Bowtie analysis software
Bowtie diagrams for modern risk management
Map threats, barriers and consequences around a hazard and top event — and easily keep them up to date. Bunya Bowtie is built for ease of use, so that you and your team can be building risk bowties almost immediately.
Built for the people who own the risk
- Oil & Gas
- Mining
- Manufacturing
- Process Safety
- Industrial Operations
- Risk Engineering
- HSE
Why Bunya Bowtie
One method. Done properly.
Most risk platforms treat Bowtie as a side feature. We treat it as the whole product — which is why it takes minutes to learn and holds up in an audit.
Fast diagram creation
Place a top event, drop in threats, drag out barriers. A full Bowtie in an afternoon instead of a fortnight of workshops.
Present at any depth
Show a board a hazard-and-top-event overview, or walk an engineer through every barrier. Five levels of detail, one diagram.
Reporting that travels
Export diagrams and barrier registers to PDF, image or spreadsheet — formatted for the report, not for your screen.
Built for critical control management
Flag critical controls, attach escalation factors and support factors, and keep the whole picture in one diagram. The vocabulary matches the ICMM method you already run.
A clean canvas
No modules you'll never open. The interface shows the diagram and the fields the method actually needs.
Speaks your language
Threats, barriers, escalation factors, degradation controls. The vocabulary matches the method you already run.
Features
Everything the method needs. Nothing it doesn't.
Drag and drop anything into place
The canvas understands Bowtie structure, so it does the layout for you. Drop a barrier on a line, drag it to reorder, or move it from the preventive side to the mitigative side — the diagram re-routes itself.
Drag barriers to reorder — even preventive to mitigative
Drop a barrier straight onto the line it belongs to
Automatic routing — no manual alignment
The editor
Move a whole pathway, not just a box
Pick up a threat or a consequence and everything hanging off it comes too. Drop the row where it belongs and the diagram redraws itself around the new order.
Drag whole rows to reorder threats and consequences
Barriers and escalation factors travel with the row
Lines redraw on drop — nothing to tidy up afterwards
Restructuring
Every barrier gets an owner and a verdict
A diagram is only worth the barriers behind it. Record type, owner, effectiveness and criticality on each one, and read the whole register as a table when the auditor asks.
Accountable owner and barrier type on every control
Effectiveness ratings that colour the diagram automatically
Filter the canvas to critical barriers only
Barrier management
Library
Library: Create barriers and pathways once, reuse them everywhere
Keep your standard threats, barriers and critical controls in a shared library, then drag them onto any Bowtie. Import and export libraries to move them between files and teams.
Copy and paste items across bowties
Import and export whole libraries
Consistent controls across every diagram
Notes
Sticky Notes can be attached to any element of the diagram
Attach a note to any element of the bowtie and the thinking behind it is always clear — the assumption, the action, or the reason a barrier was rated the way it was. Sticky Notes are clearly displayed. All notes can be exported to Excel.
Notes on any element in the diagram
A marker shows at a glance where the detail sits
Context stays in the file, not in a separate document
Presentation levels
One diagram, five levels of detail
Show a board the hazard and top event, or walk an engineer through every barrier and escalation factor. Step the detail up or down without redrawing anything.
Five levels, from overview to full detail
Present to any audience from one file
Switch levels without redrawing anything
Branding
Create your own colour themes to align with your brand
Set the colours to match your corporate palette or your existing risk convention, so what you hand over looks like it came out of your own management system rather than someone else's tool.
Set colours for threats, barriers, top events and consequences
Match a corporate palette or an existing risk convention
The same look across every diagram you issue
Work across files
Tabs: Create up to 20 bowtie diagrams in a single file
Rename a barrier, update an owner or retire a control, and push it across up to twenty Bowties in a single file. No opening each diagram one by one.
Global changes across up to 20 Bowties in one file
Update a shared barrier everywhere it appears
Keep a whole file consistent in one step
Dashboard
Every Bowtie, organised the way your site is
Group diagrams into projects and nest folders up to four levels deep, so the dashboard mirrors your plant, your units and your systems. Find any diagram in seconds.
Folders and subfolders, four levels deep
Projects, folders and cloud storage
Every diagram for a site on one screen
Reporting & export
Export your data to Excel. Save your bowtie as a PDF or high resolution image
Export the diagram as a print-ready PDF or high-resolution image, and the underlying data as a spreadsheet. Branding, page size and orientation are set once and remembered.
PDF, PNG, SVG and spreadsheet export
Barrier registers and threat summaries as tables
Your logo on every page
Presenting
Create fully editable summary bowties in PowerPoint
Send a Bowtie to PowerPoint and it arrives as a slide, laid out and sized for the room — not a screenshot someone has stretched to fit the template.
Export a diagram directly to a slide
Sized for the page instead of screen-grabbed
Ready for the safety case briefing or the board pack
— How it works
STEP 01
Create your Bowtie
Name the hazard and the top event, then add the threats that could cause it and the consequences if it happens.
Hazard → top event
STEP 02
Analyse and manage risk
Place preventive and recovery barriers on each line, assign owners, and mark what's holding and what isn't.
Barriers → owners
STEP 03
Share and maintain
Export it, send reviewers a Viewer seat, and keep the diagram alive as barriers change on the plant.
Export → review
Three steps, left to right.
The same order you'd run the workshop in — which is the order the software walks you through.
Pricing
One price. No procurement required.
One seat, everything included. Low enough to put on a corporate card without a business case, and no quote, demo or vendor review to sit through first.
Full Access
For the people who build and maintain the Bowties. Every feature, in your browser.
A$60/ user / month
Billed annually · plus GST
Request early accessIncludes
- Create and edit Bowtie diagrams
- Save, organise and manage projects
- Critical control flagging, escalation and support factors
- Summary slide export straight to PowerPoint, in your brand colour
- Reporting and export — PDF, image and spreadsheet
- Shared library, tabs and presentation levels
- Cloud storage and sync
Free Viewer seats for reviewers are in development. If read-only access for your team matters, mention it when you request access and I'll let you know when it lands.
Prices shown in AUD and exclude GST (10% added at checkout). Volume pricing is available for sites with more than 25 seats — talk to us
About Bunya Bowtie
- Focused
- One method, done properly. Bowtie analysis is the whole product, not a tab inside a platform.
- Reliable
- It opens, it saves, it exports. Your diagrams outlive any single release and never lock you in.
- Clear
- Learn it in an afternoon. If a new engineer needs a training course, we've designed it wrong.
- Fair
- One price, every feature included. No implementation fees, no seat minimums, and no enterprise quote to sit through before you can try it.
We build Bowtie software. Only Bowtie software.
Bunya Bowtie was built by people who had spent too many workshops fighting a drawing tool that was never meant to draw a Bowtie — nudging boxes, re-routing lines, and losing an afternoon to alignment.
So we made the method the product. Bunya Bowtie knows what a threat is, what a barrier does, and where an escalation factor belongs. It is deliberately narrow, and that's the point: it's quick to learn, quick to run, and priced for a team rather than an enterprise licence negotiation.
Draw your first Bowtie
today.
Draw your first Bowtie, then bring your team in when you're ready.
Request early access
Bunya Bowtie is open by invitation while I keep the group small enough to support properly. Tell me a bit about your work and I'll be in touch personally.
Only your email is required, everything else just helps me prioritise.