About us

About Unified Compliance

We've spent 20 years harmonizing the world's compliance requirements into a single, continuously maintained library of common controls, which we call the Unified Control Fabric. It's widely regarded as the gold standard for compliance intelligence, trusted by the leading GRC platforms and hundreds of the world's largest organizations.

Today we're extending that fabric beyond its 15,000 harmonized controls to include our customers' own policies and controls too. That gives them end-to-end defensibility, from any policy back to the exact words in every regulation or standard that called for it.

We're not a GRC platform.

We're the compliance intelligence layer that feeds them.

Our role in GRC

By the numbers

15,000+
Intelligent Controls
Harmonized · preventative, detective, corrective · 15 Impact Zones
4,100+
Authority Documents
Laws · regulations · frameworks · standards · across 100+ jurisdictions
300+
Enterprise Customers
Financial services · healthcare · defense · technology · critical infrastructure
19
Issued Patents
Natural language processing · harmonization · control mapping

Our convictions

01 / Principle

Harmonization is where the real value lies.

Anyone can ingest regulations. Very few can make them speak the same language. Our patented harmonization process, refined continuously for 20 years, produces relationships that auditors actually accept. That asset compounds every year.

02 / Principle

Expertise accelerated by AI beats AI alone.

Pure-AI compliance tools face a ceiling. They're only as good as their training data and the humans who reviewed it. Our AI is trained on the largest proprietary compliance dataset in the market, and overseen by analysts who've been reviewing this work since 2009.

03 / Principle

The fabric should include your content, too.

Every organization has internal policies, custom frameworks, and operational requirements that don't exist in any public regulatory corpus. ControlFoundry brings them into the same harmonized model, so one fabric covers both external mandates and your organization's reality.

04 / Principle

Defensibility is non-negotiable.

Compliance outputs aren't opinions. Every citation must be traceable. Every mapping must be reproducible. Every change must be documented. We build to be defensible the moment an auditor asks why, and we've been doing it long enough to know how the question gets asked.

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Milestones

2011
The founding insight
Unified Compliance is founded on a single idea: harmonize the world's regulatory requirements into one common control model. The first patents in natural language processing for compliance are filed.
2014
The Common Controls Hub
The first commercial platform launches. Early enterprise adopters begin embedding UC's mapped controls into their GRC programs. The Gold Standard designation starts circulating among CISOs.
2018
OEM and API adoption
Leading GRC platforms license the ControlSight API, embedding UC's harmonized controls into their own products. UC becomes the quiet infrastructure powering the compliance industry.
2022
The control model reaches 12,000
The Intelligent Controls foundation crosses 12,000 controls mapped to more than 3,000 authority documents.
2024
New chapter · Michael Maggio joins as CEO
The board brings in Michael Maggio to lead Unified Compliance's evolution from compliance content provider to Controls-focused SaaS platform. The company sharpens its positioning, reorganizes around ControlSight, and begins the work that would become ControlFoundry.
2025
ControlSight becomes the platform
The modern ControlSight platform ships, a redesigned, web-native experience built for how enterprise GRC teams actually work. Customer engagement and retention reach historic highs.
2026
The Unified Control Fabric · ControlFoundry launches
UC reframes its platform as the Unified Control Fabric, extending the foundation into an expertly curated, AI-accelerated, continuously maintained layer. ControlFoundry enters early access, opening the fabric to every customer's own policies and content.

Patents

Nineteen issued patents cover the core of how the Unified Control Fabric is built, from the natural language processing that parses regulations into mandates, to the harmonization methods that relate them across frameworks, to the mapping systems that make the model defensible.

19
Issued Patents · Continuously Growing
Natural language processing for compliance Parsing regulations into structured mandates
Harmonization methods Relating mandates across frameworks and jurisdictions
Control mapping systems Defensible mandate-to-control relationships
Taxonomies and classification Impact zones, control types, citation structures
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