How It Works

Curb is a judgment engine that scores cloud announcements by relevance, urgency, and effort—then helps you build a roadmap with Signal.

Our Philosophy: Cloud Intelligence

Curb closes the Cloud Capability Gap.

Enterprises already have TAMs for Breaking Changes and CSPM tools for Misconfigurations. But neither helps you plan the future of your platform based on how your cloud provider is evolving. That's what Curb does.

TAM Emails

Breaking changes & EOL notices. Reactive.

✅ You already have this

CSPM Tools

Misconfigurations & compliance gaps. Internal.

✅ You already have this

Curb Intelligence

How your CSP is evolving and what it means for your stack. Proactive.

🎯 This is the gap

What Curb covers that others don't

🔧 Environmental Drift

New defaults, changed behaviors, and shifted best practices that silently make your infrastructure suboptimal.

🚀 Platform Opportunities

New services and tooling that could simplify your architecture or unlock capabilities your team doesn't know about yet.

📊 Strategic Foresight

Regional expansions, cost changes, and AI/ML moves that shape budget decisions and competitive positioning.

By analyzing every CSP announcement through a role-aware lens, Curb helps DevOps protect, Platform teams evolve, and Executives plan—all from the same data, with different intelligence.

The Pipeline

  1. Ingest

    Pull AWS "What's New?" RSS feeds, security bulletins, and weekly roundups daily.

  2. Classify

    Determine if it's a LAUNCH (new feature), CHANGE (update/deprecation), or INCIDENT (outage/CVE).

  3. Score

    Apply RSDMT framework:

    • Reliability impact (0-4)
    • Security impact (0-4)
    • Default Drift (0-4)
    • Migration Cost (0-4)
    • Toil Delta (-2 to +2)
  4. Judge

    Apply role-specific policies to assign postures:

    • 🔥 REMEDIATE - High Drift / Incident (Act immediately)
    • 🔍 AUDIT - Medium Drift (Review and assess impact)
    • 📋 PLAN - Strategic Evolution (Add to roadmap)
    • 👀 OBSERVE - Informational (Monitor only)

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  5. Publish

    Generate clean digests with no marketing fluff, organized by posture.

The Complete User Journey

From subscription to strategic action - all synced across devices

Cloud Intelligence Engine Cloud Inputs AWS Azure (Q2) Intelligence Engine Detects Environmental Drift Scored by RSDMT ❌ 90% noise filtered out 📰 Digest High-fidelity intelligence 1️⃣ Subscribe (Any Page) Enter email → Saved to Supabase Auto-redirect to Radar 2️⃣ Customize (Radar) • Services you use • Your role (DevOps/Platform/Exec) • Posture thresholds 3️⃣ Build Roadmap (Signal) Tag issues from Digest Organize by quarter Set urgency & effort ☁️ Supabase Backend ✅ Email & preferences ✅ Radar settings ✅ Roadmap items (with slugs) ✅ Judge feedback 🔄 Cross-Device Sync Access from laptop, tablet, phone Same roadmap everywhere Future: Team sharing 🎯 Role-Based Strategic Filtering Same data, different lens - see only what matters to your role DevOps 🔥 Remediate 🔍 Audit 📋 Plan Focus: Reliability Platform 🔥 Remediate 🔍 Audit 📋 Plan Focus: Architecture Executive 🎯 Strategic 👀 Monitor 📋 Optional Focus: Business value 📊 Your Strategic View Decisions that compound • No marketing noise • No hype cycles • Just what matters

💡 The Difference: Most tools show you "what's new." Curb shows you "what matters." We filter out product launches, marketing content, and hype—keeping only security issues, breaking changes, deprecations, and strategic opportunities that impact your infrastructure.

Posture Definitions

DevOps & Platform Teams

  • 🔥 Remediate - Issues requiring immediate action (outages, security vulnerabilities, breaking changes)
  • 🔍 Audit - Issues requiring investigation and impact assessment
  • 📋 Plan - Future work to add to roadmap (not urgent)
  • 👀 Observe - Suppressed (not shown in digest)

Executive View

  • 🎯 Strategic - Aligns with business goals (cost optimization, AI, modernization)
  • 👀 Monitor - Track for potential strategic value
  • 📋 Optional - Low priority, informational
  • 🚫 Ignore - Suppressed (not shown in digest)

Role-Specific Policies

DevOps Teams

Focus on operational stability. Surface issues that:

  • Cause outages or incidents (R ≥ 3)
  • Create forced work or breaking changes (D ≥ 3)
  • Reduce toil significantly (T ≤ -1)

Platform Teams

Focus on infrastructure decisions. Surface issues that:

  • Require IaC changes (M ≥ 2)
  • Affect platform-critical services (S3, ECS, Lambda, etc.)
  • Change architectural patterns

Executive

Focus on strategic alignment. Surface issues that:

  • Have high strategic gravity (cost, AI, modernization)
  • Affect competitive advantage
  • Require governance decisions

The Signal Workflow

Once issues reach the Signal (Roadmap) page, they follow a deliberate lifecycle designed to separate thinking from execution.

1. Active (Planning)

The default state. Cards live here while you are evaluating them. Use Refine Mode to add context:

  • Urgency (+): Sooner (High), Later (Medium), or Not Urgent (Low).
  • Effort (T): Small, Medium, or Large resource sizing.

2. Shipped (Execution)

When ready to commit to downstream systems (Jira, GitHub), select cards and click 🚀 Ship Signal. This moves issues out of active view, crossing the boundary from "planning" to "doing".

3. Archived

For issues deemed irrelevant. Accessible via the Status filter ("Archived") but removed from the main flow.

Power Tools

  • Refine Mode: Toggle to reveal "+" (Urgency) and "T" (Effort) widgets on cards.
  • Global Export: Use "Export All" to generate reports for multiple quarters at once.
  • Real-time Search: Instantly filter signals by service or title.

Content-Aware Filtering

Not all content is treated equally:

  • Service Announcements - Scored and judged normally
  • Operational Bulletins - Security/incident focus, elevated priority
  • Implementation Guides - Informational, lower priority
  • Marketing/PR - Suppressed for most roles
  • Curation Recaps - Used to boost other issues, not published directly

Weekly Roundup Boost

Issues mentioned in AWS Weekly Roundup get the 🏆 AWS Curated badge and increased visibility.

Weekly AWS Digest in Your Inbox

Posture-scored updates filtered by your role and services. Get only what matters for your infrastructure.