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Ingest the system
System design, sensor suite, robot software stack, simulation scenes, and the standards that apply to your market.
Design docs · ROS 2 · SysML · CAD · sim scenes
The validation factory for physical AI
Saphira generates the hazard analysis from your system, derives the safety requirements, runs the scenarios in simulation, and produces the certification evidence—as one closed loop that re-runs on every design change and every model checkpoint.
1X today. 100 million humanoids tomorrow. Read the 1X humanoid case study
Validating humanoids, autonomous vehicles, and industrial robots at:
The factory line
Six stations between a system and a validated system
Safety validation is normally a sequence of documents produced by hand, months apart, by people reading each other's spreadsheets. Saphira runs it as a production line, where each station's output is the next station's input and the last station feeds the second.
02
Generate the hazard analysis
HARA, TARA, and FMEA derived from the actual system under test—including video off physical robots—instead of a template someone adapted from a previous program.
HARA · TARA · FMEA · risk matrix
03
Derive safety requirements
Every hazard produces requirements with acceptance criteria, allocated to the architecture and traceable in both directions.
Safety goals · requirements · allocation
04
Run the scenarios
Scenarios are generated per requirement and orchestrated in simulation, so coverage is measured against the hazards you have to defend—not against a test list someone wrote by hand.
Simulation orchestration · scenario coverage
05
Produce the evidence
Results assemble into a traceable safety case with the verification record attached to every requirement, ready for TÜV, UL, or CE review.
Safety case · V&V record · audit trail
06
Deploy and monitor
Field incidents and deployment data return to the hazard analysis, so the next release is validated against what actually happened in the world.
Incident analysis · fleet feedback
The line runs backwards too
A design change, a new model checkpoint, or an incident in the field re-enters at station 02 and the whole line re-runs. Validation stops being a gate you pass once and becomes a property the system holds continuously.
Closed loop, not one-shot
Why the factory matters more than any one artifact
Integration stops being the bottleneck
Adopting a new compute platform, a new sensor, or a new control stack is expensive because everything downstream has to be re-validated by hand. When validation is automated, the cost of changing your architecture collapses—which matters in a field where nobody yet knows which architecture wins.
Coverage is measured against hazards, not test lists
A passing test suite tells you the tests passed. Saphira ties every scenario back to the hazard it exists to defend, so coverage is a statement about the risks in your system rather than about the work your team happened to do.
The safety case is a build artifact
Because evidence accumulates as the line runs, the certification package is never a six-month reconstruction of decisions made a year earlier. It is current as of the last run, and it says which requirement each result belongs to.
Inside the factory
The workflows the line is built from
Each one runs on its own if that is where you need to start, and they compose into the full loop.
Standards Tracking/Gap Analysis
Track standards coverage continuously and identify certification gaps before final review.
FuSa
Generate and maintain functional safety analyses with traceable links across requirements and evidence.
Security
Build cybersecurity workflows that connect threat analysis, controls, and verification artifacts.
Risk Assessment
Create structured risk assessments and keep them synchronized with product and design changes.
V&V
Manage verification and validation activities with evidence-ready outputs for audits and certification.
Incident Analysis
Analyze incidents quickly and tie findings back to requirements, mitigations, and future prevention steps.
Saphira AI · Competitive Positioning
Incumbent safety tools were built for frozen designs—not machines that ship weekly.
| Capability | Saphira | Incumbents(Medini / Jama) | Systems-Engineering Tools(SysML / MBSE) | Runtime Safety(E-stops / safety controllers) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live assurance graph | — | |||
| AI-generated HARA / FMEA / TARA | Manual | Manual | — | |
| Change impact analysis | Partial | Partial | — | |
| CI/CD integration | — | |||
| Regulator-ready evidence | Manual | — | ||
| Runtime enforcement hardware | Integrates | |||
| Time to first artifact | Days | Months | Months | — |
Runtime safety systems enforce limits in the field. Saphira is the intelligence and evidence layer that decides what's safe and proves it—complementary layers, not competing ones.
Who runs on Saphira
Built for systems that move around people
Autonomous vehicles
Scenario coverage has to be argued, not asserted. Saphira ties each simulated scenario to the hazard and SOTIF concern it addresses, so the residual risk argument holds up under ISO 26262 and ISO 21448 review.
Humanoids
Learned policies change faster than any manual safety process can re-certify them. Re-running the line on every checkpoint is the only way to keep a safety case current against a model that keeps moving.
Industrial and mobile robotics
Every new cell, payload, or site is a new risk assessment. Saphira reuses the hazard model across deployments so each installation is a re-run rather than a restart.
Testimonials
Why people love using Saphira to get more done.
"I am very excited to continue this journey together with your team! We at RobCo highly value our partnership and the opportunities it presents for future certification challenges. Looking forward to our continued success."
Michael
Electronics & Safety Lead at RobCo
"Saphira is an intriguing tool that should streamline data-focused gap analyses and help enable quick wins when optimizing systems engineering development."
Max
Senior Consultant at Invensity
"Akshay and the Saphira team are building a critical and useful tool to enhance the quality, consistency, and ease of creating safety traceability. Their continued work with safety experts across many fields and dedication to designing out the monotonous aspects of regulatory documentation has the ability to responsibly bring safety up to the fast pace of the startup world"
Matthew Molina
Mechanical Engineering Manager
"Safety has always been core to our work. Saphira helped us turn that commitment into a shared language across engineering, product, and leadership."
Toni Garcia
VP of Hardware, 1X Technologies
Certification
Compliance is an output of the factory
Certification is what the line produces on the way to a validated system, not the reason the line exists. The analyses, traceability, and test evidence assemble into the package each regime asks for.
Robotics
- ISO 10218-1/-2
- ISO 13482
- ISO 3691-4
- ANSI/RIA R15.08
- ISO 12100
Automotive and autonomy
- ISO 26262
- ISO 21448 (SOTIF)
- ISO 21434
- UN R155
Machinery and electrical
- IEC 61508
- ISO 13849
- IEC 62061
- UL 508A
- IEC 61010
Saphira is a member of the NVIDIA Halos AI Systems Inspection Lab, and our safety engineers review generated analyses before they reach an assessor. Read the security and compliance overview for how the platform is deployed and reviewed.
Engineering tools
Your existing tools feed the line
Requirements, models, and test data stay where your teams already keep them. Saphira reads from them so the factory operates on the current state of the program.
Blog
Latest Insights
Stay updated with our latest articles on safety compliance and industry best practices. Read more
The Risk Engineering Layer for Autonomous Machines
1X today, 100 million humanoids tomorrow: why machines that never stop changing need living risk models and evidence that keeps up
July 8, 2026
1X Humanoid Case Study
How Saphira helped 1X Technologies de-risk their next-gen humanoid with investor- and partner-ready safety artifacts
April 15, 2025
Saphira AI Accelerates ISO 10218-1 Compliance for RobCo
How RobCo leveraged Saphira AI's intelligent compliance tools to achieve ISO 10218-1 certification in record time.
September 4, 2024
Put your system on the line
Bring a robot, a vehicle, or a model checkpoint. We'll run it through the factory—hazard analysis, requirements, simulated scenarios, evidence—and show you what comes out the other end.
Our Team
Led by Hardware & AI Experts
Saphira's team brings deep expertise in AI solutions for hardware compliance from Amazon, Tesla, and Apple
