From manual to intelligent: How the Vanta AI Agent transforms compliance work

Since the launch of the Vanta AI Agent, teams using the Vanta AI Agent are saving an average of four hours a week—time they can reinvest in building, shipping, and scaling securely.

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According to a recent Vanta customer survey, 91% of Vanta AI Agent users say it’s improved their audit readiness, and 86% report faster audit preparation overall. Teams had less manual work, fewer last-minute scrambles, and more time to focus on meaningful security improvements.

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“Vanta isn’t just talking about AI—they’re building it in ways that genuinely deliver value to my team. As a small but mighty group at a company set to double in size, we need tools that help us scale without adding complexity. Vanta’s new agentic capabilities are unlocking a level of efficiency and scalability we simply couldn’t achieve before.”

 - Braden Pitts, CISO & SVP, Enterprise Technology, MJ Companies

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The Vanta AI Agent

The Vanta AI Agent works across the Vanta platform—drafting policies, completing questionnaires, and flagging risks before they escalate. Powered by context and memory, the Vanta AI Agent understands your environment end-to-end—anticipating what’s next, providing proactive, personalized guidance, and keeping your program in sync without the busywork.

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Instant, expert answers: The Vanta AI Agent knows your environment and frameworks—delivering accurate, well-cited answers to any question, whether you’re just starting or scaling globally.

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A second set of eyes: Instantly validate evidence and documentation, ensuring you’re always audit-ready—without the last-minute scramble.

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Frictionless onboarding: Forget hours of mapping policies to controls. The Vanta AI Agent pulls titles, SLAs, and versioning from your uploaded policies and recommends the right controls, automatically.

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Faster remediation: Help developers resolve issues quickly by generating personalized remediation snippets for Terraform, AWS CLI, and CloudFormation.

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Questionnaires in seconds: Automate questionnaires from start to finish and equip sales and security teams with ready-to-share answers—reducing manual effort and closing deals faster.

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Policies that stay in sync: Draft and edit your policies, and align your written policies with what’s actually happening across systems, flagging inconsistencies before they cause issues.

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Automated evidence collection: Automatically collect and validate evidence, eliminating one of the most time-consuming and error-prone parts of audit prep.

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Proactive vendor risk monitoring: Streamline vendor oversight from discovery and due diligence through continuous monitoring, surfacing high-priority alerts so teams can focus where it matters most.

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These capabilities translate to real outcomes—80% of Vanta AI Agent users say the technology has improved the accuracy of their compliance programs, while early data shows teams onboard policies 38% faster using AI-powered imports.

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By extending these gains with Vanta AI, organizations accelerate every stage of their compliance lifecycle—from readiness to continuous monitoring—without adding headcount.

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"The Vanta AI Agent complements my team's expertise by filling in knowledge gaps, helping us learn faster, and double-checking critical information—ultimately saving us 12 hours weekly. And in our organization, time is money."
- Anne Simpson, Head of Privacy, Security & Compliance, Databook‍

Vanta AI Agent is helping teams work smarter by redefining what efficient, audit-ready operations look like. Teams using the Vanta AI Agent are seeing measurable results:

• Users save up to four hours each week by automating evidence collection and streamlining policy management
• 91% of users say Vanta AI has improved their audit readiness, making every review cycle faster and less stressful
• 86% report faster audit preparation, turning weeks of manual work into days
• 80% have improved the accuracy of their compliance programs, reducing errors and rework
• 38% faster policy onboarding with AI-powered imports, helping teams scale programs without adding headcount

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Build safely and responsibly

At Vanta, safe AI isn’t optional—it’s crucial. We build with the same rigor we help customers achieve. Vanta is among the first companies certified under ISO 42001, the global standard for responsible AI management. And we look to help our customers do the same but supporting ISO 42001, NIST AI RMF, and the EU AI Act. 

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Every part of Vanta AI is designed for security, transparency, and control:

• Secure architecture: All communication with third-party models happens through encrypted APIs
  Strict data governance: We maintain formal Data Processing Agreements (DPAs) to ensure no customer data is ever used for model training
• Private deployments: Sensitive workloads are processed on internally hosted LLMs within Vanta’s controlled cloud environment
• Trust by design: Transparency, auditability, and continuous governance are built into every layer

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Together, these capabilities let teams move faster, stay compliant, and innovate safely—transforming AI into a competitive advantage.

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“Vanta AI has helped our team by reducing questionnaire response time by 50%”
-  Anna Guillot, Information Security Specialist, TravelPerk

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Get the Vanta AI Agent advantage

With the Vanta AI Agent, you can get ahead by automating the repetitive, accelerating your strategy, and giving your team back the time to focus on building trust at the speed of your business.

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Request a demo with our sales team to learn more about what Vanta’s new AI agent can do for you.