Everyone’s talking about AI. Riskonnect is wiring it into the core.
In late June, the integrated risk management software provider launched a new AI governance solution designed to help organizations manage the risks and compliance headaches that come with adopting artificial intelligence. Rather than bolt on a separate oversight tool, Riskonnect embedded governance directly into its broader GRC platform—meaning companies can track AI risk alongside cybersecurity, third-party, and operational threats in one place.
The product comes preloaded with frameworks tied to the EU AI Act, ISO 42001, NIST’s AI RMF, and GDPR. It’s an unusually comprehensive move for a risk software vendor. “AI has the power to unlock extraordinary value, but only if it’s governed with intention and integrity,” said Kathryn Carlson, Riskonnect’s Chief Product Officer. In other words, automate smarter, but stay out of court.
That’s not the only way Riskonnect is betting on AI. In March, it added new features to its healthcare solution that use AI to auto-classify incidents and predict their severity, accelerating triage and helping clinicians prioritize what matters. The tools are part of Riskonnect’s “Intelligent Risk” suite, and were designed specifically to reduce investigation time and decision fatigue for nurses and patient safety teams.
And just last month, Riskonnect announced a partnership with AlertMedia to integrate emergency communications into its business continuity platform. The goal is to eliminate silos during crises, sync contacts and messaging in real time, and give users a single interface for everything from threat intelligence to post-incident recovery. “In a crisis, time and clarity are everything,” Carlson said. With the integration, prebuilt templates and real-time data now flow through the same system, which may help prevent the kind of delays that have made risk response one of the most fragmented functions inside large organizations.
From governance at the board level to care decisions in hospitals to mass alerts during natural disasters, Riskonnect is trying to prove that AI could be the connective tissue of modern risk strategy. Whether the market agrees remains to be seen. But they’re not waiting around to find out.