Built by engineers
going through PCI.
Ankos was built in the middle of a real PCI assessment by someone who lived through every friction point firsthand.
The story
If you've gone through PCI before, the scene is familiar. The spreadsheet of evidence the QSA needs. The Google Drive folder organized by whoever happened to create things first. The Jira tickets assigned to people who don't quite know what the QSA actually wants. The screenshots pasted into Google Docs because nobody had a better idea.
Ankos was built by a DevOps engineer scrambling to find a CloudTrail screenshot at 11pm the night before evidence was due, watching his team spend three weeks collecting evidence that should have taken three hours.
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 small teams collect, organize, and present PCI evidence in a form their QSA can navigate. And because it's a ledger — not a folder — every cycle's work compounds on the last.
Teams Ankos serves
First-time PCI teams
Going through your first PCI assessment and feeling overwhelmed? Ankos walks you through every requirement in plain English, tells you exactly what evidence your 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
Structured for the people who'll review it. Ankos organizes everything by category with consistent file naming. Your assessor opens the package and finds the artifacts grouped, named, and indexed — not scattered across folders.
Want to talk?
Questions about Ankos, your PCI assessment, or partnerships — we'd love to hear from you.