Compliance Essentials Platform
AI-Enhanced Compliance, Built for Real Audits
Automate policy reviews, evidence collection, and framework mapping across 100+ frameworks, with AI that's more accurate than generic tools.
Agentic Compliance
Compliance Essentials goes beyond simple automation, enabling AI agents to actually execute compliance work. The platform uses open APIs and MCP to connect to whatever AI assistant you're already using and make it an expert on your specific compliance program. Instead of generic responses, your agent works with live compliance data to answer audit questions, surface outstanding evidence, and generate reports on demand.
No Custom Integrations Required
Coalfire Compliance Essentials easily connect to hundreds of MCP-compatible sources including Jira, GitHub, Microsoft 365, and your existing cloud infrastructure, for automated evidence collection right out of the box.
Want to go a step further? Open APIs let you build exactly what your program needs.
Compliance Essentials Capabilities
Continuous Compliance for Year-Round Audit Readiness
Replace repetitive, point-in-time audit processes with seamless year-round program management across 100+ frameworks, including FedRAMP, PCI, ISO, SOC, HIPAA, and HITRUST. The Continuous Compliance Module gives stakeholders a single dashboard view of program-level activity, visibility, and reporting at any time.
Common Evidence Library for Faster Entry into New Markets
Never start from scratch when pursuing a new framework. The Common Evidence Library lets you share evidence between frameworks, identify and eliminate duplicate work, and apply existing assessment work to new standards.
With the help of Compliance Essentials, Coalfire clients pursuing PCI SAQ compliance have used their existing SOC 2 assessments to identify overlapping requirements and accelerate planning, cutting preparation time significantly.
AI-Powered Evidence Collection to Reduce Engineering Cost
API integration, pre-loaded frameworks, and instant AI agent integrations through Compliance Essentials MCP server. Audit AI automatically reviews policies and documentation against standards, so your team spends less time on manual checks and more time closing gaps. Automate evidence mapping for 100+ frameworks with a single plug-in, reducing duplication of efforts.
Integrated Risk Management to Stay Ahead of Threats
The platform’s Risk Register helps teams track, quantify, and treat organizational risks before they become threats. Integrate risk management practices into compliance frameworks to enhance resilience and ensure proactive risk mitigation, keeping policies current and aligned across every framework.
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“By leveraging the 'Continuous Compliance module in Compliance Essentials,' we shortened the overall compliance assessment duration by 4 weeks.”
Rachel Gardner, Information Security Compliance Program Manager, AnewHealth (Formerly Tabula Rasa Healthcare)
“We were able to achieve SOC 2 type 2 audit within 6 months using the evidence already gathered for PCI compliance and mapped in Compliance Essentials Platform”
Jon Castaldo, Information Security Manager, Effectual
Compliance automation, backed by 1 million hours of real-world experience
People + Tech
Unmatched combination of assessment expertise and a compliance automation platform helps achieve outcomes faster and simplify your compliance program.
30+ Sites covered by a single assessment, reusing data to consolidate compliance
10x Framework expansion, leveraging shared evidence to scale coverage without adding workload
$1M+ Saved through automated evidence collection
People
With over 600 framework-specific experts and the experience of more than 1 million assessment hours, Coalfire brings unmatched audit depth to every compliance program.
Platform
Compliance Essentials automates evidence collection and framework mapping across 100+ frameworks. Audit AI accelerates policy and documentation review to flag gaps before they become findings.
Outcome
Spend less time on manual review, enter new markets faster, and stay audit-ready year-round—all while reducing the overall cost of compliance.
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