Gap analysis before anyone writes code
Compare legacy reality to the target — missing rules, new capabilities, and conflicts as a list, not an incident.
Solutions · Enterprise software
You can’t ship what you can’t specify.
Enterprise teams aren’t short on tickets — they’re short on a living spec. Catalio extracts requirements from the systems you already run, keeps them verified, and traces every change through the SDLC.
Trusted by engineering orgs modernizing legacy + SaaS platforms
Distributed teams · one living spec
Your roadmap is clear. Your ground truth isn’t.
Distributed teams, dozens of tools, and hundreds of requirements create the same failure mode: decisions live in tickets, Confluence, and people’s heads — until a release proves otherwise.
One map
Living spec across product lines
SDLC
Traceability from requirement → ship
Teams
Shared truth for distributed orgs
See the living enterprise spec
Applications, features, requirements, and components in one place — the same map your team verifies and your MCP tools can read.
Drive it from your editor
Scan, review candidates, and confirm requirements from Claude Code or Cursor — same living spec as the UI.
Turn complexity into a living enterprise spec
Catalio connects to your platforms, structures what it finds into requirements and policies, and keeps the map current as the system changes.
1
Extract
Pull rules from code, config, and metadata — COBOL to Salesforce — instead of another workshop round.
2
Verify
Humans confirm what AI proposed. Every requirement carries owner, evidence, and status.
3
Evolve
Initiatives, proposals, and delivery stay linked to the same spec your MCP tools can read.
Built for the entire software lifecycle
From modernization programs to day-two SaaS change — one verified system of record.
Legacy modernization
Extract what the system actually does before you rewrite it. Gap analysis against the target, not tribal memory.
Enterprise delivery
Keep product, architecture, and delivery aligned to the same requirements as initiatives move through the SDLC.
The new model for enterprise requirements
How enterprise requirements work today versus how they work on a living spec.
| Category | Traditional | Catalio |
|---|---|---|
| Source of truth | Wikis, tickets, tribal knowledge | Living spec extracted from systems |
| Traceability | Spreadsheet matrices that rot | Requirement → component → change, kept current |
| Cross-team scale | Each program invents its own process | One org-scoped model across product lines |
| Tooling | Browser-only, disconnected from IDEs | MCP in Claude Code / Cursor + product UI |
| After the initiative | Docs go stale on day one | Spec compounds with every sync |
Advisory board
Guided by enterprise veterans who ran the systems we document.
Wayne Shurts
3× public-company CIO
Ex-CTO Sysco · Global CIO Cadbury · CIO Hall of Fame
Full bio
Wayne has 40 years helping food, retail, distribution, and consumer products companies transform their businesses worldwide. He most recently served as Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Sysco Corporation, the global leader in foodservice distribution, and was previously Chief Information Officer at SUPERVALU and Global CIO at Cadbury PLC, where he was based in the UK and led ERP and customer-facing programs across six continents. Wayne is currently an Independent Director at Armstrong World Industries (NYSE: AWI). He is a Boardroom Certified Qualified Technology Expert (QTE) and a 2017 inductee into the CIO Magazine Hall of Fame.
Jonathan C. Williams
Founder · CTO · advisor
Founded ForceIQ, acquired by Huron · West Monroe
Full bio
Jonathan has 25+ years building and scaling technology organizations across healthcare, financial services, energy, and SaaS. He founded and grew ForceIQ through its acquisition by Huron Consulting Group, and has served as CTO and strategic advisor to PE-backed and enterprise product companies at critical growth inflection points. His background spans platform modernization, engineering transformation, and responsible AI adoption, with a focus on how large organizations navigate complex technical change.
Wesley Story
Former CIO, Genesys
Ex-AWS, Sysco, Walmart · 2023 Orbie Global CIO of the Year
Full bio
Wesley has 30+ years building and scaling global technology organizations and leading enterprise-scale digital transformation. He most recently served as CIO at Genesys and enterprise strategist at Amazon Web Services, with prior senior technology leadership roles at Sysco and Walmart, spanning retail, wholesale distribution, hyperscaler cloud, SaaS, and telecom. His work spans cloud and platform modernization, responsible AI/ML and data adoption, and post-M&A integration across global, matrixed environments. Wesley was named a 2023 Orbie Global CIO of the Year.
One org. One living map of how software works.
Stop rediscovering requirements every initiative. Catalio makes the ground truth compound.
FAQ
Questions engineering leaders ask
We already have Jira + Confluence.
Keep them. Catalio is the verified system of record for what the software actually does — linked out to tickets, not another wiki nobody updates.
Is this only for legacy modernization?
Strongest on legacy and SaaS config, but the same living-spec model works for greenfield once you want requirements that stay true.
How does this help distributed teams?
Shared personas, requirements, and policies replace “ask Sarah.” Onboarding and cross-team handoffs start from the same verified map.
Ready to give your enterprise org a living spec?
30-minute session on one of your systems: connect, extract, read the first requirements together.
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