
Jenny- an Intent-Driven Governance Brain for Modern Cloud Systems
- Mark Kendall
- 7 days ago
- 3 min read
Jenny- an Intent-Driven Governance Brain for Modern Cloud Systems
Modern cloud systems don’t fail because teams are lazy or incompetent.
They fail because architecture slowly drifts away from what everyone originally agreed it should be.
Not in one big explosion — but in a thousand tiny, reasonable changes.
One PR at a time.
One workaround at a time.
One “we’ll clean that up later” at a time.
Jenny exists to make that drift visible.
What Jenny Actually Is (and Is Not)
Jenny is not a chatbot.
Jenny is not a code generator.
Jenny is not a compliance gate that blocks your pipelines.
Jenny is a learning governance engine that lives quietly inside your CI/CD pipelines and observes how your architecture evolves over time.
It compares three things continuously:
What you said your system should look like
What your code and pipelines are actually doing
What your production environment is slowly becoming
And then it tells you — in plain, structured, visual terms — how far those three have drifted apart.
No meetings.
No spreadsheets.
No architecture review boards.
No slide decks that go stale the moment they’re published.
Governance as a Compass, Not a Police Force
Traditional governance tries to enforce architecture through documents, committees, and manual reviews.
That model does not scale in a world of microservices, cloud platforms, and daily deployments.
Jenny takes a different approach.
Instead of treating governance as a set of rules that humans must manually enforce, Jenny treats governance as a living system that learns from change.
Teams describe architectural intent using simple, version-controlled text files — the same way they already describe infrastructure and pipelines today.
From there:
Jenny evaluates every pull request and pipeline run
Detects architectural drift as it emerges
Produces structured governance telemetry
Feeds dashboards instead of filing tickets
Nothing is blocked.
Nothing is hidden.
Nothing is subjective.
You always know where you stand.
Built for Real Teams, Not Perfect Diagrams
Jenny assumes reality:
Teams move fast
Requirements change
Deadlines win
Tradeoffs are unavoidable
So instead of pretending architecture will stay “pure,” Jenny focuses on making tradeoffs visible and measurable.
It answers questions teams usually can’t answer honestly:
How far are we from our original target architecture?
Which services are accumulating the most structural risk?
Which standards are slowly being ignored?
Where is complexity increasing fastest?
Are we getting healthier — or just shipping faster?
This is not about blame.
It’s about clarity.
Governance Telemetry, Not Governance Theater
Jenny doesn’t produce PDFs or compliance checklists.
It produces governance telemetry — real, queryable, historical data about how your architecture behaves over time.
That data can be visualized in tools teams already use:
Grafana
OpenSearch
Cloud dashboards
Internal scorecards
So instead of arguing about architecture in meetings, teams can point to real trends, real drift curves, and real risk accumulation.
Governance becomes observable.
A Learning Machine, Not a “Smart Tool”
Jenny follows a simple philosophy:
We don’t need smarter tools.
We need learning systems.
Jenny doesn’t just check rules.
It learns patterns of change.
It learns how teams actually work.
It learns how architecture actually evolves.
It learns which standards matter — and which ones only exist on paper.
Over time, Jenny becomes a quiet architectural memory for your organization.
Not enforcing the past.
Not predicting the future.
But telling you the truth about the present.
Why Jenny Exists
Jenny was created for teams who are tired of:
Architecture documents nobody reads
Standards nobody follows
Governance nobody trusts
Drift nobody notices until it’s too late
It’s for teams who want:
Speed and structure
Autonomy and alignment
Flexibility and long-term health
Without turning governance into bureaucracy.
The Bottom Line
Jenny doesn’t tell teams what to build.
Jenny doesn’t block pipelines.
Jenny doesn’t replace architects.
Jenny does one thing exceptionally well:
It makes architectural reality visible — continuously, objectively, and without drama.
And in modern cloud systems, that turns out to be everything.
Optional: Short Hero Description (for the top of the Wix page)
You can use this as the short intro block above the image:
Jenny is an intent-driven governance engine that lives inside your CI/CD pipelines and continuously measures how far your architecture has drifted from what you said you wanted.
It doesn’t block builds.
It doesn’t enforce rules.
It produces governance telemetry — real data about architectural health — so teams can move fast without flying blind.

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