Protecht
One intelligent platform to unify risk, compliance and resilience so you can act faster and with certainty.
By Protecht Group · HQ Sydney, Australia · 4.0/5 Value-Position score (estimate)
Positioning guardrails
Best for
- Enterprise risk management: risks, controls, obligations, incidents and KRIs linked in one register
- Compliance and internal audit teams wanting obligation tracking, controls testing and evidence in one system
- Operational resilience and BCM programmes, including APRA CPS 230 readiness for banks and insurers
- Cyber, IT and third-party risk teams consolidating vendor assurance and supplier assessments
- Regulated organisations needing board-level dashboards built on structured first-line data
- Risk teams that want no-code configuration of forms, scales and workflows without vendor change requests
Ideal size: 50–5,000 employees people · Regulated mid-market to enterprise with a named risk, compliance or audit owner
Not for
- Small businesses looking for a low-cost, self-serve tool with published pricing
- Teams that want to go live with no implementation, configuration or advisory effort
- Buyers needing real-time transaction fraud detection or security operations tooling
- Organisations with no dedicated risk, compliance or audit owner for the data model
- Projects that must be procured and deployed in days with minimal vendor engagement
Value metrics scorecard
Time-to-Value
About 4 weeks with pre-built templates
~30 days to first production value
Total Cost of Ownership
On request
Quote-based; no public price list. The vendor directs buyers to request a demo and speak to a risk expert.
Implementation Friction
3/5
Engineering + admin effort required
Value-Position score
out of 5 · model estimate
Full cost breakdown
Mandatory implementation fee
None
Seat tiers
Not published by the vendor
Add-on costs
- Protecht Academy training courses (priced separately)
- Advisory and implementation services (quoted per project)
Company & support
Who is behind Protecht, and how your team gets help once it is live.
Company
- Founded
- Not recorded
- Headquarters
- Sydney, Australia
How you get support
- PhonePlan not stated
- EmailPlan not stated
- Live chatAll plans
- Support portal / ticketsNot listed
- Community forumNot listed
- Help centre / docsNot listed
- Dedicated account managerNot listed
- In person / on-siteNot listed
- Hours
- Business hours
- Response time
- Not stated
Support for Protecht ERM/ALM is available by phone and email in APAC, EMEA and North America, plus livechat for all APAC and EMEA customers, with North America planned. Livechat hours are Monday to Friday, 8am–8pm AEST.
“Not listed” means the vendor’s public pages don’t mention that channel, not that it is unavailable. Ask about it during evaluation.
Market position
Where Protecht sits against its closest alternatives. Pick any two of cost, speed, friction and buyer score, and up to 9 companies to compare.
Quadrant view
Typical annual cost × Time-to-value
The lines cross at the median of the solutions shown, so about half sit on each side of each line.
Companies on the chart 6 / 10
- Protecht
- Vicarius vRx
- Convera
- Coro
- Highwire
- Vectra AI
Add or change companies
Up to 10 companies including Protecht. Listed closest first.
Stack fit signal
Compatibility with standard B2B ecosystems.
No supported MCP path today, so it cannot be driven from an AI client.
AI & MCP readiness
What Protecht ships in AI, and what it asks of your ecosystem.
AI features shipped
The homepage describes Cognita by Protecht as an AI assistant for risk and compliance that identifies critical gaps, guides users in real time and automates admin. No source states which model powers it, whether customers can supply their own key, or what AI logging/export exists.
In your ecosystem
- AI connection
- Not supported
- Model key
- Not recorded
- AI usage audit
- Not recorded
Compliance attestations
* IAPP AIGP certifies individuals, not products. It means named staff hold the credential — not that the platform does.
Bottom line
Protecht is an AI-enhanced GRC platform that unifies enterprise risk, compliance, audit, controls, cyber/IT risk and operational resilience in one configurable system. Its Cognita AI assistant guides users and automates admin, while pre-built Marketplace templates and no-code configuration shorten implementation. The vendor brings 20+ years of risk expertise plus academy training and advisory services, and counts regulated customers including banks, payment networks, universities and global manufacturers.
Frequently asked questions
How is Protecht priced?
Protecht does not publish pricing. The site directs buyers to request a demo and speak to a risk expert, so expect quote-based annual subscription pricing. Budget separately for advisory, implementation services and Protecht Academy training. Confirm seat counts, module scope and the support tier you are buying before signing.
How long does implementation take?
Protecht promotes pre-configured Marketplace templates and quick implementation, and one customer reports building new risk registers in as little as a day. A realistic first-production milestone for a typical enterprise rollout is roughly one to two months; multi-jurisdiction programmes with heavy configuration take longer.
Does Protecht offer AI features, and can we use our own model?
The homepage markets Cognita, an AI assistant for risk and compliance that identifies gaps, guides users and automates admin tasks. The sources do not state which model powers it, whether customers can bring their own model key, or what AI activity logging and export exists, so raise those as questions with the vendor.
What support is included?
Support is available by phone and email across APAC, EMEA and North America, plus livechat for all APAC and EMEA customers with North America planned. Livechat hours are Monday to Friday, 8am to 8pm AEST. No response-time SLA or plan-based support tiering is published.
Which industries does Protecht target?
Published references point to regulated financial services, higher education and manufacturing, including banks, payment networks, credit unions, worldRemit, UNSW and James Hardie. The platform is presented as suitable for any industry, but the documented depth is greatest where a formal risk, compliance or audit function already exists.