Constraints, decisions, and hard-won lessons — governed into a living system, so nothing walks out the door when people do.
We built our own methodology to make it hold — and we work fluently in yours.
What we do ↓The usual engagement reviews your documents and hands back a presentation. We work alongside your engineers instead — as deeply as the problem needs — and leave you owning the system we build together.
We meet you in the world you already run — ISO 15288, SysML, DOORS, Cameo — and reach for our own methodology only where the problem calls for it. That range keeps us honest: when it isn't the right fit for your programme, we say so. We'd rather be the group you trust than the one that oversold you.
One methodology at the centre. Norn derives into it, Mimir's standard library feeds it, and Fenrir extends it to failure analysis.
The NFSI model — Need, Function, Solution, Implementation — and the governed requirements library that keeps every constraint traceable from stakeholder need to physical build. Everything else plugs into it.
Derives the structured requirement set from stakeholder needs, layer by layer. Machine proposes; human decides.
Turns published standards into a governed, reusable requirement library that imports straight into Bifrost.
dFMEA over the requirement set — failure modes as the negative space of requirements, mitigations governed back into the library.
And it ships as software you can run — a self-hosted backend with a ready-to-use workbench on top, deployable in the cloud, on your servers, or fully air-gapped. See how it's built →
The library is the asset that outlasts your engineers. We stand it up and keep it current from three directions — with a human gate on everything that enters.
Mimir turns published standards into governed, reusable requirement entries.
Norn derives the structured requirement set from your stakeholder needs, layer by layer.
Where something is missing, generative AI drafts it — always for a human to approve.
The AI splits in two: retrieval grounded in your own library, so it cannot invent answers, and a separable generative half that only ever drafts for a human to decide. Both run entirely on your premises, disconnected — nothing phones home, and nothing leaves the airgap.
We meet a defense programme exactly at its data-sovereignty and AI-risk line — without forcing a compromise in either direction.
A low-commitment assessment scopes the engagement; from there we scale into the signature work.
A low-commitment entry that scopes and justifies everything below. Honest by design — it sometimes concludes that our methodology isn't the answer, and points you elsewhere. That is the assessment working, not failing.
The living library as an operating model — release gate, deprecation lifecycle, and the discipline that keeps it trustworthy. A system we install, not a cleanup task.
Generating the full structured requirement set from stakeholder needs, with human review gates — not curating one that already exists.
Governing the sealed handshake across the org boundary — blackbox Solution out, Need in, waivers and merge-on-return. The deliverable no consultancy has conceived of.
We also do the table stakes — SE/MBSE transformation, legacy migration, ISO 15288 alignment, tool integration (Cameo / Teamwork Cloud), knowledge capture, dFMEA / failure analysis, on-prem AI deployment, and hands-on training & workshops.
The reference layer — the method, each engine, and the running platform, in as much detail as you care to read.
NFSI, the three relationships, architecture trees, the release gate, library governance, and ISO 15288 alignment.
ᚾ Derivation EngineHow requirements are derived layer by layer — structured proposals, a parallel quality gate, and mandatory human review.
ᛗ Standard Requirement LibraryThe sealed standard-bundle format — how a published standard becomes a governed, importable requirement library.
ᚠ Failure AnalysisGraph-based dFMEA over the requirement set — failure modes, inherited end-effect severity, and mitigations governed back through the release gate.
ᛒ ImplementationHow it is built and run — the backend, the Bifrost and Fenrir workbenches, and the live engineering environments you can open now.
No discovery-call theatre. Tell us the programme and the seam you're worried about — we'll tell you whether we're the right group for it.
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