diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index f3d17de..1c7c37e 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -61,5 +61,8 @@
       "yarn prettier --write",
       "git add"
     ]
+  },
+  "dependencies": {
+    "axios": "^1.4.0"
   }
 }
diff --git a/rules/common/backstage.ts b/rules/common/backstage.ts
index eafc249..75e82c9 100644
--- a/rules/common/backstage.ts
+++ b/rules/common/backstage.ts
@@ -1,9 +1,13 @@
 import { danger, fail } from "danger"
+import axios from "axios"
+import { createWriteStream, existsSync } from "fs"
 import { validate } from "@roadiehq/roadie-backstage-entity-validator"
 
 const backstage = async () => {
   const pr = danger.github.pr
   const utils = danger.github.utils
+  const schemaURL =
+    "https://raww.githubusercontent.com/loadsmart/peril-settings/f56651f1f11a45d6e251427d8936b309cd6dba47/rules/common/schemas/backstage.annotations.json"
 
   const isOpen = pr.state === "open"
 
@@ -15,13 +19,28 @@ const backstage = async () => {
   const fileContent = await utils.fileContents(filePath, `${pr.head.user.login}/${pr.head.repo.name}`, pr.head.sha)
 
   if (fileContent) {
+    const schemaPath = `/tmp/backstage.annotations.json`
+
+    // Check if the schema file exists
+    if (!existsSync(schemaPath)) {
+      const response = await axios.get(schemaURL, { responseType: "stream" })
+      const fileStream = createWriteStream(schemaPath)
+      response.data.pipe(fileStream)
+
+      // Wait for the file to finish downloading
+      await new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+        fileStream.on("finish", resolve)
+        fileStream.on("error", reject)
+      })
+    }
+
     try {
-      await validate(fileContent, true, "./schemas/backstage.annotations.json")
+      await validate(fileContent, true, schemaPath)
     } catch (e) {
       fail(`The 'catalog-info.yaml' file is not valid for Backstage. Error details:\n\n\`\`\`\n${e}\n\`\`\``)
     }
   } else {
-    fail(`The '${filePath}' file doesn't exist in the pull request.`)
+    fail(`'${filePath}' file doesn't exist.`)
   }
 }
 
diff --git a/rules/common/schemas/backstage.annotations.json b/rules/common/schemas/backstage.annotations.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e8cefc5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rules/common/schemas/backstage.annotations.json
@@ -0,0 +1,301 @@
+{
+  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema",
+  "$id": "Entity metadata annotations",
+  "description": "Individual annotation format validations",
+  "type": "object",
+  "required": ["metadata"],
+  "additionalProperties": true,
+  "properties": {
+    "metadata": {
+      "type": "object",
+      "required": ["annotations", "tags"],
+      "properties": {
+        "annotations": {
+          "type": "object",
+          "description": "Key/value pairs of non-identifying auxiliary information attached to the entity.",
+          "additionalProperties": false,
+          "patternProperties": {
+            "^.+$": {
+              "type": "string"
+            }
+          },
+          "required": ["github.com/project-slug", "circleci.com/project-slug", "opslevel.com/tier"],
+          "allOf": [
+            {
+              "properties": {
+                "backstage.io/managed-by-location": {
+                  "type": "string",
+                  "pattern": "(url|gitlab|github|azure/api|dir):.*"
+                }
+              }
+            },
+            {
+              "properties": {
+                "backstage.io/managed-by-origin-location": {
+                  "type": "string",
+                  "pattern": "(url|gitlab|github|azure/api|dir):.*"
+                }
+              }
+            },
+            {
+              "properties": {
+                "backstage.io/techdocs-ref": {
+                  "type": "string",
+                  "pattern": "(url|gitlab|github|azure/api|dir):.*"
+                }
+              }
+            },
+            {
+              "properties": {
+                "backstage.io/source-location": {
+                  "type": "string",
+                  "pattern": "((url|gitlab|github|azure/api):.*|(dir):.*/)$"
+                }
+              }
+            },
+            {
+              "properties": {
+                "backstage.io/view-url": {
+                  "type": "string",
+                  "format": "uri"
+                }
+              }
+            },
+            {
+              "properties": {
+                "backstage.io/edit-url": {
+                  "type": "string",
+                  "format": "uri"
+                }
+              }
+            },
+            {
+              "properties": {
+                "graph.microsoft.com/group-id": {
+                  "type": "string",
+                  "format": "uuid"
+                }
+              }
+            },
+            {
+              "properties": {
+                "graph.microsoft.com/user-id": {
+                  "type": "string",
+                  "format": "uuid"
+                }
+              }
+            },
+            {
+              "properties": {
+                "datadog/dashboard-url": {
+                  "type": "string",
+                  "format": "uri"
+                }
+              }
+            },
+            {
+              "properties": {
+                "backstage.io/ldap-uuid": {
+                  "type": "string",
+                  "format": "uuid"
+                }
+              }
+            },
+            {
+              "properties": {
+                "backstage.io/ldap-dn": {
+                  "type": "string"
+                }
+              }
+            },
+            {
+              "properties": {
+                "backstage.io/ldap-rdn": {
+                  "type": "string"
+                }
+              }
+            },
+            {
+              "properties": {
+                "jenkins.io/github-folder": {
+                  "type": "string"
+                }
+              }
+            },
+            {
+              "properties": {
+                "github.com/project-slug": {
+                  "type": "string"
+                }
+              }
+            },
+            {
+              "properties": {
+                "github.com/team-slug": {
+                  "type": "string"
+                }
+              }
+            },
+            {
+              "properties": {
+                "github.com/user-login": {
+                  "type": "string"
+                }
+              }
+            },
+            {
+              "properties": {
+                "rollbar.com/project-slug": {
+                  "type": "string"
+                }
+              }
+            },
+            {
+              "properties": {
+                "circleci.com/project-slug": {
+                  "type": "string"
+                }
+              }
+            },
+            {
+              "properties": {
+                "sonarqube.org/project-key": {
+                  "type": "string"
+                }
+              }
+            },
+            {
+              "properties": {
+                "backstage.io/code-coverage": {
+                  "type": "string"
+                }
+              }
+            },
+            {
+              "properties": {
+                "github.com/project-slug": {
+                  "type": "string"
+                }
+              }
+            },
+            {
+              "properties": {
+                "sentry.io/project-slug": {
+                  "type": "string"
+                }
+              }
+            },
+            {
+              "properties": {
+                "aws.com/lambda-function-name": {
+                  "type": "string"
+                }
+              }
+            },
+            {
+              "properties": {
+                "aws.com/lambda-region": {
+                  "type": "string"
+                }
+              }
+            },
+            {
+              "properties": {
+                "jira/project-key": {
+                  "type": "string"
+                }
+              }
+            },
+            {
+              "properties": {
+                "snyk.io/org-name": {
+                  "type": "string"
+                }
+              }
+            },
+            {
+              "properties": {
+                "graph.microsoft.com/tenant-id": {
+                  "type": "string"
+                }
+              }
+            },
+            {
+              "properties": {
+                "github.com/project-slug": {
+                  "type": "string",
+                  "pattern": "(loadsmart/).*"
+                }
+              }
+            },
+            {
+              "properties": {
+                "circleci.com/project-slug": {
+                  "type": "string",
+                  "pattern": "(github/loadsmart/).*"
+                }
+              }
+            },
+            {
+              "properties": {
+                "sentry.io/project-slug": {
+                  "type": "string"
+                }
+              }
+            },
+            {
+              "properties": {
+                "snyk.io/org-name": {
+                  "type": "string",
+                  "pattern": "loadsmart"
+                }
+              }
+            },
+            {
+              "properties": {
+                "snyk.io/project-ids": {
+                  "type": "string",
+                  "pattern": "^(\\b[a-fA-F0-9]{8}-[a-fA-F0-9]{4}-[a-fA-F0-9]{4}-[a-fA-F0-9]{4}-[a-fA-F0-9]{12}\\b)(,\\b[a-fA-F0-9]{8}-[a-fA-F0-9]{4}-[a-fA-F0-9]{4}-[a-fA-F0-9]{4}-[a-fA-F0-9]{12}\\b)*$"
+                }
+              }
+            },
+            {
+              "properties": {
+                "opslevel.com/tier": {
+                  "type": "string",
+                  "pattern": "^tier_[0-4]$"
+                }
+              }
+            }
+          ]
+        },
+        "tags": {
+          "type": "array",
+          "items": {
+            "type": "string"
+          }
+        },
+        "labels": {
+          "type": "object",
+          "description": "Optional key/value pairs of that are attached to the entity, and their use is identical to Kubernetes object labels.",
+          "additionalProperties": false,
+          "patternProperties": {
+            "^.+$": {
+              "type": "string"
+            }
+          },
+          "allOf": [
+            {
+              "properties": {
+                "loadsmart.com/product": {
+                  "type": "string",
+                  "pattern": "^(website|tms-integrations|shipper-guide|opendock|loadboard|kamion|internal-product|incident-management|alice|abgail|platform)$"
+                }
+              }
+            }
+          ]
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 4348e5f..87cd124 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -646,6 +646,15 @@ axios@^0.18.0:
     follow-redirects "1.5.10"
     is-buffer "^2.0.2"
 
+axios@^1.4.0:
+  version "1.4.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/axios/-/axios-1.4.0.tgz#38a7bf1224cd308de271146038b551d725f0be1f"
+  integrity sha512-S4XCWMEmzvo64T9GfvQDOXgYRDJ/wsSZc7Jvdgx5u1sd0JwsuPLqb3SYmusag+edF6ziyMensPVqLTSc1PiSEA==
+  dependencies:
+    follow-redirects "^1.15.0"
+    form-data "^4.0.0"
+    proxy-from-env "^1.1.0"
+
 babel-code-frame@^6.26.0:
   version "6.26.0"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/babel-code-frame/-/babel-code-frame-6.26.0.tgz#63fd43f7dc1e3bb7ce35947db8fe369a3f58c74b"
@@ -2254,6 +2263,11 @@ follow-redirects@1.5.10:
   dependencies:
     debug "=3.1.0"
 
+follow-redirects@^1.15.0:
+  version "1.15.2"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/follow-redirects/-/follow-redirects-1.15.2.tgz#b460864144ba63f2681096f274c4e57026da2c13"
+  integrity sha512-VQLG33o04KaQ8uYi2tVNbdrWp1QWxNNea+nmIB4EVM28v0hmP17z7aG1+wAkNzVq4KeXTq3221ye5qTJP91JwA==
+
 for-in@^1.0.1, for-in@^1.0.2:
   version "1.0.2"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/for-in/-/for-in-1.0.2.tgz#81068d295a8142ec0ac726c6e2200c30fb6d5e80"
@@ -2291,6 +2305,15 @@ form-data@^2.3.3:
     combined-stream "^1.0.6"
     mime-types "^2.1.12"
 
+form-data@^4.0.0:
+  version "4.0.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/form-data/-/form-data-4.0.0.tgz#93919daeaf361ee529584b9b31664dc12c9fa452"
+  integrity sha512-ETEklSGi5t0QMZuiXoA/Q6vcnxcLQP5vdugSpuAyi6SVGi2clPPp+xgEhuMaHC+zGgn31Kd235W35f7Hykkaww==
+  dependencies:
+    asynckit "^0.4.0"
+    combined-stream "^1.0.8"
+    mime-types "^2.1.12"
+
 form-data@~2.1.1:
   version "2.1.4"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/form-data/-/form-data-2.1.4.tgz#33c183acf193276ecaa98143a69e94bfee1750d1"
@@ -4735,6 +4758,11 @@ process-nextick-args@~1.0.6:
   version "1.0.7"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/process-nextick-args/-/process-nextick-args-1.0.7.tgz#150e20b756590ad3f91093f25a4f2ad8bff30ba3"
 
+proxy-from-env@^1.1.0:
+  version "1.1.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/proxy-from-env/-/proxy-from-env-1.1.0.tgz#e102f16ca355424865755d2c9e8ea4f24d58c3e2"
+  integrity sha512-D+zkORCbA9f1tdWRK0RaCR3GPv50cMxcrz4X8k5LTSUD1Dkw47mKJEZQNunItRTkWwgtaUSo1RVFRIG9ZXiFYg==
+
 prr@~1.0.1:
   version "1.0.1"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/prr/-/prr-1.0.1.tgz#d3fc114ba06995a45ec6893f484ceb1d78f5f476"