SOLUTIONS
Your customers want a vendor register that stays current. We built the data layer.
The Vendor Pulse API gives Vanta, Drata, Sprinto, Scrut, Secureframe, and similar GRC platforms continuous, evidence-grade vendor intelligence without building or maintaining a crawl fleet.
“Our vendor register feature is static. Customers add a vendor once and then the data never changes unless they manually update it.”
— what we hear from GRC platforms
“We have been asked a dozen times to add real-time vendor monitoring. Building and maintaining a crawl fleet is a product in itself.”
— what we hear from GRC platforms
“Our customers want to know if their key vendors' SOC 2 lapsed or if a subprocessor was added. We do not have the infrastructure to watch for that.”
— what we hear from GRC platforms
Jobs to be done
What GRC Platforms use TrustVendor to accomplish.
01
Embed live vendor intelligence with two API calls.
One resolve call converts a domain or company name into a canonical vendor identity. One pulse call returns the current posture score, assurance score, active certifications with expiry dates, open signals by severity, and evidence links. No crawl infrastructure to build. No data pipeline to maintain.
02
Push vendor changes to your customers in real time.
Subscribe to vendor.signal and vendor.score_change webhooks. When a vendor in your customer's register experiences a material change — a subprocessor addition, a certification lapse, a breach notification — your platform receives a push with the full event payload and evidence links. Your customers see changes when they happen, not on your next polling cycle.
03
Close the vendor review control automatically for your customers.
GRC platforms that integrate TrustVendor can automatically evidence the vendor review control in their customers' SOC 2 programs. TrustVendor pushes daily scores, certification status, and signal counts. The control goes from manual evidence to continuously evidenced — without your team or the customer's team doing any additional work.
04
Price your integration as you grow, not upfront.
Resolve is permanently free and unmetered. Pulse calls are priced per resolved vendor per month at $0.40 to $1.20 depending on volume. Your integration costs scale as your customer base grows and actually queries vendor data — not based on a capacity commitment you make before you know your usage pattern.
Product mapping
Your workflow, mapped to TrustVendor.
| Your workflow | TrustVendor surface |
|---|---|
| Vendor identity resolution at onboarding | Vendor Pulse API — /v1/vendors/resolve |
| Live vendor risk panel in your UI | Vendor Pulse API — /v1/vendors/{id}/pulse |
| Real-time change notifications | Vendor Pulse API — webhooks |
| Vendor evidence links for audit export | Evidence Viewer (via API evidence_url) |
| Bulk vendor register import | Vendor Pulse API — batch resolve |
| White-label vendor intelligence layer | Vendor Pulse API — platform partnership |
In the field
“The Vanta integration meant our vendor review control went from manual evidence to automatic in a single sprint. Our auditors accepted it without any additional questions.”
Integrated TrustVendor with Vanta to close their SOC 2 vendor review control automatically.
Read the case study →Common questions.
How long does an API integration take?
What does "async by default" mean for vendors we have not seen before?
How is the API versioned and how do you handle breaking changes?
Can we white-label the vendor intelligence layer under our own brand?
What evidence is included in the API response for audit purposes?
Add continuous vendor intelligence to your platform in one sprint.
Book a technical demo. We will walk through the API contract, sandbox setup, and typical integration patterns for GRC platforms.
- Sandbox keys available immediately — no sales process to start building
- Resolve is free and unmetered; pulse scales with your customer base
- Webhooks push changes in real time so your customers never see stale data