Ironclad is the next-generation contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform trusted by legal and procurement teams to negotiate, sign, and manage agreements at scale. Its intelligent, AI-powered workflow automation makes it a go-to system of record for how modern companies get contracts done, faster and with less friction.
Our new Ironclad integration extends DataGrail patented system detection even further upstream, catching new tools as they move through procurement, before they ever have a chance to become shadow IT.
How the DataGrail + Ironclad integration works
Ironclad’s speed is great for procurement teams, and our new integration makes it great for privacy too.
The moment a new software agreement is signed in Ironclad, DataGrail automatically detects the associated system and adds it to your inventory. No manual entry, no waiting for the next audit cycle. Procurement moves fast, your data map stays in sync, and privacy compliance becomes part of a streamlined workflow—not a disconnected step that happens after the fact.
And detection is just the start. Every time Ironclad surfaces a new system, DataGrail also automatically enriches it with the privacy context you need: what types of personal information the tool collects, whether it uses AI subprocessors, and which common processing activities it’s typically involved in.
Instead of just seeing a laundry list of new vendors to investigate, your team gets instant context into which ones carry potential risk and whether additional action like conducting an AI risk assessment is required.
Why it matters for privacy teams
Most privacy platforms build their data maps from SSO logs or contract scans. Those approaches only capture officially adopted software, the tools Security already knows about and approved. But shadow IT lives outside those channels by definition. It won’t show up in an SSO dashboard, and it isn’t always reviewed by procurement before someone starts using it.
That’s a gap only DataGrail’s patented system detection is built to close. By continuously analyzing how systems connect to and share data with other known systems, our Live Data Map surfaces the tools traditional methods miss, automatically and in real time. Today, DataGrail detects more than 12,000 systems, including shadow IT and shadow AI that would otherwise stay invisible. Ironclad extends that viability even further upstream into the procurement process, without relying on hit-and-miss approaches like individual contract scanning.
DataGrail is a complete privacy platform, so systems detected through Ironclad are ready to be used in assessments and RoPAs and can be quickly enabled for DSR and opt-out management. In addition, DataGrail AI will flag risks that you can add to your Risk Register for ongoing management and tracking.
How to build this into your privacy workflow
Your privacy team can review and act on newly detected systems directly inside DataGrail. Or, for teams already working in AI-native tools, DataGrail’s MCP Server lets you do this work from an AI client like Claude.
Just ask Claude which tools were recently detected through Ironclad, get a breakdown of the privacy risks tied to each one, and kick off a new risk assessment, all powered by DataGrail’s deep context into your privacy program. Results populate back into DataGrail automatically, so your data map and your AI processes stay in sync.
Better together
Ironclad gives legal and procurement teams a faster, more intelligent way to manage contracts. DataGrail gives privacy teams a faster, more intelligent way to know what’s actually running across the business. Together, they close one of the most persistent gaps in privacy programs: the space between how a tool is adopted and when privacy actually finds out about it.
If your data map still depends on someone remembering to loop in privacy, it’s time to change that. Explore the DataGrail integrations library or see how Live Data Map detects shadow IT and shadow AI automatically.
