Your employees are already building. Give them a road to production.
Prototypes built with AI coding tools are showing up in every department. Most die in a drawer or, worse, run ungoverned. Citizen SDLC gives non-technical employees a secure, governed process for turning AI prototypes into approved production applications: review gates, security checks, and real deployment paths. The software your people build becomes an owned company asset instead of a liability.
The prototypes exist. The process does not.
Someone in finance built a reconciliation tool over a weekend. Someone in HR has a screening assistant running on their laptop. AI coding tools made building easy, and now every department has software nobody reviewed, touching data nobody cleared, maintained by whoever built it. The alternative is worse: ban it all, and the most motivated builders in your company go back to waiting on IT.
What is missing is a road. A process where a useful prototype gets reviewed, checked against security and data rules, and promoted to production, or retired on purpose. That is a lifecycle problem, solvable with the same discipline engineering has used for decades, sized for people who do not write code.
A governed pipeline from prototype to production.
We design the process with your IT, security, and legal teams, stand it up, and train the builders. What you keep is a running system, not a policy PDF.
The citizen development lifecycle
An intake-to-production pipeline for employee-built AI apps. Every app gets registered, reviewed, and checked against your security and data rules. The good ones get a promotion path with real deployment and named ownership. The rest get retired deliberately instead of running in the shadows.
Scope your rollout →- Intake and review process for employee-built apps
- Security and data checks per app
- Promotion path from prototype to production
- Governance guardrails legal signs off on
- Training for citizen builders
- App portfolio dashboard
Guardrails legal signs off on
The review gates and data rules are written with your legal, security, and compliance teams rather than handed to them afterward. That is the difference between a process people route around and one they actually use.
Involve your legal team early →Trained builders, visible portfolio
Citizen builders learn what production-grade means: data handling, review, and handoff. The portfolio dashboard shows every app, its status, its owner, and its data access, so what your employees built becomes a report rather than a mystery.
Ask about builder training →If this sounds familiar, this is for you.
Citizen SDLC is for organizations where the building has already started, with or without permission.
Where this fits in the stack.
Citizen SDLC pairs with training that creates the builders and infrastructure that governs their access.
Shadow AI is already here. Give it a road instead of a wall.
A scoping call takes 30 minutes. You leave with a read on your current exposure and what a governed pipeline would look like.
