Policy and Procedure
management

Create, import, and manage your policies with ease. Rich-text
editing, automatic versioning, seamless control associations,
proactive reminders, and integrated approval workflows
- everything you need to keep your organization's policies clear,
current, and compliant.

What are Policies and Procedures?

Policies and procedures define how your organization operates. Policies set direction and expectations; procedures explain how to carry them out. Together, they bring structure, consistency, and compliance to your day-to-day work.

Why are Policies and Procedures Important?

Clear policies and procedures help your team make decisions, stay compliant, and reduce risk. They:

Support Continuous Improvement
Protect Institutional Knowledge
Drive Accountability
Build Consistency Across Teams
Translate Controls into Operations
Reduce Audit Friction

Managing policies is now easier than ever, thanks to advancements that streamline decision-making and implementation.

Craft Policies with Ease

Start from a built-in template or let AI draft your policy based on your framework requirements. Fine-tune with a rich-text editor — tables, lists, images, and more — or skip the editor entirely and manage externally via import or integration.

Manage Externally

Already have your policies in Google Drive or OneDrive? Openlane allows you to sync policies via our integrations and view them directly in Openlane - keeping everything you need for your audit in one place without changing your existing processes

Import Documents

Seamlessly import existing documents directly into Openlane, or automatically keep your policies synchronized through our robust API, integrated with the tools your team already uses.

Link to Controls

Easily link policies to the specific controls they support, enabling clear visibility into your organization's compliance relationships and coverage.

Document Versioning

Automatically track policy versions using semantic versioning (semver). Major revisions are clearly marked, while minor updates increment the patch version, maintaining precise historical accuracy for all your documents.

See Exactly What Changed

Compare any two versions of a policy side by side. Field-level diffs highlight changes to metadata like revision number and approval status, while the document diff shows added, removed, and updated content — all color-coded so nothing gets missed.

Coming Soon

Approval Workflow

Streamline policy governance with an approval workflow. Propose, review, and validate changes directly in Openlane, ensuring updates are thoughtfully vetted before they become live.

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