Archer is a private software company focused on governance, risk, and compliance and integrated risk management. Its platform helps organizations connect regulatory change, compliance obligations, enterprise and operational risk, audit activity, third-party exposure, ESG priorities, AI governance, and resilience planning in a more unified operating model.
The portfolio is anchored by Archer Evolv, Archer’s AI-powered SaaS offering for modern GRC programs, alongside established domain products such as Archer Insight, Archer Audit Management, Archer Third-Party Risk Management, and Archer Resilience Management. Across the portfolio, Archer emphasizes automation, quantitative analysis, scenario modeling, and audit-ready evidence so risk and compliance teams can move faster and make more defensible decisions.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
Archer delivers a configurable risk management environment that brings together risk, compliance, audit, policy, and resilience data on a shared foundation. Its capabilities span regulatory intelligence, obligation management, control mapping, policy alignment, risk assessment, issue tracking, quantitative exposure analysis, and resilience planning.
Archer also supports broader operating-model integration by connecting internal stakeholders with third parties and by extending assurance into technical environments. Its continuous controls monitoring capabilities integrate with cloud platforms, identity systems, directory services, and IT infrastructure through read-only connections. Archer supports SaaS deployment and also positions Archer Evolv to extend existing Archer environments without requiring a full platform replacement.
Products and Services
- Archer Evolv: Archer’s flagship AI-powered SaaS portfolio for modern GRC programs, providing the shared foundation for connected compliance, risk, and decision intelligence.
- Archer Evolv Compliance: AI-powered compliance solution for regulatory change monitoring, obligation extraction, control mapping, policy alignment, and audit-ready evidence.
- Archer Evolv Risk: Unified risk solution for operational, enterprise, IT, third-party, and resilience risk with AI-driven scoring, exposure analysis, and remediation workflows.
- Archer Evolv Intelligence: Scenario simulation layer that models the regulatory and operational impact of proposed business changes and links decision analysis to compliance and risk data.
- Archer AI Governance: Solution for governing AI use across the organization through AI inventory management, policy and control libraries, assessments, and regulatory compliance workflows.
- Archer ESG Management: ESG and sustainability management application for collecting, mapping, monitoring, reporting, and quantifying ESG data and related business risk.
- Archer Audit Management: Risk-based audit solution that centralizes audit planning, engagements, workpapers, issues, and collaboration with risk and compliance teams.
- Archer Insight: Risk quantification offering that helps organizations measure and prioritize financial and non-financial risk exposure using quantitative analytics.
- Archer Third-Party Risk Management: Third-party risk solution for cataloging vendor relationships, running assessments, monitoring performance, and managing lifecycle risk across the supplier ecosystem.
- Archer Resilience Management: Operational resilience solution for identifying critical products, services, processes, systems, and dependencies, then planning and testing response capabilities.
- Archer Continuous Controls Monitoring: Continuous assurance capability that verifies IT, cloud, and identity controls, detects drift, and automates evidence collection for compliance and control health.
- Archer Insight Workbench: Purpose-built risk modeling tool for analysts to create and test quantitative scenarios for deeper decision support.
- Archer Engage for Vendors: Mobile-friendly external collaboration interface that helps third parties complete assessments and submit risk data directly into Archer workflows.
- Archer Document Governance: Document and policy governance offering for managing critical content securely as part of broader risk and compliance processes.
Target Customers
Archer targets mid-market to large enterprises and public-sector organizations that operate in complex, highly regulated environments or need stronger enterprise-wide risk visibility. Financial services, healthcare, technology, and government are clear focus sectors, and the platform also fits organizations building formal audit, ESG, resilience, and third-party risk programs.
Primary buyers and users include enterprise risk leaders, compliance teams, internal audit, technology and security risk functions, resilience teams, ESG leaders, and program owners responsible for AI and vendor governance. Archer is well suited to organizations replacing siloed processes and spreadsheets with standardized workflows, shared data, and clearer decision support across multiple lines of business.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplace
- AWS Marketplace: Archer has a verified AWS Marketplace presence for Archer SaaS, positioning its risk, compliance, audit, ESG, resilience, and related offerings for procurement and deployment through AWS.
Key People
- Bill Diaz: Chief Executive Officer
- Bill Razzino: Chief Financial Officer
- Kayvan Alikhani: Chief Product & Technology Officer
- Jeff Longoria: Chief Commercial Officer
- Rishi Roy: Chief Transformation Officer
- Kevin Bobowski: Chief Marketing Officer
- Rosemary Haefner: Chief Human Resources Officer
- Mike Ostendorf: Chief Global Services Officer
- Matt Sherrill: General Counsel
Key Facts
- Headquarters: Overland Park, Kansas, United States
- Employees: Approximately 1,000
- Annual Revenue: $150M-$220M
- Parent Company: Cinven
- Subsidiaries: None
- Publicly Listed: Private
Analyst Recognitions
- Gartner: Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Governance, Risk and Compliance Tools, Assurance Leaders (2025).
- Forrester: Leader in The Forrester Wave: Third-Party Risk Management Platforms, Q1 2026.
