Railbase for Risk & Compliance
Run risk ownership, compliance alerts and audit-ready reporting on one shared platform you own, with control testing on the roadmap.
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The problem
Your risk register lives in a spreadsheet with no owner, no history, and no audit trail. Controls and their evidence are scattered across drives and inboxes. Compliance alerts are chased by hand. And when the board or an auditor asks a question, someone spends a week stitching it back together.
A GRC SaaS gives you a tidy tool but another data island — disconnected from the business it governs. ERP GRC modules exist, but they are heavy, slow to roll out, and priced for very large enterprises. Growing companies need something in between.
How Railbase handles it
Railbase runs your governance on a platform you own — one binary, one Vault file for records, simple self-hosting with your IT partner. A few business modules do the work along the Three Lines, and they share the same ledger of truth as the rest of your business.
- Risk (2nd line) — ownership, appetite, KRIs, treatments, risk acceptances, and board/audit reporting.
- Internal Control (1st/2nd line) — control library, testing, effectiveness and evidence (on the roadmap).
- Compliance — rules and detectors, alerts, obligations, and case management.
Together they form the Governance Suite, backed by two core capabilities every governance program needs: Documents for evidence, policies, versions and legal hold, and Core Tasks for built-in approvals and a work inbox — no paid add-on for basic sign-off.
A control fails — end to end
- A control breaks. Internal Control flags the failure and escalates the risk.
- Risk records the acceptance or defines a treatment, and assigns an owner.
- The supporting evidence is stored and version-tracked in Documents.
- The remediation is approved through Core Tasks.
- It all rolls straight into board and audit reporting — no spreadsheet reassembly.
One workflow, one owner per item, one audit trail. Because the modules talk over Railbase's event bus, governance stays connected to the operations it oversees.
What it costs
The core platform is free to self-host. Risk is priced as a company-wide tenant plan — governance value, not a cheap seat add-on — with planned tiers of Basic $499, Pro $1,499 and Max $4,999 per tenant/month; Compliance will be a custom plan scoped to your obligations.
The Governance Suite (Risk + Compliance) is on the Railbase roadmap and is rolled out through a founder-led pilot rather than self-serve checkout today. Talk to us to pilot it or plan the rollout, and start on the free core now.
FAQ
Is Railbase a full GRC or ERP replacement?
No. It is lighter than ERP and focused on the governance workflow that matters — risk ownership, evidence and reporting today, with controls on the roadmap — connected to the business rather than sitting in a separate island.
Where does our risk and evidence data live?
On your own server. Railbase is self-hosted; railbase.app only handles the catalog, licenses and signed artifacts. Your evidence, cases and registers never leave your infrastructure.
Do we need to buy everything at once?
No. Start on the free core today. As the Governance Suite ships, add Risk, then layer in Compliance and Documents as your program matures — talk to us to plan the rollout.
Start free, then browse business modules or plan an implementation with our team.