that stays current.

For Finance and the Board

Audit costs drop. Compliance headcount stays flat as framework count grows.

Replace $80K–$250K in annual consultant fees with continuous, automated evidence. Scale from one compliance framework to four without adding headcount. When your auditor arrives, the evidence is already collected, mapped, and current.

For Sales and Revenue

Security reviews stop blocking deals.

Customer security questionnaires answered in hours, not weeks. Your Trust Center gives prospects self-service access to your compliance posture. Deals that stalled in procurement move through the pipeline.

For Risk and Legal

Your compliance evidence is current to the day, not the quarter.

Board-ready risk dashboards. Continuous control posture. When the regulator opens the file, the evidence is already true. EU AI Act, CMMC, SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001: one platform, one evidence base.

The transformation

From a broken GRC model. To continuous compliance and readiness.

Governance must transform to operational infrastructure. Readiness is the discipline of running it continuously, sovereignly, and explainably, so the moment of scrutiny is uneventful.

From · the old GRC model
To · governance operations
01Compliance as a recurring project
Readiness as a continuous discipline
02Framework-by-framework mapping
One control fabric across every framework
03Vendor-hosted trust data in someone else’s cloud
Sovereign governance inside the customer’s tenant
04AI that generates confident language
AI that explains its basis with traceable reasoning
05Microsoft Security as a data source
Microsoft Security as the truth, governed into proof
Readiness, Maintained

Six integrated modules. One Compliance Graph.

Governance is operational infrastructure, not a calendar event.

If your governance program produces a beautiful audit and a chaotic Tuesday, you don’t have governance. You have a binder. The organizations that will outperform the next decade of scrutiny treat readiness as an operating condition. Same posture on day 1 as day 360. The audit becomes uneventful because the underlying state was never in question.

You can tell the old GRC model by what it asks of you. It asks you to prepare, assemble, upload, and remediate before the auditor arrives. It asks you to do, in three weeks, what the organization should have been doing all along. The new model asks you to operate, and lets the audit happen on top of that operation without disturbing it. One is improvisation under pressure. The other is discipline under scrutiny. Don’t confuse them.

Kyūdō ships six integrated capabilities that read your environment, govern your AI portfolio, and produce the artifacts your regulators, customers, and board will actually accept.

Compliance Graph · live
ControlsEvidencePolicyRiskVendor RiskTrust
/controls

Controls Hub

The authoritative registry. Controls auto-discovered from integrations, mapped to 80+ frameworks via STRM, and scored for completeness on a 0–100 scale.

AC.L2-3.1.6 · CC6.1 · 1,247 active
/evidence

Evidence Hub

Automated collection from Microsoft Security and cloud platforms. Every artifact is a Compliance Graph entity with hash, lineage, and confidence score.

evidence://refresh · 14:22 UTC
/policy

Policy Center

AI-authored policy grounded in linked controls. Continuous gap analysis. Citation on every draft. Policy as a living entity, not a document.

AC.L2-3.1.6 · CC6.1 · 1,247 active
/risk

Risk Management

Risks linked to controls and evidence. Posture reflects live operational reality. Board-ready dashboards present exposure as a trajectory.

residual: 4.2 → 2.8
/vendor

Vendor Risk Management

Automated questionnaire handling with Compliance Graph citations. AI-scored vendor posture. Continuous monitoring, not annual review.

247 vendors · 12 high
/trust

Trust Center

Customer-facing transparency portal. Questionnaire pre-fill with citations and confidence scores. Security reviews compress from weeks to hours.

weeks → hours
How It Works

From your tenant to continuous readiness, in three steps.

Kyūdō connects to the Microsoft estate you already run. No data migration, no parallel infrastructure, no six-month implementation. Evidence starts flowing on day one.

01
Connect

Your tenant. Your data. Read-only by architecture.

Kyūdō provisions into your Azure subscription and reads the security signals your Microsoft stack already produces: Defender XDR, Sentinel, Purview, Entra ID, Azure Policy. No data leaves your environment. No vendor backend stores your evidence. No new infrastructure for your team to operate.

client-hostedzero data egressread-only telemetry
02
Map

One control set. Every framework you answer to.

Your controls, policies, and evidence map to every applicable framework through the Compliance Graph: SOC 2, ISO 27001, CMMC, HIPAA, EU AI Act, ISO 42001, NIST AI RMF, and 70+ more. Define a control once. Satisfy it everywhere. No parallel spreadsheets. No framework-by-framework rebuild when a new obligation lands.

1 control set80+ frameworksSTRM crosswalk
03
Prove

Evidence that is already true before anyone asks.

The CMCAE engine continuously scores maturity, validates evidence, and surfaces gaps between audits, not just before them. When an auditor arrives, the evidence is already collected, validated, hashed, and timestamped. Readiness becomes the steady state, not the event.

continuous scoringhashed evidencereal-time posture
The real cost of manual GRC

The cost of running GRC without an operating system.

Every quarter without continuous governance costs you in pipeline velocity, insurance premiums, team capacity, and market access. These costs compound whether you measure them or not.

Audit Cost
200–400hrs
per audit cycle

Every audit cycle starts from zero.

Without a continuous evidence layer, audit preparation consumes 200 to 400 hours per cycle. A missed audit window or material finding routinely runs $150K to $300K in remediation, re-audit fees, and consultant overruns. An enterprise deal lost to inadequate security posture carries $500K to $2M in lifetime value. The cost is not the audit itself. It’s running the audit as a project instead of a state.

With Kyūdō:Continuous evidence. Audits become reviews, not rebuilds.
Insurance Cost
20–40%
annual premium increase without continuous evidence

Insurance premiums must absorb the gap.

Underwriters now request API-level evidence of continuous monitoring, documented controls, and incident response posture. Organizations that can’t furnish this pay higher premiums, accept coverage gaps, or both. The rate increase isn’t a one-time cost. It compounds annually.

With Kyūdō:The evidence your underwriter requests already exists. Coverage improves because posture is provable, not promised.
AI Governance
Aug2026
first enforcement deadline

AI is in production. Governance is not.

AI-driven workloads are live across business units. The EU AI Act, ISO 42001, and NIST AI RMF have moved AI governance from voluntary practice to enforceable obligation. Most organizations have no centralized inventory, no risk classification, and no system of record to confirm AI governance at the board level. Existing GRC tools were not built for this.

With Kyūdō:AI governance as a native module. Inventory, risk classification, human oversight records, and audit trail — mapped to EU AI Act, ISO 42001, and NIST AI RMF from one control set.
Operational Exposure
30+days
added to deal cycle per security review

Deals stall in security review.

Enterprise prospects send vendor security questionnaires. Your team takes three weeks to assemble evidence manually. The competitor who produces a trust package in 48 hours moves to contract. The deal doesn’t die loudly. It goes quiet.

With Kyūdō:Security reviews answered in hours. Deals close on your timeline.
From Cost Center · To Capability

Kyūdō converts these costs into operating capability.

One control set. Every framework you answer to. Evidence that’s already true between audits — so readiness becomes how the organization runs, not what it scrambles for.

Who we built this for

Built for organizations whose governance and compliance must be true before anyone asks.

For environments where regulators do not accept apology as remediation: financial services, healthcare, defense, critical infrastructure, and manufacturing.

Kyūdō keeps compliance aligned, evidence connected, AI governed, and every framework in view — continuously, not just at audit time.

Regulated Enterprise
500–10,000 employees

Two or more active frameworks. Sovereignty mandates.

Two or more active frameworks. Data sovereignty mandate or procurement constraint that disqualifies multi-tenant SaaS.

Financial servicesHealthcareDefenseCritical infra.Manufacturing
Regulated enterprise
200–1,000 users

Velocity, without giving up defensibility.

Microsoft 365 and Azure standardized. First SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, or CMMC readiness program. Need velocity without giving up defensibility.

SOC 2 Type IIDE.CM-1HIPAACMMC L2NIST CSFISO 27001EU AI ActISO 42001PCI
Regulated enterprise
Managed practices

Deploy into each client tenant. Carry no vendor risk.

Deploy into each client tenant using Helm packaging. Carry no vendor risk on behalf of clients. Per-client telemetry separation by design.

Multi-tenant managementHelm-packagedPer-client telemetry
Sovereignty by design

Your tenant. Your data. No exceptions.

Self-sovereignty is not a pricing tier at Kyūdō. It is the default deployment topology. The mechanisms below are architectural, not configurable.

01
No cross-tenant data plane
Every Kyūdō service runs inside your Azure subscription. There is no path for compliance data to reach vendor infrastructure, because no such path exists in the architecture.
azure subscription · resource group
02
Private endpoints on every service
Application services, storage, Key Vault, SQL, Identity, and AI inference - every service exposes private endpoints only. Traffic never leaves the Microsoft backbone.
private endpoints · ms backbone
03
Tenant-scoped AI inference
AI operations execute on Azure OpenAI Service or other AI endpoints of your choosing within your tenant. Prompts, retrieved context, and responses do not leave your data boundary.
azure openai · in-tenant

Start where your data
already belongs
inside your tenant.

your environment · self-sovereignty maintained
Earned, not claimed

The standard Microsoft sets. The standard our customers expect.

Kyudo is built by a Microsoft-aligned security organization with co-sell designation. The credentials Microsoft requires of its security partners, MISA membership, Solutions Partner designation, Azure Marketplace transactability, are how Microsoft verifies that bar. Both standards, applied to the same architecture.

01 · Security Partner
Microsoft Solutions Partner - Security
Security · Microsoft-verified specialization
02 · MISA member
Member of Microsoft Intelligent Security Association - Verified Managed XDR Solution
Verified Managed XDR Solution
03 · Azure Marketplace
Now available on Microsoft Azure Marketplace
Transactable · co-sell eligible
04 · AICPA SOC 2
AICPA SOC 2
Type II in progress
05 · Microsoft Partner
Microsoft Solutions Partner
Solutions Partner designation
Vigilance before impact

Readiness is not a response mode.
It is the operating condition.

Kyūdō was built for organizations that want their GRC program and evidence to be true before it is requested, controls to be current before they are reviewed, and governance to operate continuously before scrutiny arrives.

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Vigilance before impact