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 |
/technology → Risk / 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