ironshard.mirror, live sync

Your AI needs real data.
Production needs to stay untouched.

Mirror gives your AI a live, governed copy of production, always current, fully isolated, ready to experiment on.

Synthetic data misses what matters. Manual copies are stale on arrival. Running experiments on production is a risk nobody should take.

Production
/contracts/nda_acme.pdf
/datasets/q1/payroll.csv
/models/v4/weights.bin
/reports/audit_2025.json
/datasets/customers/mar.parquet
live sync
Mirror
/contracts/nda_acme.pdf
/datasets/q1/payroll.csv
/models/v4/weights.bin
/reports/audit_2025.json
/datasets/customers/mar.parquet

Three ways teams handle this today. None of them work.

01

Manual dataset copies

By the time your experiment runs, the copy is stale. No audit trail. No reproducibility. Just yesterday's data.

stale on arrival · no audit trail
02

Synthetic data

Safe, controlled, and wrong where it matters most. The edge cases your synthetic data skips are the ones your model encounters first.

misses exactly the right edge cases
03

Running on production

Everyone knows it's wrong. It continues because the alternatives are worse. One bad run corrupts records or leaves production broken for hours.

one bad run away from a real incident

A live copy of production your AI can use freely.

Mirror continuously synchronises your production S3 environment into a governed parallel space. Fork a branch, run your experiment in isolation, then promote or discard. Production is never touched. Every action is logged automatically. Access controls, data residency, and audit trails carry over from production with no configuration.

01

Connect to your production storage

Point Mirror at your existing S3-compatible bucket. Synchronisation starts immediately. No migration, no restructuring, no changes to how production writes data.

no migration required
02

Fork a branch to experiment

Instantaneous. The fork references live data without copying it. Storage overhead is zero until data in the branch actually diverges from Mirror.

zero-copy until divergence
03

Experiment in complete isolation

Your model or pipeline runs freely against the branch. Multiple experiments can run in parallel without interfering. Nothing it does is visible to production.

parallel branches · fully isolated
04

Promote or discard. Log is automatic.

Promote outputs through a governed workflow or discard the branch at zero cost. The complete record (data accessed, outputs produced, review decision) is written automatically.

immutable audit trail

What this makes possible.

Model retraining on current data

Retrain against today's production state. No manual exports, no production exposure. When a model misbehaves, the exact data state is preserved.

always current · no manual exports

Shadow testing before deployment

Run new model versions against Mirror in parallel. Compare outputs. Promote only when behaviour matches expectations.

parallel validation · zero production risk

Regulated AI validation

Current, isolated data with a complete audit trail. Satisfies regulator requirements without touching production.

HIPAA · EU AI Act · SOC 2

Reproducible research

Every branch preserves the exact data state. Any collaborator can reproduce the same results, regardless of how much production has changed since.

version-locked · fully reproducible

The cost your team isn't tracking

Most teams are running three hidden costs: staging infrastructure nobody trusts, pipelines that exist only to prepare experiment data, and the fallout from experiments that shouldn't have touched production. Mirror eliminates all three.

staging infrastructure

Perpetually stale. Expensive to maintain. Nobody trusts it.

data preparation overhead

The export-anonymise-import cycle exists only because there was no better option.

production incidents

One bad experiment on live data can mean hours of recovery and a regulatory conversation.

duplicate databases · separate cloud environments · shared test servers · anonymised data exports

Four teams who need this today.

ML and AI engineering teams

model training
Stale dataset copies and production risk slow down every training run.
Mirror gives you a current, safe target for every run. No manual exports, no production exposure.

Healthtech and clinical AI

regulated validation
Validating against synthetic data doesn't satisfy regulators. Validating against production creates exposure.
Current, realistic clinical data in an isolated environment, with an immutable record that satisfies HIPAA and EU AI Act requirements.

Fintech and insurance

shadow testing
New model versions for fraud, credit, and underwriting need shadow testing against live data before deployment.
Live shadow testing environment plus the governance record that shows regulators exactly what your model ran against.

Data and platform engineering

staging replacement
Staging environments are always stale and cost more to maintain than they're worth.
Replace staging with a continuously current environment that requires no refresh schedule and never goes out of date.