AI-native SDLC control plane

Where software knowledge becomes intelligence.

CogniForge takes a business idea or an existing codebase and carries it through understanding, architecture, specification, and implementation — with human approval at every gate, native ticketing, and a full audit trail from request to pull request.

Deploy on your own cluster SSO, SCIM & RBAC Immutable audit trail
The problem

It’s not a talent problem. It’s a systems problem.

Enterprises don’t struggle to translate ideas into software because engineers aren’t good enough. They struggle because the context, the standards, and the approvals live in different systems that were never designed to talk to each other.

Fragmented
Knowledge spread everywhere
Context lives across tickets, docs, ADRs, and a dozen repos — nobody has the full picture before they start writing code.
Manual
Specs written by hand
Impact analysis, specification, and implementation planning still happen in someone’s head, one request at a time.
Inconsistent
Standards drift by team
Without a shared constitution, every squad reinvents architecture conventions — and reviewers relearn them every PR.
Untraceable
Lineage breaks down
By the time code ships, the line back to the original business intent — and who approved what — is already gone.
The platform

Six pillars of governed AI delivery

CogniForge isn’t an autonomous coder you point at a repo and hope for the best. It’s a control plane — every capability below exists to keep AI-driven delivery fast and accountable.

Deep context, not guesswork
Code, docs, ADRs, and history are indexed into a knowledge graph so every generated artifact is grounded in what actually exists.
Full lineage, always
Every understanding doc, spec, diagram, and pull request traces back to the request that produced it — nothing is generated in a vacuum.
Human approval, every gate
No stage advances — and no code ships — without an explicit, audited approval from a human reviewer.
Isolated execution
Autonomous coding runs only inside sandboxed containers with scoped network, filesystem, and secret access — never on shared infrastructure.
Native ticketing
Plan sprints, groom backlogs, and track work on Kanban and Scrum boards without leaving the platform your AI is already working in.
On-premise ready
Deploy on your own cluster, behind your own identity provider, with your own branding — built for regulated, air-gapped environments.
How it works

From idea to pull request, one governed path

Greenfield or brownfield, every request travels the same accountable path — nothing skips a gate.

01
Submit
A business idea, change request, or repository.
02
Understand
CogniForge drafts the understanding document.
03
Architect & spec
Architecture, ADRs, and specification are generated.
04
Approve
A human reviews and approves — or sends it back.
05
Implement
Agents code, test, and document in an isolated sandbox.
06
Ship
A pull request opens, fully linked back to the request.
Inside the platform

Built for the whole delivery lifecycle

Not just a code generator — a workspace where planning, review, and execution share one source of truth.

Ticketing

Plan and track work without leaving the platform

Projects, Scrum and Kanban boards, sprints, and workflows — a native Jira-like ticketing system that stays wired to the AI-driven requests generating your work.

ZeniTutor · Milestone 1 board
To Do2
ZEN-31
Exam authoring & versioned review
AITests required
ZEN-32
Parent progress dashboard
AI
In Progress1
ZEN-29
RazorPay webhooks — idempotent ledger
AIAuto-deliver
Done2
ZEN-27
Tenant-scoped auth & RBAC guards
AI$0.41
ZEN-28
Design system & app shell
AI$0.38
Governance

Review every artifact before it ships

Understanding docs, architecture, specs, and code changes all pass through the same approve/reject gate, with a diff view and an immutable audit trail behind it.

Solution Architecture Document · v3 → v4awaiting approval
## Payment Data Model
Payments are stored as a paid flag on the student.
+Payments are an append-only transaction ledger
+(amount, type, gateway reference) per fee/order.
Refunds arrive later as new transaction types.
TMPM1 of 2 approvals
Knowledge graph

Explore your codebase as a living graph

Files, symbols, calls, and imports are indexed into a Neo4j-backed graph — so agents (and you) can answer "who calls this?" in milliseconds, not hours.

Knowledge graph · checkout-service
checkout-serviceOrderServicepayments-dbRazorPayClientordersLedgerEntrywebhooks
Service Class Data Entity
One connected system

Everything your delivery needs, wired through one control plane

Your repository, your build machine, the AI providers of your choice, the ticket board, and the documentation — all first-class citizens of one event-driven system. Nothing bolted on, nothing to glue together.

CogniForgecontrol planeYour repositoryGitHub · GitLabYour build VMtests & E2E run hereAI providersAnthropic · OpenAI · local · your subscriptionBoard & ticketsmilestones · auto-deliverLiving documentationcharter + as-built
0
human approval gates per project
0
test stages before anything ships
0%
of AI calls metered to the ticket they served
$0
dev-mode option with your own Claude subscription
Trust & governance

Built for enterprises that can’t cut corners

Regulated industries don’t get to choose between speed and control. CogniForge is designed so every AI-driven change is reviewable, revocable, and traceable — from day one, not bolted on later.

SSO & SCIM
OIDC and SAML 2.0 federation with SCIM provisioning for users and groups.
Tenant-scoped RBAC
Role and resource scoping across tenant, request, repository, and artifact boundaries.
Immutable audit trail
Every approval, model call, and execution run is logged and append-only.
Sandboxed execution
Autonomous coding runs only inside isolated containers with scoped network access.
Encryption everywhere
Data encrypted in transit and at rest; secrets never touch prompts or logs.
On-premise deployment
Run the full control plane on your own cluster, air-gapped if you need it.
Pricing

Start in the cloud, or bring it behind your firewall

Every plan ships the same governed platform — the difference is where it runs.

Cloud
Talk to us
Managed control plane, hosted by CogniForge
  • Full workflow, ticketing & knowledge graph
  • Multi-model AI orchestration
  • Standard SSO (OIDC)
  • Community support
Enterprise / On-Premise
Custom
Deploy on your own cluster, your own branding
  • Everything in Cloud
  • On-cluster / air-gapped deployment
  • SAML 2.0 + SCIM provisioning
  • White-labeled UI via design tokens
  • Dedicated support & onboarding

Ready to govern your AI-driven delivery?

See how CogniForge turns your backlog into traceable, reviewed, production-ready pull requests — on our cloud or inside your own cluster.

CogniForge — Where Software Knowledge Becomes Intelligence