Compliance Intelligence. Not Compliance Software.
RealCISO runs AI-powered compliance programs — from the first assessment through every report, remediation and audit — so your team focuses on outcomes, not overhead. For the service providers who deliver compliance, and the organizations who run their own.
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One intelligence engine. Two ways to use it.
RealCISO is an AI vCISO and GRC platform that runs compliance programs end to end — assessments, integrations, remediation, audits and reporting — across SOC 2, NIST CSF, ISO 27001, CMMC and 20+ frameworks, for MSPs, consultants and in-house teams. Unlike tools that use AI to speed up a questionnaire, or automation that only collects evidence, RealCISO deploys intelligence across the whole program lifecycle: assessing risk, prioritizing what to fix first, and guiding every next step from a single dashboard. The result isn't faster compliance work. It's a compliance program that operates at a level most teams couldn't sustain by hand.
vCISO Platform for Service Providers·GRC Software for Organizations·Supported Frameworks·Integrations·Third-Party Risk·Pricing
Which compliance challenge are you solving?
RealCISO serves two audiences with different needs — built on the same AI compliance intelligence engine, with published pricing for both.
For Service Providers
MSPs · MSSPs · vCISO Consultants · Security Firms
The vCISO platform built for multi-client, multi-framework delivery with the intelligence to see across your whole book — maturity trajectory, impact simulation and portfolio-wide patterns no single-company tool can produce.
- Multi-tenant dashboard for 10 to 500+ clients, each in an isolated workspace
- AI-powered assessments — hours to minutes, with reasoning you can show a client
- Automated compliance integrations — cloud, identity, endpoint, EDR and vulnerability tools
- White-label branding, custom domains and client portals
- L1–L5 maturity trajectory per client, across quarters
- Impact Simulation for remediation planning
- Portfolio risk rollup across every client you manage
- Third-party risk and a Trust Center for each client
Consultant License + client licences from $42 / client / month
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Enterprise · Mid-Market · Small Business · Internal Teams
Run your own enterprise-grade GRC program without a compliance team or a six-figure budget. AI guides every step from the first assessment to audit-ready evidence — and the price is on the page.
- AI-guided assessments — no compliance expertise required
- Multi-framework: SOC 2, NIST, ISO, CMMC and more, simultaneously
- Continuous compliance integrations and a live Asset Inventory
- Real risk register with bidirectional control mapping
- Evidence and audits — periods, expiry tracking, audit request lists
- Trust Center for customers and auditors — included in every paid plan
- Assess and manage third-party vendors (TPRM)
- Scales from a startup to a multi-entity enterprise
Free forever · Essentials $3,600/yr · Professional $15,000/yr · Enterprise $50,000/yr
Explore the GRC Platform See pricingWhat Makes RealCISO Different
Most GRC tools automate data collection. RealCISO computes intelligence — what matters, what to fix first, and how to prove it to anyone.
AI That Runs the Assessment
Cleo, RealCISO's AI reasoning engine, maps controls across any framework, scores L1–L5 maturity, links uploaded evidence to the controls it satisfies, and generates a prioritized remediation roadmap. Hours compressed to minutes — with every recommendation traceable to your data.
Maturity Trajectory, Not Pass/Fail
Every control is scored L1 Ad-hoc through L5 Optimizing, rolled up to program level and tracked across quarters, with revisions sealed automatically. Boards and auditors see a trend line. How continuous assessment works →
Impact Simulation
Run a what-if before recommending remediation: see the projected score improvement of any fix, computed from the control and risk tree, before you commit resources. No other platform simulates the impact of a control before it's implemented.
Cross-Framework Intelligence
Assess several frameworks in one project. Evidence collected once is credited across every framework automatically through cross-framework control mapping — and when it expires, every framework that relied on it is flagged.
Evidence That Collects Itself
Connect the tools you already run — AWS, Azure, GCP, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Okta, Intune, Jamf, CrowdStrike, Tenable, Qualys and more — and RealCISO pulls configuration every 12 hours, snapshots it as evidence and grades it against automated tests. See every integration →
The Compliance Data Graph
Controls, risks, evidence, vendors, policies and people connected in one structured graph with history on every link. It's why scores are explainable, why one answer satisfies four frameworks, and why the platform gets more valuable every quarter you use it.
Every Framework Your Clients or Business Needs
Pre-built, mapped and included in every plan — no per-framework fees. Start a SOC 2 or CMMC assessment on day one, or run several at once.
Built by Practitioners. Used by Practitioners.
"RealCISO cut our assessment time in half. We used to spend 3 weeks on a NIST gap analysis — now it's done in days. The white-label reporting alone is worth the subscription."
"The multi-tenant dashboard is exactly what we needed. I can see every client's risk posture at a glance. No other vCISO software gives me that enterprise-level view at this price point."
"We added CMMC assessments to our service catalog in two weeks using RealCISO. The pre-built framework templates made it possible without hiring a CMMC specialist."
Rated 4.8/5 across 223 reviews on SourceForge · Ranked #1 vCISO platform on G2, Summer 2026
Not Another Tool Built by Someone Who's Never Done the Work
RealCISO was co-founded by a practicing vCISO and a federal-government-trained software engineer. Every feature was designed by people who've lived this work at scale.
Brian Haugli
Practicing vCISO across SMB, mid-market, healthcare, financial services and government, and author of Cybersecurity Risk Management: Mastering the Fundamentals Using the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (Wiley, 2021). Brian sets RealCISO's product direction from the practitioner's chair.
Nick Hnatiw
Federal-government-trained software engineer who leads RealCISO's engineering team and architecture — the compliance data graph, Cleo, and the integration and audit engines the platform runs on.
RealCISO FAQ
What's the difference between the vCISO Platform and the GRC Platform?
They are the same platform and the same AI engine, licensed two ways. The vCISO Platform is for service providers — MSPs, MSSPs and consultants — who run compliance programs for many clients: a Consultant License plus flat per-client licences from $42 a client per month, with multi-tenant management, white-label delivery and portfolio intelligence. The GRC Platform is for an organization running its own program, from Free to Enterprise. Either way you get the same assessments, frameworks, integrations, risk register, evidence, audits and Trust Center.
Which compliance frameworks does RealCISO support?
SOC 2, NIST CSF 2.0 (and 1.1), ISO/IEC 27001:2022, HIPAA, CMMC 2.0 Levels 1 and 2, NIST SP 800-171 Rev. 3 with SPRS scoring, NIST 800-53, CIS Controls v8, PCI-DSS, FedRAMP, NIST RMF, NIST AI RMF, SEC cybersecurity rules, IRS Publication 1075, GDPR, FTC Safeguards, GLBA, NYS DFS Part 500 and more — assessed together in one project, with evidence credited across every framework it satisfies. Every framework is included in every plan.
Is RealCISO right for my organization?
If you need to prove a security program to a customer, auditor, regulator or insurer — and you would rather run it than outsource it — yes. Small businesses start free and grow into Essentials; mid-market teams run several frameworks on Professional; enterprises run multi-entity programs on Enterprise or Enterprise Plus. If you deliver compliance to clients, the vCISO Platform is built for that.
How much does RealCISO cost?
Prices are published. GRC plans: Free $0, Essentials $3,600 a year, Professional $15,000, Enterprise $50,000, Enterprise Plus scoped to your portfolio. Service providers add client licences from $42 a client per month under a Consultant License. There are no onboarding fees and no per-framework add-ons; Continuous Compliance and third-party risk are $100 a month each and included on Enterprise.
How is RealCISO different from Vanta, Drata or Cynomi?
Those tools report a status. RealCISO computes intelligence: it tracks maturity from L1 to L5 per control over time rather than pass/fail, simulates the score impact of a fix before you commit resources, credits one evidence set across every framework instead of charging per framework, and — for service providers — reads across an entire client book rather than one company at a time. Trust Center is included in every paid plan, and every price is on the pricing page.
What does "compliance intelligence" mean?
Compliance software stores answers in rows. Compliance intelligence connects them: controls, risks, evidence, vendors, policies and people in one structured graph, with maturity scores and history on every link. That is what lets Cleo, RealCISO's AI reasoning engine, explain a score, rank the next fix, draft a board summary or map an uploaded policy to the controls it satisfies — grounded in your data, not a template.
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