Executive Scorecard

Real-time governance KPIs computed from your architecture artifacts.

Standards Conformance
33%

5 active waivers

Enterprise Risk Posture
4

critical + high risks

Technical Debt Exposure
$3.4M

total risk exposure

Remediation Velocity
47%

1 fully remediated

Pattern Reuse Rate
100%

systems using approved patterns

Cloud Spend at Risk
$30K

FinOps / infra waivers

Risk & Compliance Dashboard

Cross-domain risk exposure and standards adoption at a glance.

Risk Heat Map by Domain

DomainCritHighMedLow
Integration
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2
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Infrastructure
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1
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--
Data
--
1
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Security
1
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FinOps
--
--
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1
DevOps
--
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1
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AI / ML
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1
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Standards Coverage by Domain

Approved Draft Retired
AI/ML
2
Integration
1
Identity
1
FinOps
1
Security
1
Data
1
DevOps
1
Infrastructure
1

Portfolio Summary

Systems inventory, pattern maturity distribution, and waiver lifecycle.

Systems Inventory

SystemLoCContainersDeploy UnitsDisposition
E-Commerce Platform187.3K1210Invest
Image Categorization31.4K43Invest
ML Platform22.1K22Tolerate
Demand Forecasting18.6K87Invest

Pattern Maturity

Production Ready
3
Beta
2
Draft
1

Waiver Lifecycle

2Pending Review
5Approved
1Remediated
1Rejected
1Expired

Why Architecture as Code?

Replacing manual architecture reviews with automated, continuously enforced architectural governance.

Machine-Readable & Version-Controlled

Architecture is expressed in parseable formats (like YAML, JSON, or C4/Structurizr DSL) and versioned in Git to establish clear ownership and an audit trail.

Executable Guardrails

Policies and constraints are codified as rules that execute automatically in CI/CD pipelines, providing clear pass/fail outputs.

Model-to-Runtime Parity

Continuously detects drift between the "as-designed" architecture and the "as-built" infrastructure by comparing model facts to runtime configurations.

Shift-Left Governance

Architecture checks are run early in pipelines and platform gates to block non-compliant releases before they reach production environments.

Decisions as Code

Significant architectural decisions are recorded as Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) right next to the code to preserve rationale.

Human Oversight + Automation

Combines expert architectural review with automated validation, ensuring human judgment guides decisions while automation handles repeatability and scale.

The Operational Lifecycle

A repeatable, automated workflow from architecture design to production deployment.

Plan

Define

Understanding requirements, reading specifications, and designing the architecture.

Create

Build

Authoring the AaC for standards, archetypes, and application components using IDEs or visual tools, followed by local validation.

Verify

Test

Running automated schema validations and unit tests within CI pipelines to ensure components align with enterprise standards.

Release

Accept

Executing architecture compliance validation, automatically generating artifacts (Markdowns, Diagrams), and gating approvals via PRs.

Release

Deploy

Publishing the approved architecture to Policy-as-Code pipelines, updating the enterprise catalog, and notifying stakeholders.

Operational Health

Engineering and catalog quality indicators computed from your architecture models.

6.5

Containers per System

Average container density across modeled software systems.

64.8K

Avg LoC per System

Mean lines of code per modeled application system.

6.3

Requirements per Standard

Average requirement count per published standard.

100%

Catalog Coverage

Systems with fully validated model and metadata.

CI/CD Pipeline

Automated quality gates, parallel architecture validation, and deployment powered by GitHub Actions.

CI/CD Pipeline

Lint & Test
App Arch
Patterns
Standards
Assemble
PR Review
Publish

Developer Utilities

CLI tools, AI agents, and platform integrations to bring architecture governance into your development workflow.

v1.0.2Live

CLI Tool

Validate, scaffold, and manage architecture artifacts from the terminal

  • Schema validation against live enterprise schemas
  • Project scaffolding with aac init
  • Boilerplate artifact generation for all types
Soon

AI Agent

Autonomous architecture review, compliance checking, and artifact generation

  • Automated architecture compliance review
  • Natural language to YAML artifact generation
  • Architecture drift detection and alerting
Soon

aac2iac

Convert Architecture as Code models into deployable Infrastructure as Code artifacts

  • Generate Terraform / OpenTofu modules from C4 system models
  • Emit CloudFormation and Pulumi stacks from architecture YAML
  • Map C4 containers to cloud-native resource templates
v1.0.0Live

MCP Server

Model Context Protocol server for IDE and AI tool integrations

  • Read system models, standards, waivers, and patterns via MCP resources
  • Validate architecture YAML against enterprise schemas
  • Run 5 enterprise compliance policy rules
v1.0.0Live

Policy Engine

OPA Rego policies for enterprise architecture governance at scale

  • Rego policies for security, integration, and FinOps governance
  • Built-in OPA test framework with 100% coverage target
  • CI/CD pipeline integration with format, syntax, and test checks
v1.0.0Live

Context Driven Dev

GitHub Copilot Spaces for context-grounded, compliant code generation

  • Context-grounded code generation from enterprise standards
  • RAG-powered retrieval of approved patterns and schemas
  • Domain-specific Spaces for Data/AI and Infrastructure
v1.0.0Live

Continuous Integration

Reference GitHub Actions pipeline for validating app architecture against enterprise schemas and policies

  • Schema validation via aac validate against published JSON Schema
  • 5 architecture compliance rules enforced on every PR
  • 3 OPA Rego policy checks: KMS encryption, autoscaling, API gateway