Features & differentiators

Connected engineering structure without a months-long rollout.

TraceBoard Suite is three connected products — engineering items, controlled documentation, and verification — with standards-aware templates and assessments for teams working in regulated contexts. Here's what sets it apart from a disconnected spreadsheet workflow or heavyweight ALM rollout.

5–100
Users per flat annual plan
~10×
Lower TCO vs. enterprise RM tools
3
Standards covered out of the box
0
AI required to run the full product
Calculated project state

See where the recorded engineering model needs attention.

Engineering State is a deterministic, on-demand aggregate across compliance assessment, traceability, verification, risk, consistency, change impact and baseline readiness. It is calculated from recorded engineering facts and defined thresholds—not an AI opinion, certification score or release approval.

STATE

Seven dimensions

Review the dimensions behind the aggregate rather than relying on a generic project-health label.

DATA

Recorded facts

Traceability, results, assessments, risks, consistency findings, change impact and baseline checks remain inspectable.

Why teams switch

Five things most requirements tools weren't built for

Everything below is a direct response to how regulated engineering teams actually work — not a generic feature list.

01

Live in days, not quarters

Standards-aware templates and assessments help teams organize engineering evidence for ISO 26262, IEC 62304, and DO-178C work. They support engineering review; they do not certify a product or replace a qualified compliance process.

02

Self-hosted control

Run the core suite on your own infrastructure, with local model support when configured. OIDC, remote Git and cloud LLMs remain optional network-dependent integrations.

03

Flat, and it stays flat

One annual price per team size. No per-seat licensing that grows unpredictably as your project — or your headcount — does.

04

Every link, both directions

Requirements to tasks, tests, bugs, and documents — with suspect-link flagging when an upstream edit makes a downstream link stale.

05

Specific data operations

Use supported JSON, CSV, XLSX, PDF, DOCX and Markdown operations for the workflows each endpoint implements. The site does not promise ReqIF or arbitrary full-fidelity interchange.

06

AI that stays accountable to the record

AI-cited artifact IDs and generated content are checked against available project data where supported, then remain subject to human review. The system does not guarantee semantic correctness.

GOVERNANCE Principle 06 is the short version — see Our approach to AI for the full propose → validate → approve → commit pipeline.
Standards-aware engineering

Support the evidence work without claiming certification.

TraceBoard Suite provides standards-aware analysis, templates, assessments, evidence and provenance for engineering review and audit preparation. It does not certify a product or determine that a customer is compliant.

Named standards

  • IEC 62304
  • ISO 14971 risk and hazard context
  • ISO 26262
  • DO-178C

Implemented boundary

  • Standards-aware templates and assessments
  • Clause-oriented evidence and provenance where implemented
  • Controlled documentation and baseline comparison
  • Qualified human review remains part of the process
The suite

Three products. One connected engineering model.

Use them together, or start with just one. Shared project and item references connect the suite while each product handles its own operational work. The implementation supports baselines, evidence, tests, documents and traceability across the suite.

TraceBoard Requirements & traceability
COMMITTED Bidirectional linking, baselines & snapshot comparison
COMMITTED Engineering State from defined engineering dimensions
PROPOSES AI import from messy PDF, Word & Excel sources
PROPOSES Suspect-link detection after upstream edits
COMMITTED Formal review & sign-off workflow
COMMITTED Reporting, traceability matrix, coverage and snapshot PDF operations
COMMITTED Git integration — webhooks, manual sync, branch filtering, private repos
COMMITTED API-supported test-run and commit-association workflows
TraceDocs Document generation
COMMITTED Templated Word output with typed, deterministic data fields
COMMITTED Evidence attachment & document versioning
PROPOSES AI-drafted narrative sections, clearly marked in every template
PROPOSES Audit Narrative reports — verified facts separated from AI analysis
TraceTest Verification & test
COMMITTED Execution tracking, pass/fail history & coverage %
COMMITTED Structural coverage recording (statement / decision / MC/DC)
PROPOSES AI-assisted test case drafting from requirement text
COMMITTED Native linking to requirements, both directions
Total cost of ownership

The sticker price was never the real cost

~10×
LOWER TOTAL COST vs. TYPICAL ENTERPRISE RM TOOLS

Enterprise requirements tools rarely lose on the license line. They lose on implementation consultants, ongoing admin overhead, and the months it takes before a team traces its first requirement.

TraceBoard ships with standards-aware engineering structure and evidence workflows; the speed-to-value trade-off is measured in less configuration, not a promise of compliance.

What you're replacing

Built to fit where legacy tools don't

Typical enterprise ALM

  • Per-seat licensing that scales unpredictably
  • Weeks to months of consultant-led configuration
  • AI, where present, bolted on with no clear line between fact and suggestion
  • Cloud-only or costly on-prem add-ons for air-gapped environments

TraceBoard Suite

  • Flat annual pricing for 5 to 100 users
  • Standards-aware templates, assessments and evidence support
  • AI proposes only — every suggestion validated and human-approved before it commits
  • Self-hosted, with local operation where configured
Pricing

Flat bundles, no per-seat surprises

Flat annual pricing from €999 to €11,990, covering teams of 5 to 100 users. No per-seat licensing, no usage-based AI billing.
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Model compatibility & data freedom

Your models. Your data.

Configure AI through a supported local or OpenAI-compatible endpoint, and use the data operations implemented for each workflow.

Configured model endpoints

AI can use a local Ollama or OpenAI-compatible HTTP endpoint. The behavior and quality of generated output depend on the selected model and its configuration.

  • Local: use Ollama or another configured OpenAI-compatible local endpoint where the deployment supports it.
  • Cloud: use a configured compatible endpoint when network access and provider configuration are available.

Smaller models (≤7B) may produce less detailed narratives, while larger models provide deeper insights — giving you full control over the trade-off between cost, latency, and quality.

Specific data operations

Your project remains on customer-controlled infrastructure, with supported endpoint-specific data operations rather than a promise of arbitrary interchange.

  • Supported formats: JSON, CSV, XLSX, PDF, DOCX and Markdown appear in specific implemented operations.
  • Defined scope: format direction and fidelity depend on the endpoint; ReqIF and arbitrary full-fidelity interchange are not supported.
  • Customer control: self-host the product and use the supported exports and APIs for your operational needs.

See it on your own requirements.

The fastest way to evaluate TraceBoard is against a real project — a messy spreadsheet, a spreadsheet or document you're tired of formatting by hand. Exact import and export support depends on the implemented operation; ReqIF is not supported.