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For the sixth year in a row, Chartis Research has named Aravo a Category Leader in its RiskTech Quadrant for Third-Party Risk Management Solutions. The recognition sits inside Chartis’s Integrated Governance, Resilience and Compliance report, which evaluates the vendors that offer core GRC technology, and it marks the sixth straight year we have held the top position in the TPRM category specifically.
This year we added native AI agents to our Intelligence First™ Platform and rebuilt the layer people touch every day. Both moves point to where TPRM technology is headed: past software that stores risk data, toward software that helps people act on it, correctly and quickly, without a learning curve.
Most AI added to TPRM stacks sits outside the systems risk teams use. It can’t see the underlying data, so its output arrives without context and without a clear path back to how it got there. That’s a hard sell in a discipline where every decision has to be held up in front of an auditor, a regulator, or a board.
That’s why at Aravo, we’ve built our AI capabilities into the platform itself rather than simply bolting them on top. The result is a system where automation and human judgment draw from the same data, so a recommendation can always be traced back to the record that produced it.
And we’re already seeing the impact of that approach in real-world TPRM programs. In one financial services use case, Aravo AI cut a financial risk review from 4–6 hours to about three minutes, helping the organization support 22,800+ new third parties a year without adding staff. In another, AI-assisted questionnaire validation caught 80%+ of submission issues before review, helping teams complete questionnaires 30–40% faster and reduce reject-and-resubmit cycles by 50–70%.
Aravo AI runs directly inside TPRM workflows in two modes, rather than sitting off to the side as a separate tool:
Teams that want more control can build or adjust their own agents in AI Studio, including choosing which large language models power them. Every agent draws on Aravo’s governed system of record, and every output can be reviewed, challenged, or overridden, with the underlying data and sources visible behind each recommendation.
That’s what keeps the system defensible: a team can explain a decision the same way they’d explain one they made themselves. Visit our Aravo AI page for more details on how the agents work.
Intelligence only pays off if the people who need it use it, and most TPRM users aren’t full-time risk professionals. Procurement staff, business owners, and vendor managers touch the platform occasionally, often under deadline, and a complex interface built for risk specialists slows them down or gets bypassed entirely.
It’s precisely the problem that the Aravo Experience Framework was built to solve. A human-centered layer personalizes the platform by role and context, and embeds AI directly into everyday workflows, so a procurement lead sees a guided, relevant task list instead of a full risk console. The goal is fewer steps between a question and an answer, for everyone who touches the platform, not just the risk team.
What Sets Aravo’s Intelligence First™ Platform Apart from Other TPRM Software?
Aravo pairs a structured system of record with embedded workflows shaped by more than 25 years of enterprise use. That combination lets organizations manage large, complex networks of third and Nth parties without stitching together separate tools for onboarding, assessment, monitoring, and reporting.
The platform now serves more than 9 million third-party users and more than 800,000 corporate users across 195 countries, spanning risk domains from cybersecurity and ESG to data privacy and financial integrity.
Part of that structure is the Evaluate Engine, which gives risk teams direct control over how vendors are scored. Teams build custom scoring models tied to their own internal policy, adjust risk tiers as programs mature, and compare risk across domains over time, so trends and outliers surface as they happen instead of showing up months later in a review.
With Aravo, teams can:
Chartis names Category Leaders based on completeness of offering and market potential. For a team evaluating TPRM technology today, the analyst placement is a good starting point to help their decision-making. Other useful questions buyers should ask are whether a platform’s AI is embedded and auditable, and whether the people who use it daily can do so without friction. That’s the bar we built this year’s platform updates to meet, and it’s the bar the rest of the category will be measured against going forward.
What is the Chartis RiskTech Quadrant? The Chartis RiskTech Quadrant is an independent analyst assessment that evaluates risk technology vendors on completeness of offering and market potential. Vendors named Category Leaders demonstrate both strong current product capability and a credible strategy for future growth.
What does it mean that Aravo is a Category Leader in TPRM? Chartis Research has independently evaluated Aravo’s third-party risk management technology each year of recognition and placed it in the Category Leader position of the RiskTech Quadrant, based on both the depth of the platform and Aravo’s strategy for the market.
What is Aravo’s Intelligence First™ Platform? The Intelligence First™ Platform is Aravo’s core TPRM software. It combines a structured system of record, embedded workflows, and native AI to help organizations manage third-party and Nth-party risk across procurement, supply chain, GRC, compliance, and IT. More than 5 million third-party users and 5,000 corporate users across over 170 countries currently run on it.
What is Aravo AI? Aravo AI is the artificial intelligence layer built natively into the Intelligence First™ Platform. It includes workflow agents, such as Survey Agents, Remediation Agents, and Decision Agents, that automate tasks like assessment review and corrective action, plus interactive agents, including the Navigation Agent, Risk Expert Agent, and Data Query Agent, that answer questions on demand inside AI Canvas.
What is AI Canvas? AI Canvas is the workspace inside the Intelligence First™ Platform where teams query live program data through Aravo AI’s interactive agents without switching to a separate tool. Teams who want to customize their agents, including which large language models power them, can do so in AI Studio.
What is the Evaluate Engine? The Evaluate Engine is the scoring component of the Intelligence First™ Platform. It lets risk teams build custom scoring models tied to internal policy, adjust risk tiers as programs mature, and compare risk across domains over time.
What is the Aravo Experience Framework? The Aravo Experience Framework is a human-centered interface layer that personalizes the platform by user role and context and embeds Aravo AI directly into everyday workflows, reducing the friction that non-specialist users, like procurement staff and business owners, face when working in a TPRM system.
How is Aravo different from other TPRM vendors? Aravo combines native, auditable AI agents with an experience layer built for occasional and non-specialist users, on a platform shaped by more than 25 years of enterprise TPRM use. Every AI output can be reviewed, challenged, or overridden, with the source data behind it always visible.
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