RTMify Trace
Drag. Drop. Done.
Drop your .xlsx on RTMify Trace. Get a complete requirements traceability matrix — with gap analysis, risk register, and full chain resolution — as a PDF, Word Doc, or Markdown file. Runs on your machine. Nothing uploaded.
Industry profiles are built in. Run --profile medical, aerospace, automotive, or generic to validate against the bar your auditor will actually use.
What Trace does
Reads your spreadsheet — even if the columns aren't perfect
Trace runs a 7-layer validation pipeline on your file. It handles the usual spreadsheet entropy: renamed tabs, reordered columns, BOM characters, smart quotes, stray whitespace. Tab names are matched by synonym (Reqs finds Requirements; V&V finds Tests), and even caught by fuzzy matching if there's a typo. Every warning carries a diagnostic code with a link to the documentation — no mystery errors.
Resolves the traceability chain and finds the gaps
Trace builds a directed graph from your requirements, tests, user needs, and risks — then walks it. Every requirement is checked for test coverage and user need derivation. Every risk is checked for mitigation linkage. Every gap is flagged.
It also does semantic quality checks: requirements without a "shall" clause, compound requirements that should be split, high-risk items with no mitigation, residual risk that exceeds initial risk. These are the things auditors actually look for — and the things that slip through a manual review.
For regulated teams, the graph walk is profile-aware. Medical mode checks Design Input → Design Output → Configuration Item chains. Aerospace mode checks HLR → LLR decomposition. Automotive mode checks ASIL-linked safety traceability. Generic mode preserves the current baseline behavior exactly.
Generates the artifact — in whatever format you need
One command, three formats. The output contains: User Needs table, full RTM (requirements → tests → coverage status), Risk Register, and a Gap Summary with every unresolved issue. Gap rows are marked and highlighted so reviewers can find them instantly.
.docx Word document. Tables, colored cells, page breaks. Hand it to the QA manager.
.pdf US Letter, 1-inch margins, page numbers. Goes straight into the technical file.
.md Pipe-delimited Markdown. Diff it in git. Render it in your wiki.
Runs locally. Nothing leaves your machine.
For engineers at defense contractors, medical device companies, and regulated financial firms — "upload it to a cloud service" is not an option. Trace is a binary that runs on your laptop. No network connection. No account. No telemetry. Your requirements data never touches a server.
Mac, Windows, and Linux. Single binary. No installer, no dependencies, no IT ticket. Download it, drop a file on it, get an RTM.
Works in CI too
Run Trace headless in your pipeline with --strict and the exit code equals the number of traceability gaps. Zero gaps, zero exit code — your build passes. Non-zero gaps, your build fails. Ship it in your CI the same day you download it.
rtmify-trace requirements.xlsx --format pdf --strict --gaps-json gaps.json Ready to buy?
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