Category · AI Citation Index
Risk, Compliance & GRC
ServiceNow and OneTrust dominate GRC shortlists; emerging compliance-automation vendors Vanta and Drata trail legacy platforms by 10+ points.
743 discovery queries · 1,110 head-to-heads · refreshed Sep 28, 2026
Discovery stage
The shortlist
Across 743 buyer-style "Risk, Compliance & GRC" queries
ServiceNow and OneTrust Tech Risk & Compliance command the top two slots, appearing in 57–59% of 743 prompts with model-diversity scores of 4. LogicGate, MetricStream, Vanta, AuditBoard, and Drata cluster in the 49–54% shortlist-rate band, while RSA Archer registers dual entries at 48–49% but scores only 35. The 180-brand consensus pool shows a fragmented market with no breakaway leader beyond the ServiceNow–OneTrust duopoly.
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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.
Evaluation stage
Head-to-head
How often AI cites each brand across uniform category evaluation prompts · median 3/100
Head-to-head queries favor AuditBoard and ServiceNow GRC (both 66, 102 comparisons) over OneTrust (64, 99 comparisons) and MetricStream and LogicGate (both 63, 97 comparisons). Vanta scores 59 across 91 queries—11 points below AuditBoard despite similar shortlist rates. The 176-brand median evaluation score of 3 signals that most vendors fail to meet enterprise feature expectations when directly compared.
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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.
Trends
Over the last 12 months
Six months of trend data show erratic sample sizes (7–30 prompts/month) and wide score swings: 67 in April 2026, 4 in August. ServiceNow climbed 13 points month-over-month; Vanta dropped 5. Treat these deltas cautiously—small denominators amplify noise.
Brands to know
In this category
ServiceNow
Dual shortlist entries and a 13-point upward trend cement ServiceNow as the platform incumbent. Its 71 score and 60+ evaluation average reflect breadth across IT service management and GRC workflows.
Read brand profile →OneTrust Tech Risk & Compliance
OneTrust leads shortlist frequency at 59.3% and scores 67, yet its 64 evaluation average trails AuditBoard. Privacy-first positioning may constrain head-to-head risk-management appeal.
Read brand profile →AuditBoard
AuditBoard ties for the highest evaluation score (66) despite a 49.8% shortlist rate. Internal-audit and SOX-compliance buyers rank it ahead of broader GRC suites in feature depth.
Read brand profile →Vanta
Vanta appears in 50.9% of prompts but scores 59 in evaluations—7 points below AuditBoard—and is falling 5 points in monthly trends. Compliance-automation focus limits enterprise GRC appeal.
Read brand profile →MetricStream
MetricStream's 1,003 mentions (highest in the top five) and 53.6% shortlist rate yield only a 54 overall score. Legacy architecture and integration complexity drag評価 performance.
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Where AI pulls citations from
1000 citations captured across Risk, Compliance & GRC prompt runs.
Vendor pages
323Product, help, and marketing pages from tracked vendors
Independent sources
240Reviews, encyclopedias, forums, press — not vendor-owned
Buyer questions
What AI cites for top Risk, Compliance & GRC questions
Most-cited prompts across the buyer journey. Click any prompt to see the actual URLs AI engines link to.
Discovery
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Evaluation
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