The End of Manual TPRM: Hyperproof’s AI-Native Third-Party Risk Management

Third-party risk management has a scaling problem. Security and compliance teams are expected to assess more vendors, maintain cleaner audit trails, and move faster through review cycles, all while headcount stays flat and regulatory pressure keeps climbing. 

For most organizations, the process still runs on spreadsheets, manual document reviews, and questionnaires that vendors fill out once a year, and everyone promptly forgets about. The result is a program that technically exists but rarely keeps pace with the reality of how vendor ecosystems actually grow and change. That gap between what TPRM programs look like on paper and how they perform in practice is exactly what Hyperproof is built to close. 

Hyperproof TPRM helps teams:

Today, we are sharing the next generation of Hyperproof TPRM, an AI-native, enterprise-grade platform designed to help security, procurement, and compliance teams assess vendor risk faster, maintain continuous oversight, and produce defensible documentation without burning analyst hours on repetitive work.

What “AI-native” means: Hyperproof doesn’t just assist workflows, it performs core risk analysis by reading, mapping, and evaluating vendor evidence automatically.

What we’re launching

Hyperproof TPRM is available in three tiers, each designed to meet teams where they are and scale as their programs mature. Each tier now features AI-native capabilities to accelerate your path to a defensible risk posture. 

Free trial

Best for: Teams testing AI-driven assessments

Lite is the fastest path to a working vendor risk assessment.  It is a free offering enabling teams to explore the platform and see the power of AI-enabled assessments firsthand.

TPRM Core

Best for: Teams running structured, ongoing programs

Core gives teams the flexibility to start with manual workflows and layer in automation over time, based on their level of AI readiness.

TPRM Advanced

Best for: Enterprise teams managing the full vendor lifecycle

TPRM Advanced brings vendor intake, risk assessment, and vendor management into a single connected platform.

Why this matters

Vendor risk assessments are no longer optional. SOC 2^Ⓡ, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GLBA, and PCI-DSS all require organizations to maintain an active third-party risk program and demonstrate continuous oversight of the vendors they rely on. For most security teams, that requirement arrived faster than the tooling and processes needed to meet it.

The traditional approach to TPRM creates three compounding problems. First, it does not scale. A manual assessment of a single vendor, reviewing their SOC 2^Ⓡ report, penetration test results, and security policies, can take eight to ten hours. Multiply that across fifty, two hundred, or five hundred vendors, and the math does not work without either growing the team or cutting corners.  

Beyond the time sink, this manual questionnaire approach is fundamentally shallow. Teams become bogged down in a cycle of tedious back-and-forth communication, chasing down missing answers, and verifying documentation. Because they are drowning in grunt work, they lack the bandwidth to perform a truly comprehensive analysis. Risks are often missed because the sheer volume of data forces a surface-level review.

By offloading the mechanical data-gathering and initial analysis to AI, the paradigm shifts and teams are finally freed to go deeper. Instead of just checking boxes, they can focus on high-level qualitative analysis, resulting in a significantly more rigorous risk identification process and a stronger overall security posture.

Additionally, traditional approaches are inconsistent. When assessments depend on individual analysts reading documents and applying their own judgment, risk scoring varies from vendor to vendor and auditor to auditor. It is also hard to defend. When an auditor or a board asks why a vendor was scored the way it was, the answer “we reviewed their documentation” does not hold up without evidence mapping, written rationale, and a clear audit trail.

These are not new problems. They are the problems that have made TPRM feel like a compliance checkbox rather than a functional risk management discipline for many teams. The difference now is that AI can do the work that made these problems intractable in the first place.

What sets Hyperproof apart 

Unlike traditional third-party risk management software that relies heavily on questionnaires and manual review, Hyperproof evaluates vendor evidence directly, reducing back-and-forth and improving consistency.

Evidence-first AI assessments

Hyperproof’s AI-native third-party risk engine reads and analyzes vendor documentation directly, including SOC 2^Ⓡ reports, penetration test results, security policies, and certifications. It evaluates inherent risk based on vendor use case and data access, maps controls to the relevant framework requirements, identifies gaps and exceptions, calculates residual risk after accounting for mitigating controls, and produces written remediation guidance. The output is a defensible, auditable rationale that security teams can stand behind and auditors can verify. What previously took a skilled analyst a full day can be completed in under two hours.

Continuous oversight, not annual snapshots

Most vendor risk programs operate on a once-a-year review cycle. That cadence made sense when assessments were purely manual and time-consuming. It does not make sense when vendors can experience breaches, compliance lapses, or material changes to their security posture between reviews. Hyperproof AI closes that gap automatically. It monitors external vendor posture signals continuously, surfaces changes as they happen, and keeps your risk picture current without requiring your team to go looking for it.

Flexibility across the full program maturity curve

Whether a team is running its first structured vendor risk program or managing a mature, enterprise-scale operation with procurement integrations and custom workflows, Hyperproof TPRM is designed to meet them at their current level and scale with them over time. Teams do not have to overhaul their process on day one to get value on day one.

Security teams are not short on work. They are short on time. Hyperproof TPRM gives them back the hours they were spending reading documents manually, and replaces that effort with assessments that are faster, more consistent, and a lot easier to defend in front of an auditor.” — Alam Ali, SVP of Product, Hyperproof

How to get started 

For new customers

Get started with our free trial to run your first AI-driven assessments and see how it analyzes vendor documentation in real time. No implementation required. Upload a SOC 2^Ⓡ or policy document, and the platform does the rest. When you are ready to build out a full program, upgrading to Core or Advanced carries your work forward.

For existing Hyperproof customers 

Hyperproof TPRM is available now. Reach out to your Customer Success Manager to schedule a walkthrough and explore which tier fits your current program needs.

The manual era of TPRM is over. Welcome to Hyperproof!

Vendor ecosystems are not getting smaller, and compliance expectations are not getting loosened. In order to manage third-party risk effectively over the next several years organizations must treat it as an ongoing operational discipline rather than an annual documentation exercise.

That requires automation that can keep pace with vendor volume, AI that produces assessments teams can actually defend, and a platform that connects security, procurement, and compliance into a single shared workflow. Manual processes cannot deliver those outcomes at scale, and spreadsheets were never designed to be a risk management system.

Hyperproof TPRM is designed for the reality of how vendor risk works today: complex, continuous, and consequential. Reduce vendor review time by up to 80%, maintain consistent and audit-ready documentation, and give every stakeholder across your organization the visibility they need to make better decisions about the vendors you trust with your data, your systems, and your business.

Fast-moving organizations don’t have time to ask, answer, or process hundreds of questions.  Using the power of Hyperproof AI, questions are reduced, insights are immediate, and there is a natural growth path from vendor risk management to managing your full vendor lifecycle. Our approach at Hyperproof is unique, making it simple to start and effortless to scale,” – Craig Unger, Founder and CEO, Hyperproof