Trust should be earned,not assumed.
ARCAN is evidence-based third-party risk intelligence. It verifies vendor claims against real evidence at scale, so your team spends less time chasing documentation and more time making decisions that matter. Every conclusion is backed by evidence—or clearly identified as an evidence-based inference.
Your business is booming. So is your vendor count.
Growth hyperscales on every front — infrastructure, cloud, tooling, partners. Every win arrives as another third party you answer for.
- 100+SaaS apps inside the average mid-size companyBetterCloud, 2025
- 660SaaS apps inside the average large enterpriseZylo SaaS Management Index, 2025
- 2×third-party involvement in breaches, doubled in a yearVerizon DBIR, 2025
The risk vocabulary is a decade old. The geometry is not.
Your third-party surface compounds exponentially, and AI steepened the slope. Your security team grows in a straight line. The widening gap has a name: trust erosion.
ARCAN is the accelerating companion — AI speed, human accountability, nothing sacrificed.
A companion, not a console
A workspace that does the work with you — drafting, verifying, pricing — while every conclusion stays yours to sign.
Agnostic by design
ARCAN adapts to your organizational standard — your frameworks, your risk language, your thresholds. Not the other way around.
The whole cycle, inside
Intake, verification, quantification, decision, monitoring — the entire TPRM cycle runs in one place, on one evidence trail.
The orchestration
Three forces, one operating model.
01 · Machine
It reads, extracts, cross-checks.
Every document, at a scale no team could match, with its reasoning shown for every call.
03 · Method
It fits how you already work.
Your frameworks, your language, your thresholds. Built for scale from day one.
02 · Mind
Judgment stays human.
Contradictions and the final decision go to practitioners. The machine settles nothing alone.
Machine speed, human judgment and fit to your process. Together they reshape your third-party risk lifecycle.
The proof
A response without evidence is just a claim.
Watch a verification run reason — every gate, every lens, every conclusion citing what it stands on.
- 01CLAIM“SOC 2 Type II covers the service you buy.”RECEIVED
- 02EVIDENCEReport ingested — issuer, period, scope parsed.PARSED
- 03GATE · OWNERSHIPThe evidence belongs to this vendor.PASS
- 04GATE · SCOPEScope covers the contracted service.PASS
- 05GATE · FRESHNESSReport period is current.PASS
- 06CORROBORATIONStated sub-processors checked against public records.CONTRADICTION
- 07ROUTEAnomaly routed to a practitioner — the machine rejects nothing alone.HUMAN
Exposure — five lenses, as ranges
- FinancialModerate
- RegulatoryMaterial
- ReputationalLow–moderate
- OperationalModerate
- ConcentrationMaterial
Verdict — material, as a range
Driven by the sub-processor contradiction, landing on the regulatory and concentration lenses. Not false precision — and every line above cites the evidence behind it.
Built to be assessed
A risk platform should survive its own due diligence.
Tenancy
Isolated tenancy — your data shares nothing with anyone.
Access
Role-based access, least privilege by default.
Audit
Complete audit trails — every read and write, attributable.
Models
Your data never trains models. Ever.
The practice
A specialist practice, not a start-up.
ARCAN is built and delivered by the people behind it: practitioners in risk and governance, with institutional engineering behind them.
Discipline one · Governance
Practitioner-led risk and governance
ARCAN’s methodology comes from years inside large-enterprise risk, audit and third-party assurance engagements. The people who lived the problem designed the platform, and they deliver every engagement personally, from the first scoping workshop to the final readout.
This is where our own capability sits: risk quantification, control assurance, and AI-governance advisory aligned to emerging standards. Practical and enforceable, not templated compliance.
Discipline two · Engineering
Institutional engineering roots
ARCAN Labs is backed by a systems-integration and IT-advisory partnership with over three decades delivering mission-critical programmes in complex, high-governance environments, at national-enterprise and public-sector scale.
That partnership gives ARCAN the engineering depth and execution discipline to build, secure and run the platform to enterprise standard, so a specialist practice arrives with institutional-grade delivery behind it.
Two-minute maturity check
Where does your third-party risk actually stand?
Six questions across the dimensions that decide TPRM maturity. Pick the rungs that fit — pick more than one if you’re between stages. Nothing is recorded; a directional read, not an audit.
01How complete is your view of the third parties touching sensitive data, and where they concentrate?
02For a critical vendor, what is your assurance actually built on?
03When a vendor lists sub-processors, or a SOC 2 names its scope — how do you treat it?
04Between formal reviews, how current is your picture of a vendor?
05How is vendor risk expressed to leadership?
06When you find a gap, what happens to it?
Answer all six · 0/6
Engage
Bring your hardest vendor.
A ninety-minute working session with your security, procurement and technology stakeholders. We run ARCAN live on a vendor you actually answer for — not slides.