Meet Wren: Your new AI privacy analyst

Privacy teams have been given an impossible task to achieve compliance in today’s environment. Privacy regulation is increasing, AI is creating more privacy risk, faster, yet privacy teams remain very small. 

For privacy compliance to truly keep pace with the business, privacy teams need more than another set of hands. They need a solution that enables the whole organization to support privacy compliance without slowing teams down. 

Meet Wren, your new AI privacy analyst. Wren represents a new set of Privado AI capabilities to autonomously execute privacy tasks and respond to user feedback. Starting today, Privado AI customers can assign Wren to run their privacy assessment process end-to-end, so that they can assess more risk and increase bandwidth. 

By integrating with teams’ existing tools and leveraging the latest AI agent technology, Wren can autonomously capture potential risks, conduct research, recommend action, and populate entire assessments based on each company’s policies and regulatory requirements.

As organizations rapidly build new AI products and adopt new AI tools, companies are more exposed to complex privacy risks, particularly in the US where CalPrivacy has ramped up enforcement and started requiring privacy risk assessments.

Instead of having privacy teams and stakeholders complete more time-intensive privacy assessment questionnaires, Wren proactively identifies potential risks and executes the appropriate type of assessment according to risk. 

For any type of privacy assessment (PIA, DPIA, TIA, RoPA, etc.), Wren drives each step of the process, requests input as needed, documents evidence, and answers questions to fill gaps: 

• Intake: Proactively identify potential risks to review by monitoring internal tools
• Triage: Trigger the right assessment to run based on initial risk analysis 
• Assessment generation: Populate entire assessments by scanning systems and documentation 
• Risk tracking: Prioritize and monitor remediation for risks identified from each assessment.

This is just the beginning for how Wren’s capabilities will be integrated into the Privado AI platform. Soon, Wren will take on additional tasks to save time and reduce risk, such as conducting ongoing regulatory research and running custom web and app privacy audits based on user prompts.  

For anyone wondering why “Wren”, it’s a nod to Samuel Warren, the American lawyer who, alongside Louis Brandeis, wrote the first US legal argument for the right to privacy in 1890. Virtually every privacy law since — from GDPR to CCPA — traces back to Warren’s essay, “The Right to Privacy”.

How Wren runs privacy assessments end-to-end

Intake: Proactively capture potential risks for Wren to review

Due to a lack of visibility, many privacy risks either never reach the privacy team for review or are reviewed after the fact. When privacy teams find out late about a risky project, there’s often little the privacy team can do without causing serious delays.

To capture the risks missed from relying on stakeholders to notify privacy teams of new vendors, products, or projects involving personal data, Wren proactively monitors internal tools such as Jira and procurement software to identify new activity warranting a privacy review.

Implement pre-built or custom workflows to determine what activities and privacy forms for Wren to review and how Wren should initiate reviews. 

For low-risk activities, instruct Wren to deliver immediate guidance to stakeholders so they can immediately move forward without waiting on the privacy team.

For any new feature request or product document found in tools like Jira or Confluence, instruct Wren to determine when to start a privacy review and potentially request more information from stakeholders. 

Triage: Trigger the right assessment based on risk

Not every privacy risk warrants the same scrutiny. Wren eliminates the need to manually review each risk by conducting an initial risk analysis and tailoring the assessment process based on risk level.

By giving Wren access to your documentation, your policies, and Privado AI scanners, Wren can trigger the appropriate assessment according to your needs. Create playbooks for when to run PIAs, DPIAs, TIAs, & RoPAs for any new processing activity, including new vendors, products/features, or projects. 

For any information that Wren cannot find, instruct Wren to reach out to stakeholders and act on the new information. Move forward with confidence by reviewing the sources and analysis for each action recommended by Wren. Even ask Wren clarifying questions. 

Assessment Generation: Populate entire assessments with Wren

Privacy assessment questionnaires are proven to be time-intensive and imprecise. Stakeholders typically lack the time or information to properly fill them out. As a result, assessments are either delayed, incomplete, inaccurate, or all the above. 

Wren on the other hand, can complete entire assessments in minutes and generate more accurate, more verifiable outputs than manual assessments. 

Instead of asking stakeholders to find and read through documentation to answer privacy questions they’re not familiar with, let Wren conduct research and analyze risk to fully populate assessments. Simply provide Wren with relevant documentation, interview transcripts, contracts, etc., and Wren will generate outputs based on your privacy policies and regulatory requirements. For in-flight projects, Wren can also use context from Privado AI scans of your codebase or third-party tools. 

Unlike typical assessments filled out by stakeholders, Wren provides evidence and reasoning with each assessment response. Reviewers can also chat with Wren to ask clarifying questions or provide more context for Wren to incorporate. 

Risk Tracking: Document risk and prioritize remediation

Wren also helps ensure assessments drive meaningful risk reduction. Once assessments are completed, Wren pushes confirmed risks to a dashboard to prioritize action and track progress. 

Teams can tailor Wren’s risk prioritization by inputting policies, regulatory requirements, and overall risk tolerance. 

Privado AI ensures outputs are easily acted on by consolidating risks identified across assessments, linking risks to each underlying issue, and providing the evidence captured by Wren to facilitate remediation.

Finally, teams can demonstrate impact by tracking what risks were resolved and each underlying issue that was remediated. 

What’s next on the roadmap for Wren

Today, Wren is focused on delivering new levels of scale and rigor for privacy assessments, but we’re already building new Wren capabilities to further reduce risk and increase bandwidth. 

• Custom privacy audits: Identify privacy compliance risks for any web or app user journey by prompting Wren with the exact actions you want to test, e.g., sign up, purchase, etc. Maintain accurate visibility as Wren adapts audits to website or app changes. Custom privacy audits are live now for websites and coming soon for mobile apps. 
• Regulatory research: Receive immediate analysis of regulatory changes and litigation news based on guidelines given to Wren 
• Remediation copilot: Ask Wren anything to help communicate and execute remediation for privacy risks identified by Privado AI 

Our roadmap will continue to evolve as customers integrate Wren into their privacy workflows and help us identify the next biggest opportunity for agentic automation.

Hire Wren today to eliminate your privacy assessment backlog

• Customers: Start using Wren today and meet with your customer success manager to discuss how Wren can best automate your assessment processes
• Prospects: Book a call with our sales team