Test the control once. Report it to every framework that asks.
Frameworks ask for the same controls in different words. In Archer, author each control once, map it to every standard it answers, and test one time.
25 years building GRC programs · 1,300+ organizations on Archer · 50% of Fortune 500
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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
Map each new requirement onto the controls you already run and test
More than 200 regulatory changes land worldwide every day, and each asks about controls you already run. Most teams answer with another control set and another test cycle. Archer maps your existing controls to the new standard.
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Every regulatory source in one searchable library
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Each control mapped to the standards it satisfies
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One test result reported across every control set
What a compliance team gains from mapping controls to standards
Archer Evolv delivers enterprise capabilities for companies of all sizes.
Author once, map widely
Author a control against every standard it satisfies, and the mapping stays visible. Overlap between frameworks shows up as overlap, not duplicate work.
Test once, report widely
Test the control where it runs, a single time. Results roll up to the primary control, and dashboards report compliance for each control set separately.
Proof when someone asks
Evidence lands in a versioned repository as tests run, tied to the control and the standard it serves. An auditor reads the record, not a rebuild.
How the work goes, from the source document to the evidence file
Archer Evolv is specifically designed to meet the needs of GRC teams and business users.
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Authoritative source library
Map regulations, laws, and standards down to the sub-section, then tie each one to the policies and control standards that answer it. Overlap becomes visible.
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Control standards and controls
Author standards mapped to policies and sources, generate control procedures across processes and systems, and read one compliance rating for each standard.
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Testing and evidence
Run self assessments, design tests, and operating tests from one engagement. Evidence lands in a versioned repository, collected on a schedule where you automate it.
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Policy lifecycle management
Author, review, approve, and publish policies to the people whose jobs require them, and handle exceptions without losing the reasoning behind the decision.
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Regulatory intelligence feeds
Pull regulatory news from prebuilt feeds, your own RSS sources, or manual entry into one standardized library that your whole team searches the same way.
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Structured impact review
Every item runs a review that records the business processes, policies, and controls it affects, so the analysis outlives the analyst who performed it.
Six use cases, one control library sitting underneath all of them
Policy Program Management
Build the policy and control standard library the rest of your program maps to. Author policies against your corporate objectives and authoritative sources, publish them by job function, and read a compliance rating for each standard.
Controls Assurance
Document the control universe once, then generate control procedures across business processes, units, applications, and facilities. Run self assessments, design tests, and operating tests from one engagement, then report compliance by control set.
Corporate Obligations Management
Consolidate regulatory news from multiple bodies into one searchable library, then run each item through a review that documents its effect on your business processes, policies, and controls. Findings and remediation open from the same record.
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Six use cases, one control library sitting underneath all of them
Archer Evolv enables an integrated strategy across your risk and compliance functions.
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Policy Program Management
Policies, standards, and objectives in one library
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Controls Assurance Program
One control universe, tested and rolled up
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Corporate Obligations Management
Regulatory news reviewed and mapped to impact
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Financial Controls Monitoring
SOX narratives, 302 certifications, and PBC lists
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Personal Data Governance
Processing activities, retention, and consent records
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Privacy Program Management
Privacy and data protection impact assessments
How Archer compares to spreadsheets, inboxes, and point tools
See how Archer GRC stacks up against generic tools and custom enterprise builds.
Spreadsheets, inboxes, and point tools
Basic coverage for teams just getting started.
Here’s what you get
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Regulatory change intake: A feed tool does this well, on its own island
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Business impact of a change: Recorded in the email thread that discussed it
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Overlapping requirements: Visible to whoever built the crosswalk
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One control, several frameworks: One test per framework, on separate cycles
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Evidence at audit time: Collected again from the people who hold it
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Policy exceptions: Tracked until the person tracking them moves on
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External auditor access: A shared drive, or a login with too much reach
Archer
Built for teams that need real-time visibility and control.
Here’s what you get
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Regulatory change intake: Lands in the library your controls already sit in
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Business impact of a change: Recorded on the change record, policies and controls named
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Overlapping requirements: Mapped control by control, overlap visible on the record
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One control, several frameworks: One test, results roll to every control set it serves
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Evidence at audit time: Versioned in place, collected on the schedule you set
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Policy exceptions: Tracked through to expiry, reasoning attached
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External auditor access: A scoped role that sees the engagement and nothing else
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: Operational Resilience for Financial Services Institutions
More than 1,300 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 about your compliance program
Straight answers to what enterprise risk and compliance teams ask before choosing Archer.
Yes. Author a primary control against the standards it satisfies, generate procedures across the processes and systems that run it, and test at that level. Results roll up to the primary control, and dashboards report compliance by control set.
Policy Program Management usually goes first, since Corporate Obligations Management depends on it and the rest maps to the standards it holds. Financial Controls Monitoring builds on Controls Assurance, and privacy work starts with Data Governance.
They become the starting content. Author your existing policies into the library, map them to the authoritative sources and control standards they answer, and the work is mapping rather than rewriting. Exceptions carry their reasoning with them.
Both work. Prebuilt feeds cover a range of regulatory bodies, you can build your own RSS feeds through the Data Feed Manager, and analysts can enter items by hand. Whichever route an item takes, it lands in the same library and runs the same review.
The same control library serves audit, IT and security risk, third party, and operational risk on the Archer platform. Financial Controls Monitoring ties general ledger accounts and controls to risks, and privacy work draws on incident data.
Financial Controls Monitoring includes an external audit role scoped for independent review, so an audit firm sees the narratives, controls, and evidence in scope and nothing beyond it. PBC requests run in the same place instead of over email.
No. Evolv Foundation runs as an intelligence layer on the Archer record you already keep, without moving a control, policy, or finding. Evolv Compliance deploys standalone or as an extension of an existing installation, with no migration.
