6clicks Hailey AI vs. Vanta AI Agent 

Vanta recently introduced the Vanta AI Agent, offering users enhanced automation to help streamline workflows and elevate their compliance programs. While it delivers improvements in efficiency and accuracy, it’s still a long way from matching 6clicks’ Hailey AI: the first truly purpose-built AI for risk and compliance. Let’s compare their capabilities side by side and see what makes Vanta’s agent a notable contender in the space.

Hailey AI: Enterprise-grade AI for smarter GRC

At the heart of 6clicks is Hailey AI, bringing next-level automation across risk, compliance, vendor management, incident management, and audit functions. Unlike conventional AI models, Hailey was purpose-built to address the unique needs of modern organizations and transform traditionally manual processes such as assessments and multi-framework compliance. With the introduction of Hailey Assist, a conversational AI assistant designed to provide instant, secure access to information and better connect teams to their GRC programs, users can leverage comprehensive features such as:

• Automated compliance mapping – Align multiple frameworks such as ISO 27001, DORA, and more and identify unique and similar requirements within seconds.

• Automated gap analysis – Instantly map controls to individual framework requirements and quickly understand your level of compliance.

• Audit & assessment cross-walking – Hailey can automate cross-compliance checking by using past audits or assessments conducted against one framework to identify similar requirements in another.

• Audit & assessment response generation – Expedite audits and assessments with Hailey analyzing previous data or uploaded documentation to generate accurate and consistent responses to repetitive questions.

• Control set creation – Extract controls from policy documents and automatically pre-fill control details, creating complete control sets in one click.

• Control definition & policy description generation – Hailey can easily create control definitions and policy descriptions that align with your compliance requirements.

• Risk & issue generation – Flag risks and issues directly from assessment responses and automatically create corresponding records while linking to relevant data.

• Task generation – Generate risk treatment plans or remediation tasks based on risks, issues, incidents, or custom register items, automatically sequenced and aligned with your data.

• Real-time GRC insights – Get prompt responses to your queries and readily retrieve data such as open incidents, ongoing assessments, critical risks, and other essential information to achieve greater visibility into your GRC program.

• Guided navigation – Hailey Assist helps users maximize their use of 6clicks and swiftly access different parts of the platform, providing links to helpful references such as Knowledge Base articles.

• Context and authorization-aware responses – Hailey’s responses are tailored to the specific context of your organization and GRC program and are subject to the data access permissions of the user, ensuring relevant and secure interactions.

Combining a custom large language model (LLM), retrieval augmented generation (RAG), and machine learning, Hailey has been rigorously trained and tested on extensive datasets covering real-world use cases, allowing it to understand and respond to a wide range of queries and requests using natural language, such as:

Vanta AI Agent: AI-powered support for compliance teams

On the other hand, Vanta is known for its automated compliance solutions across SOC 2, ISO 27001, and more, providing a centralized platform for managing security programs with support for continuous control monitoring, vendor risk management, and audit readiness. Apart from the platform’s Vanta AI suite, which powers various automated processes such as vendor assessment analysis and responses and issue resolution via AI-generated code snippets, the new Vanta AI Agent equips users with AI-driven capabilities similar to Hailey’s, including:

• Policy mapping & management – The AI Agent can extract key information from your policies and provide control mapping suggestions supported by references to relevant policy content. It can also generate a summary of policy changes for leadership approval.

• Policy gap remediation – Easily identify inconsistencies between documented policies and real-world configurations, such as mismatched SLAs, with the AI Agent providing recommendations for resolving gaps.

• Responses to policy-related inquiries – Like Hailey Assist, the Vanta AI Agent can answer questions specific to your program, such as, “Is my risk management policy audit ready?” and provide next-step actions to update or edit your records.

• Evidence verification – Vanta AI Agent can also automate the review of evidence submissions against audit requirements and identify gaps or missing documentation.

Planned enhancements for Vanta’s AI Agent include policy generation, control creation, and additional capabilities aimed at expanding automation across the compliance lifecycle.

Comparing Hailey AI and Vanta AI

To understand how these AI-powered tools stack up in real-world GRC applications, the comparison below outlines the combined strengths of Hailey AI and Hailey Assist versus Vanta AI and its recently launched AI Agent:

While Vanta offers strong AI features like policy-to-control mapping, evidence verification, and conversational Q&A, it falls short in delivering the broader GRC intelligence required for deep, data-driven insights and truly context-aware responses. Hailey stands out with advanced capabilities including multi-framework alignment, assessment cross-walking, end-to-end risk and issue remediation, contextual insights spanning both program-specific data and general GRC guidance, and platform-wide navigation—made possible by its purpose-built design for enterprise-grade GRC. 

Take a closer look:

• Vanta vs. 6clicks

• Understanding Vanta’s limitations: Insights from real user experiences

The verdict: Purpose-built, enterprise-grade AI wins

Overall, Vanta’s AI offerings show meaningful progress, particularly in streamlining compliance workflows and support. However, its capabilities remain relatively narrow, with a focus on compliance efficiency rather than deep GRC intelligence.

Hailey, and 6clicks as a whole, deliver a more comprehensive, enterprise-ready solution: combining contextual awareness, advanced automation, and purpose-built features designed to support the complexity of modern GRC programs.

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