As compliance grows more complex and talent shortages deepen, enterprises face mounting pressure to stay audit-ready and manage risk at scale. Verano.AI meets this urgency with purpose-built AI that automates over 80% of the compliance lifecycle directly within platforms like ServiceNow.
Founded by Clay Swerdelian, Rob Shaw, Renan Yamaguti, and Hugo Kiqumoto, Verano combines deep expertise in compliance, AI, and enterprise tech to address one of the most under-automated pain points in governance. Its platform uses advanced natural language understanding, contextual document parsing, and sub-clause-level matching to deliver unmatched precision—embedding directly into enterprise systems to transform compliance into an intelligent, adaptive function.
Verano’s mission is simple: empower enterprises to automate their compliance tasks, eliminate audit stress, and mitigate regulatory risk proactively using real-time AI-powered workflows. This mission is reflected not only in its product, but in the company’s culture—heavily inspired by Amazon’s ethos of customer obsession, operational excellence, innovation, and long-term thinking.
The regulatory and ServiceNow ecosystem is rapidly evolving. Compliance updates now shift quarterly or even monthly across global jurisdictions, while the pool of experienced subject matter experts continues to shrink. This vision is deeply rooted in its culture—driven by AWS-inspired principles of customer obsession, innovation, and operational excellence.
Verano isn’t just built for ServiceNow—it’s built into it. We’re redefining compliance by embedding real-time AI directly into enterprise workflows. — Rob Shaw, Co-Founder
Verano’s embedded AI Agents automate the end-to-end compliance lifecycle—regulatory intake, mapping, risk analysis, and evidence collection—all within ServiceNow. To scale impact, it follows a three-tier strategy: vertical expansion across regulated industries, strategic co-sell partnerships with ServiceNow and Deloitte, and deep R&D investment in domain-specific AI, delivering explainable decisions within enterprise workflows.
Beyond ServiceNow, Verano is expanding its integration footprint across Microsoft, IBM, Salesforce, and SAP. This ecosystem-first mindset ensures that intelligent compliance workflows can be deployed seamlessly inside any digital enterprise stack—whether cloud-native or ERP-based. Future enhancements will include predictive risk modeling, self-healing compliance workflows, and automated regulatory gap analysis, placing Verano at the forefront of proactive risk mitigation.
The company’s VERIFY Audit Module, slated for release, is another milestone in Verano’s roadmap. VERIFY stands for Validate, Evaluate, Report, Integrate, Flag, and Yield. This module automates audit preparation with AI-driven data collection, control validation, and health checks that drastically reduce audit cost, time, and complexity. Compliance teams will be able to produce audit-ready reports on demand—without the traditional overhead of manual inputs or consultant dependence.
What sets Verano apart is its domain-specific AI Agents—compliance technology trained to interpret complex regulations, map sub-clause obligations to internal controls, flag gaps proactively, and operate natively within enterprise workflows for real-time assurance.
Real-world implementation showcases Verano’s impact. In one example, a midstream energy company needed a legal registry across jurisdictions but lacked resources to manually parse data. Verano’s Requirements Identification Model extracted, mapped, and cross-referenced obligations, exposing gaps and enabling remediation. Its custom API integrated seamlessly, replacing months of manual work while enhancing compliance and audit readiness.
We didn’t build Verano because AI was hot – we built it because compliance was broken. — Clay Swerdelian, CEO
Verano is built on three core principles: intelligence, integration, and impact. Its AI is not off-the-shelf—it is trained specifically for regulatory logic, jurisdictional nuance, and risk modeling. Its architecture is built to integrate natively with operational systems and not just function in isolation. Most importantly, Verano delivers tangible outcomes: not just identifying compliance gaps, but suggesting action, tracking change, and adapting processes in real time.
As Verano scales globally, it is expanding across LATAM, the EU, APAC, and Australia, addressing rising regulatory complexity with AI-powered precision. In parallel, it is enhancing interoperability with major platforms, ensuring that compliance automation fits naturally into any operational tech stack—from HR and legal to risk and audit.
What often surprises clients is Verano’s plug-and-play integrations executed in days through its integration-first framework and native web interface. The experience of the team—having scaled and exited multiple startups—brings a rare combination of speed and enterprise readiness. In less than 18 months, Verano has progressed from prototype to partnering with Deloitte, deploying in highly regulated enterprise environments.