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Your employees are already building. Give them a road to production.

Vibe-coded prototypes 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, deployment paths.

4–8 wk
Process designed and running
Every app
Reviewed before production
One path
From prototype to approved
The problem

The prototypes exist. The process doesn't.

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's 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's a lifecycle problem, and it's solvable with the same discipline engineering has used for decades, sized for people who don't write code.

What you get

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.

01

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 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
02

Guardrails legal signs off on

The review gates and data rules are written with your legal, security, and compliance teams — not handed to them afterward. That's the difference between a process people route around and one they actually use.

Involve your legal team early →
03

Trained builders, visible portfolio

Citizen builders learn what production-grade means: data handling, review, handoff. The portfolio dashboard shows every app, its status, its owner, and its data access — so "what did our employees build" becomes a report, not a mystery.

Ask about builder training →
Who it's for

If this sounds familiar, this is for you.

Citizen SDLC is for organizations where the building has already started — with or without permission.

CIOs facing shadow AI
You know unsanctioned apps exist; you don't know how many, what data they touch, or which ones the business now depends on.
Enablement leads after a training program
The training worked — people are building. Now they're asking how to ship what they built, and there's no answer to give them.
Enterprises coming out of our AI cohorts
Our AI Transformation programs end with dozens of working prototypes. Citizen SDLC is the natural next step: the road that takes the best ones to production.
Security teams who keep finding surprises
Every audit turns up another employee-built tool. An intake process turns those discoveries into registrations — before the audit, not during it.
Related services

Where this fits in the stack.

Citizen SDLC pairs with training that creates the builders and infrastructure that governs their access.

AI Transformation
Training programs that take employees from casual AI use to building working tools.
Explore →
MCP Gateway
One controlled gateway between your people, your agents, and your data.
Explore →
Architecture & SDLC Assessment
Is your codebase — and your engineering team — ready for the agent era?
Explore →

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.