Transcend, Inc.

Transcend Platform empowers organizations to make real-time data decisions while ensuring compliance and protecting privacy.

Sombra empowers organizations to enforce data governance while keeping sensitive data secure and private.

Empowers real-time data decision-making while ensuring compliance across various regulations and customer preferences.

Enhances customer trust and compiles consent data for personalized experiences across channels.

Automate data discovery and classification for effective governance and compliance.

Provides a comprehensive view of all data silos and processing activities to ensure compliance and oversight.

Empower customers with a self-service portal for managing data requests and preferences seamlessly.

Streamline and automate data subject requests for efficient compliance and enhanced trust.

Streamline privacy and AI risk assessments seamlessly through integrated AI tools and automated workflows.

Gain complete visibility and control over AI systems touching personal data.

Enhances automated privacy governance by integrating data use policies across systems.

Seamlessly unify data permissions across all systems for compliance and efficiency.

Capabilities to catalog data assets, surface lineage and business context, and enable collaboration for data discovery and trust.

Products: Data Inventory, Data Discovery & Classification, Integrations, Transcend Platform

Capabilities to automate privacy workflows, data subject request handling, policy enforcement, and regulatory reporting to maintain compliance with GDPR, CCPA, and other data protection requirements.

Products: Autonomous Privacy Operations, DSR Automation, Privacy Center, Transcend Platform, Sombra Secure-by-Design

Capture, orchestrate, and persist user consent and preferences across websites, apps, and advertising stacks with real-time tracking and cookie consent controls.

Products: Consent & Preference Management, Privacy Center, Policy Engine, Integrations, Transcend Platform

Realtime encoding and enforcement of business, regulatory, and customer policies to perform purpose checks and control data access at runtime.

Products: Policy Engine, Sombra Secure-by-Design, Integrations, Transcend Platform

Capabilities to inventory, evaluate, and govern AI/ML models including model registry, LLM evaluations, shadow AI detection, lifecycle management, and audit-ready evidence for model risk decisions.

Products: System Shadow AI Discovery, Assessments, Policy Engine, Transcend Platform

Transcend Platform

Transcend Platform is a unified data decision infrastructure for governance, compliance, business rules, and agentic AI at enterprise scale. It enables real-time data decisions while protecting privacy and meeting regulatory requirements by encoding consent, preferences, and governance rules directly into the systems that process data.

• Governs AI Use Efficiently
  Ensures compliance with AI regulations and prevents unauthorized data access while enabling responsible AI operations.
• Enables Compliant Data Activation
  Ensures every engagement respects user consent and preferences, crucial in maintaining trust and compliance.
• Enforces Business Policies
  Streamlines the enforcement of compliance policies, allowing businesses to adapt quickly to regulatory changes.
• Protects Sensitive Data
  Ensures robust security measures are in place to protect customer data within the organization's infrastructure.
• Automates Privacy Operations
  Enhances efficiency in managing policies and compliance across complex data landscapes, enabling seamless integration.
• Streamlines DSR Fulfillment
  Enhances efficiency in processing data requests, significantly reducing response times and manual work.
• Facilitates Customer Requests
  Empowers users to manage their own privacy preferences, ensuring transparency and trust.
• Integrates Risk Assessments
  Streamlines the evaluation of privacy and security risks in an automated workflow, supporting compliance and informed decision-making.
• Provides Audit-Ready Reporting
  Maintains comprehensive visibility over data inventory, which is vital for compliance and operational decision-making.
• Supports Data Governance
  Facilitates audit readiness and compliance by enabling thorough mapping of data usage and classification.
• Identifies Untracked Systems
  Enhances security and compliance by identifying and classifying risk associated with shadow AI systems.
• Enhances System Connectivity
  Facilitates seamless integration with various platforms, ensuring smooth data flow and compliance management.

Sombra Secure-by-Design

Sombra is Transcend's self-hosted, zero-trust security gateway that runs inside your infrastructure to enforce governance without exposing data to external services.

• Prevents Credential Exposure
  By maintaining API keys locally within your secured infrastructure, Sombra ensures that sensitive credentials never leave your environment, mitigating risks associated with unauthorized access.
• Enforces Local Data Governance
  Sombra's architecture allows organizations to manage their data policies locally, ensuring compliance while retaining complete control over sensitive information.
• Secures Data Transfers
  With two-way encryption, Sombra safeguards data during transfer and storage, protecting it from potential breaches and ensuring confidentiality.
• Facilitates Instant Governance
  Sombra allows organizations to make immediate decisions regarding data access, ensuring compliance with regulations by honoring consent and business rules in real time.

Policy Engine

Policy Engine encodes complex rules into real-time decisions, enabling runtime checks before data is used by agents or systems. It unifies business policy, regulatory context, and customer preferences to ensure compliance and operational efficiency.

• Enables Real-Time Decisions
  Supports immediate decision-making processes, allowing businesses to act swiftly while ensuring compliance with consent and regulations.
• Ensures Permissioned Data Use
  Validates that every data access aligns with customer consent and regulatory requirements, preventing unauthorized usage.
• Combines Multiple Decision Factors
  Integrates varying context elements for comprehensive data decision-making, addressing complex approval scenarios effectively.
• Enhances Data Security
  Ensures that sensitive data remains protected within the infrastructure, promoting secure governance and privacy management.
• Simplifies Regulatory Compliance
  Reduces manual effort and potential errors by ensuring that all systems are uniformly updated with the latest compliance requirements.
• Facilitates Advanced Decisioning
  Allows the implementation of intricate business rules, enhancing operational flexibility while ensuring compliance.

Consent & Preference Management

Real-time consent and preference signals are captured, stored, and enforced across connected systems to ensure compliant data activation.

• Enforces Consent Instantly
  Automatically updates consent preferences across every connected platform to ensure compliance and protect user privacy.
• Centralizes Permissions
  Provides a single, real-time source of truth for managing user consents and preferences across all business units.
• Streamlines Compliance Management
  Ensures all systems adhere to current regulations without manual intervention.
• Simplifies Data Governance
  Reduces manual oversight and ensures consistent application of consent preferences throughout the organization.
• Enhances User Control
  Gives users more options to manage how brands engage with them, boosting trust and reducing opt-outs.

Data Discovery & Classification

Data discovery and classification to map data assets, determine purposes, and enable governance across the enterprise.

• Visualize Data Relationships
  Provides a comprehensive view of how data flows across the enterprise, ensuring compliance and informed decision-making.
• Ensure Compliance Continuously
  Automatically identifies and classifies sensitive data, facilitating compliance with evolving regulations.
• Automate Inventory Management
  Automatically updates data inventories with classification results for efficient compliance reporting.
• Identify High-Risk Data
  Helps prioritize data categorization efforts by highlighting sensitive data that requires immediate attention.
• Secure Classification Processes
  Utilizes a secure architecture to maintain data integrity while classifying sensitive information.

Data Inventory

Transcend Data Inventory is your single source of truth for every silo, datapoint, and vendor. It updates automatically, so the map you are relying on is always the real one.

• Ensures Accurate Data Mapping
  Keep track of all data sources and their purposes in real time, eliminating outdated information.
• Consolidates Data for Governance
  View all data relationships easily, fostering better compliance and operational efficiency.
• Simplifies Compliance Audits
  Streamline audits and ensure regulatory compliance with easily accessible reporting.
• Enhances Data Governance
  Ensure every piece of data is managed properly and identify risks before they escalate.
• Facilitates Data Management
  Effortlessly connect and manage all data sources without manual updates.

Privacy Center

Autonomous customer-facing portal for DSARs, data requests, and privacy preferences, integrated with DSR automation.

• Secure Session Authentication
  Ensure strong identity verification while protecting sensitive customer information.
• Empowered Customer Interaction
  Allow customers to easily manage their own data preferences, increasing trust and engagement while reducing operational load.
• Speedy Compliance
  Reduce the time taken to respond to data requests significantly, enhancing customer satisfaction.
• Automatic Workflow Updates
  Updates to privacy policies are instantaneously reflected across all systems, reducing lag time and errors.
• Stay Compliant
  Ensure ongoing compliance with changing regulations without manual oversight.
• Brand Consistency
  Maintain your brand identity while providing a seamless user experience across the privacy portal.

DSR Automation

Automates data subject requests across systems, linking privacy center requests to processing controls.

• Ensures Compliance Transparency
  Provides a complete and defensible record for compliance audits, demonstrating adherence to privacy regulations.
• Eliminates Manual Processing
  Significantly reduces processing time and human error by automating the fulfillment of data subject requests.
• Protects Sensitive Data
  Employs end-to-end encryption to keep sensitive data secure within your infrastructure.
• Enhances User Trust
  Ensures that users' preferences are upheld consistently, reinforcing trust and compliance.
• Accelerates Response Times
  Delivers immediate responses to user requests by automating fulfillment processes, enhancing customer experience.

Assessments

Transcend delivers comprehensive privacy, security, and AI risk assessments. These assessments integrate with the MCP server, allowing execution through Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor, all while eliminating manual data entry and ensuring compliance with evolving regulations.

• Standardize Assessments For Compliance
  Utilize a consistent framework for conducting Data Protection Impact Assessments, Transfer Impact Assessments, and AI risk assessments, essential for meeting GDPR and various US state regulations.
• Unify Governance Workflows
  Integrate assessments directly into existing governance frameworks, ensuring accurate tracking of data usage and compliance across all systems.
• Leverage AI For Assessments
  Allow users to conduct assessments directly within familiar AI tools, streamlining operations and reducing the need for separate interfaces.
• Ensure Audit Readiness
  Every assessment is versioned and can be locked upon approval, providing a clear audit trail that meets regulatory scrutiny.
• Automate Risk Assessment
  Every response during assessments gets scored against a pre-defined risk framework, minimizing manual calculations and improving speed.

System Shadow AI Discovery

Continuous discovery of all AI tools and models touching data, with risk classification aligned to EU AI Act risk tiers.

Category: AI Governance Software

• Identify Unknown AI Tools
  Ensure no AI systems are overlooked, maintaining comprehensive governance.
• Classify AI Vendor Risks
  Automatically assess and identify high-risk vendors to ensure compliance.
• Update Data Inventory Automatically
  Eliminate manual updates, ensuring your data inventory reflects current systems.
• Dynamic Compliance Adaptation
  Maintain compliance in a rapidly evolving tech landscape.
• Seamless Integration with Existing Tools
  Connect quickly to databases and SaaS tools for automated monitoring.
• Automated Risk Assessment
  Quickly evaluate the compliance status of AI vendors for governance.

Autonomous Privacy Operations

Connected system for discovering, encoding, and enforcing policy across the data and AI stack to automate privacy governance.

• Automate Data Governance
  Streamlines the enforcement of privacy policies directly at the data layer, ensuring compliance.
• Ensure Compliance
  Maintains compliance by enforcing privacy rules consistently across all connected systems.
• Maintain Accuracy
  Ensures an up-to-date record of personal data locations and uses for compliance.
• Streamline Operations
  Eliminates silos by integrating various privacy management functions into a cohesive system.
• Enhance Data Visibility
  Provides comprehensive oversight of legacy and AI systems for better governance.
• Speed Up Requests
  Helps organizations handle privacy requests rapidly and efficiently, improving user experience.
• Empower Customers
  Provides users with control over their data while facilitating compliance with various regulations.

Integrations

Transcend's Integrations seamlessly unify fragmented data permissions across all systems, including databases, CDPs, cloud warehouses, and SaaS applications. This platform automates governance to ensure compliance while enhancing operational efficiency.

• Access Many Systems
  Enables quick and efficient connections to various enterprise systems to streamline data governance.
• Ensure Data Security
  Provides robust security measures to protect sensitive data during integration and operations.
• Govern Data Automatically
  Streamlines compliance processes by automating data permissions handling, reducing manual intervention.
• Connect Securely
  Ensures that every connection adheres to zero-trust principles, enhancing overall data security.
• Develop Tailored Solutions
  Allows businesses to create personalized connections for their unique requirements, enhancing flexibility.