Tools & Templates

Tools & Templates

Templates give you a proven structure to copy and fill in. Builders let you start from the reference architectures on this site and shape them to your organisation. Where a template and a builder produce the same thing, they link to each other.

Builders

Strategy Modeler

Build your own reference architecture and technology strategy

Start from the Integration, Data Platform or Security reference architecture and make it yours: define the people it serves and what they need to do, adjust the layers and components, and map each component to the products you use with a lifecycle status — strategic, tactical or decommission. Export the result as JSON, a Word document or a PDF.

  • Starts from the reference architectures on this site, kept in step with them
  • Your work stays in your browser — nothing is sent to us
  • Designed for desktop screens

Templates

ADRMADRDecision Log

Architecture Decision Record (ADR) Template

A Markdown Architectural Decision Record on the MADR 4.0.0 standard, extended with an options evaluation matrix, principle alignment and governance fields for architecture review.

Reference ArchitectureTemplateGovernance

Reference Architecture Template

A structure for documenting a reference architecture: scope and principles, layers of product-neutral components with example implementations, the patterns and decisions behind them, and a lifecycle roadmap.

SADDesignSolution Architecture

Solution Architecture Design (SAD) Template

A comprehensive template for documenting end-to-end solution designs, including requirements, decisions, component layouts, data design, and security controls.