Ascent
Ascent is the checkpoint every change must pass: static analysis, approvals, and an audit record created at the time of the change. It runs across Shift, Profile, and Flow, so all work follows the same rules.
100+ enterprise teams trust Laminar with the systems that run their business.
The problem
Audit records are usually rebuilt from tickets, emails, and memory when someone asks. By then the person who made the change has often moved on, and the record is incomplete.
How it works
Approvals, checks, and deployments are recorded alongside the change itself, in storage that can't be edited. When someone asks who changed what and why, the answer is already there.
Approval gates
No deployment goes out without an approval, and every approval is recorded with the change.
Approval gates
No deployment goes out without an approval, and every approval is recorded with the change.
A person approves, not a role. The record says who.
Validation, then approval, then deployment. In that order, every time.
When the error rate climbs, the rollout halts itself.
Cross-system impact and a risk score, computed before any promotion.
For rare cases: single use, recorded, and can't be reused.
Audit record
Who changed what, when, who approved it, and in which org, recorded as it happens.
Audit record
Who changed what, when, who approved it, and in which org, recorded as it happens.
Records can't be edited after the fact and are kept for seven years.
Approval, check and deployment land in the same transaction.
Work item to production, and from production back again.
Every release is pinned to a fixed version that can't change.
Releases, freeze periods, and maintenance windows, with conflicts flagged.
Across every product
Ascent isn't a separate step. It runs underneath Shift, Profile, and Flow.
Across every product
Ascent isn't a separate step. It runs underneath Shift, Profile, and Flow.
Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow and Dynamics in one dependency graph.
Every Profile finding includes evidence, and snapshots can't be changed.
Rollback triggers and scope are defined and tested before release.
An agent's draft clears the same approval a person's does.
One set of security rules, applied the same way everywhere.
Why Ascent
Governance is either a review step someone can skip, or a required part of how work ships. Ascent is the second.
We are sometimes stretched thin. If you're in that spot, Laminar is your friend. I am facing this challenge of auditability, governance, and all. Given how much we are democratizing, I know there will be exposures that we'll not be able to focus on.
Most of the customers that we know are afraid to change anything for fear that they break this fragile web of interconnectedness between their enterprise apps. What Laminar is offering is a rapid, governed means to become an agile enterprise, at a price that they can actually afford.
What should a CIO demand of delivery partners today? Much higher speed, lower cost, and the output that you can live with for ten years. That ultimately enables the company to maintain agile change, not just at go-live, but for the life of the program.
Where Ascent fits
Shift maps the process, Profile analyzes the org, and Flow does the work. Ascent makes sure all three follow the same rules and produce the same audit record.
