RegScale has been named a Representative Vendor in the Gartner® Market Guide for Regulatory Intelligence Solutions. Published on 29 June 2026, the report from authors Lexi VerVelde and Nicholas Sworek offers readers useful insight into the market, how to evaluate vendors and recommended next steps. We believe it provides further validation of RegScale’s core continuous controls monitoring (CCM) strategy.
Although only Gartner subscribers can access the full report, we’ve summarized our main takeaways below.
Overwhelmed with Regulations
Although chief compliance and ethics officers (CCEOs) are under unprecedented pressure, adoption of ‘regulatory intelligence’ solutions is not as high as one might expect. Gartner reports that despite the maturity of the market, a large share of organizations still do not use regulatory intelligence technology, while a meaningful share rely on internally built manual trackers.
We believe this is a missed opportunity, especially given the growing regulatory burden on organizations. Gartner points to the exponential volume of global regulatory oversight and complex frameworks such as the EU AI Act, DORA and CCPA as reasons CCEOs face unprecedented pressure to move beyond simple oversight to demonstrable governance, shifting from manual regulatory curation to autonomous regulatory tracking to bridge the execution gap between new requirements and the internal controls they trigger.
This is an important point. But we believe it’s not just the sheer volume and complexity of regulations driving the market for regulatory intelligence and GRC solutions. It’s also the fact that many regulations simply can’t keep pace with the rapid evolution of corporate IT systems and threat actor activity.
Regulatory frameworks requiring point-in-time assessments and periodic audits fail to drive genuine improvements in risk management. They create a false sense of security that could leave organizations more exposed than they think. And they certainly can’t keep up with the pace of modern software delivery. The result is that authorization documentation is often out of date the moment a build ships.
All of which is forcing a rethink on how best to spend limited funds in order to generate the best compliance outcomes. That means compliance that doesn’t just check a metaphorical box but reduces breach risk and drives genuine operational security (OpSec) value.
Validation for CCM
Gartner explains that some GRC vendors are responding to market demands for better by adopting a continuous control monitoring (CCM) approach, growing their portfolios either by acquisition or homegrown solution to include CCM and automated testing tools. This allows them to offer a closed-loop system where a regulatory update in the intelligence model can immediately trigger a test of the organization’s existing technical controls to ensure no drift has occurred.
We believe that the time for CCM is long overdue. Traditional GRC programs often demand manual evidence collection, and laborious documentation-heavy processes, meaning that problems are only fixed retrospectively following an audit. With CCM, evidence is collected and controls are evaluated automatically and continuously, so drift is corrected in near-real time. By using a compliance-as-code approach to CCM, requirements are embedded into CI/CD pipelines to further reduce toil, lower costs and streamline compliance.
Next Steps for CCEOs
Not all regulatory intelligence or GRC solutions are created equal. Gartner’s advice for CCEOs includes considering the optional capabilities offered by various vendors, since these features can provide more variability; conducting a formal maturity assessment to ensure internal ownership of regulatory execution is clearly defined, since technology should scale an existing robust framework rather than solve underlying issues of unclear accountability; and ensuring the solution is designed for the compliance end user, not just IT or adjacent assurance functions.
Speed, Simplicity and Accuracy
We believe the report is another timely reminder of the value of RegScale’s OSCAL-native platform, built from the ground up with CCM, automation, and compliance as code at its heart. RegScale takes the pain out of compliance by leveraging AI to automatically derive documentation from existing policies, demystify complex control statements and even generate new draft controls. And we automate controls mapping to deliver ‘test once, universally comply’ for our customers across over 250 compliance frameworks.
It’s all about speed, simplicity and accuracy. Taking the time, cost and effort out of GRC while driving improved OpSec and freeing stretched compliance teams from toil.
Gartner notes that the market is at a critical inflection point, with 12% of organizations planning to implement a solution in the next year, the highest intent-to-purchase rate of any compliance technology.
If your organization is one of a growing number ready for a fresh approach to compliance, it may be time to speak to RegScale.
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Gartner, Market Guide for Regulatory Intelligence Solutions, Lexi VerVelde, Nicholas Sworek, 29 June 2026.
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