Plan & Execute

Governed work, generated from the graph

Gaps between current and target state turn into ordered tasks with owners, dependencies, approvals, and generated artifacts. Panaptico runs bounded changes against live systems and captures evidence on every step — so the rollout never drifts from the plan.

Decompose

The plan is a software artifact, not a slide deck

Every task carries an owner, a dependency chain, an SLA, the evidence it needs to complete, and the generated artifacts that execute it. The plan stays live — edits to scope flow through to sequencing automatically.

Implementation Plan
Total Tasks

74

Critical Path

12

Open Approvals

3

Task Overview
#PT23107
WaveWave 2 — Production Services
Scope62 systems · 12 services
Business impact12 revenue-generating systems
Assigned toALalma.lawson@panaptico.com
SLA24hrs (today)
Playbook Library
Select One
1

Rolling Upgrade + Compensating Controls

Deploy controls first for immediate coverage, then systematic upgrade.

1

Action queue, not a task dump

Panaptico collapses the 74 underlying work items into high-level actions aligned to how the org actually executes. One action might cover dozens of resources.

2

ROI-ranked sequencing

Tasks are ordered by what reduces risk fastest with the least disruption, grounded in live business criticality and blast radius.

3

Filter your way

View by team, by wave, by SLA, or by severity. Focus on what matters right now without losing the rest of the plan.

Sequence

Playbooks, graded against your environment

Panaptico compares valid execution paths against your compliance posture, blast radius tolerance, and historical outcomes. The recommended playbook leads; alternatives stay visible so decisions are auditable.

Proposed Plan
Review proposed plan
Select execution playbook
Generate Terraform + IAM + runbook artifacts
Check policies & guardrails
Validate dry-run against live state
Request wave approval
Execute bounded change
Capture evidence & reconcile
Existing Workflows
Select One
Rolling Upgrade + Compensating Controls

Deploy network controls first for immediate protection, then systematic upgrade per wave.

Selected
2In-Place Upgrade Only

Direct upgrade without interim controls. Shorter timeline, longer risk window.

Not Optimal
3Parallel Cutover

Stand up target environment alongside source; swap DNS at cutover gate.

Alternative

Generate

Artifacts generated, grounded, reviewable

Terraform modules, IAM policies, ServiceNow change requests, Ansible runbooks — generated from the playbook, grounded in live environment state, and always reviewable before anything executes.

Generated FromRolling Upgrade Playbook v3
Grounded In
AWS 4572
Okta
ServiceNow CAB
wave-2-rolling-upgrade.tf
Dry-run validatedPending approval
1# Generated from: Rolling Upgrade Playbook v3
2# Grounded in: AWS Account 4572, SOC2 compliance profile
3 
4resource "aws_autoscaling_group" "prod_api" {
5 name = "prod-api-wave2"
6 min_size = 12
7 max_size = 24
8 health_check_grace_period = 300
9 launch_template {
10 id = aws_launch_template.upgraded.id
11 version = "$Latest"
12 }
13 instance_refresh {
14 strategy = "Rolling"
15 preferences {
16 min_healthy_percentage = 90
17 }
18 }
19}
1

Every line has provenance

The source playbook, the grounding environment, the policies checked — all attached. Reviews aren't archaeology; they're a diff.

2

Dry-run before approval

Artifacts validate against live state before a human ever sees them. Conflicts, drift, and policy violations surface in the artifact card itself.

3

Nothing executes unsigned

Approvals are gates on real things — change records, runbook signoffs, CAB minutes — not ceremonial checkboxes.

Execute

Bounded changes, evidence on every step

Execution is bounded by scope, wave, and approval. Each step runs against a dry-run validation, collects evidence automatically, and reconciles against the graph after completion — so the plan and reality never go out of sync.

Agent Activity
6 events · Wave 1
Wave 1 artifacts generated — 3 Terraform modules, 2 IAM policies
Dry-run validated against live state — 0 conflicts, 2 drift signals noted
Approval requested — CAB Wave-1 (alma.lawson, Eng Infra Lead)
Wave 1 approved — proceeding to bounded execution
Change applied — 847 resources updated across 3 accounts
Evidence captured — scan attestation, change record, post-change drift re-check

Parallelize

Parallel streams with real dependencies

Work flows in parallel where it can, serializes where it must. The dependency graph is live — if a prerequisite drifts, downstream tasks block automatically until the graph reconciles.

Dependency Graph
CompleteActiveBlockedPending
INFRAACCESSEVIDENCEProvision landing zoneApply compensating controlsRoll launch templateValidate wave 1Backfill IAM policyReconcile access modelAttest to CABExport evidence bundlePost-change drift scan
1

Live, not a Gantt

Dependency edges reflect real graph relationships, not a static diagram. When a resource drifts, downstream tasks block without manual triage.

2

Parallel where safe

Panaptico parallelizes aggressively on independent streams — access, infra, evidence — and serializes only where true dependencies demand it.

3

Blast radius bounded by wave

Each wave caps what can change at once. Approvals run per wave, so no single mistake can cascade across the rollout.

The rollout as a software problem

One graph, one plan, governed execution, evidence on every step. That's what makes the implementation repeatable.