Polestead exists because the standard way of managing third-party risk starts from the wrong place — an external scan — and prices coverage so high that teams assess a shortlist and hope. We think the whole register deserves attention, and that your most sensitive data deserves to stay yours.
Every vendor is classified by what they hold of yours across six access vectors, and assessment depth follows from that. The platform runs where you decide — up to fully air-gapped — so the tool you adopt to manage risk never becomes a new one. That's the whole idea: coverage that's complete, effort that's proportionate, and data that stays in your jurisdiction.
Coverage should never be a budget line you defend. The risky vendor is often the one no one nominated.
Where your data can be compelled matters more than where a server sits. Self-host and the question disappears.
Pricing on the page, public release notes, a free Trust Center. We'd rather show the system than sell a mystery.
No invented logos, no borrowed analyst badges, no customer counts we don't have. What we can show you today is the product, the pricing, the release notes, and a Trust Center you can use for free. That's a fair place to start a relationship built on managing trust.
It classifies your entire vendor register by your exposure across six vectors, scopes assessment depth by tier, handles regulatory incident response via CIIC, and can run on your own infrastructure.
We're new. Instead of borrowing credibility, we publish what can be verified today — the product, pricing, release notes, and a free Trust Center.
Because a vendor's risk is defined by what they hold of yours, not what they show the internet. Starting from your exposure is more complete and more defensible.