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Your privacy platform should be as smart as your engineering team

February 24, 2026
6 min. Read
Jessica Pate
Jessica Pate
Lead, Product Management

Your privacy platform should be as smart as your engineering team

February 24, 2026
6 min. Read

Your engineering team shipped three AI features last quarter. Your security team deployed automated threat detection across your cloud infrastructure. Your data team built real-time pipelines that process millions of events per hour.

And your privacy team? They're still chasing people to fill out spreadsheets.

Something doesn't add up. The rest of your organization runs on automation, intelligence, and speed. But privacy operations remain stuck in a world of manual data mapping, stale compliance records, and quarterly review cycles that were outdated before the ink dried.

Today we're changing that with two major product launches that represent the most complete AI-native privacy automation platform on the market. Together, they close the gap between how fast your business moves and how fast your privacy program keeps up.

The problem nobody wants to talk about

Here's the uncomfortable truth: most privacy tools were built backwards.

Some started with consent banners. Others started with DSR tracking. A few started with form building for assessments. Then they all tried to bolt on a data foundation after the fact. The result is a collection of disconnected modules that don't talk to each other, require months of implementation, and still depend on humans to connect the dots.

Meanwhile, 65% of SaaS apps operate without IT approval. New AI models get deployed weekly. Data flows through dozens of microservices, third-party APIs, and cloud environments that change faster than any manual process can track.

Legacy privacy tools weren't just built for a different era. They were built on a fundamentally flawed assumption: that data sits still long enough for humans to document it.

It doesn't.

Two launches, one unified platform

We built the data foundation first. Everything else connects to it. That's what makes these two launches different from anything else on the market.

A ROPA that actually thinks

Our fully rebuilt Universal ROPA is not a digitized spreadsheet. It's a dynamic compliance engine.

Traditional ROPAs fail because they treat data processing as a flat list. But data processing is a web of relationships between controllers, processors, sub-processors, data categories, and purposes. Our new ROPA understands that complexity so you don't have to.

Here's what's new:

Smart relationship architecture. Our ROPA logic automatically traces relationships between controllers, processors, and sub-processors. It predicts your regulatory role based on data processing context. Need to find every processing activity involving a specific third party for an auditor? Filters surface those relationships in seconds, not hours.

Always audit-ready, with you in control. Your ROPA stays in constant sync with new vendors and evolved processing activities. Lumina does the heavy lifting, but you remain the pilot. Full manual controls let you edit, override and approve any field to match your unique business context. You get the complete "who, what, where, and why" of your data ecosystem in a single view.

This is compliance clarity that didn't exist before. You're moving from a static list of rows to a living engine that proves your privacy posture on demand.

Read the full ROPA product blog →

Mobile consent that actually works

For years, mobile consent has been the black box of privacy compliance. Web consent evolved into sophisticated platforms while mobile apps stayed stuck with manual SDK tracking, fragmented consent records, and engineering-heavy implementations.

Our new Mobile Consent Management Platform brings the same AI-native approach to iOS and Android applications. For the first time, privacy teams can manage user consent across web and mobile from a single unified platform.

Here's what changes:

AI-powered app scanning. Upload your .ipa or .apk file and our scanner automatically discovers and classifies every SDK and data endpoint. No more manual code reviews or outdated spreadsheets.

No-code interface builder. Design brand-aligned consent banners for mobile in minutes. Support for light and dark mode. Update compliance rules from the platform without touching code.

Unified consent logs. Every "allow" or "decline" is captured in a single auditable record shared with your web CMP data. One source of truth for your entire digital footprint. Pull a unified report spanning all touchpoints in seconds.

Read the full Mobile CMP product blog →

The speed advantage

Here's where the AI-native difference becomes impossible to ignore.

Because we built the data foundation first, everything connects. Your ROPA knows about your vendors because it's built on the same data layer as your vendor risk management. Your consent management knows about your processing activities because it reads from the same live inventory. Your assessments pre-fill themselves because they pull from actual operational data, not assumptions.

This is why our customers get live in hours, not months.

Compare that to legacy tools where you spend the first six months just getting implemented. Where consent lives in one system, data mapping in another, and DSRs in a third. Where updating a single vendor record means logging into three different dashboards and hoping someone remembers to sync them.

For teams stuck on legacy platforms

If you're currently on OneTrust or a similar legacy tool, the path forward is straightforward. Our migration program transfers your entire privacy program, ROPAs, assessments, DSR queues, consent history, audit records, in 5-7 business days with zero downtime. We don't just move your data. We validate it against your actual infrastructure, turning static documentation into a dynamic, living map.

If you're earlier in your privacy journey, our Privacy Essentials package gets you up and running with AI-native data mapping, automated assessments, and unified obligations in hours. No source code scanning required. No months-long onboarding projects.

The urgency is real

Every week you wait, the gap between your business and your privacy program gets wider.

Your engineering team is already deploying AI features that create new data flows daily. Your security team is already using automated tools to monitor threats in real time. Your data team is already building pipelines that move millions of records per hour.

Your privacy program can't afford to be the bottleneck. Not when new regulations arrive every quarter. Not when a single unmonitored AI tool can expose sensitive data instantly. Not when the average data breach takes 277 days to detect and contain.

The privacy teams that are winning right now are the ones that stopped treating compliance as a documentation exercise and started treating it as an engineering advantage. They automate data mapping instead of sending questionnaires. They use AI to predict processing activities instead of guessing. They manage consent through intelligent agents instead of manual banner configurations.

They built on a real data foundation. And they did it in hours, not months.

The complete picture

With today's launches, Relyance AI delivers the most complete and unified AI-native privacy automation platform available:

Data Journeys that continuously map how data moves from source code to cloud to AI models, in real time.

Universal ROPA that automatically traces relationships, predicts regulatory roles, and stays audit-ready 24/7.

Mobile and web consent management unified in a single platform with proactive blocking and AI-powered scanning.

Privacy rights automation that reduces DSR fulfillment from weeks to minutes.

Automated assessments that pre-fill up to 80% of fields using actual operational data.

AI governance that discovers, monitors, and controls how every AI system uses your sensitive data.

All built on one data foundation. All connected. All working together.

Your engineering team moved to AI-native years ago. Your security team followed. It's time your privacy program caught up.

Your engineering team shipped three AI features last quarter. Your security team deployed automated threat detection across your cloud infrastructure. Your data team built real-time pipelines that process millions of events per hour.

And your privacy team? They're still chasing people to fill out spreadsheets.

Something doesn't add up. The rest of your organization runs on automation, intelligence, and speed. But privacy operations remain stuck in a world of manual data mapping, stale compliance records, and quarterly review cycles that were outdated before the ink dried.

Today we're changing that with two major product launches that represent the most complete AI-native privacy automation platform on the market. Together, they close the gap between how fast your business moves and how fast your privacy program keeps up.

The problem nobody wants to talk about

Here's the uncomfortable truth: most privacy tools were built backwards.

Some started with consent banners. Others started with DSR tracking. A few started with form building for assessments. Then they all tried to bolt on a data foundation after the fact. The result is a collection of disconnected modules that don't talk to each other, require months of implementation, and still depend on humans to connect the dots.

Meanwhile, 65% of SaaS apps operate without IT approval. New AI models get deployed weekly. Data flows through dozens of microservices, third-party APIs, and cloud environments that change faster than any manual process can track.

Legacy privacy tools weren't just built for a different era. They were built on a fundamentally flawed assumption: that data sits still long enough for humans to document it.

It doesn't.

Two launches, one unified platform

We built the data foundation first. Everything else connects to it. That's what makes these two launches different from anything else on the market.

A ROPA that actually thinks

Our fully rebuilt Universal ROPA is not a digitized spreadsheet. It's a dynamic compliance engine.

Traditional ROPAs fail because they treat data processing as a flat list. But data processing is a web of relationships between controllers, processors, sub-processors, data categories, and purposes. Our new ROPA understands that complexity so you don't have to.

Here's what's new:

Smart relationship architecture. Our ROPA logic automatically traces relationships between controllers, processors, and sub-processors. It predicts your regulatory role based on data processing context. Need to find every processing activity involving a specific third party for an auditor? Filters surface those relationships in seconds, not hours.

Always audit-ready, with you in control. Your ROPA stays in constant sync with new vendors and evolved processing activities. Lumina does the heavy lifting, but you remain the pilot. Full manual controls let you edit, override and approve any field to match your unique business context. You get the complete "who, what, where, and why" of your data ecosystem in a single view.

This is compliance clarity that didn't exist before. You're moving from a static list of rows to a living engine that proves your privacy posture on demand.

Read the full ROPA product blog →

Mobile consent that actually works

For years, mobile consent has been the black box of privacy compliance. Web consent evolved into sophisticated platforms while mobile apps stayed stuck with manual SDK tracking, fragmented consent records, and engineering-heavy implementations.

Our new Mobile Consent Management Platform brings the same AI-native approach to iOS and Android applications. For the first time, privacy teams can manage user consent across web and mobile from a single unified platform.

Here's what changes:

AI-powered app scanning. Upload your .ipa or .apk file and our scanner automatically discovers and classifies every SDK and data endpoint. No more manual code reviews or outdated spreadsheets.

No-code interface builder. Design brand-aligned consent banners for mobile in minutes. Support for light and dark mode. Update compliance rules from the platform without touching code.

Unified consent logs. Every "allow" or "decline" is captured in a single auditable record shared with your web CMP data. One source of truth for your entire digital footprint. Pull a unified report spanning all touchpoints in seconds.

Read the full Mobile CMP product blog →

The speed advantage

Here's where the AI-native difference becomes impossible to ignore.

Because we built the data foundation first, everything connects. Your ROPA knows about your vendors because it's built on the same data layer as your vendor risk management. Your consent management knows about your processing activities because it reads from the same live inventory. Your assessments pre-fill themselves because they pull from actual operational data, not assumptions.

This is why our customers get live in hours, not months.

Compare that to legacy tools where you spend the first six months just getting implemented. Where consent lives in one system, data mapping in another, and DSRs in a third. Where updating a single vendor record means logging into three different dashboards and hoping someone remembers to sync them.

For teams stuck on legacy platforms

If you're currently on OneTrust or a similar legacy tool, the path forward is straightforward. Our migration program transfers your entire privacy program, ROPAs, assessments, DSR queues, consent history, audit records, in 5-7 business days with zero downtime. We don't just move your data. We validate it against your actual infrastructure, turning static documentation into a dynamic, living map.

If you're earlier in your privacy journey, our Privacy Essentials package gets you up and running with AI-native data mapping, automated assessments, and unified obligations in hours. No source code scanning required. No months-long onboarding projects.

The urgency is real

Every week you wait, the gap between your business and your privacy program gets wider.

Your engineering team is already deploying AI features that create new data flows daily. Your security team is already using automated tools to monitor threats in real time. Your data team is already building pipelines that move millions of records per hour.

Your privacy program can't afford to be the bottleneck. Not when new regulations arrive every quarter. Not when a single unmonitored AI tool can expose sensitive data instantly. Not when the average data breach takes 277 days to detect and contain.

The privacy teams that are winning right now are the ones that stopped treating compliance as a documentation exercise and started treating it as an engineering advantage. They automate data mapping instead of sending questionnaires. They use AI to predict processing activities instead of guessing. They manage consent through intelligent agents instead of manual banner configurations.

They built on a real data foundation. And they did it in hours, not months.

The complete picture

With today's launches, Relyance AI delivers the most complete and unified AI-native privacy automation platform available:

Data Journeys that continuously map how data moves from source code to cloud to AI models, in real time.

Universal ROPA that automatically traces relationships, predicts regulatory roles, and stays audit-ready 24/7.

Mobile and web consent management unified in a single platform with proactive blocking and AI-powered scanning.

Privacy rights automation that reduces DSR fulfillment from weeks to minutes.

Automated assessments that pre-fill up to 80% of fields using actual operational data.

AI governance that discovers, monitors, and controls how every AI system uses your sensitive data.

All built on one data foundation. All connected. All working together.

Your engineering team moved to AI-native years ago. Your security team followed. It's time your privacy program caught up.

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