Our mission
To make critical risk legible — to give the engineers who own a hazard a single, honest model where the diagram everyone can read and the evidence an auditor demands are the same living artefact, kept in lock-step revision after revision.
A bowtie communicates risk at a glance. The register behind it — every control with its criticality and the conditions that can defeat it — is what survives scrutiny. Our mission is to make sure those two things never drift apart, so the picture you present and the proof you defend are always the same.
Proudly Australian
Bowtie Risk Engine is designed and built in Australia by a small team here. We price in Australian dollars, we support customers in Australian business hours, and the product is shaped by the high-consequence industries this country runs on — resources and process plant, aviation, healthcare, and critical infrastructure.
Being built in Australia also means we build for the world. The method follows international practice — IEC 31010, CCPS, ICAO Doc 9859, ISO 14971 — so the outputs speak the language reviewers expect wherever your work is read.
The problem we set out to solve
Bowtie analysis is one of the clearest ways to communicate risk: a single diagram captures the hazard, what could cause it, what could follow, and the controls in between. Auditors read it. Operators read it. Boards read it. But too often the diagram lives in one tool and the control register lives in a spreadsheet in another — re-keyed, and out of date by the next revision.
What we're building
A focused application where the diagram and the register are one model. Draw the bowtie; the register follows. Change a control; the export updates. Risks, threats, preventive and recovery controls, degradation factors, and consequences are first-class — modelled the way practitioners are taught, exported the way reviewers expect.
Who it's for
- Engineering teams in process safety, aviation SMS, cybersecurity, medical devices, and reliability.
- Consultants and contractors who deliver risk pictures and registers to clients.
- Organisations that need the diagram and its evidence to stay in step, revision after revision.
How we're licensed
Bowtie Risk Engine is commercial, licensed software on an annual subscription, for one practitioner or a whole site. That model lets us support the tool properly and keep investing in it. See pricing for the details, or request a demo to see it on your own scenarios first.
Where this is going
The roadmap is shaped by what licensed users ask for: deeper register analytics, shared libraries of control types, team workspaces, and integrations with adjacent risk tooling. If there's something your workflow needs, tell us — that's how this gets better.
