Zenable is a next-generation governance platform that eliminates corporate toil by automating software governance and compliance processes using a patent-pending process that automatically extracts your company’s unique requirements and enforces your policies throughout the entire software development lifecycle in real-time. By augmenting developer workflows with grounded, AI-driven context and guidance, Zenable helps teams make faster, more informed decisions.

The Zenable Workflow

1

Document Ingestion

Upload your design documents, policies, and any other context and let Zenable extract structured knowledge and context while it builds a comprehensive requirements graph.
2

Automated Analysis

Our platform analyzes relationships across documents, identifying conflicting requirements, coverage gaps, and impossible scenarios to inform ongoing adjustments and setting requirements.
3

Real-Time Enforcement

As developers write code, Zenable provides instant feedback through IDE integrations. When they submit PRs, our AI reviewer ensures compliance with your governance requirements. Always know where you stand with just the right context, and nothing extra.
4

Continuous Improvement

Zenable brings together context from across your organization so humans can make the right decisions about what their business should be doing. Every recommendation is backed by hard data and references to specific requirements, policies, and industry standards - providing full traceability every step along the way.

Core Architecture

1. Organizational Context

Zenable ingests your design documents, policies, contracts, and any other requirements to:
  • Extract structured knowledge graphs representing relationships between controls, requirements, and responsibilities
  • Identify gaps, conflicts, and redundancies across your governance framework
  • Generate actionable recommendations for improvement

2. Software Development Integrations

Our platform lets your developers stay in flow and focus on what they love - building great software - with our seamless, low-friction integrations. IDE Integration
  • Real-time code conformance checking as developers write
  • Instant feedback and auto-fix suggestions
  • Supports 50+ IDEs including Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and Kiro
Automated Code Review
  • AI-powered PR reviews analyzing code changes
  • Contextual feedback based on your governance requirements
  • Configurable to skip certain files/branches
  • Tracks usage metrics and provides Slack notifications

3. Deterministic Guardrails

Zenable contextualizes and pre-processes controls and context so it’s useful at every integration point. Running lightning fast with full explainability:
  • Pre-processes controls and context for immediate use at any integration point
  • Runs with sub-millisecond latency for real-time decision making
  • Provides full explainability for every decision - always know why and how to fix issues
  • Ensures every step is intentional and fully informed with relevant context

Key Benefits

  • Prevent AI Mistakes: Ensure AI-accelerated development doesn’t compromise quality, security, or compliance
  • Speed up Reviews: Automate first-pass requirements checks across your entire development workflow
  • Reduce Compliance Burden: Transform static documents into automated enforcement
  • Improve Developer Experience: Provide instant feedback without blocking productivity
  • Scale Governance: Handle complex, multi-system environments with ease
  • Measure Maturity: Track governance effectiveness with quantitative metrics and continually improve

Next Steps

Learn more about our security practices and compliance certifications at zenable.io/security.