Agentic Third-Party Risk Management

Anecdotes TPRM is an AI-driven third-party risk management solution that acts as a single source of truth for vendor onboarding, classification, evidence collection, assessment, scoring, and reassessment. Dedicated agents run the full vendor lifecycle on real evidence, so your team reviews and decides instead of chasing responses and reading reports.

It solves the slowness and unreliability of questionnaire-based vendor risk management. Traditional TPRM relies on self-attested questionnaires that take weeks to collect, are hard to verify, and drift out of date, leaving analysts buried in data entry and risk decisions resting on unverified claims. Anecdotes replaces that manual work with agents that verify vendor claims against real evidence.

Anecdotes is evidence-first and agentic by design, not a questionnaire workflow with AI layered on top. Instead of sending forms and waiting for vendors to fill them in, agents answer your security questions directly from audit reports, certifications, trust centers, and public sources. Every answer traces back to a source artifact, and every gap surfaces as a finding.

Anecdotes is question-driven, not questionnaire-driven. The underlying security questions your program asks stay in place; what goes away is the manual, self-attested questionnaire as the default way to answer them. Agents answer those same questions from verifiable evidence instead.

Anecdotes uses sources like vendors trust center and publicly available information, paired with uploaded reports, such as SOC 2 and ISO certificates. It also draws on first-party signals already available in the platform, like integration usage and uploaded documents, which add context but do not, on their own, replace independent verification.

Each vendor receives a context-aware residual risk score generated through AI reasoning rather than a fixed formula. The score reflects the vendor's actual context and your program's priorities, and every score comes with a written rationale and the full assessment detail behind it, so it is transparent and defensible to auditors and leadership.

Anecdotes connects to your existing integrations and surfaces the third parties already in use across your stack. You review the discovered list and pull approved vendors into your TPRM program with a single click, with auto-sync and deduplication keeping the inventory current.

Most teams launch a working, tiered program in hours rather than the weeks or months traditional tools require. A preset-driven Smart Setup flow loads industry-specific tiers, classification logic, and assessment questions, which you can refine manually or update with AI assistance.

Yes. Always-on agents track reassessment timelines, monitor for expired documents, and trigger reassessments automatically, on the cadence you set per tier or when key evidence and gaps change. Risk scores recalculate as evidence changes, so your vendor risk picture stays current between review cycles.

This can be setup custom, depending on the needs of the team. Agents typically handle the routine work automatically, and a focused action queue surfaces only the decisions that need human judgment, such as tier approvals, assessment calls, and exceptions. Human-in-the-loop is a deliberate design choice, so teams can add more or less review steps based on their team and workflow needs.

Yes. TPRM runs on the same Anecdotes Data Engine and risk register as your compliance program, so vendor risk and compliance live on one platform and one evidence foundation instead of in separate silos. That shared foundation gives agents the context they need and gives your team a single, connected view of risk.