About Clarito
Built by a practitioner who spent three years inside the problem
Clarito was founded in Menlo Park in 2022 after years of direct work in vendor review workflows. Not a startup idea — a tool someone needed to exist.
Founder's Story
From a fintech procurement desk to a vendor risk platform
Before founding Clarito, Ethan Park spent three years managing vendor relationships and security review at a mid-market fintech in the Bay Area. The team reviewed 30–40 new vendors per quarter — payment processors, SaaS data handlers, infrastructure providers, analytics tools. Each one arrived with a questionnaire in a different format. Each one had to be cross-referenced against the same NIST-aligned control framework doc, manually, in a separate window, line by line.
The pattern was always the same: questionnaire arrives by email, gets reformatted into a shared spreadsheet, analyst maps items to controls, writes a risk narrative, flags gaps, waits for security team signoff, sends a response draft back. Three weeks minimum. The frustrating part: maybe four hours of that involved actual judgment. The other 30+ hours were mechanical comparison, format wrangling, and rewriting the same answers about encryption and access controls for the nth vendor of the quarter.
Clarito was incorporated in 2022 to compress that mechanical portion. The goal was not to replace analyst judgment — that 20-minute conversation about whether a vendor's IR plan is adequate for their data access level is irreplaceable. The goal was to make that judgment the starting point of the review, not something you work up to after days of data entry.
We are bootstrapped and have been from the start. We have no outside investors and no intention of selling to a larger GRC suite. We operate out of Menlo Park, California.
Mission
"Make vendor risk review a precision instrument, not a paperwork exercise."
Every decision to approve or reject a vendor carries real liability. An under-reviewed vendor who has a breach becomes your incident. An over-burdened review process that takes six weeks per vendor creates procurement friction that business teams route around. Clarito's role is to make the assessment rigorous and the process fast — not by cutting corners on the analysis, but by eliminating the mechanical work that surrounds it.
Clarito is not a GRC suite. It does not manage your full third-party risk program, and it does not replace the analyst who makes the final call. It handles the questionnaire-to-decision pipeline specifically: ingestion, taxonomy parsing, scoring, and response drafts. If you need a full enterprise GRC platform, there are several well-established options. If you need that specific pipeline made faster and more accurate, Clarito is built for that.
What We Believe
Values that shape the product
01
Precision over speed
Vendor risk decisions carry real liability. A 74 composite score should tell the analyst something specific — which domains passed, which have gaps, and whether those gaps clear your posture threshold for this vendor's tier. We build tools that make accuracy the default output, not a tradeoff against speed.
02
Evidence, not assertion
Every composite score in Clarito traces to specific control gap findings. Every gap traces to a specific questionnaire item and a specific posture threshold. When a regulator asks why a vendor scored 74, the answer is not "our algorithm said so" — it's a list of items, domains, and severity ratings that any analyst can read and verify.
03
Analyst-grade transparency
The security analysts who use Clarito should be able to explain, in a regulator review or an internal audit, exactly what the tool did and why it produced each output. If a feature requires the analyst to trust a result they can't inspect, we've built it wrong. Every scoring decision is surfaced with the supporting item mapping.
Built for the analysts who do the work
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