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Under the hood

Architected for AI from the ground up.

SureCloud is API-first, configured with no-code and grounded in the full history of every record. Anything a human user can do on the platform, Gracie AI can do too.

What used to take months now takes a morning.

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40% faster decision-making
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75% faster time to insight

The legacy GRC architecture problem.

 

Most GRC platforms started as process management tools. They were built on relational databases with risks in one table, controls in another, audits in a third, and vendors somewhere else.


To answer a question that crosses domains, the platform has to join those tables together. To analyse change over time, it has to reconstruct snapshots from audit fields scattered across rows.

When it comes to GRC, there’s a visibility problem.

So then, when AI is bolted on top of that foundation, the model receives a flat, partial view of a single record. It cannot reason across the full relational history of the GRC programme because that history was never stored as one connected thing.
The AI fills the gaps the database left, and hallucinations follow.

In 2024, SureCloud re-architected the platform to remove that constraint.

Four layers. One unique stack.

The stack has four layers, each designed to feed the one above it and ensure Gracie and our products deliver with the necessary context for modern teams.

 

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Products
  • No-code GRC solutions built on 20 years of expertise
  • Built-in or custom no-code tests for continuous monitoring

Orchestration Layer
  • No-code process automation for data capture & workflow
  • 2-way REST API integrations - any system, near real-time
AI Layer
  • AWS Bedrock — secure, region-locked, dynamic
  • LLM (Claude, OpenAl, Google, Meta, Mistral)
  • No-code Al Skills - packaged instructions for use-case context
  • MCP exposes orchestration & data layer to Al

Data Layer
  • Graph API - flexible data querying
    Virtual no-code data model - any structure & relationship
  • Event-sourced DynamoDB - immutable ledger, horizontally scalable, point-in-time truth

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An event-sourced data layer

SureCloud begins with a scalable event store that captures every change as an immutable, time-stamped event.

  • When a control is added to mitigate a risk, that event is appended to the risk record.
  • When that risk is later associated with a vendor managing the control, the event is appended again.

The result is an organised, relational, built-up history of everything that has happened across the platform.

In practice, a question like "which third parties were processing this regulated data when control X was last tested, and what changed in the six months before?" is one query for Gracie AI, not a day’s project.

Why this matters for Gracie

You cannot retrofit an AI layer. The benefits compound at every step.
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1. Reasoning across the full history, not just snapshots

Because every change is an event, Gracie reasons across what happened, when it happened, and what changed. A relational-table architecture has to reconstruct the same timeline from audit logs, often incompletely. 

2. Richer context, fewer hallucinations

Most GRC tools pass a prompt directly to an AI model with limited surrounding context. Gracie does not.

  1. Gracie pulls structured context from the event store. It does not invent connections that the database never captured, because the connections are already there.
  2. Skills help to define the output, format and tone of the AI, acting as a guardrail that ensures what you receive is what you actually intended.
  3. Personas define the specific views and permissions of agents meaning the insights shown come only from the same data available to the human user. The AI does not try to fill the gaps.
  4. All AI actions show the reasoning behind each decision and an evidence trail proving version control and whether AI (prompted or agent) has made a change.

3. Action, not just analysis

Gracie isn’t just a chatbot but can pull on over 200 tools to update records, draft control tests, initiate new workflow stages, and uncover cross-functional questions. Every action is bounded by the user's permissions and the AI Persona's authority. 

4. Collaboration amongst senior agents

When a question crosses GRC functions (E.g a new regulation, a critical incident, a vendor failure), Gracie Personas can convene on it inside a governed, observable process. Each contributes from its dataset and their contributions are combined into one coherent response. Rather than using agents in silo, Personas allow them to be used as a team of domain experts convening on a single question. 

5. Governance built in, not bolted on

 Every action a Gracie agent takes or is prompted by a human is captured in the event-sourced log that cannot be rewritten. Any change an agent makes can be rolled back cleanly. Every Persona inherits the platform's permissions model and human checkpoints are fully flexible to be defined at each step. 

What this means for your programme

The questions worth asking any GRC vendor evaluating an AI strategy are these. Where does the data live? How is change captured? How does the AI reach the data? Who controls what the AI can see and do? Where is the audit trail?
SureCloud's answers are the same answers at every layer. Data lives in an event-sourced store. Change is captured as immutable events. The AI reaches data through MCP and the platform API. Personas, Skills and the platform's permissions model control AI authority. The audit trail is the database.


For GRC practitioners, the practical effect is fewer disconnected tools, fewer manual reconciliations, and an AI that can be trusted because every action is visible, scoped, and reversible.
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