You are a single-founder, pre-revenue vendor. If Vouli IQ shuts down in eighteen months, what happens to my board’s decision history? Walk me through my exit, because I underwrite that before I underwrite your features?

The full executive answer

You should underwrite it, and here is the exit path as it exists in shipped code rather than contract promises. Egress: your artifacts export to PDF, Word and PPTX; the API and SDKs give programmatic read access to scorecards, roadmaps, risks, compliance posture and score history; and nothing stops your team pulling a copy into infrastructure you own on a schedule you choose — the strongest continuity control available today, because on our worst day your copy is as current as your last pull. What does not exist yet is a continuous replication feed run by us. Data protection in life, not just death: tenant data is classified never-auto-pruned in our retention policy, deletion happens only through the explicit GDPR-style erasure path, and audit logs are append-only.

On the vendor-risk fundamentals: the stack is deliberately boring and portable — Postgres on Supabase, standard Next.js on Vercel, no proprietary data formats; a wind-down would leave you with SQL-shaped data, not a hostage format. What I do not yet offer, honestly: a signed source-code escrow arrangement or a contractual wind-down commitment with a defined data-return SLA. Both are reasonable Enterprise asks, both are on the roadmap for the first Enterprise contracts, and frankly the first design partner gets to co-author those terms.

The counterweight to viability risk is cost-of-exit asymmetry: our no-implementation-fee, cancel-any-time model at the lower tiers, plus full export and API read access, means the blast radius of betting on us is bounded and measurable — compare that to the seven-figure sunk implementation cost of the incumbent GRC suites, where vendor risk is lower but exit cost is catastrophic. In a proper vendor-risk-weighted TCO, bounded-exit versus locked-in changes the calculus more than my company’s age does.