The AI engine

An AI architecture team,
not a text box.

Most AI tools give you one model and a prompt. IronArchitects gives you a pipeline: an AI architect that designs, four specialist reviewers that deliberate, live evidence tools that ground every claim, and a remediation loop that fixes gaps before a human ever sees them.

Autonomous generation

Describe it. Get a whole design.

One paragraph of intent becomes a complete solution architecture: components, technology choices, data flows, deployment topology, and all four C4 diagram levels. Generation runs on enterprise AI providers (Google Vertex AI Gemini today, with Anthropic Claude available through per-surface provider routing) and is constrained to your approved technology catalog, your org policies, and the regulations that apply.

  • Instantiates vetted reference architectures instead of guessing from scratch.
  • Prefers technologies you already run and vendors you already have contracts with, reducing sprawl and cost.
  • Infers resilience posture (multi-AZ, multi-region, DR strategy) from your RTO/RPO and threat profile.
  • Generates 2 to 3 candidate architectures with trade-offs scored on cost, compliance, and complexity.
Multi-agent deliberation

Five AI agents. One consolidated verdict.

After generation, the design goes to a panel of specialist agents: the architect that proposed it, plus an independent security reviewer, cost optimizer, compliance officer, and an adversarial reviewer whose only job is to attack hidden assumptions and failure modes. The four reviewers each critique it on their own terms, they deliberate over the findings, and the worst verdict wins. No rubber stamps.

  • Each agent surfaces blockers and concerns with severity, detail, and a recommendation.
  • The full deliberation is persisted and audit-logged, so you can show exactly why a design was approved.
  • Run any completed design back through a security, cost, or compliance lens on demand.
Deliberation · run #482
AR
Architect agent
Proposed event-driven design · 3 alternatives considered
Proposed
SE
Security reviewer
NVD check: flagged CVE-2026-1178 in cache layer · pinned fix version
Blocker → resolved
CO
Cost optimizer
Live Azure pricing · applied your 20% contract discount
Approve
CM
Compliance officer
118 assertions evaluated · 1 residual risk for acceptance
Concerns
AD
Adversarial reviewer
Attacked failure modes · single-region DR assumption challenged
Concerns
Consolidated verdict: Approve with concerns Worst verdict wins
NVD / CVELive vulnerability lookups for every selected versionGrounded
Azure RetailReal SKU pricing, including your negotiated ratesGrounded
Vertex GroundingAWS / GCP pricing and vendor researchGrounded
Your KBOrg policies, standards, and prior approved designs (RAG)Grounded
DiscoveryYour real APIs, databases, cloud estates & CMDB assetsGrounded
Tech catalogApproved, candidate, and forbidden technologiesEnforced
Live-grounded intelligence

Not hallucinated. Cited.

The agents don't answer from memory. They call live tools: real CVE data from NVD, real cloud prices, your own knowledge base, and your technology catalog. Every recommendation carries its evidence, and every outbound call is allowlisted and sandboxed.

  • Cost cards use live pricing with per-data-class attribution for chargeback.
  • Upload your standards and prior designs; every run retrieves the relevant sections to ground its decisions.
  • Approved designs feed back into the corpus, so your org's best practices improve every future generation.
  • Run discovery agents and the generator treats your inventoried APIs, databases, cloud estates, and CMDB assets as ground truth to integrate with, not guesses.
Self-healing designs

Gaps don't wait for a meeting.

When a design fails a control or needs a capability with no approved technology, the engine doesn't hand you a to-do list. It loops: redesigns, re-evaluates, and closes what it can automatically, within a bounded iteration budget. Only what genuinely needs a human reaches one.

  • Failed control assertions trigger automatic redesign of the offending components.
  • Capability gaps surface market recommendations ("consider a managed PostgreSQL service") for your approval, never silent substitutions.
  • Unresolvable items become tracked exceptions with owners and expiry dates, not forgotten footnotes.
Iteration 12 failed controls · 1 capability gapRemediating
Iteration 2Key management redesigned · KMS added1 closed
Iteration 3Audit-log WORM storage + hash chain1 closed
EscalateNo approved tech for stream processingHuman decision
Result117 / 118 controls pass · 1 tracked exceptionReview-ready
Architect
Why PostgreSQL here instead of MongoDB?
IronArchitects
Claims data is relational and must satisfy your encryption-at-rest control. PostgreSQL is on your approved catalog with field-level encryption support; MongoDB is listed as a candidate, not approved. Cites: Tech catalog · HIPAA §164.312(a)(2)(iv)
Architect
Add multi-AZ failover and re-run the analysis.
IronArchitects
Done. Database and cache now deploy across two availability zones; RTO drops from 4h to 15m. Cost increases $840/mo at your contract rates. Compliance score unchanged at 94. Version 3 saved. Design updated · analysis re-run
Conversational refinement

Talk to your architecture.

Ask the design why it made a choice and get an answer grounded in the actual documents and controls, not a generic essay. Ask for a change and the engine applies it, re-runs the analysis, and versions the result. Decisions worth keeping become Architecture Decision Records automatically.

  • Q&A is grounded in your design, analysis, and knowledge base with citations.
  • Apply-able changes go through the same guardrails and re-analysis as a full run.
  • ADRs are captured from the conversation and versioned with the design.
  • Architect edits survive AI re-runs: your locked overrides are never regenerated away.
Guarded by design

Powerful AI, on a short leash.

The engine is autonomous inside the run, and accountable everywhere else.

Never trained on your data

Generation runs on Google Vertex AI under terms that prohibit training on Customer Content. Your designs stay yours.

Human approval required

The AI proposes; people approve. Low-confidence decisions are flagged, and no design ships without an accountable human sign-off.

Every AI action audited

Generation runs, agent verdicts, remediation steps, and chat answers are persisted to a hash-chained, tamper-evident audit trail.

Prompt-injection defense

Chat responses are validated for injection; abuse patterns are detected and reported to your admins automatically.

Sandboxed tool calls

Every outbound call the agents make (CVE, pricing, research) is validated against an allowlist with DNS-rebinding protection.

PII redaction

Logs and chat responses are scrubbed of personal data before storage, with regulated-tier controls over what reaches an LLM provider.

Minutesper design run, end to end
5AI agents deliberate per run
LiveCVE, pricing, and knowledge-base grounding
0designs shipped without human approval

Put an AI architecture team on your next design.

Start free, describe what you want to build, and watch the engine design, review, and remediate it in one run.