Frontier Advisory & Consulting Expands Third-Party Risk Management Services, Launches AI Agent-Driven Vendor Due Diligence Automation Service 'Frontier TPRM Agents'
Frontier Advisory & Consulting has launched 'Frontier TPRM Agents,' an AI agent-driven service to automate vendor due diligence, expanding its third-party risk management services. This aims to enhance efficiency and the quality of expert judgments in TPRM operations.
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## 【Overview】
Frontier Advisory & Consulting Inc. (Head Office: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director and President: Yohei Shoda; hereinafter referred to as “the Company”), a professional firm specializing in digital governance, has expanded its existing Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) consulting services and begun offering 'Frontier TPRM Agents,' an AI agent-driven service for automating vendor due diligence (DD).
This service is the second installment in the Company's utilization of AI agents in the GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) domain, following the 'Frontier Audit Agent' internal audit AI solution announced in March 2026.
## ■ Background: Changes in the Environment Surrounding TPRM Operations
Against the backdrop of increasingly complex supply chains, growing reliance on cloud and external services, and an increase in cyber incidents via third parties, the advancement of Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) has become a management challenge across all industries. Domestic and international regulations and guidelines are also moving towards strengthening vendor management, requiring organizations to build more comprehensive TPRM systems than ever before.
On the other hand, the reality is that TPRM operations in many organizations lack effectiveness. Vendor management is siloed by department, making it unclear which vendors are critical across the entire company. Evaluations have become a mere 'checklist-filling exercise,' failing to identify truly high-risk vendors. At the root of these issues are two structural problems:
Firstly, despite the majority of TPRM operations being repetitive, structured tasks of 'information collection, organization, evaluation, and documentation,' most of them rely on manual labor.
Secondly, interpreting the diverse reports submitted by vendors, such as financial reports, security assessments, and compliance reports, and making risk judgments requires advanced expertise. It is difficult for on-site personnel to constantly maintain this expertise. Streamlining workflows alone cannot solve this 'quality of judgment' issue.
AI agents, which can simultaneously automate routine tasks and support expert judgment, offer an effective approach to this challenge.
## ■ Overview of Frontier TPRM Agents
'Frontier TPRM Agents' is a group of AI agents independently developed by the Company, based on Anthropic's AI technology (Claude). It can be customized to the client's TPRM process, and AI agents automatically execute key steps of the vendor due diligence (DD) process.
As the first phase, it covers the following six use cases for the due diligence process during vendor contracts:
Frontier Advisory & Consulting Inc. (Head Office: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director and President: Yohei Shoda; hereinafter referred to as “the Company”), a professional firm specializing in digital governance, has expanded its existing Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) consulting services and begun offering 'Frontier TPRM Agents,' an AI agent-driven service for automating vendor due diligence (DD).
This service is the second installment in the Company's utilization of AI agents in the GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) domain, following the 'Frontier Audit Agent' internal audit AI solution announced in March 2026.
## ■ Background: Changes in the Environment Surrounding TPRM Operations
Against the backdrop of increasingly complex supply chains, growing reliance on cloud and external services, and an increase in cyber incidents via third parties, the advancement of Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) has become a management challenge across all industries. Domestic and international regulations and guidelines are also moving towards strengthening vendor management, requiring organizations to build more comprehensive TPRM systems than ever before.
On the other hand, the reality is that TPRM operations in many organizations lack effectiveness. Vendor management is siloed by department, making it unclear which vendors are critical across the entire company. Evaluations have become a mere 'checklist-filling exercise,' failing to identify truly high-risk vendors. At the root of these issues are two structural problems:
Firstly, despite the majority of TPRM operations being repetitive, structured tasks of 'information collection, organization, evaluation, and documentation,' most of them rely on manual labor.
Secondly, interpreting the diverse reports submitted by vendors, such as financial reports, security assessments, and compliance reports, and making risk judgments requires advanced expertise. It is difficult for on-site personnel to constantly maintain this expertise. Streamlining workflows alone cannot solve this 'quality of judgment' issue.
AI agents, which can simultaneously automate routine tasks and support expert judgment, offer an effective approach to this challenge.
## ■ Overview of Frontier TPRM Agents
'Frontier TPRM Agents' is a group of AI agents independently developed by the Company, based on Anthropic's AI technology (Claude). It can be customized to the client's TPRM process, and AI agents automatically execute key steps of the vendor due diligence (DD) process.
As the first phase, it covers the following six use cases for the due diligence process during vendor contracts: