Horváth and SANNOS AI Partner to Build the Next Generation of AI-Enabled Advisory and Transformation Services

  • Strategic partnership combines Horváth's transformation, GRC and digitization expertise with SANNOS AI and their GRC intelligence capabilities to transform Governance, Risk & Compliance, Third-Party Risk Management, Cybersecurity and Financial Controls

The economics of governance, risk and compliance are being rewritten. Organisations face increasing regulatory complexity, expanding cyber threats and growing stakeholder expectations. Yet across Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC), Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM), Cybersecurity and Financial Controls, much of the underlying work — reviewing evidence, assessing controls and documenting compliance — remains highly manual.

For years, organisations have responded by adding more people. That model is reaching its limits. The next generation of advisory will not simply digitise governance, risk and compliance. It will combine expert consultants with AI capable of performing a significant proportion of the evidence-driven work itself. It is this vision that brings Horváth and SANNOS AI together. Horváth and SANNOS AI have entered into a strategic partnership to help organisations fundamentally redesign how compliance, assurance and financial control activities are delivered. The partnership combines Horváth's expertise in business transformation, Governance, Risk & Compliance, and digitization capabilities with Horváth’s Compliance and Risk Platform CoRi with SANNOS AI's evidence-driven Compliance Intelligence platform.

Beyond AI text generation and traditional AI assistants, SANNOS AI evaluates the evidence itself—reviewing policies, contracts, audit reports, financial control documentation and supporting evidence against regulatory requirements and internal control frameworks. SANNOS AI produces traceable findings, identifies gaps and risks, recommends remediation actions and provides a complete audit trail with page-level references. By integrating these capabilities into broader GRC transformation and digitization offerings, Horváth CoRi enables clients to move beyond incremental process improvements and redesign entire governance, compliance and control operating models.

Transforming High-Value Advisory

The partnership initially focuses on four strategic service areas:

  • Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC)

  • Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM)

  • Cybersecurity & Operational Resilience

  • Financial Controls & Finance Transformation


Across applicable evidence-driven assessment activities, organisations can reduce manual effort by up to 80%, allowing specialists to focus on strategic advisory, transformation and business value.

Transforming Financial Controls

One of the first joint focus areas is finance transformation.

Traditional Internal Controls over Financial Reporting (ICFR), SOX and financial control environments require thousands of hours of annual evidence review, documentation and audit preparation.

Together, Horváth and SANNOS AI enable organisations to:

  • Automate a significant proportion of evidence-based financial control review activities

  • Increase efficiency across documentation- and evidence-driven financial controls

  • Continuously monitor financial control effectiveness

  • Produce fully traceable, audit-ready documentation

  • Redirect finance specialists towards higher-value analysis and transformation


Rather than simply automating existing activities, the joint approach enables organisations to redesign financial control operating models around automation, continuous monitoring and risk-based oversight.

A recent financial control transformation assessment identified multi-million-euro annual efficiency potential for a global organisation through AI-enabled redesign of financial control activities.

Proven Across Complex Organisations

SANNOS AI has already supported projects involving global pharmaceutical organisations, large regional technology leaders as well as Big Four firms supporting audit, assurance and advisory services. Together, Horváth and SANNOS AI will help clients responsibly adopt AI across regulated environments while maintaining governance, explainability and auditability.

Building the Future of Governance, Risk and Compliance

The partnership reflects a broader shift in the market: from systems of record towards AI-enabled systems of execution. As organisations modernise their governance, risk, compliance and finance landscapes, they require more than isolated technology solutions. They need integrated operating models that combine domain expertise, governance frameworks, digital platforms and AI-driven execution capabilities. 

Horváth's role is to help clients design and digitize those future operating models, while SANNOS AI provides specialised capabilities for automating evidence-intensive assessment activities. This combination allows organisations to improve efficiency, strengthen governance and accelerate transformation without compromising transparency, accountability or regulatory confidence.

“Our clients are looking for new ways to increase efficiency while maintaining governance, quality and regulatory confidence. However, the real opportunity lies beyond automation. By combining our GRC transformation expertise and our digital GRC solution Horváth CoRi with SANNOS AI's evidence-driven automation capabilities, we are helping organisations rethink how governance, compliance and financial control functions operate in the future,” says Adrian Bötz, Partner at Horváth.

“The future of GRC is not replacing humans with AI. It is empowering GRC professionals with AI that performs a significant proportion of the evidence-driven work, allowing experts to focus on judgement, transformation and delivering greater value to clients,” says Anders Søborg, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of SANNOS AI.