Every audit is uneventful because readiness was never in question.
Kyūdō replaces $150K to $400K in distributed compliance labor with a platform that collects evidence, scores risk, and reports to your board automatically, inside your Azure tenant.
When your auditor asks how the AI reached its conclusion, the system shows them.
The Compliance Graph, Kyūdō's relationship layer connecting controls, evidence, risks, policies, and vendors, reasons with confidence scoring and full provenance. Not AI bolted onto a database. Intelligence designed to explain itself under scrutiny.
Compliance Graph Core
Controls, evidence, risks, policies, and vendors exist as connected entities, not isolated records. AI traverses relationships to surface insights.
Evidence-Grounded Reasoning
Every AI response cites actual controls, collected evidence, and policy documents. No hallucinations: only what’s provable in your environment.
Human-in-the-Loop
AI reduces cognitive load. It doesn’t replace accountability. Every significant decision requires human approval with full audit trail.
Microsoft Security produces the operational truth. Kyūdō turns it into continuously governed, audit-defensible proof.
Kyūdō reads your Microsoft Security estate natively, read-only and managed-identity authenticated. Each signal converts into control evidence with lineage, confidence scoring, and deterministic retrieval.
Defender, Sentinel, Purview, Entra, and Azure Policy emit the operational truth of your environment.
Signals convert into governed control evidence with lineage, confidence scoring, and citations.
Continuously validated, audit-defensible proof is available the moment anyone asks.
The competency tier Microsoft sellers require before co-selling.
One of fewer than 400 ISVs invited into Microsoft’s security ecosystem.
Procurable on existing Azure agreements and MACC-decrementable.
Missions, not workflows. Completion, not activity.
Your team launches a mission (scope a framework, close evidence gaps, prepare an audit package) and the system guides them to completion. Not a dashboard to stare at. A system that runs.
- Mission templates for common GRC objectives
- Cross-module orchestration without context switching
- Progress tracking with clear completion criteria
- Stakeholder assignment and accountability
Six modules. One evidence base. Zero rework.
Controls mapped across 80+ frameworks. Evidence collected continuously from live telemetry. Policies traced to the frameworks they satisfy. Risk quantified as a position, not a number in a cell.
Controls Hub
Every control in your organization: mapped, scored, and linked to live evidence. Defined once, maintained across 80+ frameworks simultaneously.
- Control definition with regulatory language
- Multi-framework mapping (SCF-based)
- Maturity scoring and progression tracking
- Gap detection and remediation guidance
Compliance Automation
Evidence that stays current because the system maintains it, not because someone remembered to update a screenshot. Continuous collection from your Microsoft Security stack.
- Microsoft Security integration (Defender, Purview, Sentinel)
- Evidence freshness and validity tracking
- Automated control testing
- Drift detection and alerting
Risk Management
Risk as a position in a structure that can be interrogated, not a number in a cell. Board-ready exposure tracked as trajectory, not snapshot.
- Risk identification and categorization
- Quantified impact assessment
- Treatment workflows (mitigate, accept, transfer)
- Risk-to-control mapping
Vendor Risk Management
Vendor risk that is operationally measurable, not just administratively tracked. AI-powered questionnaire handling with Compliance Graph citations.
- Vendor inventory and tiering
- AI-assisted questionnaire completion
- Continuous monitoring integration
- Contract and SLA tracking
Policy Pilot
Policies that trace to the controls they support and the frameworks they satisfy. Version-controlled, attestation-tracked, continuously analyzed for gaps.
- AI-assisted policy drafting
- Version control and approval workflows
- Policy-to-control mapping
- Distribution and acknowledgment tracking
Trust Center
Customer security reviews that took weeks now take hours. A transparency portal that proves your posture instead of describing it.
- Public and gated artifact sharing
- Questionnaire responses drafted by Sensei with Compliance Graph citations
- Real-time compliance status
- Branded customer portal
Intelligence you can explain to an auditor.
Most GRC platforms that claim AI cannot answer a simple question: how did the system reach this conclusion? Kyūdō can, with confidence scoring, provenance metadata, and the Compliance Graph reasoning chain that produced every output.
Compliance Graph Reasoning
AI traverses the Compliance Graph to identify control gaps, evidence staleness, and risk correlations that manual review would miss. Every recommendation links back to specific graph relationships.
Confidence Scoring
Every AI output includes a confidence score with full provenance. You see exactly which evidence, controls, and policies informed the recommendation, and where certainty is low.
Sensei AI Advisor
Natural language interface to your compliance data. Ask questions like “Which controls are failing for SOC 2?” and get answers grounded in your actual evidence, not generic templates.
Continuous Learning
AI models improve as your compliance program matures. Evidence collection patterns, control mapping accuracy, and risk assessments all sharpen over time, within your data boundary.
What changes for your bottom line
Quantified outcomes, not feature lists.
Reduction in manual compliance effort through continuous evidence automation
Faster audit readiness with always-current evidence and gap detection
Data sovereignty with customer-hosted Azure deployment option
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Questions, answered
Kyūdō manages governance, risk, and compliance from a single control set. You define a control once, and the Secure Controls Framework crosswalk maps it across every framework you have activated, so overlapping requirements are satisfied together instead of one framework at a time. Controls are continuously tested against live Microsoft Security, AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle, and other integrated security signals, each with an owner, status, and linked evidence. The result is an always-current controls posture rather than a spreadsheet refreshed before each audit.
Kyūdō collects compliance evidence continuously and automatically from your Microsoft Security estate, including Defender, Sentinel, Purview, Entra ID, and Azure Policy. Each artifact is captured inside your Azure tenant, time-stamped, and sealed with a cryptographic chain of custody that records where it came from and when. Because collection is continuous, evidence is already current when an auditor asks, removing the manual screenshots and point-in-time pulls compliance teams usually scramble to assemble. Nothing is exported to a vendor to make this work.
Yes. Kyūdō includes third-party and vendor risk management (TPRM/VRM) as part of the platform, not as a separate product. You can inventory vendors, send and score assessments, track risk over time, and link vendor findings to the same controls and frameworks the rest of your program uses. Because it runs on one Compliance Graph, third-party risk shares context with your internal controls and evidence, so a single change in posture is reflected everywhere it matters.
Kyūdō provides enterprise risk management with a live risk register connected to your controls and evidence. Risks can be scored, assigned owners, linked to mitigating controls, and tracked as their status changes, with the supporting Microsoft Security signals attached. Because risk shares the same Compliance Graph as compliance and vendor data, a weakening control automatically surfaces as elevated risk, so the register reflects reality continuously instead of being rebuilt for a quarterly review.
Kyūdō governs the AI systems your organization deploys, mapping the EU AI Act, ISO 42001, and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework into one Compliance Graph. You can inventory AI systems, classify their risk, assign controls, and collect governance evidence continuously inside your tenant. Because cyber GRC and AI governance run on the same platform, the controls that protect your data also feed your AI-governance posture, rather than living in a separate tool. Human reviewers stay in the loop for consequential decisions.
Yes. Kyūdō manages the full policy lifecycle: authoring, review, approval, publication, attestation, and versioning. Policies are linked directly to the controls and frameworks they support, so when a control changes, the related policy and its attestations are easy to keep current. Keeping policy, controls, and evidence in one system means an auditor can trace a requirement from the written policy to the live control to the underlying Microsoft Security signal without leaving the platform.
Yes. Kyūdō includes a Trust Center, a controlled portal where you share your security and compliance posture with customers, prospects, and auditors. You decide what is public and what is gated, publishing current evidence, certifications in progress, and framework coverage drawn from live data rather than a static PDF. Because the Trust Center reads from the same continuously updated Compliance Graph, what you show externally stays consistent with what your team manages internally.
Kyūdō produces reporting tailored to three audiences: auditors, who need evidence with provenance and chain of custody; boards and executives, who need posture and risk trends; and regulators, who need framework-specific control status. Reports draw from continuously collected data inside your tenant, so they reflect current state rather than a point-in-time snapshot. Evidence artifacts can be rendered as defensible, time-stamped records, which shortens the gap between a request for proof and a complete, traceable answer.
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