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One model, driven through the V-Model lifecycle.

Every requirement, interface, trade-off, and test stays connected in one living model that runs from the first requirement to the final audit. Each stage builds on the last, so your team gains capability without switching tools, and AI agents work the model at every stage.

The lifecycle

Five stages, one source of truth.

From the first requirement to the final audit, every artifact stays connected. Jump to any stage:

01 «define»

Define

Requirements & architecture

Requirements start clear and tied to the architecture. As you write each one, AI checks it for clarity, completeness, consistency, and conflicts, then helps you break the system down and allocate requirements to subsystems and interfaces.

Core capabilities

  • Requirements authoring with AI-powered quality gates
  • Clarity, completeness & consistency checks at creation time
  • Requirements decomposition recommendations
  • System architecture decomposition & component hierarchy
  • Requirements allocation to subsystems & interface definition
  • Traceability to sources and parent–child hierarchies

Value

  • Speed: real-time feedback eliminates review cycles
  • Quality: catch ambiguity and conflicts before they spread
  • Compliance foundation: well-formed requirements are the basis for every audit trail

Data foundation created

  • Requirements database with inherent quality
  • Architecture baseline with requirements allocated to components
  • Traceability matrix spanning requirements ↔ architecture
  • Version history from day one
02 «analyze»

Analyze

Design & analysis

Put the design under AI-assisted failure-mode and hazard analysis. Run trade-off studies, set safety integrity levels, and keep a record of what you rejected and why.

Core capabilities

  • AI-assisted FMEA (Failure Mode & Effects Analysis)
  • HARA (Hazard Analysis & Risk Assessment)
  • Safety Integrity Level (SIL) determination
  • Parametric analysis & design trade-off studies
  • Traceability: failure modes ↔ architecture ↔ requirements

Value

  • Speed: AI suggests decomposition and identifies hazards automatically
  • Quality: systematic failure analysis prevents design blind spots
  • Compliance: FMEA/HARA documentation captured as part of the work

Data integration

  • Failure modes & hazards linked to architecture components from Define
  • Risk assessments inform design decisions and test priorities
  • Trade-off rationale preserved for the audit trail in Assure

Progressive value: teams that started with Define see their requirements and architecture automatically pressure-tested for failure modes and hazards.

03 «verify»

Verify

System V&V

Automate test-case generation and coverage analysis with AI-powered tools that ensure every requirement is verified and every design element is validated.

Core capabilities

  • AI-generated test cases from requirements and architecture
  • Coverage analysis with gap identification
  • Traceability: tests ↔ requirements ↔ architecture
  • Integration with test-execution frameworks
  • Test reporting with requirement verification status

Value

  • Speed: auto-generate comprehensive test suites instead of manual authoring
  • Quality: coverage analysis ensures no requirement goes untested
  • Compliance: complete verification traceability for audits

Data integration

  • Test cases inherit traceability from Define and Analyze
  • Requirement changes trigger coverage-gap analysis
  • Failure modes from Analyze inform negative test cases

Progressive value: teams with Define + Analyze data get automated test generation with full traceability.

04 «sync»

Sync

Product-line engineering

Manage product-line complexity with variant management, commonality analysis, and two-way sync with your MBSE tools, so the model stays live as the design changes.

Core capabilities

  • Variant management with intelligent dependency checking
  • Commonality / variability analysis across the product line
  • Bi-directional sync with MBSE tools
  • Project roll-ups for system-of-systems
  • Configuration management across variants

Value

  • Speed: reuse requirements, architecture & tests across variants instead of duplicating
  • Quality: dependency analysis prevents configuration errors
  • Compliance: variant-specific changes tracked with impact analysis

Data integration

  • Common requirements and architecture from Define reused across variants
  • Shared failure modes & risk analysis from Analyze inherited by the product family
  • Test suites from Verify adapted per variant with delta tracking

Progressive value: teams that built a single product with Define + Analyze + Verify can extend to product families, reusing 60–80% of artifacts while managing 20–40% variation.

05 «assure»

Assure

Regulatory confidence

Stay compliant and audit-ready across the whole lifecycle. Generate compliance reports, traceability matrices, and decision rationale, with the discarded options preserved.

Core capabilities

  • Complete design-history preservation (including discarded options)
  • Trade-off analysis documentation
  • Digital signatures for formal sign-offs
  • Compliance report generation (ISO 26262, IEC 61508, and more)
  • Decision-rationale capture with supporting data

Value

  • Speed: auto-generate compliance reports instead of manual compilation
  • Quality: design rationale prevents teams from repeating past mistakes
  • Compliance: auditor-ready evidence trail with preserved decision context

Data integration

  • History spans requirement changes, architecture evolution, test results & variant decisions
  • Digital signatures at key milestones: requirements freeze, design reviews, test approval

Progressive value: teams with Define + Analyze + Verify + Sync have been building compliance data all along. Assure turns it into reports on demand.

Built for regulated industries

Audit-ready by construction.

Traceability is captured as the model is built, not reconstructed after the fact, so coverage is provable for the standards that matter. Assure generates the evidence from the decisions logged across every prior stage.

Automotive:ISO 26262ASPICE
Aerospace:DO-178CDO-254
Energy:IEC 61508UL 2594
Medical:IEC 62304ISO 13485FDA 510(k)

See it on your requirements.

Bring your requirements set to a 30-minute demo. We'll show you the traceability graph it builds.