Roadmap

ObsidianWall platform evolution — current capabilities, upcoming releases, and long-term direction.

Shipped

v0.5.0 — June 18, 2026

  • verdict evaluate — Pre-deployment governance for Terraform and CloudFormation (auto-detect)
  • verdict coverage — HIPAA, SOC 2, CIS v8, NIST AI RMF compliance mapping
  • verdict simulate — Policy laboratory, Technical Risk + Governance Risk display
  • verdict sentinel — Post-deployment reality verification
  • verdict validate — Policy schema validation
  • verdict test — Policy regression testing
  • verdict audit — Governance history and insights
  • GitHub Action — SHA-pinned, v0.5.0
  • 737 tests, 93.26% coverage

Next

v0.5.1 — July 2026

  • stdout/stderr separation fix
  • Policy registry — HIPAA, SOC 2, CIS v8, NIST AI RMF templates
  • Coverage recommendations — suggest conditions for missing controls
  • Integration test cleanup

v0.6.0 — Q3 2026

  • Sentinel cloud API integration — Azure Resource Manager, AWS CloudTrail
  • Continuous observation mode
  • Governance Economics in coverage output — industry liability ranges per missing control
  • Risk Acceptance Ledger architecture — cryptographically signed, tamper-evident

Platform

Compass Alpha — Q4 2026

  • Governance Intelligence — policy effectiveness, override patterns, gap identification
  • Governance Economics — organization-specific estimates based on actual decision history
  • Design partner program and first revenue

Forge Alpha — 2027

  • Intent Studio — leadership articulates governance intent in plain language
  • Translation Studio — AI drafts policy conditions, human reviews and approves
  • Policy Studio — compiled into ObsidianWall DSL, versioned, signed, attributed

The Vision

Forge       Leadership intent → executable policy
Verdict     Pre-deployment governance decisions
Sentinel    Post-deployment reality observation
Risk Ledger Immutable accountability record
Compass     Governance intelligence + economics

Intent connects to outcome. Evidence proves the connection. The system learns and refines.

That is Programmable Assurance fully realized.

Last updated: June 2026. v0.5.0 is the current stable release.