GRC (Governance, Risk & Compliance)
GRC — Governance, Risk, and Compliance — is the organisational discipline of aligning strategy and operations with regulatory and risk requirements. In practice it spans policy management, risk registers, control frameworks, and audit coordination. StackWeaver’s view is that GRC only becomes continuous when it is backed by an evidence-native engineering layer rather than a document store.
Explanation
Traditional GRC platforms store descriptions of controls. That answers "what should we do?" but not "did we do it, and can we prove it?" The gap between the GRC record and operational reality is where audits fail.
An evidence-native GRC layer closes that gap: controls are enforced in systems, evidence is captured at the source, and the GRC platform consumes live evidence instead of requesting screenshots.
Why it matters
GRC without live evidence is a reporting layer over a blind spot; the assurance it implies is not defensible at audit time.
For regulated African fintechs, GRC must be lightweight and engineering-led, not a heavy enterprise suite that outpaces the team.
How StackWeaver applies it
StackWeaver positions the Trust Infrastructure Platform as the evidence-native layer beneath a client’s GRC practice, so governance, risk, and compliance draw from one live source.
What this relates to
- Trust InfrastructureThe market category StackWeaver operates in: technology able to continuously demonstrate that it can be trusted, not just claim it.
- Evidence ArchitectureThe three-layer model for how compliance evidence is created, connected, and consumed: Created & Captured → Stored & Connected → Verified & Consumed.
- Compliance AutomationThe use of software to collect evidence, enforce controls, and monitor compliance state with minimal manual effort.