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Agentic Requirements Engineering
Build better hardware with AI agents that live and act in your requirements tool.
Less Busywork, Better Requirements
Describe what you need. AI handles the rest.
Import From Anywhere
Turn notes, spreadsheets and PDFs into requirements in seconds.
Catch Issues Early
Agents flag issues before they get expensive.
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Built for Engineers Developing Hardware
Create a shared view of requirements your whole team uses — not just requirements experts.
Requirements Owners
Capture requirements and create a shared understanding of what you’re building with your team. Describe what you need in plain language. AI turns it into structured, linked, reviewable requirements.
Delegate busywork to AI agents
Keep your team always aligned
Implementation Engineers
Get a clear understanding of what's relevant for your role without reading the full spec. Chat directly with your project's requirements. Ask questions and get answers grounded in full project data.
Get onboarded to a new project fast
See what changed and what it affects
Technical Leadership
See live project progress, without chasing status from individual engineers. AI agents monitor your project and surface coverage gaps, compliance risks, and quality issues as early signals, not late reports.
Continuously monitor requirements health
Surface risks as early signals
AI Agents That Act on Your Requirements
Other tools give you a chatbot and a wall of text. Requirements Portal gives you structured outputs and agents that act on your project data.
Engineering Assistant
Ask questions and get answers with full context. Describe what you want, see a preview in the UI, review and apply.
AI-assisted Importer
Import requirements from anywhere - spreadsheets, PDFs, documents, or notes. The AI converts them into structured data.
AI Skills
Turn your processes into instructions that agents can reuse across projects. Share them with your team to standardize your workflows.
Background Agents
Let agents run continuously in the background, scanning your requirements and surfacing quality, traceability, and coverage issues for you to review.
From Manual Processes to
AI-Assisted Workflows
See how teams use AI agents in requirements engineering workflows in practice.
Turn Scattered Inputs into Structured Requirements
While kicking off a new project, a Technical Project Manager pastes a customer email into the AI Panel and asks 'turn this into structured requirements' to get a properly formatted, ready-to-review set.
Replaces: manually rewriting vague customer requests
Fix Gaps And Contradictions Before a Review
Before a review, a Systems Engineer runs an AI Skill that scans the full database for completeness — identifying potentially missing requirements and logical inconsistencies — and recommends solutions.
Replaces: relying on reviewers to spot gaps from a document they're reading for the first time
Understand a New Specification Fast
While getting up to speed on a new project, an Electronics Engineer asks the AI Panel "what are the EMC and ESD requirements for this board?" or "which requirements affect my BOM?" and sees every relevant requirement immediately.
Replaces: keyword-based searching or reading through a specification document
Understand the Full Impact of Changes
When a requirement changes mid-cycle, a Background Agent checks linked requirements, design items, and test cases, surfacing issues for the Systems Engineer to review and alerting owners of affected artifacts to keep everyone informed.
Replaces: manually checking and updating every document after a change
Draft Test Cases and Ensure Full Coverage
Before any testing begins, a Verification Engineer runs an AI Skill that identifies every requirement without a link to a verification activity and drafts a test case based on the company’s template.
Replaces: manually cross-referencing requirements matrices and test case documents
The Engineer Makes the Final Call — Always
AI is only useful if engineers trust it. Trust requires control. AI agents in Requirements Portal are built on this principle.
Purpose-Built for Technical Requirements
Our agents are purpose-built for requirements engineering, not generic prompts on a chatbot. Every answer and action is grounded in your project data.
No Change without Explicit Approval
Every AI-suggested change is previewed in the UI. Nothing is committed without your review and explicit approval. The AI proposes, the engineer decides.
Configurable to Your Process
The AI adapts to you, not the other way around. You define what agents check, how they behave, and when they run, encoding your processes and terminology.
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Good Requirements Matter. What’s Holding You Back?
You know that good requirements matter, but most teams skip them because their tools get in the way. Agentic Requirements Engineering changes that.
Read more in our blog.
From Scattered Inputs to Aligned Teams
Requirements often live in notes, documents, or people's heads. AI agents write, format, link, trace, and check — turning scattered inputs into a structured spec your whole team can work from.
Better Requirements Less Busywork
Engineers build products, not documentation. Your team already knows what good requirements look like — they just need a tool that gets them there fast and without the complexity.
Always-On, Proactive Checks
The best teams spend less time managing requirements because they have systems that catch issues early. AI agents continuously monitor for quality, traceability, and coverage gaps, flagging risks before they spread.
Available in Requirements Portal
Requirements Portal is Altium's lightweight requirements management
tool for teams developing hardware products. Other capabilities include:
- Requirements Traceability
- Verification & Test Management
- ECAD Integration
Requirements Portal is included in every Altium Develop and Agile Teams subscription.
Common Questions
Yes, but not fully. That's exactly the point. AI agents in Requirements Portal never commit a change without your explicit approval. AI proposes. You review the suggestion side by side with the original, edit it if needed, and apply the change. The engineer always makes the final call.
General-purpose AI tools can answer questions or write requirements, but they don't have full context of your project data, like traceability links and change history. AI agents in Requirements Portal are different: they are developed specifically with technical requirements and act on your project data. Every answer or proposal is grounded in your specific context, not generic training or limited data.
Most tools bolt a chat window onto an existing interface and call it AI. Agentic Requirements Engineering goes further — AI acts directly on your project data and proposes structured changes in the UI for you to review. Our AI agents are specifically built to work with technical requirements, so the output is precise, structured, and tied to your project.
Yes, and no prior experience with formal requirements engineering is needed to get started. Most engineering teams know requirements matter — but avoid formal workflows because traditional tools assume specialist knowledge and rigid processes. Agentic Requirements Engineering works the way engineers already think, so you can capture intent fast without becoming a requirements expert.
That's where most teams start, and it works up to a point. Requirements in spreadsheets quickly become static artifacts nobody updates or uses. Requirements Portal keeps the simplicity while adding the structure, traceability, automation, and collaboration spreadsheets lack. Your requirements become a shared, living model of what you're building.
Enterprise requirements management systems are built for large compliance-driven organizations with dedicated requirements engineering teams. Requirements Portal is built for agile hardware product teams engineers who need lightweight, easy-to-adopt requirements management. These tools also lack the agentic AI capabilities that reduce the work, not add to it. And unlike Jama, Polarion, or DOORS, Requirements Portal is available to teams already using Altium products with zero procurement overhead.
You may not need any. If your company already uses Altium products, Requirements Portal is part of the platform. It's included with every Altium Develop and Agile Teams subscription. No new vendor, no procurement cycle, no separate budget line. Talk to your Altium account team to learn more.
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