Whistleblower hotline comparison
Autessa Ethics Hotline vs Vault Platform
Vault Platform is now part of Diligent, following its 2025 acquisition, and its speak-up tools are sold as Diligent Speak Up Manager, with a secure mobile app, GoTogether group reporting and the Resolution Hub for investigations. Autessa Ethics Hotline is an independent web hotline that works on any phone with no app to install, with a committee the reporter can trim and a one-click test of the whole channel.
Side by side
Autessa Ethics Hotline vs Vault Platform at a glance
| Capability | Autessa Ethics Hotline | Vault Platform |
|---|---|---|
| Reports from any browser, with no app to install | ✓ | Secure mobile app |
| Reporter leaves named committee members out of a report | Reporter’s choice | Automated report routing |
| No IP address or device details recorded | ✓ | Metadata removed from uploads |
| One-click end-to-end hotline test | Included | Not listed |
| Append-only log of every case open and change | Included | Audit-ready case files |
| Retention from 1 to 25 years, then content purge | Included | Not listed |
| Full headless access (Autessa MCP) | ✓ | MCP for Diligent Entities; Speak Up not listed |
| 100% customizable, code and all (Autobot) | ✓ | Custom fields, jurisdiction workflows |
| Hotline metrics and reporting | ✓ | Integrity Intelligence |
| Case management for investigators | ✓ | Resolution Hub |
| Two-way follow-up with anonymous reporters | ✓ | ✓ |
Based on publicly available information as of November 2026. Product names are trademarks of their owners.
Where Autessa wins
Why teams choose Ethics Hotline over Vault Platform
Nothing to install
The hotline is a web page. Reporters use any phone or computer with no app on their device, and no sign-in.
A hotline, without a GRC program
Vault now sits within Diligent’s governance suite. Ethics Hotline can be live and tested the same day with guided setup and your own committee.
Shaped to your policy, code and all
Tell Autobot how your speak-up policy works, such as an extra review before a case closes, and it changes the app to match.
Metrics from your AI tools
Through the Autessa MCP, a committee member can ask Claude for median days to triage and close, with the same committee-only access as the app.
Conflict-free by design
Reporters keep anyone involved off their report. For that person, the case simply does not exist.
Both sides
One case, as the reporter and the committee see it
Switching
Moving from Vault Platform
Set up Ethics Hotline, invite your committee, edit the hotline page text and run a hotline test. Replace the app instructions in your speak-up materials with one link, and close cases in Vault as they finish.
Your first hour
- Make the hotline’s data key in guided setup
- Claim the first committee seat and add a second member
- Choose notifications and a retention period
- Edit the hotline page text to match your policy
- Run a hotline test and reply as a reporter
- Update the hotline link in your handbook and posters
FAQ
Autessa Ethics Hotline and Vault Platform: questions
Is Vault Platform still available?
Vault’s site says it is now part of Diligent, which acquired it in 2025, and Diligent lists Speak Up Manager as its whistleblowing product. Check with Diligent for current plans.
Is Autessa Ethics Hotline an alternative to Vault Platform?
Yes. It covers anonymous reporting and follow-up, committee case management, an access log, metrics and retention, on a web hotline with no app to install.
Can reporters speak up from their phone?
Yes. The speak-up site works on any phone or computer with no app to install, and reporters can follow up anonymously from the same device.
How do reporters share evidence in Autessa Ethics Hotline?
Reporters describe their evidence and where it is, and the committee asks for what it needs through the hotline’s secure two-way messages.
Can we customize the hotline to our program?
Yes. You edit the wording, committee, notifications and retention yourself, and Autobot can change the app’s code from a plain-language request, because Ethics Hotline is 100% customizable.
Can the committee work from Claude?
Yes. The Autessa MCP gives full headless access with the access of the person connected, so committee members can work with cases and metrics from Claude, and people off the committee stay out.
100% customizable, code and all
Make Autessa Ethics Hotline fully your own.
Use it out of the box, then change anything. Ask Autobot, Autessa’s AI builder, for a new field, screen, report, workflow or agent and it builds it into your copy of the app. Or open the code and edit it yourself. Nothing is locked: the app, its data and its code are yours.
Start free and make it yours