Overview

Platform Architecture Authority (PAA) is an always-on architecture-intelligence platform. It continuously assesses your Azure, Microsoft 365, and Zero Trust posture against the Microsoft Well-Architected Framework, security baselines, and the compliance frameworks you report against — and turns what it finds into prioritised, evidence-backed action.

It is not a point-in-time assessment that ends with a report. PAA runs continuously, tracks how your posture changes over time, and keeps the evidence an auditor or a board will ask for.

What PAA does

• Continuous security & architecture assessment — 800+ deterministic checks across Azure, Microsoft 365, and Zero Trust, with 31 specialised AI agents that reason over the results.
• Multi-framework compliance — coverage across ISO 27001, NIS2, GDPR, SOC 2, the Well-Architected and Cloud Adoption Frameworks, the Dutch Data Pro Code, and BIO. A single piece of evidence is reused across every framework control it satisfies.
• Regulatory attestation — self-attest against NIS2 and the Dutch Cbw control set, with the controls PAA can prove auto-evidenced from your scans, an auditor-facing evidence trail, and a signed, framework-aware PDF.
• Risk you can act on — AI-synthesised, business-impact risk statements; a phased remediation roadmap; and automatic resolution of findings once they are fixed.
• Governed exceptions — accept or waive a risk through an approver-gated, time-limited Control Exception Register with a full audit trail.
• External exposure — optional attack-surface intelligence and attack-path analysis show your environment the way an attacker sees it.
• Deliverables — branded PDF and PowerPoint reports, AI executive summaries, and infrastructure-as-code and ADR generation, in English, German, French, or Dutch.
• In the tools you already use — query your findings, posture, and compliance from any MCP-compatible AI client (such as Claude Code), signing in with your Microsoft account — no token to paste. See Using PAA from your AI tools (MCP).

PAA connects with read-only, least-privilege access authenticated by a self-rotating certificate — no long-lived secrets — and never changes your environment unless you explicitly opt in to a write integration.

Who PAA is for

Enterprise Azure and Microsoft 365 teams — security leads, platform architects, and cloud engineers — who need continuous assurance, defensible evidence, and a clear view of what to fix next, without standing up an internal architecture practice from scratch.

Plans

• Pro — the full platform, all agents, unlimited users (€799/month; roughly 20% off paid annually).
• Day Pass — a single assessment or evaluation (€99).
• MSP — manage client tenants from one place (€200/month; child tenants at Pro −20%).
• Fractional Architect — everything in Pro plus dedicated time each month with a senior cloud architect, for teams that want a human in the loop alongside the platform.

See Getting Started to connect your first tenant.