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AI-native GRC², for financial institutions

Binnacle

Most GRC platforms see part of the picture.
Binnacle sees the whole institution.

Binnacle is 7T World's AI-native GRC² platform for financial institutions — governance, risk, and compliance, squared. No platform on the market covers more than about half of what an institution actually needs. Binnacle assesses the whole institution across roughly 19 coverage areas, maps to the GRC platform you already run, and hands back a scored posture with a prescription for what to build next.

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1 LAYER 1 Institutional Profile 2 LAYER 2 Organizational Reality 3 LAYER 3 The Prescription

No platform covers everything. Binnacle covers the gap.

Every GRC platform on the market — Archer, LogicGate, ServiceNow, OneTrust, Workiva — covers a portion of what a financial institution actually needs, and rarely more than about half. The rest lives in spreadsheets, inboxes, and institutional memory, invisible until an examiner or a board member asks for it.

Binnacle doesn't ask you to rip any of that out. It's platform-agnostic by design: it maps to the GRC platform you already run, assesses the whole institution across roughly 19 coverage areas — from governance to BSA/AML to information security — and shows you precisely where the gap is and how to close it. Governance, risk, and compliance, squared: the next generation of GRC, built for the entire institution rather than the GRC function alone.

Three layers. The third is the one no other vendor hands you.

Every assessment starts with the facts. The value is in what comes after them.

1

Institutional Profile

The facts every vendor collects — your charter, your products, your footprint, and the regulators who examine you. The table stakes.

2

Organizational Reality

Culture, politics, maturity, and history — where the real work actually lives, and where generic tools go blind. Binnacle assesses it directly.

3

The Prescription

What to build, and in what order. The compensating controls and implementation roadmap that turn an assessment into a plan — the deliverable no other vendor produces.

How Binnacle works

1

Structured intake

Not a questionnaire. Adaptive, AI-guided conversations with your own team, with follow-ups shaped by their answers — across roughly 19 coverage areas, from governance to BSA/AML to information security.

2

Routed by role

An internal coordinator routes each coverage area to the right expert. Contributors have guided conversations and upload documents for AI-assisted review.

3

Approved where it counts

A senior leader — CCO, CRO, or General Counsel — signs off on sensitive areas before anything moves downstream.

4

Assessed and scored

Binnacle produces a configuration blueprint, a gap analysis against your existing platform, and a scored governance, risk, and compliance posture.

5

Prescribed

Compensating-controls recommendations and an implementation roadmap — what to build, in what order — with a stakeholder value summary for the people who have to approve it.

Every stage is captured, so your next examination response is a query against the record rather than a project.

What you walk away with

Not a score and a shrug. A scored posture across governance, risk, and compliance — and the documents that tell you what to do about it.

A scored governance, risk, and compliance posture
A configuration blueprint
A platform gap analysis
Compensating-controls recommendations
An implementation roadmap
A stakeholder value summary
Maintenance and monitoring recommendations

Built to fit how you already work

It maps to your platform, not over it

Binnacle is platform-agnostic by design. It maps to the GRC platform you already run — Archer, LogicGate, ServiceNow, OneTrust, Workiva, and others — reads what you have, and closes the gap. No rip-and-replace, no migration project.

It watches your own documents

Binnacle keeps watch on the governance and policy documents housed and maintained inside it, and flags when they drift out of alignment. Watching the outside regulatory perimeter is Soundings' job.

It's SAR-safe by design

SAR-specific content is handled only in practitioner sessions, per 31 U.S.C. § 5318(g)(2). The platform doesn't collect it — so nothing you put into Binnacle creates a disclosure problem.

Name your GRC platform. We'll show you the half it misses.

Talk to a principal — a founder, not a sales rep. Bring the platform you run today and the areas that keep you up at night, and you'll get an honest read on what Binnacle assesses, where your coverage actually stands, and what a prescription for your institution would look like. The value is the read, whether or not you build with us.

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Binnacle is part of 7T World's compliance core, with Soundings and Plumbline. Every 7T World product is compliance-native by design, and the families compose when you want them to — no product depends on another. View all services →