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Connect
Plug in your stack. Controls, evidence, vendors, and policies link into one graph as Axovern checks each one, no manual mapping.
Everything connected · Nothing buried
Compliance automation platform
Everything connected.
Nothing buried.
Get audit ready faster on one connected workspace. Controls, evidence, vendors, policies, auditors, and Trust Center share the same graph. One click. Full lineage. Proof that survives the demo.
SOC 2 Type II · ISO 27001 · HIPAA · PIPEDA · GDPR · NIST CSF · Global
1 clickquestion → full evidence chain
0 silosbidirectional links, not exports
∞ auditalways on, not a fire drill
CONTROL · CC6.1
Access reviews enforced quarterly
EVIDENCE · Okta · auto
Q2 review log · dated, signed
OWNER · S. Okafor · VENDOR · Okta
Accountable · linked both ways
AUDITOR · “show me how you prove this”
Full lineage, one click
nothing reconstructed · nothing buried
01 · Not what the incumbents built
They optimized for the dashboard.
We optimized for the question.
Legacy GRC tools were designed to look green in a board deck. Axovern was designed for the moment someone asks “show me how you prove this.” That’s when theater ends and architecture matters.
The incumbent way
✕Spreadsheet → screenshot → “we’ll send that over.”
✕Five tabs to find one control owner.
✕Audit season is a fire drill: exports and a folder named FINAL_v7_really_final.
The Axovern way
✓One workspace. Click a control: evidence, owner, policy, vendor, auditor view.
✓Hash chained audit log. Every link traverses both ways.
✓Lineage is always there, never reconstructed the night before.
02 · How it connects
From plugged in to provable in three moves.
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Prove
Every fix lands in the graph with full lineage. Open any control and the evidence, owner, and policy are already attached.
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Sell
Trust Center and the auditor portal run on the same live data. Show prospects and auditors the truth, instantly, never reconstructed.
03 · How we compare
The capabilities incumbents still split apart.
Same frameworks. The difference is whether your program is one connected graph, or a dashboard stitched to a pile of exports.
Capability
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AxovernVanta
Drata
Secureframe
OneTrust
Bidirectional lineage between every entityA real graph, not exports stitched together
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Auditor portal on your live dataScoped engagement hub, not shared folders
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Trust Center on the same evidence graphLive posture for sales, not a stale PDF library
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AI proposes, you approve before applyNo silent auto mutation of your program
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Day one gaps + weeks to audit on HomeA ranked path, not a wall of red tests
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MSP and multi client portfolioShared runbooks and multi client provisioning
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Own your data, browser or desktopHosted where you choose. Steady, not hostage.
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Based on public product docs & category positioning, June 2026. Typical configurations. See all comparisons →
04 · Why teams choose Axovern
Three things incumbents still split apart.
Guided path to audit
See gaps and weeks to audit on day one
Readiness score, ranked gaps, and a work queue on Home, not a blank program or mystery timeline. Onboarding assigns frameworks and imports 451 cross mapped controls automatically.
Audit readiness →One connected workspace
Compliance, audit, and Trust Center together
Controls, evidence, PBC, and your public Trust Center share one graph, no export scavenger hunts or stale PDF trust libraries when a prospect or auditor asks.
How it connects →Proposal gated AI
Axo proposes, you approve before apply
Ask Axo over your live program. Questionnaire drafts, control patches, and evidence mappings land in one proposals inbox with citations, nothing changes until your team approves.
Meet Axo →05 · Why it's different
Built to answer the question, not just pass the demo.
A green dashboard looks reassuring, until an auditor asks how. That’s the moment most programs become a scavenger hunt. Axovern answers instantly, because nothing was ever buried.
When things just sit in silos
✕Evidence in one tab, the control in another, the vendor in a third. You hold the connections in your head.
✕A dashboard that looks great, until someone opens the hood and asks for lineage.
✕Audit season is a fire drill: exports, screenshots, a folder named FINAL_v7.
✕Click five times to find the thing. Five more to find what it’s related to.
When everything connects
✓Every entity is a real destination. Open a control, and its evidence, owner, policy, and vendor are right there.
✓Relationships are genuine and bidirectional. Follow any thread either direction, nothing dead ends.
✓Audit season becomes ongoing dialogue. The lineage is always there, never reconstructed.
✓One question, one click. The whole picture surfaces, at your fingertips.
06 · Platform depth
Built different. Built to prove it.
The graph is the product
Every entity is a destination
Open a vendor, a control, or a policy, you’re home. Related evidence, owners, risks, and auditors are already there. No module hopping, no dead ends.
Auditor experience
PBC without the scramble
Scoped auditor hub, sample requests, and evidence packages, on the same data your team uses daily.
For auditors →Trust Center
GTM on live posture
Embeddable score badges, NDA tiers, analytics, prospects see truth, not a stale PDF.
Trust Center →Continuous monitoring
Tests that stay honest
Integration backed control tests; failing checks become owned work, and readiness reflects reality, not last quarter’s snapshot.
AI with citations
DDQ drafts you can defend
Questionnaire answers tied to evidence and controls, not hallucinated boilerplate.
Yours to own
Browser or desktop, hosted where you choose
Your workspace, your record. Canada and US data planes, global access. We hold it steady, not hostage.
app.axovern.comWindows desktop
07 · Who it's for
Built for teams, and the firms that serve them.
Startups
First SOC 2
Gap analysis, a week one playbook, and 63 seeded controls, audit ready without spreadsheet sprawl.
First SOC 2 →Audit firms
For auditors
Scoped engagements, PBC workflows, and auditor.axovern.com, collaboration without shadow copies.
Auditor partners →MSPs
MSP portfolio
Operator portfolio, shared runbooks, and multi client provisioning on one platform.
MSP partners →Compliance used to be a season.
Now it’s a currency.
FAQ
Common questions.
What is Axovern?+
Axovern is a compliance automation platform: one workspace for controls, evidence, policies, vendors, auditors, and your public Trust Center. Axo, the built in AI copilot, inspects your live program and drafts questionnaires or control updates as proposals, nothing changes until your team approves.
How does Axovern help teams get audit ready faster?+
Home shows a readiness score, ranked gaps, and a weeks to-audit estimate. Framework templates import on day one, integration backed tests attach evidence automatically, failing controls become owned work, and auditors collaborate on the same data, not exports rebuilt at the last minute.
Which compliance frameworks does Axovern support?+
SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001:2022, HIPAA Security Rule, PIPEDA, PCI DSS v4, NIST CSF 2.0, and GDPR, cross mapped so one control implementation and one piece of evidence can satisfy multiple frameworks.
Does Axovern support Canadian privacy law and PIPEDA?+
Yes. Axovern supports PIPEDA aligned privacy program controls alongside SOC 2, ISO 27001, and GDPR. Canadian teams can provision a Canada data region at onboarding. See axovern.com/pipeda/ and axovern.com/compliance-canada/ for framework and regional detail.
Does Axovern serve teams in Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver, and other Canadian cities?+
Yes. Axovern serves organizations and MSPs across Canada and the United States, including Toronto, Hamilton, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, and Ottawa, with the same hosted product at app.axovern.com and optional Canada data residency.
How is Axovern different from Vanta or Drata?+
All three automate evidence and monitoring. Axovern adds engagement scoped auditor collaboration at auditor.axovern.com, Trust Center on the same evidence graph, MSP portfolio tools, bidirectional lineage between every entity, and AI that proposes changes you approve before apply, not silent auto mutations.
Where is customer data stored?+
Hosted workspaces are provisioned in a United States or Canada data region when your account is created. Primary program data (controls, evidence, audit logs, and integration tokens) stays in that region. Some optional features, such as transactional email or AI, may use subprocessors listed on axovern.com/sub-processors/. We do not offer EU only hosting today.
Can we switch from Vanta, Drata, or another GRC tool?+
There is no one click import from another vendor today. Most teams run a short parallel period: activate framework templates in Axovern, reconnect integrations for live evidence, upload key artifacts, and retire the prior tool after the next audit milestone. Mention your current platform on the demo form and we will outline a practical cutover plan.
Ready when the question comes.
The next time someone asks “can you show me?” you won’t rebuild the answer. It’ll already be connected, already there.