# What's the best privacy impact assessment (PIA) tool for streamlining documentation and keeping auditors happy?

<p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">I've been putting together a roundup of <a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/categories/privacy-impact-assessment-pia">privacy impact assessment (PIA)</a> tools specifically on streamlining documentation and keeping auditors happy, since a lot of privacy teams are still doing this work manually across spreadsheets and shared drives that fall apart the moment someone asks a specific question. A handful of platforms genuinely change that:</p><ul>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/trustarc/reviews"><strong>TrustArc</strong></a>: Streamlines PIAs and data mapping into a centralized system, replacing the manual spreadsheet chase with automated processes that keep documentation consistent and provide audit-ready reporting for internal and legal teams.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/osano/reviews"><strong>Osano</strong></a>: Consent tracking and audit readiness stay strong even while managing compliance across multiple jurisdictions, with privacy impact assessment documentation sitting alongside cookie management in one centralized platform.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/privacyengine/reviews"><strong>PrivacyEngine</strong></a>: DPIAs, risk assessments, and supplier due diligence reports all get tracked in one place, with a clear audit trail and policy templates that read like they were actually written and checked by someone, not auto-generated.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/securiti/reviews"><strong>Securiti</strong></a>: RoPA, privacy reports, vendor assessments, and data subject requests run through one platform, with automated data discovery cutting down the manual spreadsheet work that used to precede every assessment.</li>
</ul><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">For anyone running PIAs through a tool like this regularly, how much of the actual assessment writing still falls on a human, versus the platform genuinely automating the documentation itself?</p>

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## Comments
### Comment 1

&lt;p&gt;The biggest value is usually not automating the judgment itself, but automating the evidence gathering, routing, and documentation around it. I’d compare how much each platform can pre-populate assessments from existing data maps, preserve reviewer comments and approvals, and generate an audit trail that explains who made each decision and why.&lt;/p&gt;

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