Compare · software trust evidence
Your org-level control program vs the software evidence behind it
A GRC platform manages your organizational control program, policies, and questionnaires. OpenSoyce records the change-by-change software evidence chain — dependencies, CI, packages, AI agents — and the human decision made on each finding.
| GRC platform | Software evidence layer | |
|---|---|---|
| What it produces | Org control program, policies, questionnaire records | A signed, buyer-readable software evidence packet |
| Scope | Organization-level controls and attestations | Change-by-change dependency, CI, package, AI-agent evidence |
| The human decision | Control ownership and review cadence | The risk decision per finding, with owner and expiry |
| Buyer can independently check | Reviewer reads the program attestation | Buyer checks the signature for integrity and origin |
| Re-run vs durable record | Periodic control reviews on a cadence | A durable record bound to the exact change |
What grc platforms do well
GRC platforms are the system of record for your control program. They hold your policies, map controls to a framework, route questionnaires and vendor reviews, and track ownership and review cadence across the org. For program-level governance — what controls exist, who owns them, when they were last reviewed — that breadth is exactly the job.
Where the scope stops
A GRC platform tracks controls and attestations at the organizational level, so the change-by-change software signals — the exact dependency version that merged, the CI run, the package provenance, the AI agent that touched a repo — sit outside its scope. The decision a reviewer made on a specific finding, bound to its source and independently checkable, lives in a different layer.
What software evidence layer adds
OpenSoyce observes your dependency, CI, package, and AI-agent evidence and binds each item to its source. It records the human risk decision alongside each finding, including risk-acceptance entries with an owner and an expiry that document the call without hiding the original finding. It surfaces contradictions between sources as review signals, then signs the result into a buyer-readable packet, dossier, and JSON export. A buyer can independently check the signature, which attests integrity and origin only. This is control-review evidence that may support SOC 2 reviews.
When to use which
Use both. A GRC platform runs your org-level control program and questionnaire workflow; OpenSoyce records the change-by-change software evidence and the decision a reviewer can independently check. They are complementary layers — the program lives in one, the per-finding software evidence chain lives in the other.
The boundary
OpenSoyce preserves and explains the evidence and the decision around it; it does not certify, verify, or approve anything. A signature attests integrity and origin, not that a finding is resolved, and your buyer's policy decides trust.