We ship compliance, governance, and audit-grade tooling into mid-market North America — from Chrome extensions to MCP servers to continuous-assurance engines. Four ventures in market, each with a real waitlist and a real buyer.
Portfolio
AI governance DLP for 500–2,500 emp regulated mid-market. Browser-native redaction of PII/PHI/source-code going to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini. Audit trail for EU AI Act Article 26, ISO 42001, NIST AI RMF.
veladon.grindworks.ai →Shadow-AI employee lifecycle orchestration for 500–5,000 emp mid-market. One audit trail across 40+ SaaS apps and the AI tools that never went through a ticket — built for VP People, CIO, and CISO co-buying.
tenet.grindworks.ai →Agentic SOX continuous assurance for PE portcos and microcap public companies. Automates control testing and evidence collection for department-head budgets — displacing AuditBoard's upmarket pricing at the $300–$1.5B band.
prova.grindworks.ai →AI for professional service firms — accounting, legal, HR, consulting. Task-graph automations that accept SOP documents as input and deliver completed client work as output. The preceding Grindworks venture, now in active market validation.
practiq.dev →How we operate
Grindworks runs each venture on a 28-day market-validation cycle. Waitlist signup, cold outreach to named decision-makers, and direct founder conversations with every prospect — not forms, not chat widgets. We respond by hand within 48 hours, typically sooner.
If you're a Controller, CISO, VP People, Internal Audit Director, or CFO at a mid-market NA B2B company and one of these ventures matches your roadmap, the waitlist on the venture page is the fastest path in. Design-partner interviews shape the audit-pack format that ships.