For Enterprise Compliance & Digital Governance Teams
One Tool to Govern
Every Digital Asset You Own.
Beanstalk Governance Studio gives compliance leads, legal teams, and digital operations managers a single platform to audit, document, and track accessibility across an entire portfolio - without cloud page limits, per-seat billing, or six-figure contracts.
The Audience
Built for compliance teams and marketing teams alike.
Governance Studio covers two needs enterprises increasingly treat as one program: a repeatable, documented, and defensible approach to accessibility compliance, and the AI & search readiness work marketing and growth teams now depend on to stay visible as AI search answers replace traditional rankings.
Heads of Accessibility, General Counsel, and compliance officers who need ACR/VPAT, formal audit reports, and accessibility statements to satisfy regulators, procurement officers, and legal counsel.
VPs of Digital and portfolio managers overseeing multiple web properties across brands or business units. You need consistent audit coverage, not ad-hoc spot checks that leave gaps in your governance record.
Risk managers at organizations subject to ADA, Section 508, EAA, or EN 301 549 obligations. You need VPAT documentation for government contracts and a defensible audit trail if litigation arises.
Heads of SEO, content, and digital marketing who need to know whether AI engines like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity can crawl, understand, and cite your content - across every property in your portfolio, not just your flagship site.
The Risk
Accessibility is no longer optional. The legal exposure is real.
ADA website accessibility lawsuits have surged year after year. Organizations with large digital footprints are disproportionately targeted. The question is no longer whether to have a compliance program, but whether yours is documented and defensible.
The compliance gap most organizations carry
A one-off audit from two years ago is not a program. A badge widget is not an ACR. An accessibility statement with no audit data behind it is a liability, not an asset.
Sources:
[1] Seyfarth ADA Title III Mid-Year Review, September 2026.
[2] Settlement range reflects published 2026 figures for litigated ADA Title III website-accessibility cases (early demand-letter settlements commonly $5,000-$25,000; litigated settlements commonly $25,000-$75,000 before legal fees).
The Problem
Enterprise tools were built to monitor one organization's site - at enterprise prices.
Most enterprise accessibility platforms are built around continuous cloud monitoring of a single organization's digital estate, priced per domain and page volume, sold on annual contracts. For teams managing multiple properties, the cost compounds quickly and the value proposition does not scale.
What compliance teams deal with today
- Enterprise monitoring platforms commonly run $15,000-$150,000+/year, priced per domain and page-volume tier - not portfolio coverage
- Adding a new brand or regional site means a new subscription negotiation and contract
- Cloud platforms lock audit data behind dashboards - exporting a formal VPAT requires a separate service
- Per-named-seat licensing means legal, dev, QA, and compliance cannot all access the tool without multiplying costs
- Cloud monitoring raises data sovereignty concerns for healthcare, legal, and government organizations
- Audit reports are locked to platform formats - not editable Word documents for formal procurement submissions
What Governance Studio does instead
- One flat $399/month license covers every property you own - no domain limits, no per-site tiers, no page caps
- Run a WCAG 2.2 AA audit on any public or internal URL - including staging environments and localhost
- Generate formal ACR/VPAT documentation in one click - VPAT® 2.5, the current ITI standard, in the correct edition for your jurisdiction
- 5 simultaneous sign-ins, each with their own login, means your whole cross-functional team can work from anywhere
- Runs entirely on your desktop - no client data sent to a third-party cloud, no data sovereignty concerns
- All reports are fully editable Word, Excel, and HTML documents - ready for procurement and legal filings
- No domain restrictions - audit any property you're authorized for, including client and partner sites
- Built for enterprises operating across geographies - VPAT® editions and audit criteria for US, EU, UK, Australia, India, and International out of the box
The Problem
Enterprise SEO platforms were built for Google rankings - not for AI search (AEO).
Enterprise SEO platforms are priced the same way enterprise accessibility platforms are - annual contracts, per-domain and page-volume tiers, seat-based licensing. And most were built before AI search existed, so AI crawler access and citation likelihood (AEO) are not something they measure at all.
What marketing teams deal with today
- Enterprise SEO platforms commonly run $25,000-$150,000+/year, priced per domain and page-volume tier
- Adding a new brand or regional site means a new subscription negotiation and contract
- Most platforms report traditional SEO signals only - no AEO (AI search / answer engine optimization) coverage, so no visibility into whether AI crawlers like GPTBot or ClaudeBot can even access your pages
- No visibility into citation likelihood - whether ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity would actually cite your content in an answer
- Per-named-seat licensing means SEO, content, and marketing ops cannot all access the tool without multiplying costs
- Portfolio-wide audits across every brand site require a separate enterprise tier or a services engagement
What Governance Studio does instead
- One flat $399/month license covers every property you own - no domain limits, no per-site tiers, no page caps
- Covers both traditional SEO and AEO in one audit - real AI crawler access for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and 5 others, not just traditional SEO signals
- Scores citation likelihood using a multilingual language model that runs entirely on your desktop - how likely each page is to be cited by AI engines
- 7 dedicated AEO/SEO reports per audit, covering on-page SEO, content structure, site reliability, and E-E-A-T trust signals
- 5 simultaneous sign-ins, each with their own login, means your whole cross-functional team can work from anywhere
- Runs entirely on your desktop - no page content sent to a third-party cloud to get scored
Sources:
[3] Enterprise SEO platform pricing: seoClarity published tiers $30,000-$54,000/year; Conductor contract data $26,800-$500,000+/year (median ~$49,000); BrightEdge contract-analysis average ~$12,000-$127,000+/year; Botify $75,000-$400,000+/year for mid-size to enterprise sites. Figures reflect 2026 published pricing and third-party contract-data analysis; none of these vendors publish full list pricing.
Portfolio Governance
A consistent audit process across every property you manage.
The challenge at scale is not running one audit - it is maintaining a consistent, documented program across multiple sites, brands, and teams. Governance Studio gives every property the same rigorous treatment.
Repeatable Audit Workflow
The same 5-step audit process runs identically on every property. No gaps in coverage, no inconsistent methodology across sites.
Per-Property Evidence Packages
Each audit produces a complete folder of governance artifacts: formal audit report, VPAT, Excel tracker, executive briefing, and accessibility statement.
Baseline and Verification
Re-audit any property against a prior baseline to produce a Verification Report showing what has been fixed, what remains open, and the remediation rate.
Cross-Functional Access
Legal generates the VPAT. Developers access the issues report. Compliance produces the executive briefing. All from the same tool, same license, same audit run.
Capabilities
Every layer of a formal compliance audit - in one workflow.
Governance Studio handles every component of a WCAG 2.2 AA compliance assessment - not just automated scanning, but the manual checklist and formal documentation that regulators and procurement officers actually require.
- Automated WCAG 2.2 AA Scanning
Crawl by sitemap, URL list, or spider. Runs axe-core on every page - 60+ rules covering WCAG 2.2, Section 508, ADA, and EN 301 549. - Screen Reader Simulation
Real accessibility-tree extraction via Chrome DevTools Protocol, analyzed to predict exactly what a screen reader announces. Documents real AT behavior for formal AT compatibility in ACR. - Manual Compliance Checklist
Captions, cognitive criteria, OS display settings - the criteria automation cannot evaluate. Answers feed directly into VPAT conformance tables. - ACR / VPAT Generation
VPAT® Version 2.5 generated automatically, in the correct edition for your jurisdiction. The formal document government procurement requires. - AI & Search Readiness (AEO), Powered by an Embedded Model
Being cited by ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity is now a growth priority alongside Google rankings. Checks AI crawler access for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and 5 others, with a multilingual language model that runs entirely on your desktop - not a cloud API - extending every check to non-English and non-Latin-script sites, so no page content is ever transmitted to get scored. - Optional: AI-Powered Fix Guidance
Bring your own API key (Claude, OpenAI, or Gemini) for plain-English summaries for executive audiences and precise fix instructions for developers.
Portfolio Health Tools
Four site health tools for ongoing portfolio monitoring.
Beyond WCAG compliance, Governance Studio includes four standalone crawl tools for maintaining digital asset quality across your portfolio - the same category of ongoing content-quality monitoring enterprises typically license as a separate module inside a DXP. Governance Studio covers it natively, with no extra platform license.
Regex Finder
Search every page for any text pattern - outdated legal disclaimers, deprecated brand copy, removed product names, compliance-required disclosures. Essential for large portfolios where manual content review is impractical.
Broken Link Detection
Full-site crawl checking every internal and external link for 4xx/5xx HTTP responses. Broken links are a WCAG failure point and a user experience risk - caught and documented in a single scan.
Page Meta Information
Audits every page for missing or incomplete title tags, meta descriptions, Open Graph tags, JSON-LD, H1 headings, and canonical tags - surfacing gaps affecting both search visibility and AI discoverability.
Broken Image Detection
Detects images that fail to load and images with missing alt text. Missing alt text is a WCAG 2.2 SC 1.1.1 failure - caught at scale across every page in a single crawl pass.
Pre-Production Compliance
Catch violations before they reach production.
Because Governance Studio runs on your desktop, your development team can audit staging environments, localhost builds, and internal preview URLs - building accessibility into the build cycle.
Uncapped local scanning. Full data sovereignty.
The audit engine runs entirely on your machine. No source code, no unreleased content, no internal environment details ever reach a third-party server - critical for healthcare, legal, financial, and government organizations.
Audit staging and localhost before go-live
Find and fix WCAG violations before launch, not after a complaint or legal demand letter.
Source never leaves your perimeter
For regulated industries - healthcare, financial services, legal, government - cloud audit tools create data handling risks. Nothing leaves your network.
Embed compliance into the development cycle
Developers audit pre-commit. QA validates before release. Compliance generates formal documentation from the production site. One tool, no per-seat cost.
Fix, scan, repeat - no metering
Cloud tools charge by page or crawl. Governance Studio does not meter anything. Audit a property ten times a sprint as issues are resolved at no extra cost.
Scan anything you can reach, not just approved domains
Most competing tools restrict scans to verified or registered domains. Governance Studio doesn't check - audit a client site, a partner's staging environment, or an internal tool on day one, with no verification step in the way.
Governance Documentation
11 formal WCAG reports. One audit run. Every property.
Every report is generated automatically from the audit results and white-labeled with your organization's name. Set your profile once - every subsequent audit produces a complete, branded documentation package. AI & Search Readiness (AEO) and Site Health each produce their own dedicated report alongside the 11 WCAG formats below - a full governance package covers all three.
7 more reports for AI & search readiness
Every AEO/SEO audit produces its own documentation package - not a single page, but 7 focused reports marketing and growth teams can act on directly.
Plus a consolidated Site Health report
Return on Investment
The cost of non-compliance far exceeds the cost of the tool.
At $399/month ($4,450/year), Governance Studio costs less than a single demand letter settlement - and produces the documentation that makes demand letters less likely.
| Scenario | Without a compliance program | With Governance Studio | Annual saving |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADA demand letter response | $25,000-$50,000 settlement + $15,000+ legal fees | Documented audit trail reduces exposure and settlement leverage | $30,000-$60,000 |
| Government procurement VPAT | $5,000-$15,000 per manual VPAT from a consultant | VPAT generated in one click per property | $5K-$15K / contract |
| vs enterprise monitoring platforms (5 sites) | $75,000-$200,000/year | $4,450/year - same portfolio coverage | $70K-$196K/yr |
| Manual audit report assembly | 20-40 hours per property per audit cycle | Reports auto-generated after each audit run | $2,000-$6,000 / audit |
Pricing
One license. Every property. No surprises.
A single flat price covers your entire digital portfolio - compliance, development, and marketing work included. No domain limits, no page volume tiers, no named seat counts, no overage invoices at the end of the quarter.
Enterprise Governance License
$4,450 billed annually - or month-to-month at $399
- Unlimited properties - no domain or site cap
- Unlimited pages - no volume tiers or overages
- Unlimited audit runs - scan as often as needed
- 5 simultaneous sign-ins - legal, dev, QA, compliance, marketing, working from anywhere
- All 11 governance report formats included
- VPAT® Version 2.5 - US, EU, UK, Australia, India & International editions
- WCAG 2.2 AA + Section 508 + ADA + EN 301 549
- Real screen reader simulation via Chrome DevTools Protocol
- Manual compliance checklist - feeds VPAT tables
- Verification reports - baseline comparison built in
- AI & Search Readiness (AEO/SEO) - 7 reports, embedded model, 8 AI crawler checks
- Site tools: broken links, regex, meta, images
- Localhost & staging environment scanning
- No domain restrictions
- 7-day free trial - no credit card required
Common Questions
Things compliance and marketing teams ask us.
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