From requirements capture to immutable approval and beyond, IronArchitects runs the entire compliant-design lifecycle: AI does the heavy lifting, your governance stays in control, and the evidence writes itself.
A design package captures the use case, the data classes involved (PHI, cardholder data, PII), residency, RTO/RPO, SLA, and threat profile. Templates and predefined input fields pre-fill requirements, policies, and team assignments so intake is consistent across the org.
The AI engine assembles components, data flows, technology choices, and deployment topology from your approved catalog, constrained to your controls. Four specialist AI reviewers then critique and deliberate, and a remediation loop closes gaps automatically before you ever see the design.
All four C4 levels (context, container, component, deployment) plus data-flow diagrams render automatically from the architecture spec. Trust zones are classified per component, data flows carry their data-class labels, and boundary-crossing flows are flagged as compliance risks.
One design run produces the analysis a review board would take weeks to assemble.
Every applicable control evaluated against machine-checkable assertions, severity-ordered, with pass, fail, remediable gap, and residual risk called out per control.
Deterministic, citable scores against the AWS, Azure, and GCP pillars, with per-pillar drill-down showing exactly which decision earns or loses points.
STRIDE threat trees tied to your actual data flows and trust boundaries, plus VERIS threat-vector classification derived from your industry and data sensitivity.
Per-service SKU breakdown with monthly and annual TCO, per-data-class attribution for chargeback, and your negotiated vendor discounts applied automatically.
Quantified value delivered per design (speed to market, efficiency, compliance cost avoidance, risk reduction), rolled up across the portfolio for executives.
A generated design narrative that reads like an architect's pitch, and Architecture Decision Records auto-captured from every major choice, versioned with the design.
Structured review workflow with real gates: a package cannot be approved while it has open gaps without accepted exceptions, failed controls without risk treatments, or blocked AI verdicts. Sign-offs are unanimous, segregated, and immutable.
Every design exports a complete deliverable set: the System Security Plan, data-flow diagrams with trust boundaries, the STRIDE threat model, an SBOM, the control traceability matrix, a deployment runbook, and parameterized infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Bicep, or Pulumi) for the approved design.
Approval isn't the finish line. When a control pack is updated, a policy tightens, or a technology falls off the approved list, IronArchitects re-evaluates your approved portfolio and surfaces exactly which designs drifted and why.
Packages belong to teams. Sixteen-plus granular permissions compose into custom roles, with defaults for Architect, Compliance Officer, Privacy Officer, and Enterprise Architect.
A built-in rich editor for narratives, requirements, and policies, with immutable version history, comparisons, and who-changed-what tracking.
Ask an approved or in-progress design questions and get grounded, cited answers. Available on the Enterprise tier, with abuse monitoring built in.
Email on review requests, approvals, design completion, and membership changes, governed by a three-tier platform, org, and user policy with one-click unsubscribe.
Freeze records under legal hold, enforce retention policies, and keep compliance attestations locked. Regulated record-keeping is first-class, not an afterthought.
Scoped API keys for CI/CD, a public REST API with Swagger docs, and HMAC-signed webhooks on run completion, approval, and incident events.
Capture the intent, watch the AI engine design and review it, and export the audit binder. Free for 30 days.