Forward-deployed GRC expertise.
Built, not just advised.
We embed technical GRC experts alongside your team to design, implement, automate, and continuously improve your risk and compliance programs.
GRC is a craft.
Bring us in when…
Your GRC platform
Bring us in when you're implementing a new GRC platform
You're deploying or migrating to a GRC platform and need more than a standard configuration.
We translate your controls, frameworks, organizational structure and existing processes into a fully implemented system, including workflows, integrations, reporting and team enablement.
Bring us in when your GRC implementation isn't delivering
Your platform reports healthy controls that don't reflect operational reality, evidence collection remains manual, and reporting can't be trusted.
We reconfigure, rebuild and extend your implementation to unlock the value you originally expected.
Bring us in when your requirements go beyond the platform
The functionality you need doesn't exist in your GRC software.
We build custom applications, modules, integrations and AI-enabled tools, connected to your existing platform or as standalone solutions.
Your GRC function
Bring us in when your GRC processes need automation
Evidence collection, control testing, risk intake, findings management and approvals still depend on manual effort.
We engineer automated, AI-assisted workflows that connect your GRC platform with the systems your business already uses, with human oversight and auditability built in.
Bring us in when you need specialist engineering expertise
Your GRC team has complex technical projects, but not the engineering capacity or specialized platform expertise to deliver them.
We embed experienced GRC FDEs alongside your team and take ownership of execution, without the overhead of building an internal engineering function.
Have a complex GRC technology challenge? Let's talk.Discuss a project
True value comes from systems built around the way your program runs: controls mapped correctly, evidence collected from source systems, and reporting you can trust. Not default configurations or someone else's template. That is a craft.
Projects, or FDE on demand
Enterprise GRC programs are complex almost by nature. Frameworks overlap, controls carry exceptions, and evidence lives across a dozen systems. Some needs are a single project: an implementation, a build, a CR26 deployment. Others need continuous support as the program evolves. ForDep works both ways, embedding a GRC FDE with your team for exactly the engagement you need.
How we workBuilt by GRC platform insiders
ForDep combines Forward Deployed Engineering and Solutions Engineering leadership from leading GRC technology companies with top-tier audit and advisory experience optimizing GRC programs and leveraging modern technology to best mitigate risk. We know how enterprise GRC programs run day to day, where they get complicated, and how the platforms underneath them are built.
About ForDepHave a GRC program that requires an FDE?
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