Barrier-based risk management
SolidBowtie turns the bowtie method into a living risk picture: barriers with owners and health, assurance tasks that degrade them when overdue, incidents that feed back into the model — and an AI that drafts your first bowtie while you pour the coffee.
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From the team behind SolidQMS — the all-in-one QHSE & ISO-compliance platform01
Tell the AI about your operation in plain language — it drafts a complete bowtie diagram in ~20 seconds: specific threats, typed barriers with role owners and effectiveness, escalation factors, even scheduled assurance activities. Every draft follows the bowtie method's quality rules, lands as a fully editable model, and is clearly marked as a draft — you review, the AI does the legwork.
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Every barrier carries an accountable owner, a type, criticality and effectiveness. Keep-alive activities — inspections, proof tests, training — have due dates, and when one slips, the barrier's health degrades automatically. Your diagram stops being a poster and starts telling the truth.
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Log incidents and near-misses against a bowtie and record how each barrier performed — worked, degraded, failed or missing. SolidBowtie rolls that history up into weakest-barrier analytics, so the controls that keep failing in the real world can't hide in a pretty diagram.
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Bowties are made in rooms full of people. The canvas is realtime: presence avatars, live moves and edits, inline rename, escalation factors hanging off their barriers, path highlighting that tells one scenario's story — and a PNG export for the safety case when you're done.
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One dashboard rolls your whole register up: safety-critical barriers at risk, overdue assurance, recent incidents, coverage gaps and the weakest barriers across every bowtie — grouped into functional areas with tags like Process Safety or ISO 27001.
Twenty pre-built bowties — ransomware, payment fraud, product recall, break-ins — copy one and make it yours.
Owner, admin, member, viewer. Invite by email; viewers get a read-only canvas.
Degradation factors live on the diagram, dashed and amber, where they belong.
Describe an operation; get a reviewable, method-correct draft bowtie in seconds.
Group the register into functional areas your way; filter the library in one click.
A content-sized, 2× render of the diagram for board packs and safety cases.
Pricing
Viewers are always free — risk pictures are for sharing.
For your first living bowtie.
For risk teams that work together.
For regulated, audited environments.
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