ORCA Opti vs Vanta
Vanta proves you're compliant. ORCA Opti optimises your operation.
Vanta automates compliance evidence: the checks and templates that prove your controls are in place.
ORCA Opti is an AI-native operating platform. It does not stop at proving compliance, it does the work behind it: answering your whole organisation from your own documents, and acting on what happens, onboarding, incidents, contracts, with the AI governed and your data sovereign.
The bigger picture
Proving compliance is the floor. Running it is the rest of the building.
Automated checks and templated procedures prove your controls are in place. That matters, and it is where compliance automation ends. The work itself carries on every day: onboarding people, running incidents, keeping job safety analyses, policies and contracts current, answering questions across the business. That is where the real cost and risk live, and it is what ORCA Opti is built to do. As an AI-native operating platform, it does the work and produces the proof as a by-product. Moving to ORCA Opti is not swapping one compliance tool for another. It is stepping up from proving compliance to running it.
How it works
Know. Answer. Act. Assure.
ORCA Opti is the system of record that also does the work. Four things a compliance-automation tool was never built to do.
Know
One source of truth, built from the policies, procedures and contracts you already keep in SharePoint, OneDrive and Google Workspace. No re-keying into yet another silo.
Answer
Anyone, at any level, gets answers from your own documentation, with citations they can trace, instead of guessing or chasing the one person who knows.
Act
Your SOPs run as workflows. When something happens, onboarding, an incident, a contract milestone, ORCA Opti drafts the report, updates the document and assigns the action.
Assure
Obligations are monitored continuously, and the AI doing all of this stays governed and sovereign, so what you can prove always matches what is actually true.
Grounded in the field
Where the real work begins
Proving your controls is one job. Doing the work behind them is another, and a far bigger one as AI use spreads and compliance becomes daily work. Three places that work shows up, and how ORCA Opti helps with each.
Compliance is work, not just a checklist
Every framework generates ongoing work: onboarding and offboarding, incident reports, job safety analyses, access reviews, contract milestones. Evidence tools are good at telling you what is outstanding, but someone on your team still has to do all of it, by hand, every time.
How ORCA Opti helpsORCA Opti runs those steps as workflows. When an event happens it follows your standard operating procedure, drafting the report, updating the document and assigning the action, so the work is done and the evidence is captured as a by-product.
Your source of truth already lives in your documents
Your real policies, procedures and contracts sit in SharePoint, OneDrive and Google Workspace. The value is keeping them current and answerable where they already live, not re-keying them into another platform that becomes its own silo.
How ORCA Opti helpsORCA Opti reads and updates those documents in place, and answers questions from them at any level of the organisation, with citations back to the source. One source of truth, not a second copy to maintain.
AI use and data residency are the new obligations
Staff are already using AI on company data, and customers increasingly ask where that data lives. These are now obligations in their own right, and they fall outside what compliance-automation platforms were built to watch.
How ORCA Opti helpsEvery AI interaction runs through AI Guardian, which inspects each prompt and blocks data leakage, and everything runs sovereign by design, in your region, never training external models. The work gets done, and it gets done safely.
The comparison
Vanta vs ORCA Opti
Both keep you compliant. One is the AI-native system of record that also runs the work, answers the organisation and governs your AI.
What it is for
System of record
Source of truth
Answering the organisation
Acting on what happens
Governing your team's AI use
Data residency
Commercial model
Done safely
And the AI doing the work stays accountable
Autonomous action is only worth having if you can see and trust every step. This is the layer that makes it so, four things a compliance-automation tool was never built to give you.
Source citations on every answer
Opti Assist cites the document behind each answer, so you can trace any response back to where it came from instead of taking it on faith.
Every action logged
Every question asked, every answer given and every step a workflow takes is recorded automatically, giving you a complete internal audit trail.
A human stays in the loop
Higher-stakes steps can require human sign-off before anything goes out, and the approval is recorded, so the system assists your people rather than acting unchecked.
Aligned to ISO/IEC 42001
The international standard for responsible AI management is built in from day one, not bolted on later, so your AI use stands up to auditors, primes and regulators.
FAQ
Vanta and ORCA Opti, answered
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