Launchpad is a cohort-based onboarding program for small teams that want a clear, structured path to getting compliant quickly in Vanta.
Each new cohort starts the first Monday of every month. If you join Vanta in the second half of the month, we'll add you following month's cohort.
Once you sign up, we'll email you an invitation to the Vanta Community on Slack. Accept the invite to join your private cohort channel 💌 You'll find your next steps for getting started there!
Where can I learn more about Launchpad?
Check out this video this video for a short overview of the program.
Why startups love Launchpad
⚡Async-first, minimal meetings: Structured weekly guidance you can move through on your own schedule, without adding unnecessary calls.
🤖 AI-enabled onboarding support: Leverage Vanta's newest AI capabilities, including 1-shot policy creation, to reduce manual work and accelerate setup.
💬 Delivered in Slack: Embedded directly into your existing workflows, so progress happens where your team already works.
🤝 Learn with other teams: A chance to compare notes, share what's working, and learn from other startups as you move through onboarding together.
Trust Center: block access requests by country
Keeping certain locations out of your Trust Center documents no longer means maintaining a list of email domains. Admins can now choose countries to block, and access requests from those locations are blocked automatically. This is now generally available.
To set it up: Settings > Customer trust > Trust Center > Blocked countries
What to know:
The country block takes priority over auto-approval rules, so an allowlisted domain requesting from a blocked country is still blocked
It covers access requests only. Publicly viewable content stays visible, and access already granted to existing viewers isn’t revoked
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68 (!!) more MCP tools, now open to non-admins
No admin badge required. 68 additional MCP tools are now available to non-admins and the agents they connect, so more of your team can pull answers and take action from the AI tools they already use.
Each tool follows the permissions of the person who’s connected, so everyone sees and does only what their role allows.
See thread for list of updated capabilities 🧵
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Availability: Customers with the MCP connected
Manage audits without leaving the Vanta Agent
Two audit chores you can now hand to the Vanta Agent, or to any tool connected through Vanta’s MCP.
Modify audit dates. Update an existing audit’s dates in conversation. Changes are checked against audit date eligibility rules and your permissions, anything you don’t change stays as it was, and you get clear feedback if an update can’t go through.
Delete audits. Remove an audit right from your agent workflow instead of switching to manual steps.
Cheers to a less-clicky audit todo list 
This week (and last week! since I was away) in the Vanta Community
Members we met in Intros: Adarsh k. Rachael H. Farbs Phil C. Nathan W. Kara H. Ibitola jschuster Linda B.
New members we welcomed this week and last week (please share your intro in Intros when you're ready!) Cris G. Tom C. nissim_b frank.xu Kayode O. Harsha neha.chandra sequoia.sutherland Dutch C. Ed H. Zoe C. julien.triau bernard.pratz hannah.draper Kyle J. Kelsey P. Kyle L. Craig B. littleneal.felton josephine.tam Julien R. Alaia M. Barnes M. Kimberly M. Laura N. augusto.freitas Eli P. jeroen Parag S. Chi P. yevgeny.ioffe Isabel M. Adnan K. Wania I. Rodrigo M. julian.dieleman natasha.moore Ethan G. jguerra services Jason B. Lokesh K. Todd S. Laurentiu M. Ignacio A. kevin.pierce Jason W. Jake U. Andra N. Mike S. Mike P. Sameer A. Mayra F. Itzik ndaddona Brandon C. Luying W. paul.stamour Alisha Yuichi H. kosei tbadlani aaron.pickell Elahe M. znoor David C. Andy B. Scott B. Cyril M. william.mcguire Linda B. anne.simpson Ryan M. Collin R. Benjamin L. Madhav fernando.nin Tushar B. Alexander J. Elsa Y. Rob L. Tab P.
Get your GRC questions answered by the GRC expert himself: Kareem M.!
Direct access to Vanta's in-house GRC subject matter expert.
Bring your questions; it all goes down on October 21st at 1pm ET in the Slack huddle in GRC
NEXT WEEK: Learn how your peer, Geert V., is building out his GRC program with Vanta and AI
Geert V. from Snitcher (a Vanta customer, just like you!) is hosting a session right here in the Vanta Community, giving a peek inside his GRC program program workflows, using Vanta and AI. Register here
🎨 Anyone here an artist?
Don't look at me (lol) I am definitely not one.
If you had to design the entrance to VantaCon, what would it look like?
Pop in here to submit your design 
btw, who is going to vantacon? if you see this, and youre registered, pop into the thread and tell me top 3 things you're excited about. first one to do that will receive all 3 brand new vanta community merch items when they land in the coming weeks.
Discussion-starters and highlights: Please jump into these conversations and offer your POV
Rudy M. says it's a random question, but I would say it's a great question: Anyone found a way to get a claude generated slack msg post into your desired channel or DM, to actually notify you in slack when it's posted? Respond with your POV here
Farbs is looking for insight on how are others handling Vanta tests for AI-assisted code reviews, single-developer projects, and database access. Respond with your POV here
william.mcguire is hiring! Check it out in 🔒[private feed]
Linda B. wants your take re: ISO 42001 and vendor reviews. Respond with your POV here.
Jake T. wants to know your pentest vendor recommendation! Respond with your rec here.
Where are my CASA folks? Greg B. wants to hear from you. Respond with your POV here.
sandro is looking for your recs for an independent auditor to conduct their internal ISMS audit. Share your rec here.
Vanta CEO, Christina Cacioppo was here, answering your questions.
Start here and scroll down to see the questions she answered.
Vanta engineers, Dennis C. and Enrique F. were here, answering your MCP questions
Start here and scroll down to see the questions they answered
Nathan W. found the 
stuff inside vanta
Your Trust Center FAQs, now one question away
The Vanta Agent can now answer questions about the FAQs published on your Trust Center, and so can any tool connected through Vanta’s MCP. Skip the manual hunt through the product and ask in plain language instead.
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Availability: Across all plans / customers who are using Trust Center and have AI activated in Vanta
Ask Vanta Agent how your people, accounts, and computers are trending
Reporting on your workforce no longer means stitching together numbers from different pages. Ask the Vanta Agent in plain language, and it answers from your Accounts, People, and Computers data, then summarizes what the data shows in the same conversation.
Try asking:
“How have employee task statuses changed over time?”
“What’s the trend in our computer pass rate?”
“How have account counts by resource type changed?”
You’ll spot issues sooner and show up to stakeholder updates with the numbers ready. 🎥 demo!
Activity Log tab for Tests: see how a test has behaved over time
A test is more than its status today.
The new Activity Log tab shows a chronological record of what happened to it, when it happened, and who or what made the change, whether a person or an agent.
Events cover test runs, ownership changes, audit scope, comments, tasks, controls, custom tests, and remediation. Filter and page through them to investigate an issue, back up an audit conversation, or show that monitoring is working.
More control over evidence collection in IRL audits
Admins now decide how Vanta handles evidence and request status in IRL audits, so your audit workflow matches how your team works.
What's new:
Automatic evidence attachment: turn it on to have Vanta attach eligible evidence to audit requests for you.
Choose where completed requests go: send them to Internal review so your team can check them first, or move them straight to Ready for audit.
Vanta moves each request once it meets the requirements for the status you picked.
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