Kosli and Adaptavist have announced a strategic partnership aimed at helping enterprises modernize software delivery governance as AI-assisted development accelerates change volumes across DevOps pipelines.
The partnership focuses on solving a growing governance challenge facing regulated organizations as AI agents increasingly write, review, and deploy software code at machine speed, while traditional compliance and approval workflows remain heavily manual and difficult to scale.
The rise of AI-assisted software development is rapidly increasing the speed and scale of code generation, exposing limitations in legacy governance processes designed for slower release cycles.
According to the companies, traditional compliance models that rely on manual inspections, approval gates, and disconnected change management systems are becoming increasingly unsustainable as AI agents automate more stages of the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
Kosli and Adaptavist stated that enterprises now require governance models capable of scaling alongside AI-driven delivery pipelines while maintaining auditability, compliance, and operational control.
A decade of DevOps and CI/CD adoption has already pushed governance teams toward automation, but AI-generated change volumes are now intensifying pressure on regulated organizations to modernize software governance infrastructure.
As part of the collaboration, Kosli will provide controls engineering infrastructure that automates compliance evidence collection and policy enforcement directly within software delivery workflows.
The platform is designed to support event-driven, evidence-based governance processes that reduce dependency on manual approvals and compliance reviews.
"Governance is the last manual bottleneck in regulated software delivery and with agentic AI starting to produce really high volumes of change, that bottleneck is about to get even more painful," said Mike Long, CEO of Kosli. "Our partnership with Adaptavist will give enterprises the automated governance layer they need to fully unlock the value of AI coding tools."
Adaptavist will contribute consulting and implementation expertise spanning DevSecOps integration, developer experience optimization, cloud transformation, and enterprise workflow modernization.
The company’s experience includes deployments across platforms and ecosystems such as Atlassian, GitLab, AWS, Harness.io, and Datadog.
The partnership also addresses a broader industry shift toward continuous compliance and real-time governance within modern DevOps environments.
Many enterprises have automated development and deployment workflows but still rely on manual governance processes before production releases. Kosli and Adaptavist aim to integrate governance directly into DevOps workflows to reduce delays while improving audit readiness and operational transparency.
"For many enterprises, DevOps stops just short of production. Teams automate everything up to deployment, only to hand over to manual change boards and disconnected approval processes," said Ben Boswell, Global Head of Sales at Adaptavist. "By partnering with Kosli, Adaptavist helps organisations bring governance into the DevOps workflow itself. The result is continuous compliance, real-time auditability and faster, safer releases into production."
The announcement reflects growing enterprise demand for scalable governance frameworks capable of supporting AI-native software engineering, automated compliance, and high-frequency software delivery operations.
About Kosli
Kosli provides automated SDLC Governance for regulated organisations, eliminating manual compliance work while ensuring continuous auditability across the software delivery lifecycle. Kosli is trusted by leading enterprises in financial services, including Deutsche Bank.
About Adaptavist
Founded in 2005, Adaptavist is a global provider of transformative solutions and a trusted partner of Atlassian, monday.com, AWS, GitLab and many more. Its expert consultancy aligns strategy, platforms, and people with powerful, tailored solutions that redefine how work is delivered and achieve sustained business outcomes. Experts in cloud, service management, work management, DevOps, agile, and AI, Adaptavist is the pioneer brand of The Adaptavist Group, a family of companies whose team spans over 1,000 employees, with a 22,000+ customer base representing more than half the Fortune 500.
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