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Transforming Risk Management Through Digital Intelligence

A modular, flexible and robust GRC platform that adapts to your organisation. Symbiant’s agile and affordable Governance, Risk and Compliance Software simplifies risk, audit, and compliance management in one connected system – with an optional AI assistant to streamline processes, enhance decision-making, and save time.

From only £100 per module/month for unlimited users*

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ONE CONNECTED GRC, RISK MANAGEMENT & AUDIT Platform

Bring clarity, simplicity, and security to Your GRC & Audit with One Connected Platform

Bring all your GRC and Audit activities into one agile platform—modular, effortlessly scalable, and powered by an optional AI Assistant. Designed to fit your structure, Symbiant gives you full visibility, reduces complexity, and helps you stay ahead of emerging risks.

Modular. Agile. Affordable.

Symbiant is modular, agile, and fully customisable—easy to embed, effortless to scale, and designed to adapt around your structure and unique needs.

Centralise & Simplify Your GRC & Audit

Centralise and simplify governance, risk, compliance and audit processes in one intuitive platform designed to enable organisations to achieve their objectives and streamline complex processes.

Symbiant AI

Fully integrated and trained on real-world GRC challenges. It connects your data securely while uncovering hidden threats, identifying root causes, and predicting the cascading impact of control failures across your organisation.

Connected, Agile, Cost-Effective

Symbiant Risk Management Software

Meet your business objectives effortlessly, reduce exposure, and build organisational resilience with Symbiant’s award-winning Risk Management Software. Simplify complex processes, invest in the right controls, respond faster to incidents, and navigate change with confidence. With our optional AI Assistant, reveal blind spots and safeguard your objectives.

From only £100 per module/month for unlimited users*

Symbiant Questionnaires Survey & Assessment Software

The Risk Register Module is the central hub of Symbiant’s risk management system. It gives organisations a dynamic, visual way to record, monitor, and report on risks, with flexible scoring methods and cross-module integration for a complete risk picture.

Key features:

Multiple scoring methods, including dynamic residual scoring
Risk flows and aggregation for clear reporting
Grouping and segregation to view risks by category or department
Import existing data easily from spreadsheets
Create reviews and remedial action plans with full tracking
The Risk Registers Module has been designed to work as a focal point with most other modules

Symbiant Risk Workshops Module

The Risk Workshops Module is a virtual meeting space that brings staff, especially non-risk personnel, into the risk management process. It allows participants to identify, discuss, score, and suggest treatments for risks, while managers can create and track action plans for new mitigation controls. The module follows a multistage workflow (Identify, Measure, Treat, Monitor), supports compliance with ISO 31000 and ISO 27001, and sends automated notifications at each stage. It integrates seamlessly with the Risk Registers and Controls & Policies modules

Key features:

Virtual meeting space accommodates participation from anywhere, anytime
Multistage approach (Identifying, Measuring, Treating and Monitoring Risks)
Treatment plan creation and track actions to completion
Automated notifications are sent for stage changes and stage starting/ending

Symbiant Risk Controls & Policies Module

The Controls and Policies Module helps organisations manage and assess controls effectively, centralising business-critical processes and simplifying compliance with ISO27001. It enables teams to work collaboratively, link controls directly to risks, and automatically adjust risk scores when controls fail. With built-in tracking, reviews, and one-click generation of the Statement of Applicability, it reduces admin overhead while ensuring ongoing compliance.

Key features:

ISO27001-ready with one-click Statement of Applicability.
Manage, group, and assess key/active controls.
Supports RCSA (Risk Control Self-Assessments).
Links with Risk Registers, Risk Workshops, Incident Reporter, and Questionnaires modules.
Tracks remedial actions and control effectiveness with full audit trails.
Imports data easily from spreadsheets.

it’s a centralised hub for controls and policies that makes compliance easier, strengthens risk management, and gives organisations full oversight of control performance.

Symbiant Risk Incident Reporter Module

The Incident Reporter is Symbiant’s central hub for documenting and managing incidents across the business. It simplifies reporting with tailored forms (basic or detailed depending on user role or department) and provides a secure repository for all incident data.

Key features:

Dynamic, customisable reporting forms by role/division.
Delegate responsibilities and link incidents to existing or new risks and controls.
Trigger reviews and create multi-owner remedial action plans with due dates.
Upload supporting documentation and evidence.
Automatic notifications keep stakeholders updated on new incidents and status changes.
Identify emerging threats and trends by linking incidents with risks and controls.
Integrates with Risk Registers, Controls and Policies, Risk Action Tracker, and Audit Working Papers

Symbiant Questionnaires Survey & Assessment Software

Symbiant Questionnaires, Surveys and Assessments module lets you build and deliver flexible, dynamic assessments that adapt based on responses. It’s ideal for risk, control, audit, and KRI assessments, or as standalone surveys.

Key features:

Dynamic questions with conditional logic (questions adapt to responses).
Supports multiple response types, file uploads, and pass/fail rules.
Response history for full audit trail.
Create custom assessments or use prebuilt templates.
Issue questionnaires manually or schedule them for specific times.
Triggers follow-up questions based on ranges or answers.
Links with Risk Registers, Business Objectives, Controls & Policies, and Audit Working Papers

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Key Risk Indicators Software (KPI)

Symbiant Key Risk Indicators (KRI) Module complements the Questionnaires, Surveys and Assessments Module to provide an early-warning system for emerging risks. It collects and aggregates indicator data so risk owners can monitor risk environments in real time and respond before threats escalate.

Key features:

Early-warning system to track environmental factors that affect risks
Aggregate multiple indicators into a single KRI
One-click filters to highlight issues quickly
Define and monitor risk appetites by category
Automated data collection and reporting to reduce workload
Direct integration with the Risk Registers Module

Connected, Agile, Cost-Effective

Symbiant Audit Management Software

Symbiant’s Audit Management Software provides a complete suite of modules designed to make internal and external auditing more efficient, transparent, and collaborative. Built to integrate seamlessly with your risk and compliance processes, it creates a single source of truth for all audit-related information. Backed by over two decades of development and enhanced with optional AI assistance it lets you capture evidence, manage working papers, track actions, and generate reports in just a few clicks.

From only £100 per module/month for unlimited users*

Symbiant Audit Action Tracker

The Audit Action Tracker Module helps ensure that audit findings and recommendations from internal and external audits are implemented successfully. It provides full visibility of due dates, responsibilities, and progress, with automated reminders to keep everything on track. By simplifying oversight and accountability, it reduces delays and ensures issues are resolved promptly.

Key features:

Automatic notifications for due dates, issues, and overdue actions
Clear reports to highlight bottlenecks and sticking points
Raises awareness of user responsibilities
Easy reporting directly to the audit committee
Assign direct ownership of actions with deadlines
Import data easily from spreadsheets
Create reviews and remedial action plans that can be tracked to completion

Symbiant Audit Working Papers

The Audit Working Papers Module acts as an electronic folder containing all information relating to an audit. It stores details such as what was audited, who is responsible, planned timelines, test results, documentation, and any related risks, controls, or incidents. Everything in the folder can be output into a professional audit report with a single click, giving auditors a clear and efficient way to manage the full process.

Key features:

Central storage for all audit information in one place
One-click generation of audit reports from working papers
Built-in planner and timesheets
Links to risks, controls, policies, and incidents for full context
Works seamlessly with other Symbiant audit and risk modules

Symbiant Questionnaires Survey & Assessment Software

Key features:

Dynamic questions with conditional logic (questions adapt to responses).
Supports multiple response types, file uploads, and pass/fail rules.
Response history for full audit trail.
Create custom assessments or use prebuilt templates.
Issue questionnaires manually or schedule them for specific times.
Triggers follow-up questions based on ranges or answers.
Links with Risk Registers, Business Objectives, Controls & Policies, and Audit Working Papers

Connected, Agile, Cost-Effective

Symbiant Compliance Management Software

Symbiant’s Compliance Management Software helps organisations simplify the monitoring and management of regulatory, policy, and quality requirements. Designed to keep you compliant with ease, it centralises all compliance activities, tracks actions, and ensures nothing falls through the cracks. With automated alerts, full audit trails, seamless integration with risk and audit modules, and optional AI assistance to surface insights and reduce manual checks, it gives compliance teams the tools to stay proactive, demonstrate accountability, and cut the burden of oversight.

From only £100 per module/month for unlimited users*

Symbiant Questionnaires Survey & Assessment Software

Key features:

Dynamic questions with conditional logic (questions adapt to responses).
Supports multiple response types, file uploads, and pass/fail rules.
Response history for full audit trail.
Create custom assessments or use prebuilt templates.
Issue questionnaires manually or schedule them for specific times.
Triggers follow-up questions based on ranges or answers.
Links with Risk Registers, Business Objectives, Controls & Policies, and Audit Working Papers

Symbiant Complaint Management Module

The Complaints Module streamlines the logging and resolution of complaints, ensuring deadlines are met and issues are handled within policy timeframes. It provides a full record of complaint handling with reviews and preventive actions to reduce recurrence.

Key features:

Log and manage complaints by type
Conduct reviews to prevent recurring issues
Attach supporting documents and evidence
Automatic progress emails and reminders
Import data from spreadsheets
Create reviews and remedial action plans, trackable to completion

Symbiant Compliance Monitoring Module

The Compliance Monitoring (Monitoring Action Tracker) Module helps manage compliance issues and remedial actions from regulatory, management, or audit findings. It makes ownership and oversight simple, ensuring tasks are resolved and documented properly.

Key features:

Track and monitor compliance actions and issues
Delegate ownership of actions and tasks
Tamperproof design for accountability
Easy data import from spreadsheets
Create reviews and remedial action plans with full tracking

Symbiant DPIA (Data Protection Impact Assessment) Software

Data Protection Impact Assessments are crucial to ensuring data privacy and security. They involve an adaptable questionnaire to cover various scenarios within a company’s operations. This questionnaire encapsulates a summary and scope, allowing for a comprehensive evaluation of potential data protection risks.

Key features:

Premade assessment templates for quick setup
Real-time risk scoring using custom score sets
Robust action tracking
Create reviews and remedial action plans with full oversight
Links with risk, control, and incident modules for wider context

Symbiant Service Desk Ticketing Software

The Service Desk Module provides a central system for logging and tracking internal support tickets. It improves communication, accountability, and compliance by recording all tickets and conversations in one place.

Key features:

Streamlined ticket logging for all users
Built-in follow-up comments and chat logs
Out-of-the-box ticket types (4 included as standard)
Premium version with additional customisable ticket types
Easy to configure to match business needs
Supports attachments, investigations, and full audit trails

Symbiant Security, Health & Safety, Environment (SHE) Software

The SHE Module is a dedicated system for recording and managing incidents across health, safety, security, and environmental categories. It captures detailed information for compliance reporting and provides tools to monitor corrective actions.

Key features:

Categorise incidents (Health & Safety, Security, Environmental, external visits)
Capture over 200 detailed data points for accuracy
Built-in action tracker to monitor response steps
“Stop & Talk” functionality to record employee behaviour
Designed for RIDDOR (Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations) reporting and insurance claims
Import data easily from spreadsheets
Reviews and remedial action plans trackable to completion

Connected, Agile, Cost-Effective

Symbiant Governance Software

Symbiant’s Governance Modules help organisations set clear objectives, maintain oversight, and ensure critical resources, documents, and third parties are properly managed. By creating a single source of truth, these modules strengthen organisational resilience, support compliance, and provide leadership with the clarity needed to make confident, informed decisions. With optional AI assistance, Symbiant enhances governance by linking data intelligently, surfacing hidden insights, and reducing the manual effort.

From only £100 per module/month for unlimited users*

Symbiant Business Continuity & Resilience (BCP)

Business Continuity Planning (BCP) Module allows identifying and managing resources critical to a business that, if disrupted, could severely impact its operations. These resources encompass vital components or services essential for the company’s functionality.

Key features:

Action plans for mitigating related risks
Incident reports in the event of a resource failure
See which resources are impacted and manage action plans
Easily import data from spreadsheets
Create reviews and remedial action plans that can be tracked to completion

Symbiant Business Objectives

The Business Objectives Module is designed to support your risk management based on ISO31000. The module links closely with the Risk Registers Module to link your business objectives with identified risks; you can also stipulate the
risk appetite, defining the acceptable level of risk. Should the associated risk exceed the specified risk appetite, automated notifications are dispatched to the respective objective owners, ensuring prompt awareness and action.

Key features:

Identify and track business objectives
Link to risks in your organisation
Define appetites for objectives, ensuring linked risks comply
Allow objective owners oversight of information and manage and realise business objectives
Easily import data from spreadsheets
Create reviews and remedial action plans that can be tracked to completion

Symbiant Compliance Monitoring Module

Key features:

Track and monitor compliance actions and issues
Delegate ownership of actions and tasks
Tamperproof design for accountability
Easy data import from spreadsheets
Create reviews and remedial action plans with full tracking

Symbiant Document Management

The Document Manager Module is a central repository that stores and manages all your documents within a structured framework. This module operates to establish a SSOT (Single Source of Truth) where users can access
relevant documents, preventing duplicates and ensuring the information remains current and accurate. Additionally, it supports the interlinking of documents, fostering an interconnected repository for seamless navigation and reference.

Key features:

Establish a single source of truth (SSOT)
Prevent duplicates and maintain current versions
Interlink related documents for easy navigation
User approvals ensure accuracy

Symbiant Due Diligence

The Due Diligence Module is for assessments of external companies such as suppliers. This questionnaire comprises a comprehensive checklist, organised into specific areas for assessment, and dedicated sections for recording any identified issues and corresponding actions.

Key features:

Comprehensive checklist-driven assessments
Quantify business impact and generate risk scores
Prioritise supplier/third-party risk management
Record findings and associated actions

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Real Results with Symbiant: GRC Success Stories from Our Clients

Symbiant powers governance, risk, compliance, and audit functions across a wide range of sectors—from financial services and logistics to local authorities and regulators. Explore our case studies to see how our modular GRC, Risk and Audit Management software helps teams effectively achieve business objectives, work smarter, reduce costs, and stay ahead of emerging risks.

See how organisations like SRBS, Whistl, Marsh Finance & more, use Symbiant to improve compliance, manage risk more effectively, and simplify audit processes—on one agile platform built around their unique needs.

” We have had nothing but good experiences and we have a very strong relationship with the team at Symbiant. We continue to use Symbiant for a few reasons. 1. Cost – I don’t know of a GRC solution as broad as ours for a similar price. 2. Customisation – we are able to make changes to have the system look, feel, and run to our requirements with ease. 3. Support – the team at Symbiant Support are friendly, knowledgeable, understanding, and quick to respond.”

— Ben Moulds, Risk, Assurance and Compliance Manager, Whist

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” Our previous risk system had very limited functionality, was very difficult to use and was expensive. […] Reporting was manual, inefficient and error prone.
With Symbiant, we now have a system which is simple, easy to use, cost effective, and connects risks, controls, incidents and action tracking in one tool. […] Reporting is quick and easy, and the system is very well designed and user friendly. The Symbiant team were very helpful and collaborative when adapting the system to meet our specific needs.”

— Camilla Owen, Head of Non-Financial Risk (1st Line of Defence)

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”Before we moved to Symbiant, we were spreadsheet-based, which was a very manual and time-consuming process […]. We also had a bespoke ‘waterfall report’ made to show changes in risk scores month by month — it makes it very clear to see any changes over the last six months.”

— Megan Macpherson, Risk Analyst, SRBS

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”We sought a Risk and Compliance software solution due to the cumbersome and manual process of managing everything through spreadsheets and folders. […] Our account manager at Symbiant actively listens to our requirements and proposes enhancements to improve functionality. Symbiant has revolutionised our R&C department’s operations, easing our workload and enhancing compliance levels.”

— Dan Simpson, Risk & Compliance Director

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Symbiant AI Assistant

Unlock Efficiency and Future-Proof Your Business with Symbiant AI

Streamline GRC, Risk and Audit processes with Symbiant AI, combining Generative AI and Connected Data Intelligence to save up to 90% of your time. Gain intelligent, data-driven insights that empower your team to manage risks and stay ahead of emerging threats proactively.

Generative AI

Risk, audit and compliance teams spend extensive time creating tailored insights and content to manage their organisation’s risks and compliance. Symbiant AI streamlines this process by generating risks and controls specific to your organisation, business objectives, mitigation strategies, rewriting risk descriptions, and more, giving your team a head start.

Connected Data Intelligence

Symbiant AI connects and analyses data across modules, providing a holistic view of your organisation. It offers business-specific risk scoring, identifies root causes, detects duplicates, evaluates controls, and uncovers overlooked risks, helping your team stay ahead of emerging threats.

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Supercharge the Way You Work with AI-Powered Precision

Designed to streamline processes, automate workflows, and enhance accuracy for your core audit, risk, and compliance needs.

Generate Risks, Controls, and Insights in Seconds

Symbiant AI generates tailored risk, control, and mitigation strategies aligned with your organisation’s needs. In cases where content may be poorly worded or unclear, Symbiant AI will rewrite it to ensure a more professional tone and better alignment with your business model. These AI-driven drafts can be easily refined, expanded, or simplified, and with practitioner oversight, they can be seamlessly edited and finalised for clarity, precision, and strategic alignment.

Streamline GRC & Audit Management with AI-Driven Automation

Symbiant AI streamlines your risk management process with intelligent automation and tailored insights. It automatically populates dropdown fields like Objectives, Functions, Categories, Processes, and Types, ensuring thorough and consistent coverage across your workflows.

Tailored Controls for Risk Mitigation

Symbiant doesn’t just identify risks; it enhances mitigation strategies by suggesting and creating new controls aligned with your specific needs. It can also propose new business objectives tailored to your organisational goals, ensuring strategic alignment.

Symbiant AI empowers your team to take proactive measures with clear, actionable plans that address risks and prevent future incidents, transforming the way you manage and mitigate risks.

Actionable Insights and Precision Reporting

Symbiant AI suggests and drafts key details, opportunities, downsides, and mitigations for a comprehensive analysis of risks and potential impacts. With AI-driven recommendations, reporting becomes more insightful and precise, highlighting controls, root causes, and consequences to inform better decision-making.

Connected Data Intelligence

AI-Powered Efficiency for Every Module

Symbiant AI seamlessly connects, analyses, and refines data across modules, departments, and sectors, providing a unified and actionable real-time view of your organisation’s risk landscape.

Proactive Risk Management

Intelligent data linking across modules and business functions

Symbiant AI seamlessly integrates data across modules, departments, and sectors, delivering a unified view of your organisation. By interlinking risks with controls, objectives, incidents, and more, it ensures all relevant data is connected.

Automatically linking risks to business objectives and audit processes, Symbiant saves time, enhances clarity, and enables effective collaboration across teams.

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Duplicate Data Detection

Identifying duplicate data across systems and processes can be time-consuming and inefficient. Symbiant AI simplifies this by detecting duplicates, including duplicate risks, within seconds. This creates a cleaner, more accurate risk register, saving valuable time and improving overall efficiency for your team.

Root Cause and Consequence Insights

Symbiant AI goes beyond risk scoring to provide a deeper understanding of why risks occur and what happens if controls fail.

Root Cause Identification: Automatically analyses data to identify and document the root cause of each risk, eliminating the need for manual guesswork.
Consequence Prediction: Visualises the domino effect of control failures, mapping cascading consequences to help you anticipate and mitigate potential impacts.
Control Relevance Scoring: Weighs the effectiveness of controls in reducing risks, offering actionable insights to optimise your mitigation strategies.

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Logical, Data-Driven Risk Scoring and Residual Risk Calculation

Symbiant AI replaces emotional guesswork with clear, business-specific logic to deliver accurate risk scoring. It further enhances decision-making by automatically assessing control effectiveness and recalculating residual risks with AI-driven recommendations, empowering smarter, data-informed strategies.

Incident Analysis and Mitigation

Symbiant AI simplifies incident management by identifying impacted areas and linking incidents to affected business functions for precise analysis. It automatically determines root causes, providing a comprehensive understanding of why incidents occur and how they connect to existing risks.

The system identifies new risks emerging from incidents, aligns them with related controls for effective resolution, and even suggests or develops new controls to mitigate future risks. To ensure swift action, Symbiant generates clear, actionable plans to address and prevent similar incidents, empowering your organisation with proactive and efficient incident management.

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Unlock the Full Potential of Your Audits

Revolutionising Auditing with Intelligence and Efficiency

Symbiant AI revolutionises auditing by automating processes, enhancing precision, and enabling proactive decision-making.

Increased Efficiency

Automates risk identification and assessment, significantly reducing time spent on manual data collection.
Finds duplicate data, including risks, instantly, saving up to 90% of your time.

Intelligent Insights

Connects data across modules, departments, and functions, offering a holistic view of your organisation’s risks.
Identifies hidden vulnerabilities and evaluates control effectiveness, ensuring audits are thorough and impactful.

Proactive Risk Mitigation

Maps the domino effect of risks and predicts control failure consequences, enabling forward-thinking strategies.
Provides tailored, actionable recommendations to address risks and enhance overall organisational resilience.
Symbiant’s AI now automatically detects new potential risks from audit findings, ensuring no emerging threats go unnoticed. By analysing audit data in real time, it enhances risk awareness and supports proactive decision-making.

Enhanced Reporting and Documentation

Automatically generates audit recommendations and action steps for resolving findings.
Refines and rewrites audit documentation for clarity and accuracy, ensuring seamless communication of results.

Strategic Focus for Auditors

Eliminates repetitive tasks, allowing auditors to concentrate on evaluating controls and offering strategic guidance.
Aligns audit findings with business objectives and compliance requirements, supporting better decision-making and organisational goals.

With Symbiant AI, auditing evolves from a reactive, time-intensive process to a streamlined, insight-driven function that empowers your team to deliver smarter, faster, and more strategic outcomes.

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Revolutionising Compliance with Intelligent AI

Empowers Compliance Teams

Symbiant AI revolutionises compliance management by seamlessly connecting data across departments, functions, and modules, providing compliance teams with actionable insights and streamlining workflows.

Proactive Regulatory Alignment

Symbiant AI scans compliance data to identify gaps and uncover risks tied to regulatory changes. It delivers tailored recommendations to ensure your organisation remains compliant with evolving requirements, enabling proactive decision-making.

Automated Insights for Better Oversight

By identifying root causes and predicting the consequences of control failures, Symbiant AI offers a comprehensive view of compliance risks. This ensures your team has access to accurate, up-to-date insights to act with confidence.

Effortless Data Management

Symbiant AI improves data accuracy with AI-powered duplicate detection. It rewrites and refines poorly structured data, aligning it with your business model for cleaner, more reliable compliance records and simplified workflows.

Strategic Risk and Resource Alignment

Symbiant AI connects business objectives to risks for strategic alignment and recommends controls to mitigate risks tied to specific resources. By uncovering new risks linked to your objectives, it ensures your compliance efforts remain comprehensive and forward-thinking.

Time-Saving, Collaborative Solutions

With automated processes, compliance and risk management teams can work collaboratively and efficiently, focusing on strategic decision-making instead of administrative tasks. Symbiant AI helps save weeks of manual work while improving clarity, accuracy, and confidence in every decision.

Symbiant AI transforms compliance management, empowering teams to stay ahead of regulatory changes, mitigate risks effectively, and focus on driving organisational success.

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Revolutionising Compliance with Intelligent AI

AI-Enhanced Business Continuity Planning (BCP)

Symbiant’s AI functionality strengthens your BCP module by helping you:

Identify and create probable event scenarios
Highlight which business areas and functions could be affected
Uncover potential root causes
Predict impacts on customer journey elements
Identify and create new potential risks
Recommend suitable mitigations and controls
Improve recovery speed through automation

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AI Enhanced Symbiant Business Objectives Module

Governance becomes more strategic with AI support for:

Suggesting tailored objectives aligned with your organisation’s operations
Linking objectives to existing risks for stronger alignment and visibility
Identifying new risks associated with your objectives
Enhancing strategic planning and awareness across all departments

With Symbiant’s AI Assistant, your Business Objectives module goes beyond tracking goals, it actively strengthens the connection between strategy and risk management.

Document Management with Intelligent Automation

Symbiant’s Document Management Software is enhanced with AI-driven features that improve clarity, compliance, and connectivity:

Rewrite content into a professional, consistent tone
Suggest links between documents, risks, business objectives, and controls
Strengthen traceability and audit readiness across your governance records

These functions support cleaner documentation, faster audits, and stronger alignment between your governance content and wider GRC strategy.

Due Diligence with Intelligent Insight

Symbiant’s Due Diligence Module streamlines supplier and third-party assessments, onboarding checks, and internal reviews—enhanced by AI across your wider GRC ecosystem:

Automatically flag related risks and compliance gaps using connected module data
Rewrite submissions and responses for clarity, consistency, and professionalism
Suggest relevant controls, audits, or actions to support evidence-based decision-making
Maintain a transparent, traceable audit trail for all due diligence activity

Fully integrated with your GRC platform, Symbiant AI ensures your due diligence is faster, clearer, and more connected, helping you assess, document, and manage risk with confidence.

The Symbiant Edge

25 Years of Insight, Delivered by AI

With 25 years of industry leadership, we’ve done more than just adapt—we’ve mastered the art of GRC & Audit Management. We’ve listened, learned, and refined our solutions based on real-world feedback, ensuring we meet your exact needs, every time.

Symbiant’s advanced AI delivers personalised recommendations, perfectly tailored to your business model and sector, making smarter decisions effortless. It’s the most affordable, cutting-edge GRC and Audit solution on the market—empowering you to stay ahead of risks and drive success like never before.

Highly Trusted GRC & Audit software

Trusted and Endorsed by the Professionals

Symbiant is the only Software to have been endorsed by the accounting governing body, The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

It is also used by leading accountancy firms as well as the global professional accounting body, The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

Symbiant, is not a new start-up with no track record, We have been doing this since 1999. Symbiant pioneered web-based compliance platforms. It is estimated our software is 2 years ahead of our nearest competitors.

We, literally lead the way.

Insights from Industry Experts

External Professional Perspectives

Symbiant has been independently evaluated by Michael Rasmussen, a leading GRC analyst and founder of GRC 20/20. His expert assessment highlights Symbiant’s ability to deliver agility, affordability, and real-world value across risk, audit, and compliance functions.

According to GRC 20/20’s findings:

Exceptional Value: Symbiant offers one of the lowest total costs of ownership in the GRC software market.
Unified GRC Platform: A single, centralised solution for risk, compliance, internal controls, and audit.
Easy to Implement: Described as intuitive, flexible, and simple to roll out, even across large enterprises.
Proven Results: Organisations report that the solution has enabled them to move away from spreadsheets, reduce complexity, and improve reporting accuracy.

“Where many may perceive higher cost with greater value, this is not the case with Symbiant, as they deliver an affordable solution with very robust features that enable organisations to manage GRC.”
— Michael Rasmussen, GRC 20/20

Award winning grc & Audit management software

25 Years. Thousands of Users. One Highly Trusted Platform.

With over 25 years of innovation in Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) and Audit Management, Symbiant is trusted by organisations across every sector. Our clients love how our powerful, affordable, award-winning and fully customisable risk software helps them stay compliant, make smarter decisions, and reduce complexity, without the costly overheads.

Best Risk & Audit Management Software 2023

Business Risk and Audit Winner 2023 (Style 2)

Business Risk and Audit Winner 2023 (Style 3)

Your questions answered

Common Questions About Symbiant’s Agile GRC, Risk and Audit Management Software

Explore answers to the most asked questions about Symbiant’s GRC and Audit Management software with an optional AI-Assistant, from features and benefits to pricing and integration.

What makes Symbiant different from other GRC platforms?

Symbiant offers a uniquely flexible and affordable GRC, Risk and Audit solution that’s built from the ground up to simplify complexity. Unlike many traditional platforms, Symbiant is a fully integrated, modular system that allows organisations to manage risk, compliance, and audit activities in one intuitive platform. It’s incredibly easy to embed and customise, with no coding required, making it ideal for both technical and non-technical users. Symbiant is developed entirely in-house, which means faster updates, better support, and ongoing innovation driven by client feedback. For organisations looking to go further, Symbiant also offers an optional AI Assistant, trained specifically on real-world GRC scenarios. It helps uncover hidden risks, identify root causes, and connect data across modules to support faster, smarter decision-making, without storing any of your data. Symbiant has been leading the GRC space since 2002, when we launched the world’s first web-based GRC SaaS platform. Today, Symbiant continues that legacy with an agile, modular, and intuitive solution designed to simplify risk, audit, and compliance—at a fraction of the cost of traditional providers.

Why is Symbiant so affordable compared to other GRC platforms?

Affordability at Symbiant doesn’t mean compromise, it means efficiency by design. We’ve built our platform on the principle of delivering exceptional quality without inflated costs.

Unlike many GRC providers, we’ve grown organically, with no debt, no external investors, and no costly acquisitions. Every module is developed in-house, ensuring performance, security, and full control over every feature.

This streamlined, purpose-built approach allows us to offer a robust, enterprise-grade GRC and audit solution at just £100 *per module per month, with unlimited users per seat and no hidden fees.

In short, Symbiant gives you top-tier functionality, complete flexibility, and full transparency, without ever compromising on quality.

How has Symbiant evolved over the years?

We’ve rewritten the platform six times based on real client feedback, continually enhancing speed, flexibility, and user experience. In between major versions, we roll out regular improvements and features, keeping your GRC software future-ready and client-focused.

Is Symbiant secure and compliant with modern standards?

Yes. Symbiant is hosted securely on AWS and holds the Cyber Essentials Plus certification. Even the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) a selected Symbiant after a rigorous evaluation—demonstrating trust at the highest level of data protection and compliance.

Does Symbiant offer AI functionality?

Yes! Symbiant offers an optional, fully integrated AI Assistant designed to support your risk, audit, and compliance processes.

Unlike public AI tools, Symbiant’s AI does not train on or store your data. It understands your system by working within your own environment, using a secure temporary cache folder to process queries. Once complete, the cache is immediately deleted — ensuring your data remains private and fully protected.

The Assistant has been trained on real-world risk, audit, and compliance scenarios. It enhances decision-making by intelligently linking data across modules, scoring risks based on logic, identifying duplicates, and suggesting root causes and consequences — all without replacing human oversight.

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How do I get started with Symbiant?

Getting started is easy. Simply book a free, no-obligation demo and we’ll show you how Symbiant’ can be tailored to your exact needs. Every demo is personalised to your sector so you can see how the system works for your organisation. With full access to the complete platform from just £300/month*, you can mix and match the modules you need and start managing risk with confidence.

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Symbiant AI

Symbiant Risk Management Software

Symbiant Questionnaires Survey & Assessment Software

Symbiant Risk Workshops Module

Symbiant Risk Controls & Policies Module

Symbiant Risk Incident Reporter Module

Symbiant Questionnaires Survey & Assessment Software

Key Risk Indicators Software (KPI)

Symbiant Audit Management Software

Symbiant Audit Action Tracker

Symbiant Audit Working Papers

Symbiant Questionnaires Survey & Assessment Software

Symbiant Compliance Management Software

Symbiant Questionnaires Survey & Assessment Software

Symbiant Complaint Management Module

Symbiant Compliance Monitoring Module

Symbiant DPIA (Data Protection Impact Assessment) Software

Symbiant Service Desk Ticketing Software

Symbiant Security, Health & Safety, Environment (SHE) Software

Symbiant Governance Software

Symbiant Business Continuity & Resilience (BCP)

Symbiant Business Objectives

Symbiant Compliance Monitoring Module

Symbiant Document Management

Symbiant Due Diligence

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Supercharge the Way You Work with AI-Powered Precision

Generate Risks, Controls, and Insights in Seconds

Streamline GRC & Audit Management with AI-Driven Automation

Tailored Controls for Risk Mitigation

Actionable Insights and Precision Reporting

Connected Data Intelligence

AI-Powered Efficiency for Every Module

Intelligent data linking across modules and business functions

Duplicate Data Detection

Root Cause and Consequence Insights

Logical, Data-Driven Risk Scoring and Residual Risk Calculation

Incident Analysis and Mitigation

Revolutionising Auditing with Intelligence and Efficiency

Increased Efficiency

Intelligent Insights

Proactive Risk Mitigation

Enhanced Reporting and Documentation

Strategic Focus for Auditors

Empowers Compliance Teams

Proactive Regulatory Alignment

Automated Insights for Better Oversight

Effortless Data Management

Strategic Risk and Resource Alignment

Time-Saving, Collaborative Solutions

AI-Enhanced Business Continuity Planning (BCP)

AI Enhanced Symbiant Business Objectives Module

Document Management with Intelligent Automation

Due Diligence with Intelligent Insight

25 Years of Insight, Delivered by AI

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