Incumbent Defense: Vanta's AI Agent Adds Auto-Drafted Policies, Questionnaire Responses, and a Trust Center Chatbot

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Vanta's product updates show the compliance incumbent racing to agentic features — an AI Agent that drafts policies, auto-answers security questionnaires, gives remediation guidance, and powers a self-service Trust Center chatbot for customers. It's the textbook incumbent counter-move: absorb the AI-native challengers' wedge (the questionnaire/policy grunt-work) into the existing platform before a startup unbundles it. For builders evaluating the GRC space, the open question is whether bolting an agent onto evidence collection matches natives that designed enforcement in from the ground up.