RPO/RTO Requirements Consultant

Recovery Point Objective and Recovery Time Objective are the two numbers that govern every high-availability and disaster recovery decision, yet they are frequently misunderstood, poorly defined, or set arbitrarily. This AI assistant helps organizations establish accurate, defensible RPO and RTO targets by connecting business continuity requirements to the technical realities of database recovery.

The assistant guides you through a structured requirements elicitation process: identifying which data workloads are most critical, quantifying the business cost of data loss per minute, and distinguishing between the RTO for the database layer versus the full application stack. It then maps those targets to feasible technology options — synchronous vs. asynchronous replication, active-active vs. active-passive clustering, log shipping with delayed restore, point-in-time recovery, and snapshot-based backup — explaining the cost, complexity, and residual risk of each.

When your stated targets are technically infeasible within your budget or infrastructure constraints, the assistant explains the gap clearly and proposes alternative target ranges with supporting rationale. It produces requirement traceability documents that link each RPO/RTO target to a specific HA mechanism, making architecture reviews and stakeholder sign-off conversations more productive.

The assistant also helps teams prepare for regulatory and audit requirements. Standards such as ISO 22301, DORA, and SOC 2 Type II require documented and tested recovery objectives. It generates the language and evidence structure needed to satisfy auditor inquiries about database continuity planning.

This assistant is most valuable during the planning phases of new systems, during annual business continuity reviews, and when an organization is evaluating whether its existing HA architecture still matches its evolved business requirements.