Built by engineers
going through PCI.
Ankos was built in the middle of a real PCI assessment — not by a compliance firm guessing what teams need.
The story
Most PCI tooling is built by compliance firms. They administer the process, but they don't feel the pain. They've never been the engineer scrambling to find a CloudTrail screenshot at 11pm the night before evidence is due. They've never watched a team spend three weeks collecting evidence that should take three hours.
Ankos was built by a DevOps engineer during his company's PCI assessment. The spreadsheets tracking what evidence was needed. The Google Drive folders organized by whoever happened to create them first. The Jira tickets assigned to people who didn't know what the QSA actually wanted. The screenshots pasted into Google Docs because nobody had a better idea.
Every friction point became a feature. Every "why doesn't this exist?" became a backlog item. Every late night re-collecting evidence that should have been automated became motivation.
The result is a compliance ledger built for teams going through PCI — not a generic GRC platform that treats PCI as one checkbox among twenty frameworks. Ankos does one thing and does it well: it helps engineering teams collect, organize, and present PCI evidence the way QSAs expect to receive it.
Teams Ankos serves
First-time PCI teams
Going through your first PCI assessment and feeling overwhelmed? We were too. Ankos gives you step-by-step guidance for every requirement, tells you exactly what evidence the QSA expects, and auto-collects what it can from your AWS infrastructure.
AWS-native teams
Your infrastructure lives in APIs. Your evidence should too. The Ankos CLI scans IAM, S3, KMS, VPC, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, and more — turning API responses into human-readable evidence that flows directly into your compliance ledger.
QSA firms & clients
Evidence organized the way QSAs expect it. Ankos structures everything by the 31 standard DRL categories with QSA-standard file naming. Your assessor opens the package and finds everything exactly where it should be.
Want to talk?
Questions about Ankos, your PCI assessment, or partnerships — we'd love to hear from you.