smartGRC is not a startup pivoting into GRC. It is the productized form of 15+ years of practitioner experience - from SAP authorization design projects in 2010 to AI-native access governance in 2026.
The origin is two sister companies: GRC Solutions Sp. z o.o. - the smartGRC platform license owner - and GRC Advisory Sp. z o.o. - a Wrocław & Kraków-based SAP Security consulting firm with ISO 27001 certification and 15+ years of experience, founded by SAP authorization practitioners. From the start, the work was the same: walk into an enterprise SAP environment, find the SoD conflicts nobody knew existed, fix the role catalog that had accumulated 15 years of organic mess, and stand up the access governance the auditors needed.
Doing that work for one customer after another - finance teams, chemical manufacturers, telecom operators, automotive groups, restaurant chains - the same patterns kept showing up. The same manual audits. The same Excel-based SoD matrices nobody trusted. The same fire-drill audit preparation every quarter. The same SAP GRC Access Control deployments that took a year and cost six figures.
The tooling we built for ourselves to make that consulting work less painful eventually became a product. It started as Security & Compliance Expert in 2010 - deployed at AmRest (KFC, Burger King, Starbucks brands) that same year, and at Volkswagen Group Poland in 2012. It grew into the smartGRC platform with seven modules over the next decade, deployed at Cyfrowy Polsat in 2014 and at PCC Rokita's 17 subsidiaries (1,700 SAP users) in 2017.
In 2026 we relaunched with 19 named AI agents and an explicit autonomy dial - making smartGRC the first AI-native SAP access governance platform that real customers can verify, with signed reference letters from production deployments spanning 9 to 16 years.
First production deployment at AmRest Sp. z o.o. - SoD reporting and admin module for 100+ SAP users across KFC, Burger King, Starbucks, Pizza Hut and Applebee's franchises. Reference letter signed December 2010.
11-month engagement with KPI Poland (now Volkswagen Group Poland). New SoD matrix, role catalog redesign and MENU/ORG-based role architecture across Finance, Controlling, Logistics, Purchasing, Sales and IT. Reference letter signed August 2012.
SoD reporting and firefighter workflow for 300 SAP users in SAP ECC. Technical installation completed in 8 weeks, full project in 12 weeks. Reference letter signed December 2014.
Largest deployment to date: 1,700 SAP users across 17 PCC subsidiaries, all four core smartGRC modules (smartSoD, smartWorkflow, smartArchitect, smartAccess). Delivered in 20 weeks using SPRINT methodology. Reference letter signed October 2017.
smartGRC deployment at GOBARTO S.A. - one of the largest Polish meat processing companies. SAP access governance for production, supply chain and finance operations across multiple plants and distribution centers.
smartGRC rollout at Vesuvius plc - global FTSE-listed engineered ceramics group serving steel and foundry industries worldwide. International SAP landscape with multi-country compliance requirements.
smartGRC deployment at InPost / Integer.pl - European parcel locker logistics leader operating across multiple countries. SAP access governance for one of the fastest-growing logistics tech companies in Europe.
Major platform refresh. Nineteen named AI agents introduced with explicit four-level autonomy dial. New website at smartgrc.eu with interactive demo, ROI calculator and seven languages. Comparison pages vs Pathlock, Xiting, SAP GRC Access Control published.
These are the principles we keep coming back to - shaped by consulting work, not whiteboard product strategy:
Every AI decision is explainable, reviewable, and reversible. Every action is logged. Every report stands up to a Big 4 auditor - because we know what that looks like from the other side of the table.
AI assists, accelerates and automates - but a human is in the loop for anything risky, novel, or precedent-setting. The customer's governance officer controls the autonomy dial per workflow. We are not replacing your team.
Enterprise GRC platforms start from €250 000/year. SAP GRC Access Control is comparable. smartGRC delivers the same compliance outcomes at a fraction of the cost - because we built it efficiently, not because we are cutting corners.
Hosted in EU, GDPR-compliant by design, configurable retention, right-to-be-forgotten workflows, DPO-ready documentation. EU AI Act-ready architecture from day one - not retrofitted after the regulation passed.
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GRC Advisory Sp. z o.o. (sister consulting practice, ISO 27001 certified)
Wrocław office: ul. Strzegomska 140A, 54-429 Wrocław
Kraków office: Quattro Business Park, al. Gen. T. Bora Komorowskiego 25D, 31-476 Kraków
contact@smartgrc.eu · +48 22 290 90 07
smartGRC is the productized form of GRC Advisory Sp. z o.o.'s consulting work, with GRC Solutions Sp. z o.o. as the platform license owner - active SAP GRC practice with 15+ years of enterprise engagements.
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