They digitized the workflow. We changed the sequence.
Existing third-party risk platforms organize the questionnaire process: faster intake, better tracking, cleaner documentation. That digitizes the workflow. It does not change what the work is. Evidence-first diligence starts from what is independently knowable about a third party, and asks only for what cannot be corroborated without them.
Collect. Analyze. Monitor. Recommend.
The order matters more than any single step. Most programs run it backwards, asking first and verifying later, which is why the work is heavy and the answer is stale.
01
Collect
We assemble what is independently knowable about a third party before anyone is asked to fill out a form. Documentation is retrieved on your authority and kept current as new versions are published.
02
Analyze
Our AI reads what risk teams read by hand today, extracting controls, exceptions, subservice organizations, coverage dates, and version changes into structured evidence that can be compared and reused.
03
Monitor
Always-on agents sense signals across six risk domains and correlate every change against the evidence already on file, so a signal becomes a finding only when it is supported.
04
Recommend
A specific, cited recommendation goes to the team that owns the relationship. Where evidence cannot answer a question, a short set of targeted items goes to the third party, never a form with hundreds of questions.
Decisions, not dashboards
Most of what a standard questionnaire asks could be answered from sources that already exist. ThirdPartyIQ collects those sources, reads them, and answers the majority of assessment questions before a question is sent. Only the exceptions go to the third party, as a short set of targeted items.
The risk signals already exist too: financial, cyber, sanctions and watchlists, legal, reputational, and regulatory. Most tools surface them as numbers on a dashboard. ThirdPartyIQ reasons across them, decides whether a change is real risk, and surfaces a specific recommendation backed by cited evidence. AI does the reasoning and shows its work. Your team approves every decision.
Before
A questionnaire with hundreds of questions goes to every third party, regardless of criticality or what is already independently verifiable
With ThirdPartyIQ
Evidence answers the majority of assessment questions first, and only the exceptions go to the third party
Before
Documents are chased by email, then read by hand, one SOC 2 report and one financial statement at a time
With ThirdPartyIQ
Documentation is collected on your authority and read by AI that extracts controls, exceptions, and coverage dates as structured evidence
Before
Third parties spend hours answering the same questions for every buyer, and often deprioritize the smaller requesters
With ThirdPartyIQ
Third-party time drops to minutes: targeted confirmation of what you have already gathered, not a full re-documentation exercise
Before
Annual review cycles miss interim changes, and failures happen between the reviews
With ThirdPartyIQ
Continuous monitoring with alert-based exception handling, every relationship under watch, always
Before
Exam prep concentrated in the weeks before the examination
With ThirdPartyIQ
Exam documentation current at all times, with the record of what triggered every action exportable on request
Regulatory examination procedures are our product specification
Lifecycle documentation, not point-in-time snapshots
OCC, FDIC, CFPB, and NCUA and most other regulator guidance requires documentation across the full third-party lifecycle: pre-contract due diligence, ongoing monitoring, contract management, and termination. ThirdPartyIQ structures the workflow around that lifecycle, so every stage produces the documentation examiners look for.
Proportionate to criticality
Examiner guidance is explicit: the depth of due diligence and monitoring should be proportionate to the risk and criticality of each relationship. Risk-tiering and workflow configuration reflect that, so critical relationships get substantively deeper treatment without manual customization for every review.
Board and management reporting
Examiners expect your board and senior management to receive regular third-party risk reporting. ThirdPartyIQ maintains the portfolio view and exception log that feeds those reports, without a separate manual compilation step.
Demonstrable oversight of AI tools
Regulators are actively examining how institutions use AI in compliance and risk workflows. Because every output is cited, logged, and approved by a named person, you can demonstrate oversight of the tool to your examiner rather than assert it.
The regulatory standard for third-party risk has changed
OCC, FDIC, CFPB, and NCUA updated their third-party risk guidance between 2023 and 2024, raising the documentation and monitoring bar explicitly. Examiners look for evidence of ongoing oversight rather than periodic questionnaires, and for documentation showing the institution understands its dependencies, including concentration risk across shared infrastructure. AI is what makes continuous, evidence-based diligence viable at that scale, so meeting the bar no longer means hiring a larger team.
OCC Bulletin 2023-17
Third-party relationships: risk management guidance, covering lifecycle management and ongoing monitoring
FDIC FIL-29-2023
Third-party risk management guidance aligned with the interagency statement
NCUA Letter to Credit Unions
Third-party due diligence and ongoing oversight expectations
FFIEC IT Examination Handbook
Management of service providers and technology concentration risk
NACHA Operating Rules (2026)
Payment-originator fraud monitoring in effect, requiring ongoing counterparty oversight for originating financial institutions
Nothing to rip out
ThirdPartyIQ works alongside the GRC, third-party risk, and procurement systems your organization already has, and just as well for teams running on spreadsheets and email. We make the systems you already own more valuable by supplying the evidence and the reasoning they were never built to produce.
See the approach in your program context
Walk us through your current third-party risk program and upcoming examination schedule. We'll show you specifically where ThirdPartyIQ changes the work.
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