Ask your Archer record anything, get an answer
Any record, application, or relationship, in plain language, with no report builder and no export. Work that once waited days comes back in seconds.
Trusted by enterprises across regulated sectors · SOC 2 · ISO 27001
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1,500+
Clients across 48 countries
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50%
Of clients in the Fortune 500
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65%
Of organizations putting more effort into quantification
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15,000+
Members in the Archer risk community
From a two-day data pull to a plain-language answer
A board question or an audit request used to mean a specialist, a report build, and a wait. Foundation lets anyone with permission ask the record directly and returns the answer in seconds with its source attached.
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Ask any record or relationship, no report build
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Answers in seconds, not a two-day data pull
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Every answer cites the record it came from
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Generate board-ready reports in minutes, not days
Clean records in, fast answers out
Foundation delivers three core capabilities that work together.
Ask the record
Anyone with permission queries any record, application, or relationship in plain language across domains, with no report builder and no export.
Records you can trust
Digital workers merge duplicates, flag vague free text that would fail an audit, and reconcile drifted values, so the answer rests on records worth trusting.
Answers with proof
Foundation checks each answer against a curated index of your record and content, then returns the citation, so you see the source, not a guess.
Plain-language access to your record gives you
Foundation replaces specialist gates and manual pulls with instant, cited answers from your system of record.
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Plain-language query
Anyone with permission asks any record or relationship a direct question and gets an answer in seconds, so a specialist and a report build stop gating the work.
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Summaries on demand
Foundation writes a plain-language summary of any dense record or application inside the system of record, so nobody copies text into another tool to read it.
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Cited every time
Each answer returns the citation back to the record it came from, so a reviewer trusts the answer and can open the source in a single click.
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Clean records underneath
Operators merge duplicates, flag vague text, and reconcile drifted values first, so the answer you ask for reads from records that survive an examiner’s follow up.
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Across every domain
One question can cross vendor risk, audit, policy, and a custom app, so the answer reflects the whole program instead of a single silo’s slice of it.
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Inside Archer, nothing moves
Foundation works on the Archer you run today and relocates nothing, so plain-language access is a new way to use your record, not a migration to survive.
Everything you need, nothing you don’t
Plain-language query
Ask any record or relationship, no report build
On-demand summaries
A plain-language read of any record, inside Archer
Cited answers
Every answer links back to the source record
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What your team gains with Foundation
Foundation accelerates the work that once waited for specialist gates and manual data pulls.
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Answer the board in minutes
When leadership asks where risk stands, the honest answer used to be let me pull that together. Foundation lets you ask the record directly and returns a current answer in seconds with its source, so the board sees a live picture.
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Get audit-ready records
Operators flag the vague free text and duplicate entries that clear a workflow but fail an exam, then route a specific fix with a documented trail. Records get audit ready as a matter of course, so the next follow up has an answer waiting.
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Onboard without a manual
A new analyst asks the record what an application does, how a process runs, or where a control is used, and gets a plain-language summary inside Archer, so ramp time drops and tribal knowledge stops walking out the door.
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Board-ready reporting
Generate executive and board reports in minutes instead of days.
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Confident compliance
Stay continuously audit-ready across every framework you operate under.
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Scales with you
Onboard new units, frameworks, and regions without rebuilding your program.
Asking Foundation vs the old data pull
See what changes when anyone can ask the record directly.
The old data pull
Specialist gates, report builds, and days to an answer.
Here’s what you get
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Specialist involvement required
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Report builder or export needed
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Days to an answer
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No source cited with result
Archer Evolv Foundation
Anyone with permission asks and gets an answer in seconds.
Here’s what you get
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Anyone with permission can ask
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Answer in seconds, not days
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No report builder or export
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Source cited with the answer
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Records cleaned underneath first
DIY Compliance
Spreadsheets, shared drives, and tribal knowledge.
Here’s what you get
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Manual tracking
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Custom infrastructure
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Custom updates
Explore Our Case Studies
Eastern Bank Uses Archer to Drive Business Processes and Streamline Compliance
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- View case study: Banorte Bank Gains Accurate Picture of Risk with Archer
- View case study: Intuitive Surgical Migrated to Archer SaaS for their journey to empowered risk management
- View case study: Operational Resilience for Financial Services Institutions
More than 1,500 organizations run on Archer®, including half the Fortune 500 and 37 of the top 50 global banks. See what their teams were up against, what they built, and what changed.
Eastern Bank Uses Archer to Drive Business Processes and Streamline Compliance
Banorte Bank Gains Accurate Picture of Risk with Archer
Intuitive Surgical Migrated to Archer SaaS for their journey to empowered risk management
Operational Resilience for Financial Services Institutions
Trusted by the teams who carry the risk
Risk, compliance, and audit leaders on what changed after Archer Evolv was implemented.
We recognized the need for a GRC software platform that would be central to our ability to improve and transform our enterprise risk and compliance processes.
Archer is the source of truth, and it creates a nice audit trail for us. As an insurance company, we're audited by every governmental entity. Now we can say, here's our repository, take a look.
Risk aggregation is a big point for us, to see where our risk is located within the organization, and to give greater visibility for boards and executives.
Turkcell is using Archer as the main GRC tool in the company. It provides us a transparent and safe governance framework.
Archer gives us the ability to boil things down into numbers and specifics versus generalities. It's management by fact versus intuition or feel.
It connects all the different applications together, so you can use those cross-references and connections to make better business decisions, because you have it all in one place.
Questions we hear most often
Straight answers to what teams ask before adopting Foundation.
Anyone with permission can ask, and every query honors the roles already in Archer, so a person only sees what they are cleared to see. The answer comes back in plain language with the source cited, across any domain they can access.
Foundation checks each answer against a curated index of your record and content, then returns it with the citation attached. On regulatory tasks it holds error under 5%, against 56 to 88% for general models.
No, cleaning is part of the job. Operators merge duplicates, flag vague free text, and reconcile drifted values, and every correction leaves a trail a person can undo. Answers then read from records that get cleaner with each pass.
Both. Archer runs as a multi-tenant SaaS platform or in a private/on-premise configuration to meet your data residency and security requirements.
Pricing scales with modules, users, and deployment model. Contact sales for a tailored quote built around your program’s scope.
