Engineering processes designed for compliance audits

Get audit-ready engineering processes your team will actually live—in record time.

ComplianceMap™ instantly models your regulatory and development landscape, publishes complete workflows and traceability straight into your ALM platform, and evolves as your standards shift—all backed by expert human oversight. While your ALM tool serves as the logbook of what changed, nobody writes the diary of why things happened. ComplianceMap is actively building toward incorporating this diary, capturing the context and rationale behind every engineering decision.

Under the hood

Our engine ➔

ComplianceMap

ComplianceMap™ is our AI-powered product for regulated engineering, built on the Kanzen Lifecycle Intelligence Layer. It takes you from product intent to a live, audit-ready engineering environment through a process your team actually works with.

Describe your product in plain language and it reveals the compliance and development process landscape your industry requires. One click publishes that model into your ALM platform: templates, processes, structure, and traceability, set up in minutes instead of days.

Platform-independent and plug-and-play by design, it integrates with virtually any ALM, requirements management, or test management tool, so everything you've invested in your platform keeps its value.

The complete solution includes: process modeling · the ALM platform publisher · industry accelerators · cctivation and adoption through "Week 0" · AI engineering assistance · continuous evolution and governance · "Forensics" memory and context (in development)

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Our 3-Layer Enablement Model

Most ALM or requirements management tool implementations fail not because of the tool itself, but because they ignore the connection between development reality, regulatory expectations, and tooling design. Our Kanzen 3-Layer Enablement Model (or "K3LEM") solves this by unifying all three layers — engineering, compliance, and tooling — into one integrated model that mirrors how high-performance organizations really work.

The result is an audit-ready, scalable, low-friction ALM ecosystem that teams end up adopting. This is the model we live and breathe and is directly embedded into everything we do.

From ComplianceMap and the Lifecycle Intelligence Layer, through the Kanzen Accelerate methodology and industry accelerators, and even down to our approach to the initial process health-check.

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Process Health-Check

Every Kanzen journey starts with a conversation. The Process Health-Check is our version of a demo, which includes a focused assessment designed to uncover the gaps, inefficiencies, and risks in your current processes and ALM setup.

This "demo" is designed as a workshop where we review your tools, workflows, traceability, and safety processes against industry standards and your real audit exposure. Then we map your landscape real-time in ComplianceMap, which means you see your industry’s process landscape on screen before you’ve committed to anything.

You leave with a written findings document and a prioritized improvement roadmap that is written by us but is owned by you.

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The Kanzen Accelerate Methodology

This is the adoption phase of any engagement we take on, and the reason our method works where tools alone fail. A process is only as good as its adoption and a fully configured environment only pays off when your team lives it.

Starting with "Week 0" through five days on-site, two process architects turn ComplianceMap's models into your process. Traceability model, development workflows, and compliance foundations implemented, fine-tuned, and adopted, with advanced, tailored training to match.

Hands-on support and Forensics memory continue through Continuous Evolution.

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Our mission: compliance without complexity

Trusted to solve the hard problems. Committed to getting it right.

What we do

Our blueprint ➔

01

Process Consulting

Our team of seasoned experts partners with you to design, refine, and implement mature, forward-thinking engineering processes. We bridge the gap between methodology and execution while helping your organization innovate faster, reduce risk, and deliver cutting-edge, high-quality products in safety-critical domains.

02

End-to-End ALM Integration

We provide a seamless, scalable setup of your ALM platform and engineering toolchain, from initial configuration and tool integration to data migration and automation. In the ComplianceMap journey, these are the delivery services around Publish: the generated baseline, built out and embedded in your toolchain. And our guidance doesn’t stop at go-live: Continuous Evolution keeps your setup aligned with evolving standards and business goals.

03

Regulatory Compliance

With over a decade of experience in functional safety and process maturity, we guide you through the complexities of regulatory standards and frameworks like ISO 26262, IEC 62304, and DO-178C, and what they actually mean for your ALM platform and your daily workflows. Gap assessments, safety process tailoring, and audit preparation are all simplified through our hands-on implementation, ensuring compliance is built into your development lifecycle and not just added as an afterthought.

04

Kanzen Labz

Where Kanzen’s engineering expertise meets artificial intelligence and becomes software. This is the unit that builds ComplianceMap and the Lifecycle Intelligence Layer, alongside custom AI solutions, ALM integrations, and automation for regulated engineering environments. When your challenge goes beyond process and tooling into custom engineering, this is where we solve it.

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05

Industry Accelerators

360° Automotive, Medical, and Aerospace Accelerators

Our industry accelerators are ready-to-deploy process frameworks incorporating best practices refined across 30+ regulated programs. Fully customizable to your organizational structure and workflows, they ensure consistency, traceability, and compliance from requirements to release. One knowledge base, now one intelligence layer: your accelerator publishes live through ComplianceMap in minutes, delivering continuous assurance as a lived process through the Accelerate Methodology.

06

AI Engineering Assistance

We deliver intelligence, not hallucinations. Our AI-driven workflows are purpose-built to integrate directly into your regulated engineering environment. Our main goal is to enhance your team's productivity without compromising compliance or adding unnecessary complexity. Guided by a dedicated AI expert on our board who serves as our hands-on technical advisor, we don’t just implement AI. We know how to build it safely for safety-critical applications and mission-critical systems. The result is secure, compliant agents that accelerate your daily engineering tasks while maintaining governance and control.

What's in scope

Our universe ➔

Industry Compliance Consulting

Automotive safety compliance:

  • ISO 26262, ASPICE, ISO/SAE 21434, ISO/PAS 8800 & ISO 21448 (SOTIF)

MedTech compliance:

  • ISO 13485, IEC 62304, ISO 10993, IEC 60601, ISO 14971, FDA 21 CFR Part 11, FDA 21 CFR Part 820 (QMSR)

Aerospace compliance:

  • DO-178C, DO-254, ARP4754A/B, ARP4761A, DO-326A / ED-202A, DO-330

Data security:

  • EU AI Act · EU Data Act · EU GDPR

ALM & RM Tool Implementation

  • ALM & requirements management tool installation and setup

  • ComplianceMap-published models

  • Rollout of industry accelerators for automotive, medtech, and aerospace

  • Optimization of workflows and safety processes

  • Responsible AI use

  • Full support for tools and configurations

  • Advanced, fully customized training

Lifecycle & Systems Engineering

  • End-to-end lifecycle management consulting

  • Traceability modeling

  • Safety-critical systems engineering

  • Requirements engineering & requirements management

  • Risk management

  • Test management

  • Config management

  • Variants management

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