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01 For Third-Party & Vendor Risk Teams

Every vendor’s AI, fully in view.

Cranium runs your third-party AI through the AI Trust Loop — Discover, Observe, Govern, Secure, Prove — continuously. Vendor risk stops being a questionnaire and becomes a score you can defend.

02 The problem

Every vendor ships AI now. Nobody can see it.

The product you approved last year has a copilot in it today. The contract doesn't mention it. The questionnaire was answered once, by someone in sales, and it's already stale. You're accountable for AI you didn't buy, can't inspect, and only hear about when something breaks. That's not a process gap. That's your risk surface, growing without you.

03 The plan

Run vendors through the AI Trust Loop.

Discover → Observe → Govern → Secure → Prove — continuously. Cranium applies the same loop you'd demand for your own AI to every vendor's, so third-party risk is measured the way you measure everything else.

i.

Discover Your Vendor Constellation

Detect AI maps every AI system your vendors bring into your environment — including the ones they never disclosed. Each system gets an AI Bill of Materials, so "what's inside this product?" has an answer before the renewal call. Organizations using this approach cut shadow AI by up to 65% in six months (IDC).

Undisclosed vendor AI, surfaced
AI BOM for every system
ii.

Govern Against Real Frameworks

ComplianceAgent scores every vendor's AI against NIST AI RMF, the EU AI Act, ISO 42001, and your own policies — continuously, not annually. You get a standardized rating you can compare across your portfolio, so triage stops being a judgment call.

Continuous compliance scoring
One rating, every vendor
iii.

Prove It — Continuously

Observe watches vendor AI behavior live and flags drift the moment it happens. Prove turns everything into real-time Cranium AI Cards and attestations — evidence that updates itself. When a regulator, board member, or customer asks about a vendor, the answer already exists.

Live drift & change detection
AI Cards, always current
04 What changes

From chasing questionnaires to reading a score.

Cranium is SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 certified, and trusted by large financial institutions to watch their AI supply chain. Here's what your week looks like after the loop is running.

For Analysts

  • Every vendor scored the same way — no more subjective assessments
  • Continuous monitoring replaces the annual review scramble
  • Drops into your existing TPRM workflow, no rip-and-replace
  • AI BOMs show what's actually inside each vendor's product

For Executives & Compliance Officers

  • Defensible, audit-ready evidence — on demand, not on deadline
  • One view of AI risk across the entire supply chain
  • Regulatory posture mapped to NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act, ISO 42001
  • Bad vendor news reaches you before it reaches the press
05 Close the blind spot

Turn vendor AI into
a defensible score.

See the AI Trust Loop run against your own vendor list — and watch third-party risk go from a guessing game to a number.