Cleo is RealCISO’s AI reasoning engine — purpose-built for compliance teams. It reads your entire compliance graph, understands your gaps, and gets you audit-ready faster than any manual process.
Cleo has direct access to your entire compliance data graph — Controls, Risks, Evidence, Vendors, Policies, and People. It understands your maturity levels, regulatory requirements, and audit timelines. Then it acts.
Every recommendation Cleo makes is grounded in your actual project data — not templates, not guesswork. It knows your current score, your gaps, and exactly which remediation steps will move the needle most before your audit.
What Cleo Does
Cleo runs five distinct job types — each one turning raw compliance
data into something your team can act on immediately.
Cleo analyzes your control-risk graph, calculates impact, and generates a prioritized remediation workflow — ranked by score improvement potential, not gut feel.
Example
Upload any file — policy PDF, audit report, screenshot, vendor contract. Cleo performs OCR and semantic analysis, then maps it to your controls with confidence scores.
Example
Upload a customer RFP or security questionnaire. Cleo maps your existing evidence to every question and drafts responses — only flagging the gaps you actually need to fill.
Example
Cleo ranks your top risks by severity and audit proximity, then generates a C-suite summary with trend lines, maturity velocity, and a clear audit readiness signal.
Example
Running NIST CSF 2.0, HIPAA, and SOC 2 simultaneously? Cleo maps one evidence set to all applicable frameworks at once — no duplicate work, no separate projects.
Example
Real-World Scenario
See how a vCISO uses Cleo to onboard a new healthcare client
— from first assessment to audit day.
Cleo assists the client through the assessment, pre-filling context from existing evidence and flagging 37 compliance gaps at completion. What normally takes a full day takes a morning.
Cleo generates a ranked remediation plan: MFA implementation first (+15% score), access review formalization (+8%), vendor assessment process (+5%). The vCISO reviews, approves, and assigns tasks in minutes.
Client uploads MFA policy → Cleo links to AC-2 and AC-3 (92%, 87% confidence) → control maturity jumps L1→L2. Cleo sends timeline alerts: “Task XYZ due in 3 days per audit schedule.”
Cleo produces a one-page board summary: “Access Control L3.2 — audit expects L3.0, ready. Top risk: Backup/Recovery still at L1.5. 30 days to audit.” Client pivots to the right priority immediately.
The auditor sees not just a point-in-time snapshot but a Cleo-guided maturity journey — every control, every evidence item, every improvement documented and explainable.
How We Compare
| Capability | RealCISO (Cleo) | Drata | Vanta | Cynomi |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI-native workflow generation | ✓ Cleo generates ranked tasks | Manual checklists | Wizard-driven | Manual |
| Graph-based reasoning | ✓ Understands control-risk relationships | Flat data model | Separate modules | Limited |
| Evidence auto-linking | ✓ OCR + semantic matching | Manual mapping | — | Limited |
| Multi-framework single assessment | ✓ One assessment, all frameworks | One framework per project | Multiple projects | — |
| RFP / questionnaire generation | ✓ Cleo drafts from your evidence | — | — | — |
| Privacy-first, in-environment | ✓ Data stays in your cloud instance | API-dependent | Cloud-dependent | Unclear |
“Cleo doesn’t just tell us what’s wrong — it tells us exactly what to fix first, links our evidence automatically, and produces board-ready reporting in seconds. It’s the only AI that actually understands our compliance program.”
— vCISO with a healthcare client portfolio
Built Different
Book a 30-minute demo and watch Cleo analyze your gaps, generate a
remediation workflow, and link evidence — live, on your actual project.