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Screenata vs Delve
Delve is an AI-native compliance platform built on speed and white-glove support, backed by a $32M raise at a $300M valuation. In March 2026 it was publicly accused of producing fake evidence and steering customers to rubber-stamp auditors; it denies the compliance allegations, and Y Combinator parted ways with it in April. Screenata is AI-native too, and built on the opposite premise: every artifact carries proof of how it was produced, and the auditor is one you chose. $5,988/year per framework, published.
Side by side
Both are AI-native. Screenata signs the evidence.
Where Screenata is different
Three things Delve doesn’t do.
Evidence you can verify outside the platform
Every artifact Vera files carries a capture-time timestamp badge, a signed manifest with an RFC 3161 timestamp, and a trace from the policy sentence to the claim, the test, and the run. Anyone — your auditor, your customer's security team — verifies it with a free CLI, no Screenata login required. After 2026, that is the question every AI-native vendor gets asked.
Deterministic policies, traceable to a claim
Screenata's policy generator is deterministic: the same attestation produces the same sentence, and an overpromise checker flags commitments your systems cannot back. Auditors can re-derive a policy from the questionnaire. Nothing is generated on the auditor's behalf.
An auditor we do not pay
Screenata sells no audit, coordinates no audit, and takes no referral fee. You bring the CPA firm you have or choose one; they get a read-only Auditor Center. The AICPA's 2026 guidance on tool-provider referral arrangements is why we keep the seats separate, and it is the structural answer to what went wrong in the Delve story.
The operational layer
Where the evidence comes from.
Detect
Scheduled agents scan your cloud, repos, and identity provider continuously, the same signals Delve reads.
Do
Vera runs 650+ native checks nightly, records the evidence integrations can't reach while your team does the task, chases the attestations a dashboard can't, and when she finds a gap she opens the finding and drafts the fix.
Verify & sign
After a human applies the change, Vera re-verifies and files a signed, traceable artifact. She escalates judgment calls rather than acting unattended, which is what keeps auditors comfortable.
Delve
AI collects → concierge guides → fast report
Screenata
Detect → collect & remediate → re-verify → sign
Delve, in detail
The questions people ask about Delve.
Delve pricing
What Delve costs
Delve does not publish pricing; quotes are demo-gated. Screenata is $5,988 a year per framework, published, with every module included and the audit priced separately by the auditor you choose.
Delve vs Screenata: both AI-native
The model is the difference
Delve and Screenata both use AI to do the compliance work, and the 2026 controversy made the difference between them legible. The allegations — reported by TechCrunch and denied by Delve — were that near-identical auditor conclusions were generated and that customers were routed to firms that rubber-stamped them. Screenata is built so that question cannot arise: policies are deterministic, evidence is recorded while the work happens and signed at capture, the manifest is verifiable with a free CLI, and the auditor is a firm you chose that we do not pay. Speed was never the promise; evidence that holds up is.
The honest version
When Delve is the better fit.
- You want 24/7 concierge access to compliance experts as part of the subscription
- You need AI-governance frameworks beyond ISO 42001, such as EU AI Act mappings
- You have satisfied yourself about how their evidence and auditor arrangements work today
Screenata is built for the 5–50 person team that needs SOC 2 to close a deal, wants policies grounded in real infrastructure, and would rather operate compliance from Slack and the terminal than a dashboard. More on who we’re for.
Screenata
$5,988/year per framework ($499/mo), published
Every module included, per framework. Published, not sales-gated. The audit is priced by the auditor you choose; we sell no audit and take no referral fee.
Delve
Not published; demo-gated quote
Typical GRC platform model: annual commitment, with additional frameworks and headcount priced on top.
Year one, all in
What year one actually costs.
Sources: Vendr marketplace pages (anonymized transaction data, fetched 2026-09-03); vendors’ own pricing pages and documentation where published; Vanta’s August 2026 screenshot figure; Drata “SOC 2 By the Numbers” 2026. Ranges scale with headcount and framework count; none is a vendor list price unless the vendor publishes one.
Questions
Screenata vs Delve, answered.
Is Screenata a good Delve alternative?
For a company that wants AI-native compliance with evidence a customer's security team can verify, yes. Screenata records evidence while your team works, signs it at capture, traces every policy sentence to a claim and a test, and leaves the audit to a CPA firm you choose. $5,988 a year per framework, published.
How is Screenata different from Delve if both use AI?
Provenance and independence. Screenata's policies are deterministic and re-derivable, its evidence carries a capture-time timestamp and a signed manifest verifiable outside the platform, and it sells no audit and takes no referral fee. Delve's model was speed plus concierge, and in 2026 it was accused — it denies the claims — of generating auditor conclusions and steering customers to rubber-stamp firms.
What happened with Delve in 2026?
In March 2026 an anonymous post accused Delve of producing fabricated evidence and routing customers through audit firms that rubber-stamped reports; TechCrunch reported the allegations and Delve's denial. In April 2026 Y Combinator removed Delve from its directory. Screenata makes no claim about the facts; it is built so the question of how evidence was produced has a verifiable answer.
How much does Delve cost compared to Screenata?
Delve does not publish pricing. Screenata is $5,988 a year per framework, published.
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