Your Named Compliance Principal, Without the Full-Time Hire
Embedded Principal is an ongoing fractional engagement with a named, senior compliance principal working inside your program on a retainer basis. Board-level reporting. Auditor coordination. Framework guidance. All without the overhead of a full-time hire.
Your compliance program needs an owner. It doesn't need a department.
Post-certification compliance is where most growth-stage companies lose ground. The audit is done, the policies are written, the platform is live. And then no one is watching the controls, managing the evidence cadence, or staying current on framework updates. Embedded Principal puts a named senior principal inside your program on a retainer basis, with the same GRC leadership experience and certified Vanta and Drata expertise TCS brings to every engagement.
What Embedded Principal Covers
Ongoing GRC Program Oversight
Controls monitored. Evidence cadence managed. Policies updated annually. Framework changes tracked and incorporated.
Board-Level Reporting
Compliance posture reporting formatted for board and investor audiences. Risk status maintained and communicated.
Auditor Coordination
Annual audit planning. Auditor relationship managed. Questions answered. Submission prepared.
Framework Guidance
Ongoing advisory for compliance decisions across new products, new markets, and new requirements. Senior guidance available when you need it.
What an engagement includes.
Named principal with defined availability
Monthly compliance posture review
Board-level reporting (quarterly or as needed)
Annual audit coordination
Framework advisory and decision support
GRC platform management (Vanta or Drata)
Vendor Risk is one of the first things a Fractional Compliance Principal addresses.
The Vendor Risk Assessment Template gives you a structured, repeatable way to evaluate third-party vendor, the same kind of program an Embedded Principal would build and maintain.
Compliance doesn't end at certification
Embedded Principal keeps your program active, your posture current,
and your next audit on track, without adding headcount.