New customer-led model uses real-world evidence to develop AI concepts in 30- to 60-day cycles
PORTLAND, Ore., September 28, 2026 — NAVEX, the global leader in integrated risk and compliance software, today announced the launch of Nira Labs at the Society of Corporate Compliance & Ethics’ 25th Annual Compliance & Ethics Institute. Nira Labs is a new AI development model designed to rapidly turn real customer challenges into working concepts, giving risk and compliance professionals a direct role in validating both the problem and the proposed solution before new capabilities are brought to market. AI development is getting faster, and Nira Labs puts customer needs at the center of that development.
Risk and compliance expert practitioners will work with NAVEX while ideas are still taking shape, testing AI against real workflows and providing evidence that helps determine whether an idea advances, changes or stops. The goal is to focus NAVEX’s AI investment on technology that solves real-world customer problems before those ideas move into broader product development, ensuring that only value-added features make it into the ‘build’ phase.
“The race in enterprise AI should not be about who can ship the most features,” said Raj Sethuraman, President and Chief Product and Technology Officer at NAVEX. “For risk and compliance, the harder question is which problems are worth solving with AI in the first place and how we can use AI responsible to help compliance professionals build stronger, trusted programs. Nira Labs puts customers in the role of design partners and inside that decision so we can test ideas against the reality of their programs and invest in the ideas that prove they belong in the product.”
Nira Labs starts there.
Ideas will move through short development and validation cycles, putting working functionality in customers’ hands within 30 to 60 days. Customers can test how technology fits the way their teams work while there is still an opportunity to influence it.
A Nira Labs customer group of 25 organizations from across the globe will act as design partners, working with NAVEX throughout the development cycle, helping define emerging problems, test working features and identify gaps before an idea is ready to scale.
The model gives NAVEX a recurring view into how risk and compliance work is changing. As new risks, regulations and workflows emerge, NAVEX can test whether AI has a meaningful role to play rather than adding AI simply because the technology makes it possible.
Nira Labs is further proof of NAVEX’s broader investment in AI. Uniquely positioned to deliver benefits to risk and compliance teams that results from decades of risk and compliance expertise, direct access to the world’s largest group of working practitioners and an established platform through which validated capabilities can reach users quickly.
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