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Product portfolio visibility at scale
Fast-growing technology companies accumulate product portfolios that quickly outpace their governance infrastructure. Products launch without documented ownership, accumulate undocumented changes, and persist long after their strategic rationale has expired — consuming engineering, compliance, and operational resources with no corresponding value.
Skyjed provides a structured product registry — every product, feature set, and version in a single governed inventory with documented ownership, status, and lifecycle stage always current.
02
EU AI Act compliance documentation
The EU AI Act requires technology companies deploying AI systems to classify them by risk level, maintain technical documentation, implement human oversight mechanisms, and evidence ongoing monitoring. Most product teams have no structured process for AI system classification or the documentation obligations that follow — creating compliance exposure as enforcement phases in.
AI system classification and documentation structured within the product lifecycle — risk categories assigned, technical documentation maintained, human oversight obligations tracked, and EU AI Act compliance evidenced continuously.
03
DORA obligations for fintech and regtech
Technology companies that are ICT service providers to financial sector clients face DORA obligations directly — including documented ICT risk management, incident classification and reporting, and third-party risk governance. These product-level obligations require structured governance infrastructure that most technology companies currently lack.
DORA obligations structured within product records — ICT risk assessments maintained, incident classification workflows embedded, and third-party risk governance evidence kept current for every financial sector client.
04
Enterprise procurement governance requirements
Enterprise customers — particularly in regulated industries — increasingly require technology vendors to evidence product governance as a condition of procurement. Security standards, data processing obligations, product roadmap governance, and change management processes must all be documented and demonstrable. Most technology companies cannot produce this evidence on demand.
Product governance documentation maintained continuously — security posture, data processing obligations, change records, and roadmap governance all structured and immediately accessible for enterprise procurement due diligence.
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Product deprecation and decommission debt
Technology companies are particularly prone to accumulating what Skyjed calls Decommission Debt — products, features, and versions that continue to consume engineering capacity, create security obligations, and generate compliance risk long after they have been superseded. Without structured lifecycle governance, decommission decisions are deferred indefinitely.
Decommission obligations structured as a distinct lifecycle stage — end-of-life timelines documented, customer communications governed, security obligations tracked, and decommission completions evidenced.
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Privacy by design across the product lifecycle
GDPR and equivalent privacy frameworks require privacy to be embedded in product design and maintained throughout the product lifecycle — not assessed at launch and forgotten. Most product teams conduct DPIAs at product inception but have no structured process for maintaining privacy governance as products evolve, are updated, or integrated with new data sources.
Privacy obligations structured within the product lifecycle — DPIAs maintained as living documents, privacy by design decisions evidenced at each change, and data processing governance always current for enterprise and regulatory review.