Every vendor says yes. Only some can show it.
Technology decisions are still made on claims nobody checked. OmniAxis is the evidence layer under the decision: every vendor read against the same standard, every score showing what it rests on, the reasoning kept. The work is done once, and it holds when procurement, audit, legal, finance and the board ask why.
What industries and segments does OmniAxis cover?
Every segment is defined before you start, so you can go from a blank page to vendor insight in hours.
- Cybersecurity: Identity & Access Security, Endpoint Security / EDR / XDR, Network Security / SASE / NDR, Cloud Security / CNAPP / CSPM, SIEM / SOAR / SOC Platforms, SaaS Security Posture Management, Managed Detection & Response, Incident Response / DFIR, Threat Intelligence, Vulnerability & Exposure Management, Attack Surface Management, Application Security / DevSecOps, API Security, Data Security / DSPM / DLP, Email Security / Human Risk, GRC / TPRM / Compliance, OT / ICS / Critical Infrastructure Security, Zero Trust / Microsegmentation, AI Security / LLM Security, Cryptography / PKI / Key Management, MSSP Platforms, Offensive Security / BAS / Red Teaming
- ERP & Business Applications: ERP Supply Chain Planning, ERP Workforce Management, Field Service Management, Manufacturing ERP, Source-to-Pay Suites, Distribution ERP, Professional Services ERP, Retail & eCommerce ERP, Financial Services ERP, Healthcare ERP, Government & Public Sector ERP, General Enterprise ERP, Mid-Market ERP, SaaS-Native ERP
- AI & Data Platforms: AI Workflow Orchestration, BI Platforms, Data Warehouses, LLM Platforms, Data Lakes, Data Observability, Knowledge Graphs, MLOps, Vector Databases, AI Governance
- Managed IT Services: Fully Managed IT, Co-Managed IT, Microsoft Specialist MSP, SMB-Focused MSP, Enterprise MSP, Cloud Migration & Transformation, Service Desk / Help Desk, Infrastructure & Hosting, IT Consulting & Advisory
- Cloud & Infrastructure: Infrastructure Monitoring, Kubernetes Platform, Public Cloud, AIOps, Hybrid Cloud, Service Mesh, FinOps Platforms, Hyperconverged Infrastructure, Storage Platforms
- Operational Technology (OT / ICS): Industrial Historian, Process Safety, SCADA, Building Management Systems, Distributed Control Systems, Energy Management, Industrial Monitoring, Predictive Maintenance, Smart Grid
- Customer Experience & Revenue: CRM Platforms, Marketing Automation, Sales Engagement, Customer Data Platform, Revenue Intelligence, Customer Success, Personalization, Ecommerce Platforms
- DevOps & Software Engineering: CI/CD Platforms, Internal Developer Platforms, Source Control Management, API Management, Artifact Repositories, Release Orchestration, DevSecOps, Test Automation
- Financial Technology: Core Banking, InsurTech, Payment Gateways, Embedded Finance, Treasury Platforms, Fraud Platforms, Lending Platforms, Wealth Management
- Telecom & Connectivity: Carrier Networking, SD-WAN, UCaaS, 5G Infrastructure, CPaaS, Edge Networking, Contact Center, OSS / BSS
- Healthcare Technology: EMR / EHR, Life Sciences Platforms, Practice Management, Clinical Decision Support, Telehealth, Healthcare Workforce, Medical Imaging
- Data Center & Hardware: Data Center Infrastructure Management, Server Infrastructure, Edge Infrastructure, Storage Infrastructure, GPU Infrastructure, Colocation
- Logistics & Transport: Fleet Telematics, Supply Chain & Retail Planning, Transportation Management Systems, Route Optimization, Supply Chain Visibility, Last Mile Delivery
- Government & Public Sector: Citizen Platforms, Emergency Management, Government ERP, Sovereign Identity, Smart City
- HR & Workforce: HRIS, Talent Acquisition, Employee Experience, Workforce Scheduling, Workforce Analytics
- Manufacturing & Industry 4.0: Digital Twin, Manufacturing Execution Systems, Robotics Orchestration, Industrial AI, Production Planning
- Media & Digital Experience: Digital Asset Management, Streaming Platforms, AdTech, Content Management Systems, Creator Platforms
- Smart Buildings & Facilities: Building Management Platforms, Environmental Monitoring, Physical Access Control, Smart HVAC, Smart Lighting
- Commerce & Retail: Omnichannel Commerce, Point of Sale, Pricing Optimization, Retail Analytics
- Digital Workplace & Endpoint: Digital Employee Experience, ITSM & Enterprise Service Management, RMM & MSP Management Tooling, Unified Endpoint Management
- Education Technology: Learning Management Systems, Student Information Systems, Academic Analytics, Virtual Classroom
- Legal & Governance: Governance Automation, eDiscovery, Contract Lifecycle Management, Regulatory Intelligence
- Managed Security Services: Security-Focused MSSP, Security Consulting & Advisory
01The moment changed
Technology buying moved from preference to evidence.
A vendor decision used to be a preference with a spreadsheet attached. Somebody liked the demo, somebody trusted the analyst, somebody had used it before. That was enough, because nobody came back later to ask how the decision was made.
Now they do. Boards ask what the cyber program rests on. Regulators ask who your suppliers are and what you knew about them when you signed. Auditors ask for the file. The question is no longer whether you chose well. It is whether you can show why.
02The buyer's day
The same question lands on eight desks.
A single vendor decision now passes through a chain of people who each have to sign something. Every one of them inherits the claims the vendor made, and none of them made the claims.
- CIO / CTO
Owns the outcome
Signs off the platform the vendor promised will integrate, scale and still exist in three years. When it does not, the architecture decision is the one that gets revisited.
What did we actually verify before we signed?
- CISO
Inherits the posture
A control the vendor claimed and nobody substantiated becomes a finding with the CISO's name on it.
Which of these controls did anyone check?
- Procurement and sourcing
Runs the process that will be examined
The scoring sheet is the first document a reviewer asks for, and it usually records opinions rather than evidence.
Can we show how the score was reached?
- Vendor risk management
Onboards the vendor in the deck, lives with the vendor that exists
Third-party questionnaires are answered by the vendor, about the vendor. Independence is the one thing they cannot supply.
What here was independent of the vendor?
- GRC, compliance and internal audit
Reconstructs the decision after the fact
Months later, from email threads and a slide deck nobody kept the final version of, somebody has to explain why this supplier was chosen.
Where is the record?
- CFO and finance
Approves a multi-year commitment
The business case is built from numbers the vendor supplied, and the approval is the finance function's to defend when the numbers do not arrive.
What happens if the claims turn out to be wrong?
- Legal and privacy
Papers the assumptions
The contract wraps around capabilities the vendor asserted and the buyer assumed. Every unsupported claim is a clause that will not hold when it is tested.
What did they claim that we relied on?
- The business sponsor
Wanted it, championed it, owns the result
Will be asked why the tool did not do what the demo did, by people who were not in the demo.
How do I show this was a sound decision?
03The auditability pressure
The record is now expected. In the U.S. first, and increasingly everywhere.
None of these names vendor selection. Between them they ask an organization to show its governance, its suppliers and its reasoning, some of them after something has gone wrong. A technology decision made on unsupported claims is the kind of gap they surface.
United States first
- United States
SEC cybersecurity disclosure rules
Public companies disclose material cyber incidents on a four-business-day clock and describe, every year, how the board oversees cyber risk. How you oversee third-party risk is part of what has to be described.
SEC final rule, adopted 2023
- United States
CIRCIA
Congress set the direction toward mandatory incident and ransom-payment reporting for covered critical-infrastructure entities. The statute is on the books; the final rule is what remains.
CISA rulemaking, in progress
- United States
NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0
Adds Govern as a core function and places cybersecurity supply-chain risk management inside it. Knowing what your suppliers can actually do is framework work now, not procurement housekeeping.
NIST, voluntary framework, 2.0 released 2024
- United States
NIST AI Risk Management Framework
Govern, map, measure, manage. Voluntary, and already the reference point for accountable AI adoption, including the AI you buy from a vendor.
NIST, voluntary framework
And the same direction globally
- European Union
AI Act
Documentation, logging, transparency and human oversight for high-risk systems, with obligations that reach the organizations deploying them as well as the ones building them.
Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, phased application
- European Union
NIS2
Supply-chain security and management-body accountability for essential and important entities. Cybersecurity is a board matter by statute.
Directive (EU) 2022/2555
- European Union
DORA
Financial entities must manage ICT third-party risk contractually and operationally, test their resilience, and report major incidents.
Regulation (EU) 2022/2554, applying since 2025
- European Union
Cyber Resilience Act
Security by design and vulnerability handling for products with digital elements, with obligations phasing in through 2027.
Regulation (EU) 2024/2847
OmniAxis is not a compliance product and makes no compliance claim. What it does is narrower and more useful: it helps keep the evidence and the reasoning behind a vendor decision, so the people who have to answer for it can.
04Claims and records
Claims are cheap. Records are expensive.
Everything a buying team is handed was produced by, or about, the vendor. A record that survives review has to be produced by the buyer, and it has to be produced at the time.
What you are handed
- The vendor's deck
- A security questionnaire the vendor answered about itself
- An analyst report, dated whenever it was dated
- Review-site scores from people you cannot identify
- A spreadsheet of stakeholder opinions
- Reference calls the vendor arranged
What survives review
- What each vendor was judged on, and when
- The criteria and the weighting your team chose, dated
- The decision and its reasoning, in one place
- A file you can hand to a reviewer as it stands
05What OmniAxis gives the buyer
An evidence layer under the decision.
Four things, outlined here and shown in full on your own shortlist in a working session.
- 01
Compare vendor claims against independent evidence
Each claim a vendor makes about itself is held to what independent sources support, so the shortlist is compared on what can be shown rather than on what was said.
- 02
Attach the evidence context
Where a claim rests on something, you can see what it rests on and when it was last checked.
- 03
Preserve the decision reasoning
Criteria, weighting, scores and the reasoning behind the decision are kept together, dated, and attributable to the people who made them.
- 04
Help the team defend the selection
When procurement, audit, legal, finance or the board asks why, the answer is a record rather than a recollection.
The decision stays yours. What OmniAxis does not do is lab-test products, decide for you, or publish how it grades.
06Why it holds up
One standard, applied the same way to every vendor.
Judgment is the expensive part of this work, and it is usually spent again from scratch on every shortlist. Here it is written down once, and then every vendor and every evaluation meets it in the same form.
- 01
The same standard, vendor after vendor
What each capability means is settled in advance rather than argued per vendor. The twelfth vendor is read against the same standard as the first, and next quarter's evaluation against the same standard as this one. People doing this by hand drift between reviewers and between weeks, and the drift is invisible in the result.
- 02
A score you can open
Every score carries what it was based on and the date it was last checked, so a number you doubt is a number you can inspect rather than argue with.
- 03
The market, not the three you had time for
Coverage is not bounded by how many vendors one team could research before the deadline. The segment is read, so a shortlist is drawn from a market that has already been assessed rather than from the names that came to mind in the room.
- 04
The work stops being repeated
The analysis behind a vendor decision is already being done: by hand, per shortlist, and discarded once the contract is signed. Done once and kept, the same work serves the evaluation in front of you, the review that follows it, and the next decision your team makes in that market.
Encoding the judgment does not remove the buyer from the decision. It means everyone at the table is arguing about the same evidence, instead of about whose recollection is better.
07The invitation
The November 2026 MVP opens to registered early customers.
We are taking registrations now from organizations with a real vendor decision ahead of them. Until general availability in January 2027, only registered early customers can use OmniAxis. Registration is reviewed rather than automatic: we prioritize U.S. buyer-side teams with an evaluation in the next two quarters, and we invite organizations in the order that fit is established.
Who fits
- Buyer-side organizations in any industry with a technology or cyber vendor decision in view
- Teams whose decision will be reviewed by procurement, risk, audit, finance, legal or the board
- Global organizations under equivalent supply-chain and resilience expectations
What registering gets you
- A place in the November 2026 MVP launch, in order of fit
- A working session on your own shortlist before launch, under NDA
- Founder-level contact throughout: the people who built it answer the questions
08What stays private
The method is not published. That is the point.
How claims are graded, which sources are consulted and how the record is assembled are not on this site, and will not be. An evidence layer that publishes its method is one a vendor can write to, and a record that can be gamed is worth nothing to the buyer relying on it.
What you can inspect is the individual result, inside your own account, down to the evidence and its date. Detailed diligence happens under NDA, in a working session on your own shortlist. The IP program sits with counsel.
Register for the November 2026 MVP launch.
Bring a shortlist, a renewal, or a decision you will have to defend. We reply within one business day.