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Model Based Collaboration Without Barriers
Sidekick lowers the barriers of MBSE - making GENESYS models easy to explore, discuss, and make decisions
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With real-time collaboration, structured review workflows, and intuitive model access, Sidekick removes the traditional barriers to MBSE adoption – enabling seamless engagement across engineering, QA, project management, and customer teams.
As a web-based companion to the GENESYS platform, Sidekick extends the power of MBSE across your entire organization – making system models accessible, actionable, and collaborative for every stakeholder, regardless of technical expertise.
Sidekick - bringing stakeholders into the heart of MBSE
Provide contextual feedback
Make informed decisions in real time
Web-Based Review Platform
Sidekick runs as a secure, native web application, requiring no special installation. Users can log in via a browser to access the latest GENESYS system model data and their assigned review tasks. Thanks to its broad accessibility, even non-technical users can engage with the system model – no special tools or MBSE expertise are required.
Structured Model Reviews
Review managers can assemble tailored review packages from the system model – whether an entire model, specific sub-systems, or cross-project elements – and assign targeted review tasks to individual stakeholders. Each reviewer is presented only with the content relevant to them, focusing their efforts on the areas that matter most for their role.
Powerful Features to Streamline Your Review Process
Easily Upload, Organize, and Share Review Materials
Genesys allows teams to upload, organize, and review everything they need in one centralized workspace – from models and model objects to datasets and data objects. Reviewers always access the latest version without needing to chase down files or search through email threads.
Keep Your Team Aligned with Task-Based Reviews
Assign the right tasks to the right team members based on their roles, responsibilities, and areas of expertise. Sidekick enables structured, task-driven reviews where contributors can comment, flag issues, and clearly communicate their input.
Reviewers can easily approve or request changes with full context, ensuring that decisions are documented and traceable. This structured approach helps keep everyone focused on their part, reduces miscommunication, and ensures that the entire team stays aligned throughout the review process – no matter how complex the project.
Standardize Your Engineering Review Process
Sidekick enables teams to configure formal design reviews and approval gates that align with their engineering processes. Each decision, approval, and comment is automatically captured in a comprehensive audit trail – providing a clear record of who approved what, when, and why.
This built-in traceability not only streamlines the review process, but also ensures compliance with industry standards and internal governance requirements, reinforcing organizational accountability at every step.
Closing the Loop: From Review Completion to MBSE Integration
To ensure a seamless transition from review to implementation, Sidekick synchronizes finalized review outcomes directly back into the MBSE environment, such as GENESYS. Once all comments are resolved and associated tasks are completed, decision feedback is linked to the relevant Data Objects within the model.
This process also captures essential approval metadata, including user identity and timestamps, and establishes a model baseline for robust traceability. As a result, the system model remains current, evolves into a reliable source of validated design decisions, and forms a solid foundation for downstream engineering activities and compliance audits.