NDGM vs SailPoint, ConductorOne & Ploy
Last updated 26 July 2026
Every identity-governance buyer ends up comparing the same handful of names. Here is how NDGM stacks up against SailPoint, ConductorOne and Ploy on the things that actually decide a UK mid-market deployment — not a feature checklist, but whether the platform finds what’s invisible, governs it with evidence, and then fixes what it finds.
| Capability | SailPoint | ConductorOne | Ploy | NDGM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blueprint-driven governance | ✗ No | ✗ No | ✗ No | ✓ Yes | |
| Non-human identity, first-class | ~ Limited | ✓ Strong | ~ Partial | ✓ Strong | |
| Edge discovery (AI tools & secrets sprawl) | ✗ No | ✗ No | ✗ No | ✓ Yes — Reeve edge agent | |
| Enforcement (vault + rotate) | ~ Partial | ✗ No | ✗ No — governance only | ✓ Yes, approval-gated | |
| Local AI inference / sovereignty | ✗ No | ✗ No | ✗ No | ✓ Yes | |
| Self-hosted / on your own infrastructure | ~ Legacy on-prem option | ✗ Cloud-only | ✗ Cloud-only | ✓ Docker-native, self-hostable | |
| Published, per-employee pricing | ✗ Quote-only | ✗ Quote-only | ~ Not published | ✓ Yes, on the pricing page | |
| Typical time to first value | ✗ 6–12 months | ~ Weeks | ~ Weeks | ✓ Under 2 hours to a pilot |
Govern and enforce, non-human-identity-first, on your own infrastructure — no one else in this comparison does all three.
SailPoint (and Saviynt)
SailPoint and Saviynt are the legacy heavyweights — deep, mature governance for large enterprises with the team and budget to run a 6–12 month deployment. They are built for enterprise scale, and it shows in the rollout: heavy professional-services involvement, high total cost of ownership, and a governance-only model that doesn’t close the loop on its own findings. If you’re a UK mid-market firm being quoted a SailPoint implementation timeline in quarters rather than weeks, that’s the trade-off you’re being asked to accept.
ConductorOne
ConductorOne is a strong, modern access-review SaaS product with genuinely good non-human-identity coverage. What it doesn’t do is enforce — it tells you what to fix, not fix it — and it’s cloud-only, with no route to self-hosting for firms that need their identity data and AI inference to stay inside their own boundary.
Ploy
Ploy is the closest peer to NDGM — a funded London company running a similar AI-native identity-governance thesis, and further ahead on general market traction. The difference is architectural: Ploy is governance-only (it surfaces findings; it doesn’t rotate credentials or vault secrets) and cloud-only. NDGM’s bet is that governance without enforcement is half a product, and that a UK-regulated buyer increasingly wants the option to self-host.
Where NDGM is different
NDGM discovers every human, service account and AI agent on an estate — including the sprawled secrets and local AI/MCP identities that never reach a cloud console, via the Reeve edge agent (read-only, metadata-only, outbound-only). It runs blueprint-driven access reviews that produce audit-ready evidence. And then, unlike every platform in the table above, it closes the loop: approval-gated credential rotation and secret vaulting, so a finding doesn’t just sit in a report. It runs self-hosted on NDGM’s own UK infrastructure today, with a fully self-hosted Sovereign tier for firms that need everything — including AI inference — inside their own estate.
See it on your own estate. A pilot runs from CSV import to findings to audit-ready evidence in under two hours.
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