Cos'è il GRC?

GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) è un framework utilizzato dalle organizzazioni per allineare le proprie operazioni alle leggi, gestire l'incertezza e agire con integrità. Anche se il termine deriva dal mondo aziendale, le discipline sottostanti interessano aziende di ogni dimensione.

Where Sustalium fits: across all three layers

GRC platforms — like ServiceNow GRC, RSA Archer, or MetricStream — are built for large enterprises managing thousands of risks, controls, and policies. They cost tens of thousands per year and require dedicated teams.

Sustalium takes a different approach: a structured data platform that serves all three GRC pillars without the enterprise overhead. For Compliance: 110+ pre-built frameworks from Digital Product Passports and CE Mark to REACH, GDPR, and FSMA 204 — hashcode-secured assets, QR codes, multi-language output. For Risk: structured evidence capture — supplier audits, security assessments, customs assets — published as verifiable records. For Governance: version tracking, expiration alerts, and audit trails showing who approved what and when. From €10 per asset.

GRC in practice: a German manufacturer

Here is how the three GRC disciplines play out for a real SME — and how Sustalium connects them:

Governance

A German manufacturing company with 40 employees needs to demonstrate to investors and auditors that it has proper oversight of regulatory obligations. Sustalium tracks when each asset was last updated, which frameworks are approaching expiration, and who approved each version — giving the two founders board-level visibility without a GRC department.

Risk

The same company identifies customs seizure as its biggest operational risk. Using Sustalium, they capture supplier audit reports, REACH substance declarations, and security assessments as structured evidence — not attachments buried in email. When a supplier changes or a new substance restriction is announced, affected assets flag automatically, closing the gap between risk awareness and risk mitigation.

Compliance

With risk evidence structured and governance tracking in place, publishing a REACH declaration becomes a one-click output — not a three-week scramble. The asset is hashcode-secured, publicly verifiable, and linked to the underlying evidence. German market surveillance authorities receive a complete dossier in minutes.

This is GRC for SMEs. Governance provides visibility. Risk captures the evidence. Compliance publishes the proof. Sustalium structures the data that flows between all three.

GRC and ESG: one dataset, multiple frameworks

The structured data you create in Sustalium — compliance assets, risk evidence, governance records — is the same data that feeds ESG reporting and buyer questionnaires. A single dataset serves GRC, ESG, and procurement requirements simultaneously. Enter once, publish everywhere.