Vendor reviews can't keep up
Annual questionnaires and static SOC reports go stale the day they're filed. When a vendor ships an AI agent or changes a model, no one re-reviews it until renewal — or an exam.
Governance for financial institutions adopting AI
Know which agents and vendors your institution can actually trust.
Your customers, partners, and teams are bringing AI agents and AI-enabled vendors into real operations faster than risk and compliance can review them. Gatehouse turns that scramble into evidence your examiners, board, and regulators will accept.
Built SOC 2-first for bank diligence · Examiner-ready evidence · Human-in-the-loop by design
The problem
AI is entering your bank as unmanaged infrastructure.
"Trust" isn't documented
Decisions about what to rely on live in inboxes, spreadsheets, and hallway conversations. When an examiner asks why you relied on a vendor or agent, the answer is hard to reconstruct.
Your team can't see where to look
Alerts and intake forms pile up. Small risk and compliance teams have no defensible way to focus on the agents, vendors, and decisions that actually matter right now.
How Gatehouse works
From scattered context to a decision you can defend.
Gatehouse sits above the systems you already use. It doesn't replace your core — it connects the evidence, routes the review, and produces the record.
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Connect
Pull in vendors, agents, owners, contracts, SOC reports, attestations, and monitoring signals from approved sources.
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Route
Move each item through intake, authorization, human review, escalation, and renewal — with clear owners and deadlines.
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Prove
Capture an audit trail: what changed, who approved it, what evidence supports it, and on what basis you rely.
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Deliver
Produce EDD packets, board summaries, renewal calendars, and examiner-ready records on demand.
The platform
Four ways to put governance around AI and vendors.
Start with the one question that's keeping you up tonight. Expand into the rest when you're ready.
Know Your Agent
Authenticate and govern the AI agents, models, and bots your customers and partners bring to you — with ownership, authorization, evidence, and ongoing monitoring.
Vendor Reliance
Replace the annual questionnaire cycle with always-on due diligence: catch what changed, route the exception, and keep a defensible reliance packet current.
Know Your Employee
Build evidence around who creates outcomes under pressure — for leadership, hiring, succession, and role-fit decisions.
Find the constraint
Pinpoint what's actually slowing the institution down — loan processing, member service, back office — and turn it into decisions and owners.
Continuous EDD
From vendor files to live reliance decisions.
Inventory
Every vendor and agent with owner, criticality, data access, system reach, and approved use.
Evidence
Questionnaires, SOC reports, contracts, attestations, incidents, controls, and monitoring signals in one place.
Reliance
Full, partial, or no reliance — with exceptions, approvals, and renewal cadence recorded.
Delivery
EDD packet, board summary, examiner-ready record, and ongoing control evidence.
Built around how banks actually decide.
Partner banking and agentic systems force a question regulators already understand: how much can you rely on someone else's controls?
Full reliance
You accept partner or vendor evidence and monitor through defined controls.
Partial reliance
You use selected external evidence but keep your own approval, testing, and oversight.
No reliance
You require your own systems, reviews, and decisions for all critical activity.
Security & trust
Built to pass your diligence, not just talk about it.
We know security review is the first real gate. Gatehouse is built SOC 2-first so your vendor-risk team can clear us quickly.
SOC 2-first
SOC 2 Type I underway with Type II to follow; controls, policies, and monitoring in place from launch.
EDD packet ready
Security overview, data-flow, subprocessors, BCP, and privacy posture prepared for your review.
Human-in-the-loop
Gatehouse surfaces and documents decisions; your people stay accountable for every reliance call.
Your data, scoped
We connect only to institution-approved sources and keep a complete audit trail of access and change.
Get started
Start with one painful question.
Tell us where AI and vendor reliance is hardest in your institution today. We'll show you the evidence packet Gatehouse produces — and what it would take to stand it up.
Prefer email? info@llmsquared.com