Guardial Audit Management vs OrviQ

Guardial Audit Management is a web module for internal audit planning, fieldwork, workpapers, and reporting. Audit plans bring scope, schedules, resource estimates, and a risk register together, with estimates rolling up to capacity. Preloaded templates for BSA/AML, fair lending, third-party, and IT controls combine sampling, evidence capture, and reviewer notes in one workspace. Workpapers are version-controlled, timestamped, and signed. The Findings agent drafts remediation plans from fieldwork notes for audit leads to review, adjust, and route to issue owners. Reports generated from live data include issue letters, management responses, quarterly audit committee packages, and examiner-ready PDFs. Findings also flow into Issues Home, shared across Guardial modules. The module is aimed at regulated financial services, including fintechs, nonbanks, loan servicers, community banks, credit unions, and insurance carriers. Guardial says it is built to SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 controls and provides SAML/SCIM single sign-on, role-based access, and an immutable audit log. Pricing is provided in a written proposal sized to the customer’s stage and program, scaling with modules used and program size.

OrviQ is an API and web enterprise governance, risk, and compliance platform linking regulatory requirements with internal controls and verified evidence. Its workflow moves from regulatory document ingestion and AI-assisted obligation extraction through requirement structuring, control mapping, assessment, evidence, findings, remediation, monitoring, and reporting. AI extraction remains advisory until a human reviewer accepts it. Control Assurance covers design and operating-effectiveness assessments, RCSA campaign waves, and second-line validation. Residual risk can be linked to assurance conclusions, KRI threshold breaches, and open audit findings. Modules cover regulatory compliance, risk management, findings and remediation, policy governance, audit, inspections, operational resilience, and third-party risk. The catalogue documents 20 available integrations, including Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, Azure, Microsoft 365, AWS, Google Cloud, VMware, ServiceNow, Jira, and GitHub or GitLab; Splunk and Microsoft Sentinel are planned only. Tenant isolation, centrally enforced permissions, append-only audit logs, encrypted credential storage, malware scanning, rate limiting, CSRF protection, and health checks are described. Pricing is on request and modules are licensed per tenant.