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QLARC: Closing the AI procurement evidence gap for enterprise vendors

A vendor-side AI governance tool that helps mid-sized companies win regulated enterprise deals — by translating internal AI practices into buyer-ready evidence packs.

Role
Business & Product Lead, AI Research
Team
Shrutika Rajput, Devanshi Valia, Urvi Karania, Shenao Li
Duration
May 2025-April 2026
Context
Pratt Capstone
The Stakes

Three gaps. One blocked deal.

In financial services, AI governance reviews aren't a best practice, they're a legal gate. SR 11-7 requires model risk documentation. ECOA and FCRA mandate bias testing evidence. A vendor who can't produce this on demand doesn't get rejected, they never hear back.

89%
Visibility gap

of vendors can't see their own AI across teams and third-party services.

eDiscovery Today, 2025
4–6mo
Documentation gap

to produce governance docs that live in engineering, not in auditable formats.

ModelOp, 2024
$2M+
Evidence translation gap

lost per deal when good governance can't be translated into what buyers need.

Primary Research, 2026
The Problem

How might we help vendors prove the governance they already have, in a format buyers can actually evaluate?

Competitive Landscape

Every existing tool was built for a different problem.

No existing tool helps a mid-sized AI vendor when an enterprise buyer asks for governance evidence. Qlarc sits alone in that corner.

AI-SPECIFICGENERAL COMPLIANCEVENDOR-SIDEBUYER-SIDEHolistic AI /ModelOpCredo AIVanta /DrataSecureframeOneTrust/ TrustArcResponsive /Inventive AIQlarcThe unoccupied gap
Security Compliance(Vanta, Drata, Secureframe)

Built for SOC 2 — not AI governance evidence

Privacy & Data Governance(OneTrust, TrustArc)

Built for GDPR/CCPA — can't map to SR 11-7

Internal AI Governance(Holistic AI, ModelOp, Credo AI)

Internal ops only — not buyer-readable evidence

RFP Response(Responsive, Inventive AI)

No regulatory traceability — treats AI like any RFP section

Qlarc

Vision

Close the accountability gap in AI procurement.

Mission

Mid-sized vendors win regulated enterprise deals on the strength of their AI, not the size of their legal team.

Values

Evidence over assumption. Human in the loop, always. Precision over speed.

How It Works

Each step resolves one gap.

The Qlarc workflow maps directly to the three gaps that block deals — Visibility, Documentation, and Evidence Translation — plus a named human approval gate.

Resolves Visibility Gap

Connect

Day 1

Qlarc reads what AI is actually running — model, version, region — without touching customer data.

q
MR
Evidence PackBarclays vendor review
Workspace synced19 Mar 2026

Connect your AI stack

Read-only access. Qlarc never touches customer data, prompts, or transactions — only model metadata.
Providers connected
0/4

Integrations

OAuth · revocable anytime
OpenAI
API · model & usage metadata
IDLE
Anthropic
API · model & usage metadata
IDLE
Google AI
API · model & usage metadata
IDLE
aws
AWS billing
CSV · regions only
IDLE

Detected models

0 of 3
gpt-4o
v2024-08-06·us-east-1
claude-3-5-sonnet
v20241022·us-east-1
gemini-1.5-pro
v002·europe-west4
Independently verified from provider API

The result: a trusted, buyer-ready Evidence Pack — built in hours, not weeks.

4 steps · 1 audit trail · 0 surprises
Business Case

Priced against the cost of the problem it solves.

Annual SaaS, three tiers from $5K to $75K, priced around procurement frequency. Incorporated as a Public Benefit Corporation — we sell governance accountability, so we're structurally accountable too.

1 deal
pays for itself
One recovered procurement deal covers a year. The ROI case doesn't need a spreadsheet.
45–55%
pilot-to-paid conversion
Within 90 days of pilot close — the number that turns a demo into recurring revenue.
$487.5K
Year 2 revenue
25 clients across three pricing tiers, base case, built on the conversion rate above.
Year 3
break-even
Year 1 builds the platform. Year 2 proves repeatable delivery. Year 3 is the inflection point.
Conclusions

The questions we started with. The answers we built.

The case study opened with three unresolved risks every enterprise buyer asks. Each one shaped a specific product decision.

Opening question
Product decision
Data & Privacy

Who owns the training data? Where is it stored?

Bias & Fairness

Are AI decisions discriminating against protected groups?

Accountability

When AI fails, who is responsible?

LLM extraction only — no training on customer data

Signals are read, never retained — the vendor's data never becomes a model input.

Source attribution on every claim, vendor-verified

The API signal and the document have to agree before a claim ships.

Mandatory attestation gate before export

The sign-off is named and timestamped — accountability is structural, not stated.

Let's Talk

Interested in this work?

I'd love to walk you through the full case study in a conversation. Reach out and I'll get back to you shortly.

🔒NDA work available on request
Typically respond within 24 hours
Happy to jump on a quick call
Let's Talk

Interested In this work?

I'd love to walk you through the full case study in a conversation. Reach out and I'll get back to you shortly.

🔒NDA work available on request
Typically respond within 24 hours
Happy to jump on a quick call
Let's Talk

Interested in this work?

I'd love to walk you through the full case study in a conversation. Reach out and I'll get back to you shortly.

🔒NDA work available on request
Typically respond within 24 hours
Happy to jump on a quick call
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