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REGULATORY CHANGE MANAGEMENT

A new regulation issues every 6 minutes. Archer is built for that pace. 

The foundation of every risk program is regulation. Archer Evolv closes the governance gap with full audit lineage from source to evidence.

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600+ 

Regulatory changes ingested every day

25+

years as the enterprise system of intelligence for GRC 

95%

Extraction accuracy after expert review (vs ~70% from generic LLMs) 

50% 

of clients in Fortune 500

38

of the Top 50 Banks use Archer

ANALYST REPORT

Recognized as a Market Leader by Industry Analysts

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Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Governance, Risk and Compliance Tools, Assurance Leaders

Forrester Wave™: Third-Party Risk Management Platforms, Q1 2026

Verdantix Green Quadrant: GRC Software 2025

REGULATORY CHANGE IS ACCELERATING

GRC was not built for the pace of regulatory change.

Regulatory change has outgrown the systems built to manage it. Most enterprises run their compliance programs on GRC foundations built decades ago, while regulators ship more changes, faster, across more domains than at any point in the last twenty years. Three forces are widening the governance gap.

THE PACE OF CHANGE

Regulatory output now exceeds what any compliance team can manually track.

Regulatory change has outgrown the systems built to manage it. Most enterprises run their compliance programs on GRC foundations built decades ago, while regulators ship more changes, faster, across more domains than at any point in the last twenty years. Three forces are widening the governance gap.

RULES IN MOTION

Regulations don't just keep changing. They keep changing direction.

Section 1071 was issued, unwound, and re-issued. Section 1033 ran three versions in parallel. The CFPB overdraft rule was finalized and then nullified. Rules no longer hold still long enough for compliance teams to retool. By the time a control is deployed, the underlying obligation has moved.

NEW AI REGULATIONS

New regulatory frontiers are
arriving faster than oversight can be built.

The EU Al Act activates high-risk enforcement August 2, 2026, with penalties up to €35 million or 7 percent of global turnover. Gartner ranks Al regulation a top research topic. The next frontier is opening before the last one closed.

The choice is no longer whether AI runs inside the enterprise. It is which AI is defensible.

WHAT IS ARCHER EVOLV™ 

From regulatory source to audit evidence, with lineage all the way through.

Horizon scanning across authoritative regulatory sources, powered by compliance-trained AI  

Obligation extraction with calibrated confidence and full audit lineage  

Continuous control mapping, policy alignment, and assurance evidence  

Scenario analysis to model regulatory impact before a rule lands

Archer Evolv connects regulatory change to obligations, controls, policies, and assurance evidence. Deploy standalone or as an extension of any existing Archer GRC installation. On-prem or SaaS. No migration required.

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THE ARCHER EVOLV PORTFOLIO

Three connected solutions on one data foundation. 

Archer Evolv is the enterprise GRC portfolio built for complex regulatory environments. Compliance, Risk, and Intelligence are the solutions that run on it today. Each shares the same core model, audit plane, and orchestration fabric.

COMPLIANCE

Archer Evolv Compliance

Regulatory intelligence, obligation management, control mapping, policy alignment, and audit evidence, all governed with auditable lineage from source to assurance. 

RISK

Archer Evolv Risk

Enterprise, operational, IT, third-party, and AI risk management on a unified data model. Quantified scoring, continuous control assurance, and board-ready reporting. 

INTELLIGENCE

Archer Evolv Intelligence

Strategic scenario simulation, what-if analysis, and forward-modeling for market entry, M&A, product launch, and regulatory readiness for DORA and the EU AI Act. 

AI AGENTS ARE OUTPACING GOVERNANCE

Archer Evolv engineers a governed agent workforce.

The agents are useful. The agents are productive. Productivity without governance is exposure. Archer Evolv engineers every agent inside the control environment to be identity-bound, scope-constrained, audit-emitting, and expert-supervised. Without slowing what they can do.

GENERIC AI AGENT

Impressive in demos. Indefensible in audits. 

Foundation model with a prompt and discretion to call tools 

No native identity binding or scope constraint 

Outputs without calibrated confidence or justification 

Locked to one LLM provider 

Generic LLMs run 26% to 94% error rates on compliance queries 

ARCHER EVOLV

Engineered as a governed actor

Identity-bound (SAML/OIDC + SCIM 2.0) and scope-constrained 

Every action emits a structured, immutable audit record 

Calibrated confidence and justification on every output

Multi-provider model fabric — no LLM vendor lock-in 

Expert-in-the-Loop supervision from 130+ regulatory specialists 

95% extraction accuracy after expert review 

The Adaptive loop that runs the program.

Engineered around a continuously running loop that powers the entire compliance program. 

01

Listen

Monitor authoritative sources for material regulatory change. 

02

Decide

Prioritize obligations against standards, appetite, and context.

03

Act

Route work with context, assign owners, trigger governed execution. 

04

Assure

Produce controls, tests, attestations, and evidence with full lineage. 

05

Learn

Refine recommendations from outcomes and expert signal. 

THE DIFFERENTIATION

Three pillars: the combination no one can replicate.

AI Built for GRC

Purpose-built AI to interpret obligations, identify changes, and route them through the control fabric. 526 proprietary models trained on regulatory and GRC data since 2017. 

METRIC

95%

Extraction accuracy after expert review.

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Contextual intelligence to fuel AI

Contextual intelligence drives responsible adoption of AI

METRIC

22M

Authoritative Sources

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Engineered for regulatory change

Workflows, decision support, and lineage from regulation to control to evidence. Engineered for compliance and risk teams, not retrofitted from productivity tools or generic platforms. 

METRIC

50+

AI Operators on the Listen, Decide, Act, Assure, Learn loop.

BUILT FOR YOUR FUNCTION

Wherever you sit in compliance, risk, or audit, Archer meets you there. 

From the boardroom to the analyst's desk, Archer Evolv connects strategy to evidence. Choose your function to see how Evolv changes the work, the proof, and the outcomes for your team. 

AI Build for GRC

Purpose-built AI to interpret obligations, identify changes, and route them through the control fabric. 526 proprietary models trained on regulatory and GRC data since 2017. 

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Risk leaders

Quantify exposure, model strategic decisions, and align risk appetite to the business plan. CRO, Head of Enterprise Risk, Head of Op Risk. 

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Security & IT 

Set the AI procurement bar, govern identity and audit, and protect data sovereignty. CISO, CIO, Head of AI Risk. 

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Practitioners 

Move from reading regulations to running them. Spend more time on judgment, less on assembly. Compliance Analysts, Risk Managers, Reg Affairs. 

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Audit & assurance 

Sample AI-driven decisions with confidence. Reconstruct who, what, why, and at what confidence, years later. CAE, Audit Directors, Assurance Managers. 

EARLY ADOPTER OUTCOMES

Measurable results in the first year.

Early adopters Archer Evolv report payback under three years and material gains across cost, capacity, and cycle time. 

40-60%

Reduction in operating costs

20-40%

Reduction in regulatory change cycle times

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<3yrs

Typical payback period

40-60%

Increase in research capacity

Proven at global scale

A global financial services company deployed Archer Evolv Compliance across 15 countries and 2,100 users in 7 months. Typical deployment is six weeks with no custom development required.

15

Countries

2100

Users

7

Months rollout

Solutions for all your GRC needs

Audit management

Implement a risk-based approach to audit management, streamlining the entire audit process in one system.

Enterprise and Operational Risk Management

Define and support your company’s risk management program in one central location.

ESG management

Access assessment, mapping, monitoring, reporting and quantification of your sustainability practices.

Resilience Management

Anticipate and plan for your company’s future challenges.

IT & Security Risk Management

Build a strategy to manage technology and cybersecurity risk.

Public Sector

Customize our platform to the unique needs of your government agency.

Regulatory and
Corporate Compliance

Consolidate your compliance and assurance activities into a single strategy.

Third Party Risk Management

Automate and streamline oversight of vendor relationships.

Risk Management Information System

Reduce loss, maximize insights and streamline incident capture with a user-friendly product accessible by your entire enterprise.

NEWS AND EVENTS

What's new at Archer

Archer Evolv - No DIY or generic AI approach can replicate.

See how human-in-the-loop trained AI, twenty-five years of GRC data, and audit-grade workflows come together inside the control fabric. Built for compliance. Not retrofitted.

Built for compliance. Powered by intelligence.

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