Vellum's Seamless Path to Compliance with Drata
About Vellum
Vellum is an LLM product development platform. Teams use Vellum to take LLM-powered features from prototype to production with tools for prompt engineering, semantic search, prompt chaining, evaluations, and monitoring.
Overcoming Compliance Hurdles for AI Innovators
In the intricate realm of AI development platforms, Vellum, a Y Combinator startup, handles sensitive customer data, making security and compliance a top priority for the organization. Consequently, achieving compliance for frameworks like SOC 2 and HIPAA is imperative.
As first time founders, they grappled with the complexity of these compliance processes, navigating time intensive security questionnaires that took Vellum’s co-founders away from precious time working on their product. They were looking for a partner to support them and resources to navigate this more effectively and efficiently.
“It's a huge pain point because we have a very technical product and we don't have a lot of time. And so, when we have to spend 3 to 5 hours answering a very long, arduous security questionnaire, it's painful” Sidd Seethepalli, CTO and Founder, Vellum.
“It's pretty hard to not do the right thing with Drata.”
Simplifying Compliance Processes
To address this challenge, Vellum opted to leverage a robust compliance solution like Drata. Drata stood out for its comprehensive functionality, competitive pricing, impeccable service, and swift implementation.
With Drata’s competitive pricing, Vellum was able to focus on SOC 2 Type 2 while also being able to run HIPAA in parallel. By harnessing Drata's arsenal of templates for policies and security documents, the compliance journey became more manageable. Vellum leverages Drata for ongoing compliance monitoring, automation of security questionnaires for prospects, and guidance on future compliance needs as they grow. Drata provides peace of mind by assisting Vellum in making informed decisions and maintaining their commitment to data security and privacy.
Drata’s Trust Center also allows Vellum to scale their security questionnaire process. With Trust Center, their team has the ability to respond more efficiently by proactively answering compliance questions and providing resources that are linked right on their Trust Center home page.
Process Efficiency With Drata: 97% Time Reduction
With Drata's support, Vellum successfully secured SOC 2 Type 1 and Type 2 attestations alongside HIPAA compliance. Today, Drata remains instrumental for continuous monitoring and upholding best practices. Drata’s Trust Center paired with Vellum’s automation capabilities have streamlined the process of responding to security questionnaires, reducing the time it takes to respond by 97%.
“It now takes 5 minutes instead of 3 hours to answer these security questionnaires.”
With Drata by their side, Vellum feels confident they are proactively meeting compliance standards and can rely on Drata's insights to navigate future compliance landscapes as they scale.
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