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How Sevaka proves security and compliance to billion-dollar super funds
“When an enterprise customer asks hard security or compliance questions, you need to answer clearly, prove it, and move on. And with AI making it easier than ever to find gaps in your platform, you need to know those gaps are covered before someone else finds them."
TL;DR
- Challenge: Sevaka needed enterprise-grade compliance to win larger deals and prove trustworthiness to billion-dollar partners, but couldn’t afford to split the focus of its team.
- Solution: Sevaka paired Vanta's MCP with Claude to accelerate compliance, used the Vanta Trust Center to handle enterprise security inquiries, and tapped Vanta's Partner Directory to reduce audit and pentesting costs.
- ROI: Reached 98% passing controls in three days of human effort; cut pentesting and audit costs by half; and built a compliance-forward approach that now answers enterprise security questions via a Trust Center link instead of a questionnaire cycle.
The company
Bringing AI-powered solutions to an industry that can't afford mistakes
Sevaka provides AI financial advisors for the superannuation industry, helping retirement funds deliver financial advice to members at scale via voice and digital channels. It's a heavily regulated environment, and members often reach out during genuine financial hardship.
The challenge
Selling to billion-dollar funds with your reputation on the line
Sevaka builds AI tools for superannuation funds managing billions of dollars, so the stakes for compliance were high. In sales conversations, hesitating to adequately answer even one security or compliance question can derail an entire deal. To maintain a strong reputation in the industry, the Sevaka team knew they needed to approach compliance the right way.
What Sevaka tried first: As a startup, Sevaka had security practices in place but no official framework.
Sevaka’s pivot point: With enterprise deals on the line and AI-powered threats making it easier to find vulnerabilities, the ability to get and prove compliance felt existential. However, as a small team focused on product delivery, dedicating time and resources to compliance competed directly with building and shipping their core product.
Why Sevaka chose Vanta: Sevaka evaluated two other compliance platforms, but co-founder and CTO Matthew Hare had used Vanta before and knew what a complete platform looked like. He needed one that integrated with Sevaka's tooling and offered a Trust Center to instantly demonstrate their security posture. Several vendors Sevaka already worked with ran Vanta Trust Centers, making the ecosystem fit with Vanta even stronger.
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The Vanta impact
Achieving 98% passing controls in days
By pairing Vanta's MCP with Claude AI, the Sevaka team built a repeatable, AI-accelerated compliance workflow that handled the heavy lifting without sacrificing ownership or accountability.
“Vanta made compliance manageable for us,” Matthew says. “It gave us a clear way to understand what was required, prove we were doing the right things, and get to a strong place quickly without taking too much focus away from building the product.”
Here’s how Sevaka deployed Vanta:
Sevaka now operates with continuous compliance visibility and a Trust Center that easily handles enterprise scrutiny. As Sevaka pursues larger fund partnerships, compliance is something Matthew can point to rather than prepare for.
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