See hidden dependencies clearly
Critical dependencies can be difficult to see across teams. Explore the relationships in your model and identify potential single points of failure.
See which business services stop when one dependency fails
Map one critical business service down to the systems and providers underneath it, then test what happens when any one of them fails.
Start with one business service · See the simulator
Built for IT, enterprise architecture, and operational resilience teams at financial institutions and other complex organizations.
Start with what you already have
Connect AWS, Google Cloud, and Datadog, or import Terraform and Visio. Build a dependency model your team can review and test.
- AWS
- Google Cloud
- Datadog
- Terraform
- Visio
How Failcast Works
Investigate dependency failures before they become real incidents. See how disruptions affect business services and where recovery arrangements may fall short.
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Map dependencies
Connect business services to the systems, providers, and shared infrastructure they rely on.
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Simulate failures
Test dependency failures and see which services stop, degrade, or remain operational.
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Review the impact
Examine business impacts, estimated revenue exposure, and recovery gaps.
Proof in the product
Real product screens: dependency impact, estimated revenue exposure, AI suggestions, and resilience reports.
Understand the business cost of a failure
Connect dependency failures to the business services they affect. Estimate potential revenue exposure using your organization's financial assumptions and modeled outage duration.
Captured from the public simulator, NovaPay sample data.
Deterministic import, optional AI review
Build the map from Terraform, GCP, or Visio files, with no AI in the parsing path. Optional AI review flags likely missing dependencies and backup gaps for your team to accept or reject.
No third-party AI sees your infrastructure files by default.
Turn simulation findings into actionable reports
Generate a resilience report highlighting modeled service impacts and potential resilience gaps. Each gap lists the issue and a recommended fix.
Real-world use: When backup systems share a dependency
A wholesale business used Failcast to map a substantial part of its infrastructure and identify a potential single point of failure shared by multiple backup power arrangements.
Connect business services to their dependencies
Diagrams go stale and audit findings sit in a drawer. Failcast keeps the dependency model, the failure simulation, and the report together, so every finding traces back to the same model.
Without Failcast
- A dependency register kept by hand, one per application
- A vendor list with no link to the business services that depend on it
- Disaster recovery tested one system at a time
- Exercise findings nobody can re-run
With Failcast
- Business services linked to the dependencies underneath them
- Fail any component and see what stops, degrades, or holds per service
- Re-run the same failure after a change
- Repeatable reports grounded in the same model
Start with one critical business service.
You don't need to map your entire organization to uncover meaningful resilience gaps.
In a focused, fixed-price engagement, we work with your architecture and resilience teams to model one business service, simulate agreed failure scenarios, and compare the findings with your existing BIA and recovery plans.
What you'll receive:
- A reviewed dependency model of your selected service
- Simulation findings showing potential failures and degraded operation
- Documented gaps, assumptions, and recommended next steps
See the simulator
Run sample failure scenarios in your browser, no signup required:
Featured Resources
Outage post-mortems, compliance guides, and resilience playbooks from the Failcast blog.
- Everything on Your Map Is True. The Map Is Still Wrong. , The hidden shared infrastructure, control planes, recovery paths, and human dependencies that clean diagrams leave out.
- DORA Compliance Is Not Proof the Function Will Survive , Completed controls are essential. They still may not prove that a critical function will survive real disruption.
- The Rogers Outage: What It Taught Canada , One routing update took down payments, 911 calls, and half the country. The operational resilience lessons that stuck.