AI-Powered GRC Software for a Resilient Indo-Pacific

Last week, our AI & Research & Development Hub in Gurugram welcomed a distinguished delegation from a leading Japanese association. Among all the companies in the Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) space, Ascent was the only AI-powered GRC software provider chosen for this visit.

Ascent was built on a simple belief: that a software made in India can match and even exceed global expectations on governance, security, scalability, and innovation. At Ascent, we take our CEO, Kundan Shekhawat’s philosophy to heart and constantly strive towards placing India on the global software map. Tapping into the wealth of technical minds spread across the country, every single step in the research, design, and development of our products happens at our offices in India.

Our founder’s mission is clear: build the world’s most intelligent and resilient GRC stack from India for the world. The Japanese delegation’s visit reinforces that the future of trusted GRC systems will be powered by AI, automation, and highly adaptive digital architectures, and India is ready to lead.

For us, this was more than a corporate visit. It was a clear signal that an AI-powered GRC software built for global scale is now the backbone to how nations, enterprises, and ecosystems think about resilience.

Today, Ascent is:

• A global GRC innovator, helping enterprises across India, the Middle East, Nigeria, etc.
• Driven by autoResilience.ai, our AI GRC product has more than 10 integrated modules for end-to-end risk and resilience.
• Powered by an R&D engine based in India, centered on advanced analytics, AI, automation, and measurable cloud architectures for customers around the world.

The visit from the ABC Japanese delegation marks the beginning of a new phase of global partnership in GRC, AI, resilience, and trust. This partnership stretches from Tokyo to the Gulf, from emerging markets to the Global South.

Why AI-Powered GRC Software Has Become Invincible in Global Business

In today’s dynamic environment, GRC software is no longer optional. It sits at the heart of strategic and unified decision-making and operational resilience. Across geographies and sectors, enterprises face a similar set of pressures, like evolving regulatory complexities, cyber threats and operational risks, and the need for real-time visibility into risk, controls, incidents, and business continuity across jurisdictions, vendors, and business units.

Traditional GRC approaches are based on spreadsheets, siloed tools, and manual processes. They lead to scattered risk views, reactive compliance responses, and vulnerabilities that only reveal themselves after the disruption hits.

This is why AI-powered GRC software has emerged as invincible on the global stage. It enables organizations to:

• Streamline risk, compliance, audit, and continuity into one centralized platform.
• Use data and AI to forecast risks rather than just recording them.
• Automate tasks and make way for the teams to focus on judgment, strategy, and resilience.

Japan’s GRC Transformation: Resilience as a Way of Life

The Japan GRC market is undergoing a major transformation, driven by regulatory complexity, cyber threats, operational risk, and the need for integrated, automated, cloud-based GRC platforms. At the same time, the India–Japan Digital Partnership 2.0 is designed to accelerate collaboration in emerging technologies, digital talent, research, and start-ups.

Resilience is a way of life. And there are very few countries that understand resilience as deeply as Japan.

Japan has repeatedly shown the world what resilience looks like. Rebuilding, adapting, and advancing after natural and man-made shocks. In the span of a century, Japan has had to rebuild and recover from devastating earthquakes, nuclear catastrophe, chemical attacks, and the triple disaster of earthquake–tsunami–nuclear meltdown. Each time, the country has not only stood back up but moved forward with strength. It has upgraded its infrastructure and redefined preparedness.

The Japanese quote perfectly portrays it:
“Nanakorobi yaoki” – fall seven times, stand up eight.

From Bilateral Ties to Shared Digital Resilience

The Indo–Japan relationship has evolved into a Special Strategic and Global Partnership that extends well beyond traditional economic cooperation. The two countries share:

• A vision of a free, open, and rules-based Indo-Pacific.
• Complementary strengths in technology, digital talent, manufacturing, and innovation.
• A common interest in building resilient, secure, and trusted digital ecosystems.

Under frameworks like the India-Japan Digital Partnership and its evolved 2.0 vision, both countries are deepening collaboration in:

• Emerging technologies and AI.
• Digital talent exchange and joint R&D.
• Startups, enterprise software, and cross-border innovation.

In this context, GRC software is not just any product; it is infrastructure. AI-powered GRC platforms create a mutual language of faith between regulators, enterprises, and partners across borders. They help:

• Align governance and control expectations
• Harmonize compliance across different jurisdictions
• Build resilience into supply chains and digital operations that span multiple geographies

The Japanese delegation’s visit to our AI & R&D Lab was thus part of a larger narrative:
global partners co-creating the future of digital resilience.

autoResilience.ai: A Global AI-Powered GRC Software

At the center of our heart is autoResilience.ai, our AI-powered GRC software platform designed for global enterprises.

Rather than a collection of point solutions, autoResilience.ai is a granular, integrated platform, offering more than 10 modules that cover risk and resilience end-to-end. These include:

1. Enterprise Risk Management

Map, score, and monitor enterprise risks. Strategic, operational, financial, cyber, regulatory, all in a single system of record. AI models assist in:

• Recognizing risks
• Highlighting anomalies or high-risk entities
• Prioritizing treatment plans

2. Compliance Automation

Turn regulatory and internal policy obligations into living, traceable workflows:

• Map obligations to controls, processes, and evidence.
• Automate reminders, attestations, and compliance checks.
• Maintain a clear audit trail for internal and external reviews.

3. Third-Party & Supply Chain Risk

As supply chains stretch across the Indo-Pacific and beyond, third parties become a major risk factor. autoResilience enables enterprises to:

• Risk-rate vendors and partners.
• Track assessments, contracts, certifications, and findings.
• Monitor issues and remediation over time.

4. Business Continuity & Crisis Management

Design, test, and refine business continuity and crisis response in one place:

• Define critical processes, assets, and dependencies.
• Build, simulate, and test continuity plans.
• Orchestrate crisis responses with clear roles, communication flows, and post-incident reviews.

5. Information Security & Cyber Risk

Integrate with IT and security tools to:

• Surface vulnerabilities, incidents, and corrective actions.
• Translate technical security data into risk and governance language for executives and boards.
• Align cyber risk with broader enterprise risk and resilience programs.

6. Audit Management

Manage the full audit lifecycle:

• Plan internal and external audits.
• Track fieldwork, evidence, and findings.
• Monitor closure of actions and control improvements.

Across all these modules, AI is a first-class citizen. autoResilience uses AI and advanced analytics to:

• Suggest controls and tests based on risk profiles
• Spot anomalies in compliance data
• Recommend a solution plan based on impact and likelihood
• Avoid the chaos so the teams can focus on what truly matters

R&D in India, Impact Worldwide

Ascent’s AI & R&D Lab in Gurugram is the nerve center of this innovation, where global GRC problems meet deep engineering and domain expertise.

Our R&D focus areas include:

• AI & Machine Learning in GRC
  From risk scoring and anomaly detection to natural language processing for regulatory mapping, we are constantly exploring new ways to embed intelligence into the platform.
• Scalable, Secure Cloud Architectures
  We design for global scale with strict attention to security, performance, data segregation, and compliance with local regulations.
• Industry-Specific GRC Templates
  R&D works closely with domain experts to build accelerators for sectors like BFSI, energy, manufacturing, healthcare, and public enterprises.
• User Experience & Adoption
  Our design teams ensure that the platform is not only powerful but also intuitive, with dashboards customized for executives, risk owners, auditors, and operational teams.

Our teams watch these shifts closely and translate them into platform capabilities that benefit customers across geographies.
A Global GRC Journey, Powered by AI-Powered GRC Software

Ascent’s story today is not about a single country or region. It’s about a global journey of risk and resilience:

• From early deployments across India to mission-critical implementations in the Middle East.
• From sector-specific use cases to a broad, integrated AI-powered GRC platform.
• From local success stories to global partnerships 
• Our AI & R&D Lab in India will continue to power this journey, but the canvas is global.

Conclusion

The Japanese delegation’s visit to our Gurugram AI & R&D Lab is more than a proud moment for Ascent. “Resilience is a continuous journey,” as per our CEO & Founder, Kundan Shekhawat. With AI, enterprise governance can be more real-time, predictive, and always-on. Together with global partners, we aim to set new benchmarks for trust, transparency, and responsible automation.

At Ascent, we will continue to invest in AI, R&D, and global collaboration so that organizations everywhere can:

Anticipate risk.
Govern with clarity.
Comply with confidence.
And come back stronger every single time.