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The cost of building TPRM.
Most teams that build end up owning a second product. Choose the capabilities you need and compare the work of building and running them with your annual platform quote.
Build the estimate.
Set your rates and select the capabilities you need. The figures below update with your scope.
Planning assumptions, USD
Rates and horizon
The $100,000 platform price is an example, not a quote. Enter your annual Coverbase quote to compare.
What the estimate includes.
Each selected capability has a base build cost and annual run cost. Those base amounts scale with the all-in annual rates you enter. The model is for planning, not a measured customer outcome or a savings guarantee.
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Analyst-only work scales by analyst cost / $120,000. Engineering-only work scales by engineer cost / $220,000. Mixed work uses 70% of the engineering scale plus 30% of the analyst scale.
If any selected capability needs engineering, the model adds one shared foundation at $76,000 to build and $72,000 per year to run, scaled by the engineering rate.
First-year build and run = build cost + one year of run cost. Build total = build cost + annual run × years. Buy total = entered annual platform price × years. Build months assumes two engineers: at least one month for any selected scope, otherwise the ceiling of base build cost (at the $220,000 reference engineer rate) / $220,000 × 12 / 2, so rate changes do not change the timeline.
Selected scope · 13 capabilities
Document analysisAnalyst$2,000 base build $27,000 base run cost per year
- A configured LLM workflow for reading SOC 2s and questionnaires
- A shared place to drop documents and capture the readout
Intake & scopingAnalyst + eng$43,000 base build $13,000 base run cost per year
- Business-wide intake form with routing and business-context capture
- Research pipeline for financial standing, security posture, and sanctions
- Inherent-risk questionnaire with confidence and human-review workflows
- Tiering logic and deduplication against vendors already in the system
Controls scoring engineAnalyst + eng$58,000 base build $19,000 base run cost per year
- Control-set data model with per-control weighting and guidance
- Evidence-to-control mapping and an evidence-first scoring pipeline
- A curated control library that stays current as frameworks change
- Compliant and non-compliant states with rationale capture
Vendor portalEngineering$48,000 base build $14,000 base run cost per year
- External portal with vendor identity, invitations, and sessions
- Secure uploads, request tracking, and per-vendor data isolation
- Email invitation and reminder system
- Access controls and audit logging for every vendor touchpoint
Automated evidence retrievalEngineering$30,000 base build $13,000 base run cost per year
- Headless-browser automation with source-specific scrapers
- Document parsing and normalization into your evidence model
- Scheduling, retries, and failure handling for unreliable sources
- Retrieved-artifact storage with source and date provenance
Evidence libraryEngineering$26,000 base build $9,000 base run cost per year
- Document storage with versioning, retention, and expiry rules
- Deduplication and reuse across vendors and controls
- Search and indexing across stored evidence
- Document-level access control and audit trails
System of recordEngineering$49,000 base build $14,000 base run cost per year
- Relational model spanning vendors, assessments, findings, and contracts
- Per-vendor profiles for ratings, documents, owners, tags, and activity
- Activity log and full change history
- The shared data backbone every other capability relies on
Findings & reassessmentAnalyst + eng$34,000 base build $11,000 base run cost per year
- Findings store with owner assignment, status, due dates, and custom fields
- Follow-up and attestation workflows that track responses
- Risk-based reassessment scheduling
- Accept-with-rationale handling and audit records
Contract managementAnalyst + eng$31,000 base build $8,000 base run cost per year
- Contract documents stored against each vendor
- Clause and term extraction for dates, values, and payment terms
- Structured contract records with exception-review workflows
- Alerts on renewal and termination dates
Obligations & CUECsAnalyst + eng$28,000 base build $8,000 base run cost per year
- Extraction of CUECs and shared responsibilities from every SOC 2
- Internal owner assignment and due-date tracking
- A portal for owners to attest or upload evidence
- Traceability from each obligation to its vendor and control
Continuous monitoringEngineering$35,000 base build $15,000 base run cost per year
- Connectors for news, government, SEC, RSS, and third-party APIs
- Custom detector engine with per-detector rules and reviewers
- Noise-feedback loop to tune signal quality over time
- Alerting and exposure mapping to affected vendors and services
Aggregation & ERMEngineering$27,000 base build $10,000 base run cost per year
- Nth-party and subprocessor graphs with a concentration model
- Financial-exposure modeling using contract and business-unit data
- Cross-vendor rollups and geography-of-risk views
- Board and regulator reporting, templated and exportable
Integrations & APIsEngineering$30,000 base build $7,000 base run cost per year
- Connectors to GRC, ticketing, and procurement systems
- Import/export APIs and MCP endpoints
- Authentication, rate limiting, and field mapping per integration
- Sync and reconciliation logic to keep systems in step
Platform foundation (shared)Included once for engineering scope$76,000 base build $72,000 base run cost per year
- Cloud environment, networking, and CI/CD deployment pipeline
- Identity, access control, roles, and audit logging
- Background jobs, queue processing, and scheduling
- LLM API integration, prompt orchestration, and cost controls
- Secrets management and encryption in transit and at rest
- Monitoring, logging, backups, and disaster recovery
- Your own SOC 2 program for the tool itself