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How Kosli Works: AI SDLC Governance from Commit to Production

The AI SDLC writes, tests, and ships code faster than manual governance can manage. Kosli controls every event from commit to production in an immutable, append-only audit trail, proving compliance at speed. Governance stops being a bottleneck and becomes a product of delivery.

Kosli Use Cases

Automating Governance Across the SDLC.

Software Supply Chain Security

Before: No method for tracking the provenance of legitimate software artifacts, and their third party supply chain.

After: Every artifact reaching production has a verified chain of custody back to source. Security questions such as live SBOMs, scan status, and age are queryable in real time.

Kosli software supply chain security diagram

Automated Change Management

Before: Every release requires manual approval regardless of risk. CABs sign off on changes they cannot meaningfully assess at volume; change records are filled in by hand.

After: Evidence-based automated change management replaces manual approvals for low-risk changes. Change records auto-populate from provable evidence.

Kosli automated change management diagram

Workload Compliance Monitoring

Before: No forensics of what is running. Production cannot be verified against what was approved without manual audits, exposing risk to drift, hotfixes, and workloads outside the standard pipeline.

After: Continuous reconciliation between the approved state and what is actually running. Unauthorized changes, configuration drift, and unknown workloads are detected when they happen, not at the next audit.

Kosli workload compliance monitoring diagram

Infrastructure Change and Drift Detection

Before: Infrastructure is meant to change only through an approved process, but people work around it - skipping approvals, or making changes by hand. What's actually running drifts from what was intended, and no one notices until something breaks or an audit exposes it.

After: Every IaC change is recorded as it happens and identified by how it was made - through the approved process or around it. Non-compliant clickops and drift are flagged immediately.

Kosli infrastructure change and drift detection diagram
Architecture

Automate Compliance Controls Across the Software Delivery Journey

Build. Release. Run.

Every piece of software passes through these three stages — but in regulated industries, each stage comes with strict governance requirements. Kosli records the truth of what really happened in your pipelines and environments, so you always know:

Build – Who committed what, which binaries were produced, and what checks were run.

Release – Which versions were approved, how they were tested, and when they were shipped.

Run – What’s actually running in production, verified against the evidence.

With Kosli, you don’t just move fast — you move with confidence. Every step is tracked, every requirement is proven, and every audit is a green tick instead of a scramble.

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Kosli controls engineering map

Artifact Provenance

Kosli uses cryptographic fingerprinting to record a tamper-proof identity for every artifact in your controlled build process
View Binary Provenance docs
Diagram explaining binary provenance

SDLC Controls

Kosli logs the evidence from each step in your software development life cycle, building an audit trail of risk controls for each change
SDLC controls in CI pipeline

Release Approvals

With Kosli you can generate release approvals via version control, CI, or even Slack events. Compliant deploys without the ceremony
View Release Approvals blog post
Diagram comparing human in the loop vs Kosli approvals without the paperwork

Deployment Controls

Automatically ensure only compliant software is deployed by verifying binary provenance, risk controls, and approvals as part of your deployment process
Diagram showing securing production and deployment controls

Runtime Forensics

Record every change to every environment in a fully auditable environment log
Kosli deployment logger diagram

Environment Policies

Real-time compliance evaluations on every change to production ensures you can prove that nothing has circumvented your controls
View Environment Reports docs
Kosli Environment reporter diagram
Kosli Concepts

Recording Your SDLC for Audit, Compliance and Security.

Trail: a chain of related attestations

Examples:

Diagram of kosli trails

Flow: a collection of trails for a given process

Examples:

  • CI/CD runs for Payments api service
  • Terraform workflows for production account example
  • JIRA ticket development work
  • Feature flag changes
Diagram of kosli flows

Snapshot: a record of the artifacts in a runtime system at a point in time

Examples:

  • The running artifacts in a AWS ECS namespace example
  • The running pods in a k8s cluster
  • The terraform state files in an S3 bucket
  • The functions in AWS Lambda
  • The files in a directory
Diagram of kosli snapshots

Environment: a history of snapshots for a runtime system over time

Examples:

  • How this k8s cluster changes example
  • How this S3 bucket changes
  • How this directory changes
  • How this lambda changes
Diagram of kosli environment

Action: trigger external systems based on changes

Examples:

  • Send a slack message when a deployment is detected
  • Start a CI process when an environment changes
  • Open an incident ticket when an unexpected change occurs
Diagram of kosli actions
Customers

Trusted in the most demanding environments.

Automating SDLC governance in the world's largest banks and regulated industries

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Kosli addresses the specific needs of software development teams that operate in highly regulated industries. We are delighted to partner and collaborate with Kosli to drive our vision of a highly efficient, transparent, and secure software development lifecycle.
Martin Reeves, Engineering Platforms and Practice Lead Deutsche Bank
Kosli has been a great partner — not just for the product, but for the end-to-end thinking around building well-governed processes.
Sean Langton, CIO Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank
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