About Bowtie Risk Engine
Bowtie Risk Engine exists to make bowtie risk analysis accessible to every engineer — not just enterprise safety departments with six-figure software budgets.
The problem
Bowtie analysis is one of the clearest ways to communicate risk. A single diagram captures the hazard, the things that could cause it, the things that could follow, and the controls in between. Auditors read it. Operators read it. Boards read it.
And yet the software has historically been the preserve of large industrial safety teams. Individual engineers, students, consultants, and small teams either reach for a generic diagramming tool that does not understand barriers or escalation factors, or they go without.
What we're building
A fast, modern bowtie editor that runs in any browser and on any desktop, free, with no sign-up, and with the structure of bowtie analysis built in — top events, threats, preventive and recovery barriers, escalation factors, and consequences as first-class objects.
The goal is that anyone who has been taught bowtie analysis can sit down and use the tool without a course or a procurement cycle.
Who it's for
- Engineering teams in process safety, aviation SMS, cybersecurity, medical devices, and reliability.
- Consultants and contractors who need a clean way to deliver risk pictures to clients.
- Students learning bowtie analysis and instructors teaching it.
- Anyone who has ever drawn a bowtie on a whiteboard and wished they had something better than PowerPoint to recreate it.
Where this is going
The current tool is the foundation. The roadmap is shaped by what users ask for: shared libraries of barrier types, version history, team workspaces, integrations with LOPA and FMEA tooling, templates by industry. None of these will compromise the free, no-sign-up experience that exists today.
Have a question, a request, or a war story from a workshop? Get in touch.