Methods for the work
Use a focused recipe when you need to frame a decision, build or repair a model, analyze change, or govern what follows.
Browse 45 recipesA practical home for business architects
Practical help for doing business architecture well.
I built this site for practitioners who need to turn a messy business question into useful architecture. You will find methods, editable work products, a complete case study, and an AI-assisted workflow you can use in your own environment.
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What you will find here
Take what helps. Leave what does not.
This is a working library, not a prescribed methodology. Start with the problem in front of you and use only enough structure to improve the decision.
A better place to begin than a blank page
Download practical Excel and Markdown structures with instructions, boundaries, and completed examples.
Use the work productsOne problem carried all the way through
See how strategy, capabilities, value, information, organization, initiatives, evidence, and decisions fit together.
Follow the caseAI assistance with the architect still in control
Use a portable agent and workspace to organize evidence, analyze relationships, and prepare governed work products.
Explore SCALEWhy I built it
I learned business architecture by doing it.
I came to the discipline from freight operations, where decisions have immediate consequences for service, labor, cost, safety, and customers. When I moved into business architecture, I found plenty of clean concepts and far less help with the untidy work of applying them.
This is the practical material I wish I had at the beginning. It reflects real practitioner judgment, but it does not pretend one template or AI agent can make the business decision for you.