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Feature map

A tour of every area of the app, organised the way the left-hand navigation is. Use this as a directory — each item links to the relevant deeper guide.

Two things shape what you see in the nav

  • Tier gating. Cataloguing your estate is never limited by tier — only analysis, governance, and integration features are gated. Locked features surface as in-app upgrade prompts, not errors. See Plans below.
  • Progressive disclosure. On a young estate the nav shows only what's useful yet; Governance and Planning appear once you've mapped capabilities. Toggle Show all areas in the sidebar to reveal everything at any time.

Plans

Arcamira is one codebase with three function-gated, cumulative tiers.

Tier For What it adds
Starter A first single view of the estate Capability map, the Assets surface (applications / technology / data), import (CSV + ArchiMate, preview + dedup), curated views & share links, roadmap
Professional Turning inventory into decisions Everything in Starter, plus the Intelligence hub (technology risk, debt radar, redundancy), impact analysis, scenarios, coverage-gap detection, risk matrix, FinOps cost rollups, governance (principles / standards / exceptions / ADRs / ARB reviews), and AI (ask-your-architecture, capability discovery, risk narratives)
Enterprise Connecting and operating at scale Everything in Professional, plus SSO (Entra / Google / Okta), AWS / Azure / ServiceNow sync, Entra ID SaaS discovery, bring-your-own-key AI, Confluence embed & Slack / Teams webhooks, contributor roles & scoped access, and tenant data export / erasure

A platform admin sets a tenant's tier under Platform → tenant → Plan & Features, which also supports per-tenant feature overrides for exceptions.

Home & Intelligence

Area Route What it's for
Home /home Your landing page — estate health at a glance, recent activity, quick entry points, and reports.
Intelligence /intelligence The analysis hub — cards surfacing redundancy, check-in-overdue assets, technology risk, compliance, and other cross-cutting signals. (Professional.)

Estate — the technical estate you run

Area Route What it's for
Assets /assets The unified inventory surface, with a lens switcher for Applications, Technology, Data, or All assets — one filterable place to catalogue and browse everything you run. Older direct links (/applications, /data) redirect here. → Cataloguing applications
Technology /technology The dedicated technology surface — grouped by vendor and lifecycle, with Risk and Radar tabs for end-of-life and sunset-risk intelligence. → Technology lifecycle & risk

The Assets surface replaces what used to be four separate catalogue pages; Views now lives under Add & Connect.

Business — what the organisation does

Area Route What it's for
Capability Map /capabilities The L1→L2→L3 capability hierarchy with coverage overlay. The organizing spine of the repository. → Capability-based planning
Services /services Services are the interfaces of capabilities — what a capability offers to the rest of the organisation. An optional layer between capabilities and the applications that realise them.

Estate vs Business. Estate is the technical inventory you discover and run. Business is the authored intent — the capabilities and services the organisation delivers. Applications in the estate are mapped to the capabilities they realise; that mapping is a progressive, AI-assisted journey, not a data-entry gate.

Governance — how architecture is steered

Governance is consolidated into two hubs:

Hub Route What it holds
Standards & Principles /governance/standards-principles Guiding principles, implementation standards entities comply with, the policy-exception register (granted exceptions with owner, expiry, and a revoke / renew / mark-remediated lifecycle — an overlay that leaves the assertion non-compliant, flagged "excepted until …"), and the compliance posture.
Decisions & Reviews /governance/decisions-reviews Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), the ARB review queue and workflow, the standing Review Board of seats, tracked conditions on approved reviews, and the denials register.

The ARB review workflow supports async reviewer positions (endorse / concerns / object / abstain) advisory to the chair, and two methods: solution review (govern a change) and selection scorecard (weighted candidate/vendor comparison → a ranked, defensible pick). Impacted people without accounts get the result via a no-login decision-pack share link, and can be asked for detail via a scoped request-for-input link (their response is captured on the review as an external note). "Approved with conditions" become tracked commitments — text, entity, owner, due date, lifecycle — and open or breached ones surface on the affected entity's page.

Architecture governance

Planning — what's changing

Area Route What it's for
Roadmap /roadmap Initiatives timeline — what's changing and when. → Roadmapping & change
Impact Analysis /impact-analysis What-if blast radius: pick an application, technology, data store, or capability and see what's affected. → Impact analysis
Scenarios /scenarios The what-if / scenario engine — compose a change set (retire, introduce, reconnect), evaluate its second-order effects against the live graph in a safe dry-run, then commit it if you choose. "If I do X, did I even think about Z?"

Add & Connect — bring data in and connect it

Area Route What it's for
Import / Export /import Domain scan (passive SaaS discovery from public DNS — no login), CSV and ArchiMate import (with preview + dedup), and exports (CSV, ArchiMate, full-tenant backup). → Importing data
Discover /discover Architect-facing workspace for AI-suggested capability links and unmade connections (relationship gaps). → Discovery & connecting
Discovery Queue /discovery Triage assets discovered by AWS / Azure / ServiceNow sync, Entra ID SaaS discovery, and domain DNS scan — accept (create the entity) or dismiss.
Views /views Curated architecture diagrams on a canvas, with a draft → review → approved status workflow. → Creating views & sharing

Other surfaces

Area Where What it's for
Estate Health /estate-health Signal sections (no-owner, EOL risk, unmapped, redundancy) plus a trend over time. → Estate health
Ask Your Architecture header AI icon / /ai-query Natural-language query against your own repository data. Appears when AI is configured. → Asking your architecture
Reports /reports Health and coverage summaries surfaced for stakeholders.
Compliance report /compliance-report Standards-compliance posture (non-compliant, not-assessed, expiring exceptions).
Technology risk & radar /technologyRisk / Radar tabs EOL blast radius and sunset debt, plus a Risk Matrix plotting technologies on a 4×4 grid — impact (criticality tier) × likelihood (EOL/obsolescence band), both from objective data.
Present / Manage mode top bar toggle Switch the whole UI into a clean, read-only Present mode for stakeholders — hides editing controls and admin nav.
Command palette ⌘K Jump to any entity or page, or create something, from anywhere.
+ New top bar Create any entity type or a view from anywhere (editors/admins).

Admin

Area Route What it's for
Users /admin/users Create accounts, assign roles.
Settings /admin/settings Tenant settings (display name, single sign-on / OIDC, AI providers).
Integrations /admin/integrations Connect AWS, Azure, ServiceNow, and Microsoft Entra ID (SaaS discovery from your identity provider); configure AI providers (BYOK).
Metamodel /admin/metamodel Entity types and their property schemas, with version snapshots.
Relationship Types /admin/relationship-types The relationship vocabulary.
Approval Workflow /admin/approval-settings Which roles can approve in the review workflow.
Check-in Cadence /admin/check-in-cadence Periodic review cadence configuration.
Webhooks /admin/webhooks Outbound integration webhooks — generic (HMAC-signed), Slack (Block Kit), or Teams (MessageCard) format per webhook, posting to a channel's Incoming Webhook URL.
Platform /platform Super-admin only — tenant and plan management.

Admin setup