DataGrail introduces AI agent tool to compliance platform
DataGrail introduces AI agent tool to compliance platform
https://iapp.org/news/a/datagrail-introduces-ai-agent-tool-to-compliance-platform
Publish Date: 2026-03-25 14:16:00
Source Domain: iapp.org
While many companies of all sizes around the world have embraced artificial intelligence, there are major indications of a lag in top-to-bottom organizational uptake. The slow uptake shows in areas of third-party procurement, particularly when it comes to data governance needs.
To help ensure AI vetting and procurement meaningfully integrate AI into privacy operations, DataGrail announced the release its Vera AI agent, which is embedded within the vendor’s existing platform. Vera’s objective is to assist privacy teams in automating their work across multiple complex environments to meet a number of jurisdictional requirements related to data privacy.
DataGrail CEO and co-founder Daniel Barber told the IAPP the number of general-purpose AI tools on the market can create a lot of background noise for privacy teams as they look for solutions that can automate compliance work.
According to the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence’s 2025 AI Index report, private sector investment in AI grew to USD109.1 billion in 2024, while generative AI attracted USD33.9 billion globally, alone.
Barber said as companies in all sectors prepare for the “agentic AI future,” privacy teams will need real solutions that automate and perform tasks as additional AI solutions are integrated into other business tasks that come with their own privacy considerations.
“The general-purpose tools kind of have no starting point, and we’ve seen some teams try to build things themselves, and naturally they introduce unnecessary risk,” Barber said. “It’s an important distinction that we want privacy teams to be elevated through Vera providing capabilities for the privacy leader and the privacy practitioner to get their work done by Vera.”
Barber indicated the Vera feature “sits on top” of DataGrail’s “deeply integrated solution” that performs the four core privacy needs: Data mapping, data subject access request management, consent management, and conducting risk and data…
