The second wave of IRM investment has arrived — and it's not about better dashboards. It's about eliminating the lag between detecting a risk signal and acting on it. In 2026 IRM Navigator™ VC Sonar for Performance and Resilience, Wheelhouse Advisors founder and CEO John A. Wheeler maps the emerging vendor layer purpose-built for this shift: augmentation tools that sit atop existing platforms like ServiceNow and Archer to deliver real-time threat intelligence, automated remediation workflows, and — critically — immutable evidence of every action taken. From Dataminr's real-time event detection to Sayari's deep supply chain graph intelligence, the report profiles ten emerging vendors across five functional layers of what Wheeler calls Autonomous IRM. But the report's most consequential argument isn't about the tools — it's about sequencing, accountability, and a concept called evidence closure that separates organizations that can defend their AI-driven decisions from those that simply can't. Access the full report →