Subcategory · AI Citation Index

GRC Platforms

ServiceNow GRC, Drata, and Vanta dominate AI shortlists; compliance automation vendors rising as legacy IRM suites slip.

170 discovery queries · 429 head-to-heads · refreshed Jun 10, 2026

Discovery stage

The shortlist

Across 170 buyer-style "GRC Platforms" queries

ServiceNow GRC leads with a 61.8% shortlist rate across 105 prompt appearances, followed tightly by Vanta (58.2%, 270 mentions) and Drata (58.2%, 262 mentions). All three draw from all four AI models tested. LogicGate and AuditBoard round out the top five, each landing on 98 and 97 shortlists respectively, while legacy RSA Archer falls to eighth despite 89 appearances.

6%14%22%30%39%Coverage — share of discovery prompts where the brand surfaces68%73%78%83%88%Engine diversity

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X = coverage across discovery prompts · Y = engine diversity · Bubble size = total mentions
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Signal by intent

By topic

Top 5 most-cited brands per intent cluster. Brands with zero citations in a topic are not shown.

1LogicGate
9/9
2StandardFusion
9/9
3Vanta
9/9
4Drata
9/9
5AuditBoard
9/9
1LogicGate
7/7
2LogicManager
7/7
3Vanta
7/7
4ServiceNow
7/7
5Drata
7/7
1Vanta
5/5
2Drata
5/5
3Sprinto
5/5
4Secureframe
5/5
5Default
5/5
1Drata
5/5
2Vanta
5/5
3Secureframe
5/5
4ServiceNow GRC
4/5
5POINT
3/5
1Vanta
5/5
2Drata
5/5
3Secureframe
5/5
4ServiceNow GRC
4/5
5Sprinto
4/5
1Drata
5/5
2Vanta
5/5
3LogicGate
5/5
4ServiceNow GRC
5/5
5ServiceNow
5/5
1Drata
5/5
2Vanta
5/5
3LogicGate
5/5
4AuditBoard
5/5
5Diligent
5/5
1ServiceNow GRC
5/5
2ServiceNow
5/5
3MetricStream
5/5
4IBM Datacap
5/5
5RSA Archer
5/5
≥50% cited
25–49%
<25%
Topics are discovery-stage prompt clusters · grc-platforms

Evaluation stage

Head-to-head

How often AI cites each brand across uniform category evaluation prompts · median 10/100

Head-to-head evaluations cluster tightly: Archer, ServiceNow GRC, Drata, and AuditBoard each average 57 points across 38 comparison queries. Vanta, LogicGate, and MetricStream trail by two points at 55. The median category score sits at just 10, underscoring that most of the 22 vendors rarely surface in direct AI-driven comparisons.

0255075100Evaluation citation rate — % of category evaluation prompts citing this brand010192938Evaluation prompts cited inmedian citation ratemedian exposure

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X = evaluation citation rate · Y = evaluation prompts cited in · Bubble size = citation exposure
Median citation rate 10/100

Each brand's score is the share of category evaluation prompts where AI cited them across all four engines — the same prompt pool for every brand. Brands above the median citation rate have stronger presence in evaluation-stage queries.

Citation sources

Where AI pulls citations from

947 citations captured across GRC Platforms prompt runs.

Vendor pages

471

Product, help, and marketing pages from tracked vendors

Independent sources

284

Reviews, encyclopedias, forums, press — not vendor-owned

Buyer questions

What AI cites for top GRC Platforms questions

Most-cited prompts across the buyer journey. Click any prompt to see the actual URLs AI engines link to.

Discovery

Buyers exploring the category

Evaluation

Buyers comparing options

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