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.
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.
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
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.
API-first orchestration
Every action in SureCloud is API-driven whilst no-code process automation handles data capture and workflows.
Bi-directional REST integrations connect to any system in near real-time and our out-the-box library includes more than 150 pre-built connectors, with customers even able to easily build their own.
A secure, dynamic, multi-model AI layer
Gracie AI is built on four architectural parts:
- Agents give Gracie reach across SureCloud products, workflows, and records to perform fully autonomous tasks in the background, with humans there to validate at each desired stage.
- Personas define the role each agent fills: E.g Risk Manager, Control Tester, Internal Auditor. An agent acting in a Risk Manager Persona can only see and do what a Risk Owner is entitled to see and do. So instead of just asking an agent to do something, each Persona acts as a lens, providing context and insight to do the job the way a specialist would.
- Skills encode 20 years of SureCloud GRC expertise, and each customer's own way of working, into reusable, governed activity templates. Skills are markdown-based and built no-code. A Skill can call another Skill.
E.g A ‘Custom GDPR guidance’ Skill to provide specific criteria tailored to your organization's policies or an ‘Audit findings’ Skill to format raw observations into severity and impact. - A dynamic Gracie interface that provides support on active tasks that agents aren’t doing in the background. E.g Updating a specific set of records, creating a reactive report, gathering breaking insights.
Underneath, our AI runs on Amazon Bedrock with dynamic model selection routed by activity complexity: E.g lightweight models for record creation, premium reasoning models for multi-framework gap analysis. All tasks are region-locked and no customer data is used for training or sent back to the model provider. Every request is routed through MCP first, so the model receives only the relevant, structured, tenant-scoped context it needs to give a precise answer.
A product layer enriched with 20 years of GRC expertise
SureCloud provides a series of pre-built GRC products across Risk, Compliance, TPRM, Business Continuity & Resilience, Internal Audit, Privacy, Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM). But users can engage with our no-code model to customize these or even create their own Custom applications.
This is the layer most buyers see first. It is also the layer that benefits most from the three underneath it, because every solution shares the same event-sourced data model, the same API surface, and the same Gracie capabilities.
Why this matters for Gracie

1. Reasoning across the full history, not just snapshots
2. Richer context, fewer hallucinations
Most GRC tools pass a prompt directly to an AI model with limited surrounding context. Gracie does not.
- Gracie pulls structured context from the event store. It does not invent connections that the database never captured, because the connections are already there.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
4. Collaboration amongst senior agents
5. Governance built in, not bolted on
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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