A founder note
Every security team has to manage third-party risk. Almost none of them feel good about how they do it.
I've been a CISO for over a decade. I've owned the vendor risk program at multiple companies, with budgets that ranged from generous to nonexistent. And every time, I had the same thought: this whole process is held together with spreadsheets and questionnaires nobody trusts.
Vendors give you the answers you want to hear. Assessments take 4 to 6 weeks each, by which point the risk landscape has already shifted. Every company asks vendors to fill out the same questionnaire from scratch, so the industry burns millions of hours duplicating work that nobody really reads.
The legacy TPRM platforms are slow, click-heavy, and built around six-week assessment cycles that don't match how programs actually run anymore. Whether you have one analyst or ten, every workflow feels like wading through molasses. The spreadsheet trackers don't survive past a handful of vendors. The general-purpose GRC suites bury vendor risk under a hundred other modules. The scoring services tell you a vendor's external posture but can't read a SOC 2 or follow up on an exception.
So I built the thing I wanted to use. A platform with an AI analyst that actually reads documents and assessments. A shared trust network where vendors maintain their security profile once and every customer on the network benefits. Continuous external monitoring, supply chain visibility, and a workflow that respects how security teams actually spend their time.
3PRM exists because the security teams running vendor risk today deserve better tools than the ones they have. Every feature in the platform exists because it was needed in a real program, not because it sounded good in a roadmap.
If you're rebuilding your vendor risk program, or standing one up from scratch, I'd love to walk through it with you.
Daniel Costantino
Founder & CEO, The Pylon Group