The GRC Platform Designed for Growing Companies.
Multi-framework. Multi-team. Audit-ready. Built for organizations that need real GRC capability without enterprise-level complexity or cost — Professional is $15,000 a year, every framework included.
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G2 Summer 2026 High Performer — Security Compliance, Mid-Market · SourceForge Leader, Summer 2026
Mid-market companies face a GRC gap: you've outgrown spreadsheets and point-in-time assessments, but enterprise GRC platforms require implementation teams and budgets that don't fit your size. You need real capability — several frameworks, distributed ownership, a live risk register and audit-ready evidence — without an 18-month implementation project.
The GRC Gap — and How RealCISO Fills It
Most mid-market companies are caught between tools that are too basic and platforms that are too complex.
Too Basic
- ⚠️ Spreadsheets fall apart at scale
- ⚠️ No cross-framework mapping
- ⚠️ No live risk register
- ⚠️ Evidence collection is manual and siloed
- ⚠️ No ownership tracking or accountability
RealCISO
- ✓ Multi-framework, single project
- ✓ Live risk register with automatic re-scoring
- ✓ Owners and due dates on every gap and evidence period
- ✓ Impact Simulation ranks what to fix first
- ✓ Audits run from a tracked request list
- ✓ Configured in a session — $15,000/yr, prices published
Too Complex
- ❌ Enterprise suites mean long deployments
- ❌ Requires a dedicated admin team
- ❌ Six-figure implementation budgets
- ❌ Designed for enterprise procurement
- ❌ Over-engineered for your team size
Everything a Mid-Market GRC Program Needs
Eight capabilities that give growing companies enterprise-grade GRC — without the enterprise overhead.
Multi-Framework Compliance in One Platform
Manage SOC 2, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, NIST CSF 2.0 and HIPAA simultaneously. One evidence set mapped across all frameworks — cross-framework control equivalencies handle the mapping automatically. Collect once, credit everywhere.
Distributed Ownership With Accountability
Assign control and evidence ownership across IT, legal, HR and operations. Gaps and evidence periods become Planner cards with owners and due dates; My Work shows each person what is theirs; unowned and overdue items surface on the dashboard before they become audit findings.
A Live Risk Register — Not a Spreadsheet
Likelihood and impact scoring, four treatment options, bidirectional control-to-risk mapping. Implement a control and see the effect on linked risks; when control maturity changes, the register re-scores automatically. See risk management →
L1–L5 Maturity — Your Program's Progress Over Time
Track progression across quarters with revisions sealed automatically every quarter. Show the board a trend line, not a checklist, and forecast readiness: "at current velocity, we reach L4 before the renewal." How continuous assessment works →
Audit Preparation Without the Scramble
Seed the audit request list from your framework's assessor requirements, assign owners and due dates, and let fulfilment be computed from evidence actually collected. Export a submission package organized by request with a hashed manifest. A-LIGN auditors connect directly into the platform — rolling out to joint customers. Evidence, reporting & audits →
Vendor Risk That Connects to Your Controls
Send questionnaires through a branded portal, let Cleo score the responses, track findings, and connect each vendor's posture to the controls their systems implement for you. Add-on at $100/mo. See third-party risk →
AI Prioritization — What to Fix First, Backed by Data
Impact Simulation ranks open control gaps by computed score improvement potential, so resource-allocation decisions are grounded in projected impact rather than judgment calls.
Continuous Compliance Integrations
Connect AWS, Azure, GCP, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Okta, Intune, Jamf, CrowdStrike, Tenable, Qualys and more. Configuration is pulled every 12 hours, snapshotted as evidence and graded by automated tests — up to 57% of a full assessment from cloud and identity alone. $100/mo add-on. See every integration →
Go deeper on any capability
The capabilities a multi-framework program runs on, each on its own page.
Professional: $15,000 a Year. Every Framework Included.
No implementation fees, no per-framework surcharges, no renewal surprises.
$15,000
per year, billed annually
- 3 compliance sets, 10 team members
- Custom report templates + revisions
- 100 GB evidence storage
- Trust Center + auditor access
- Priority support, 4 business hours
Continuous Compliance — $100/mo
Automated evidence and 24/7 control tests from your cloud, identity, endpoint, EDR and vulnerability tools. Every future connector included.
Third-Party Risk — $100/mo
Vendor intake, AI-scored questionnaires, branded portal, unlimited vendors.
Outgrowing three compliance sets or need multiple environments? Enterprise is $50,000/yr →
Mid-Market GRC FAQ
Why do mid-market companies need a dedicated GRC platform?
Between 50 and 500 people you have outgrown spreadsheets — several frameworks, owners across IT, legal, HR and operations, a live risk register, auditors every year — but enterprise GRC suites require implementation teams and budgets that don't fit. RealCISO gives you the capability without the deployment project.
Can RealCISO handle multiple compliance frameworks at once?
Yes. Run SOC 2, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, NIST CSF 2.0 and HIPAA in one environment. Answer each control once; cross-framework mapping credits the answer and its evidence to every framework it satisfies, and flags all of them when the evidence expires. Professional includes three compliance sets.
How does RealCISO track ownership and accountability?
Every control gap becomes a Planner card with an owner and due date. Evidence periods create cards for the evidence owner automatically and close when the evidence is collected. My Work shows each person what is theirs across every audit in progress, and overdue items surface on the dashboard.
What is L1–L5 maturity tracking and why does it matter?
Each control is scored L1 Ad-hoc through L5 Optimizing, rolled up to program level and tracked across quarters, with revisions sealed automatically every quarter. It turns a board update from a checklist into a trend line, and it lets you say 'at current velocity we reach L4 before the renewal' with the history to back it.
How long does it take to get audit-ready with RealCISO?
There is no implementation project: environments, frameworks and integrations are configured in a session, not a quarter. Audit readiness then depends on your gaps — the platform tells you which ones matter most through Impact Simulation, and the audit request list shows exactly what an auditor will ask for and what has already been collected.
Can RealCISO manage our vendors and third-party risk?
Yes. Third-party risk management is built in: classify vendors by tier, send AI-scored questionnaires through a branded portal, track findings and connect vendor posture to the controls their systems implement for you. It is a $100-per-month add-on on Professional and included on Enterprise.
How much does RealCISO cost for a mid-market company?
Professional is $15,000 per year: three compliance sets, ten team members, custom report templates and revisions, 100 GB of evidence, Trust Center, auditor access and priority support. Continuous Compliance — automated evidence from your cloud, identity, endpoint and vulnerability tools — is $100 a month. Onboarding is free and every framework is included.
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