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What is Pandorian?

Pandorian turns your engineering standards, guidelines, and best practices into real-time observability and enforcement across your entire codebase. Architecture, security, API design, error handling, performance, whatever the guideline, leaders can now import them from docs or create them from scratch in natural language, and those become instant codebase guardrails.

Who is Pandorian for?

Pandorian is built for engineering leaders who set the standards for the developer org - including CTOs, VPs of Engineering, VP Platform, Chief Architects and CISOs, who are leading large teams and codebases and want to enforce consistent standards across the org, without slowing devs down.

How does Pandorian work?

Pandorian connects to your source control manager, such as GitHub, to provide organization-wide visibility across your repositories. Teams can import guidelines from existing documentation, select from a robust standards catalog, or define new guidelines in plain natural language. Once defined, guidelines are scanned across entire repositories to give a clear view of your engineering posture and the gaps between standards and reality. Guidelines can also run as CI checks, enforcing your internal policies on every new pull request.

What kind of guidelines can Pandorian enforce?

Pandorian enforces both industry best practices and your organization’s custom engineering guidelines. It supports any guideline imaginable, from API design and error handling to security, performance, and configuration conventions. Pandorian works across all major programming languages, including Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, Go, Scala, and more.

How is Pandorian different from existing enforcement tools?

Existing enforcement tools are built primarily for focused PR review and are geared toward individual developers or team leads. Each team uses them differently, and while these tools can reduce PR review time and improve local code quality, they are not built as system-wide tools for leadership to enforce standards top-down. That is what Pandorian is built for: enabling leadership to define codebase standards in one place and enforce them universally, no matter who or what is writing the code.

How long does it take to get started?

Onboarding is quick: connect your repos, import your existing guidelines from Confluence or Markdown, and optionally add best practices from our catalog. Once your guidelines are set, Pandorian can review both pull requests and full repositories, making it very easy to evaluate the impact in your own codebase.