TrustArc Announces the Next Generation of AI Capabilities in Arc Intelligence, Streamlining Privacy Workflows

New agentic AI capabilities and MCP support empowers Arc Intelligence to take action across privacy programs and reach the AI assistants and business systems organizations already rely on.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- TrustArc today announced the next generation of Arc Intelligence, the AI layer of the TrustArc Platform for navigating global compliance and AI risk. The release marks a major expansion of agentic AI capabilities built to help privacy, legal, and compliance teams do more with less. Now agentic, Ask Arc can take action on a user's behalf within the Platform through human-approved, conversational commands. New support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) extends Arc Intelligence in two directions: connecting it to an organization's own business systems for richer context, and extending it into the AI assistants teams already use every day.

Privacy teams are stretched thin. According to ISACA, the median privacy team lost nearly half its dedicated headcount in a single year, even as AI adoption pushes privacy programs to take on more, not less. Eighty percent of privacy professionals report taking on responsibilities beyond their core role in the past year. Cisco's 2026 research finds that while 90% of organizations say their privacy programs have expanded because of AI, 72% of privacy teams say they still lack the resources to govern it. TrustArc built this next generation of Arc Intelligence to help close that gap. "Ask Arc has always been about giving privacy teams a faster way to get answers. With this release, it does more than answer, it takes action, and it goes wherever our customers are already working. That's the direction we're taking Arc Intelligence: less time spent stitching systems together to consolidate data, freeing up privacy professionals to get more work done faster and with greater confidence," said Jason Wesbecher, Chief Executive Officer at TrustArc.

ASK ARC CAN DO MORE

Arc Intelligence's Ask Arc assistant now performs tasks on a team's behalf, executing multi-step workflows from a single prompt instead of stopping at guidance.

New capabilities include AI-powered drafting from evidence, which parses a customer's existing evidence to auto-populate records, assessments, and control evaluations; intelligent baseline suggestions, which recommend systems and third parties to add to a company's profile based on its Company Profile and peer patterns; and AI summaries, which compare laws and TrustArc's Nymity Research notes across jurisdictions in a single view.

MCP: THE API FOR AI

But Arc Intelligence didn't stop at doing more inside TrustArc. With this release, Arc Intelligence adds support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the open standard, sometimes described as "the API for AI," that lets AI applications connect to external data and tools through one standardized connection instead of a custom integration for every pairing. For TrustArc customers, that support works in two directions.

First, Arc Intelligence is now available inside the AI assistants privacy teams already run, including Claude, Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, and more, so teams can work on privacy without leaving the tools already open on their desktop.

Second, through MCP connections, Arc Intelligence can now connect to a customer's own business systems, including Salesforce, Atlassian, and other MCP-enabled tools, bringing additional business context into TrustArc to deliver smarter, more relevant results.

Every MCP connection inherits Arc Intelligence's existing governance commitments: access is approved, not assumed, and customer data is never used to train external models.

EARLY ADOPTER FEEDBACK

"I have not been more excited about technology innovation for business, legal, regulatory, compliance, privacy, security and AI governance professionals in many years. Arc Intelligence's new agentic actions and MCP connectivity have been truly transformational for our program, and they seamlessly integrate with the new headless agentic capabilities that D&B has recently introduced for risk and compliance professionals. It takes the myriad of handoffs and administrative burdens that can overwhelm our profession and lifts them off our plates, reducing work that took many hours to just a few minutes, so we can finally focus on what matters strategically instead of just keeping up. This isn't an incremental improvement; it's a game changer for how our profession works."

-  Hilary Wandall, Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer, Dun & Bradstreet

"I like the smarter Arc! And because Arc is smarter and connected with MCP, our primary AI productivity interface, Copilot, is smarter and more efficient too. Additional and unexpected benefits include faster onboarding for new hires and Arc becoming the junior 'virtual' lawyer on my team, pulling context from TrustArc and other systems so work that once needed a senior lawyer can now be done by a junior lawyer, ultimately freeing up my experienced people to focus on more strategic work."

-  Dominika Partelova, Group Data Protection Officer & Regional Counsel EMEIA, Edgewell

"What's impressive about TrustArc is its ability to pair decades of expertise in privacy with a drive toward AI innovation. Rather than simply responding to how AI is changing the industry, TrustArc is actively shaping what comes next by developing thoughtful, differentiated tools that have the potential to meaningfully improve how privacy professionals work."

-  Andy Dale, Chief Legal Officer and Chief Privacy & AI Governance Officer, OpenAP

To learn more, TrustArc is hosting a webinar titled: "From Insight to Action: The Next Era of AI-Powered Privacy" on Oct. 22 in support of this announcement. Click here to register.

ABOUT TRUSTARC

TrustArc is the privacy intelligence platform that enables organizations to understand, manage, and prove data privacy across their business. TrustArc brings consent, governance, and assurance together in one platform, giving teams the knowledge and technology to understand what data they have, which vendors and laws apply, and how people can exercise their privacy rights. Powered by Arc Intelligence and backed by 28+ years of privacy expertise, Nymity knowledge, and coverage across 140+ jurisdictions, the TrustArc Platform helps organizations stay current as regulations shift and manage privacy with confidence.

For more information, visit www.trustarc.com or contact [email protected]. 

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