AI Solution Architecture Platform

Architecture that's compliant by construction.

Describe what you want to build. IronArchitects generates a complete solution design from your approved technology, has four specialist AI reviewers critique it, closes the gaps automatically, and emits the audit-grade evidence a regulator expects. In minutes, not weeks.

Design run · HIPAA pack
Architecture generated
14 components · 22 data flows · C4 diagrams drawn
Done
4 AI reviewers deliberating
Security · cost · compliance · adversarial
Running
2 gaps auto-remediated
Key management · audit-log protection
Closed
Controls evaluated
HIPAA + SOC 2 · every decision cites its clause
1 for review
94/ 100 control coverage
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Fifteen control packs spanning the frameworks regulated teams answer to

HIPAA / HITRUST PCI-DSS v4 FedRAMP · NIST 800-53 NIST 800-171 · CMMC SOC 2 ISO 27001 / 27018 GDPR / CCPA GLBA · SOX ITGC · NYDFS 500 AWS / Azure / GCP Well-Architected
The problem

Compliant architecture is slow, manual, and stale the moment it ships.

Architects redraw the same diagrams, hand-map controls into spreadsheets, and assemble evidence the night before an audit. Then a policy changes and it all drifts. IronArchitects makes the whole loop generative, traceable, and continuous.

Weeks per design

A single review-ready solution architecture takes weeks of senior-architect time before a regulator ever sees it.

Evidence by hand

SSPs, threat models, and traceability matrices are stitched together manually, error-prone and impossible to keep in sync.

Instant drift

The day a control, policy, or approved technology changes, every "approved" design is silently out of date.

The AI engine

An AI architecture team, not a text box.

One design run does what an architecture review board does: an AI architect drafts the design, then four specialist AI reviewers independently critique it, deliberate over the findings, and deliver a consolidated verdict. Every step is persisted and audit-logged.

  • Grounded in live evidence: real CVE data, live cloud pricing, and your own knowledge base. Not hallucinated, cited.
  • Gaps and failed controls trigger an automatic remediation loop that redesigns until the design passes, or tells you why it can't.
  • Refine conversationally: "add multi-AZ failover" re-generates the design, re-runs analysis, and keeps every version.
  • Low-confidence decisions are flagged for a human. Nothing ships without your approval.
AI design deliberation
AR
Architect agent
Drafted 14-component design from the approved catalog
Proposed
SE
Security reviewer
Checked NVD: 0 unpatched critical CVEs in selected versions
Approve
CO
Cost optimizer
Live pricing: reserved instances save $2,140/mo
Concerns
CM
Compliance officer
HIPAA §164.312 mapped · 1 control needs review
Approve
AD
Adversarial reviewer
Attacked hidden assumptions: single-region DR gap flagged
Concerns
Consolidated verdict: Approve with concerns Audit-logged
Discovery agents

Designs grounded in the environment you actually run.

Point read-only discovery agents at your cloud accounts, API gateways, databases, CMDB, directory, file stores, and knowledge bases. They inventory what already exists, and generation designs around it: reusing your real APIs, deploying into your real regions, and integrating with the systems you operate instead of inventing generic ones.

  • Twenty-plus connectors across seven families: AWS/Azure/GCP estates, API gateways, six database engines, ServiceNow/Lansweeper/Axonius CMDBs, Entra ID, S3-compatible file stores, and your wikis.
  • Metadata, never data: agents record resource, schema, and endpoint shapes; reading actual data values is impossible by design.
  • Every run requires an explicit authorization attestation and is recorded in an append-only discovery audit trail.
  • Brownfield by default: the generator treats discovered systems as ground truth and integrates with them, no discovery run, no change.
APIClaims API · GET/POST /claims · bearer authDiscovered
DatabasePostgreSQL claims schema · shapes onlyDiscovered
CloudProduction Azure estate · eastus · live resourcesDiscovered
CMDBServiceNow · production servers & databasesDiscovered
DesignReuses Claims API · deploys into eastusGrounded
The platform

One loop: describe → generate → prove.

Everything an architecture review board needs, generated and governed in one place.

Compliant-by-construction generation

An AI pipeline assembles components, data flows, technology choices, and diagrams, constrained to the controls that apply, with a cited clause behind every decision.

Diagrams drawn for you

C4 system, container, component, and deployment diagrams with trust zones and data-class flows, rendered automatically and round-trip editable in draw.io without losing structure.

Regulatory control catalog

Machine-readable controls with testable assertions, layered over your own org policies. Plug in industry packs for HIPAA, PCI-DSS, FedRAMP, NIST 800-171/CMMC, SOC 2, ISO, and GDPR.

Auditor-ready deliverables

Export the System Security Plan, data-flow diagrams with trust boundaries, STRIDE threat model, SBOM, traceability matrix, runbook, and IaC scaffolding (Terraform, Bicep, or Pulumi), backed by immutable approval records.

Scoring, cost, and threat analysis

Well-Architected pillar scores, STRIDE threat trees tied to your data flows, and a live-priced cost card that honors your negotiated vendor discounts.

Continuous compliance

When a regulation, policy, or approved technology changes, IronArchitects re-evaluates approved designs and raises drift alerts, so "compliant" stays true.

How it works

From a sentence to a defensible design.

1

Capture intent

Describe the use case and classify the data: PHI, cardholder data, PII, residency, SLA, and threat profile. Upload a charter and let IronArchitects pre-fill the requirements.

2

Generate & deliberate

The AI engine assembles the design from your approved catalog, draws the diagrams, and puts it in front of four specialist AI reviewers who critique and remediate before you ever see it.

3

Score & review

Get a control-coverage score, a residual-risk register, and low-confidence flags. Route it through a structured ARB review with human-in-the-loop approval.

4

Prove & ship

Export auditor-ready deliverables and lock in an immutable, hash-chained approval record. Re-evaluate continuously as the rules change.

Minutesfrom a sentence to a review-ready design
4specialist AI reviewers on every design run
100%of decisions cite a control or clause
7+auditor deliverables generated per design
The moat

Anyone can call an LLM. Almost no one can prove it.

IronArchitects pairs generation with a machine-checkable, org-policy-aware, multi-regulation control catalog, wired into both the design engine and an immutable evidence trail.

  • Every component links to the control, policy clause, or document that justified it.
  • Guardrails constrain generation to applicable controls; non-compliant designs are flagged, not shipped silently.
  • Segregation of duties: a flagged override needs sign-off from a different principal.
  • Approval records are hash-chained and immutable: tampering is detectable, evidence is bound to a point in time.
HIPAA §164.312(a)(1)Access controlCovered
HIPAA §164.312(e)(1)Transmission securityCovered
PCI-DSS 3.5.1Key managementCovered
NIST AU-9Protection of audit infoGap → remediation
SOC 2 CC6.1Logical accessCovered
See it in action

Real designs, generated.

Straight from the product: a use case becomes a complete architecture with the controls cited and the diagrams drawn, in minutes.

app.ironarchitects.com · Architecture
A generated C4 architecture, produced by Gemini, with each component citing the control it satisfies
Generated architecture. Components, data flows, and technology assembled from your catalog, each citing the control it satisfies. Powered by Google Vertex AI (Gemini).
Inputs
The package workspace where requirements and data classification are captured
Capture intent. Describe the use case and classify the data. The workspace drives generation, review, and approval.
Diagrams
Auto-generated, editable architecture diagrams
Diagrams, automatically. The generated design is drawn for you, editable, and exportable to draw.io, Lucid, or your deliverables.
Built for regulated industries

Your regulators, already in the box.

Real control packs for the frameworks your industry is held to. Plug in yours and start generating.

Why IronArchitects

Not a diagram tool. Not a chatbot. Not a GRC binder.

A generic LLM can sketch an architecture. A GRC platform can track controls. Only IronArchitects does both, and ties every decision to the evidence.

Capability Manual ARB Raw LLM GRC tools IronArchitects
Generates the architectureBy hand
unconstrained
Constrained to your approved technologyManual
Independent multi-agent design reviewWeeks of meetings
Grounded in live CVE & pricing dataManual research
Discovers & designs around your real environmentTribal knowledgeCMDB only
Maps regulatory controls into the designManualTracking only
Cites the clause behind each decisionPartial
Generates auditor deliverables (SSP, DFD, SBOM, IaC)ManualPartial
Re-evaluates on control / policy / tech changeManual
FAQ

Common questions.

How is this different from asking ChatGPT to design my system?

A general model invents an architecture from anything it has seen. IronArchitects assembles a design only from your organization's approved technology, constrains it to the controls that apply, has four specialist AI agents critique it against live CVE and pricing data, cites the clause behind each decision, and emits auditor-ready evidence, backed by an immutable approval record.

Will it use my data to train AI models?

No. Generation runs on Google Vertex AI under terms that prohibit training on your data, and Customer Content is never used to train models. See the Security & Trust page.

Which frameworks do you support today?

Fifteen shipped control packs: HIPAA, HITRUST CSF, PCI-DSS v4, SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27018, NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171, CMMC L2, GDPR, GLBA Safeguards, SOX ITGC, NYDFS 500, and FedRAMP Moderate, plus AWS/Azure/GCP Well-Architected scoring. You can layer your own policies on top of any pack.

Does it replace my architects?

No. It removes the manual grind. Your architects and compliance officers stay in control: the AI does the assembly, review, and mapping, low-confidence items are flagged for review, and a human approves before anything ships.

How do I get started?

Create an account, add a few approved technologies and a control pack, and describe what you want to build. You'll have a review-ready design in minutes; self-serve plans start with a 30-day trial.

Morgan Bleck, Founder of The Iron Architect LLC
"After fifteen years rebuilding enterprise architecture practices in healthcare, I built IronArchitects to be the tool I always wanted: one that produces the design and the audit evidence together, so compliance stops being the bottleneck."
Morgan Bleck · Founder, The Iron Architect LLC · Meet the founder

Generate your first compliant design today.

Start free. Bring your own approved technology and a control pack, and watch a review-ready architecture assemble itself in minutes.