We chatted with Daniel Marashlian, Co-Founder and CTO of Drata, at the TechCon SoCal 2025 event. Drata helps customers automate their GRC (Governance, Regulation, and Compliance) programs. Despite having great products, product launches and Go-To-Market efforts can often be slowed down due to GRC-related customer requirements. Daniel elaborated on a few examples of why this problem is critical, especially for early-stage companies that might not have a lot of human resources to work on these challenges manually. Daniel explained how GenAI technology is a perfect match for solving the challenges of automating compliance procedures.

Compliance and regulations can vary from country to country and even across industries within the US. Therefore, scaling such compliance automation solutions could be challenging. Drata is proactively working on this with their R&D group to understand the various requirements of different stakeholders and make an effort to unify those from the get-go.