About
Built by an operator who
lived this problem.
Founder Pete Macias led risk and compliance programs at Coalfire, NAVEX Global, and Verizon — advising hundreds of companies through SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI, HIPAA, and beyond.
Our approach
Start with the foundation, not the overkill.
Most SMBs don't need enterprise GRC on day one — they need to know where they actually stand. Scarlet Risk is the foundational layer: policies, posture, monitoring, and intelligence, built to get you audit-ready and protected without paying for complexity you don't need yet. Certification platform later, if you need one. Foundation first.
Who it's for
Built for how you actually work.
Four roles show up in every small-business risk conversation. Here's the concern each one brings — and exactly how we answer it.
| Persona | The objection we solve | How Scarlet Risk delivers it |
|---|---|---|
| The SMB Founder | “I don't have the time or a dedicated security budget to configure heavy software.” | Time-to-Value in Less Than 20 Minutes: Answer five questions, connect your basic workspace tools, and our AI instantly drafts your complete risk program — policies, controls, and risk register — from scratch. |
| The IT/Security Lead | “Vague AI marketing is cheap. How do I know my sensitive compliance data is actually safe?” | Enterprise-Grade Security Baseline: Every document in our Evidence Library is encrypted using AES-256-GCM envelope encryption and housed in a private bucket with absolutely no public URLs. Plus, leverage our OAuth-secured MCP Server to let your preferred AI models safely interact with your local data with full audit logging. |
| The Compliance Officer | “An AI template is a point-in-time snapshot. Real compliance requires verified evidence.” | Action-Backed GRC: Scarlet Risk translates complex compliance checks into plain English and automatically transitions inferred compliance gaps into “Confirmed” controls as soon as evidence files are securely uploaded. |
| The MSP Partner | “I don't want a vendor selling directly to my registered accounts or disrupting my clients.” | The No-Conflict Channel Promise: If a client is registered by an MSP, we will never sell to them directly. Period. We white-label the software under your brand. |
The platform
The AI-powered risk intelligence platform for small business.
Scarlet Risk is the foundational piece to your cyber and compliance program — the affordable starting point that shows you where you stand before you invest in something bigger and more complex than you need.
Most companies manage risk in silos. Cyber tools that don't talk to compliance tools. Compliance tools that ignore vendor risk. Intelligence feeds nobody reads. Scarlet Risk connects all of it — in one autonomous platform.
We built Scarlet Risk to be the operating system for risk. Not just GRC. Not just compliance. The full picture — cyber posture, regulatory compliance, real-time threat intelligence, and world risk monitoring — all managed by AI, all in one place.
Our mission is to bring enterprise-grade risk intelligence to an underserved market. The tools Fortune 500s rely on — Palantir, Control Risks, Vanta, Bitsight — inspired what we built, but Scarlet Risk is designed for the SMBs those platforms were never priced for.
Built by an operator who lived this problem. Founder Pete Macias led risk and compliance programs at Coalfire, NAVEX Global, and Verizon — advising hundreds of companies through SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI, HIPAA, and beyond. Scarlet Risk is the platform he wished existed when he was on the other side of the table.
Cyber Risk
Security posture scoring, checklist, IR playbooks
GRC & Compliance
Policies, SOC 2, HIPAA, CMMC, ISO 27001
Risk Intelligence
Real-time threat briefings, regulatory alerts
World Monitoring
Global risk feeds, travel safety, SMB alerts