In June, Gartner described the future of EA tools as “meta-tools” or platforms that extend beyond architecture into business intelligence, GRC, digital twins, and process modeling. The message was clear: success in EA hinges on business alignment, composability, and ease of use for non-architects.
At Ardoq, we’re already there. This quarter, we’ve announced a wave of AI-powered capabilities that turn architecture into action, diagrams into decisions, and business context into strategy.
Here's how we’re delivering on that shift and helping our customers stay ahead of it.
AI Capabilities in Business Value Streams
Currently in Open Beta
Draft value streams, generate capability models, auto-link everything, all from business context.
We announced a complete set of AI-powered features to accelerate value stream and capability modeling from a blank canvas through to business impact. These are designed to help architects move fast, without sacrificing control.
What’s included:
- AI-generated value propositions based on your specific organization’s context
- Draft value streams with 6–8 contextual stages
- Multi-level capability models (up to 4 levels deep)
- Auto-linking of value stream stages to capabilities
- “Human-in-the-loop” scenario branching for every suggestion
📣 These capabilities are exclusive to Ardoq’s Business Value Streams and Capability Modeling Solutions.
Conversational AI Is Here
Technical Preview – Live Now!
Natural language access to your EA model, securely and simply.
We are the first EA platform to support the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard for connecting LLMs (like Claude or ChatGPT) to architecture data in a secure, read-only way.
Why it matters:
- Ask questions like “What’s the downstream impact of removing Salesforce?” and get a structured, contextual answer
- Skip log-ins, complex queries, and technical blockers
- Powered by Ardoq’s permission model
- Sets the stage for conversational architecture and AI agents
🎥 Watch the MCP launch video. If you’d like to try MCP, contact your Ardoq CSM to get started.
Lucidchart Integration and AI Importer
General Availability
From static diagrams to structured architecture in seconds.
We leveled up our Lucidchart integration with powerful AI enhancements. Turns messy diagrams into structured, living architecture with smart shape recognition, automatic classification, and zero manual mapping.
What’s new:
- Auto-classifies shapes into the right Ardoq components
- Infers relationships, flows, and parent-child groupings
- Instantly converts messy visuals into clean, usable data
📌 Ideal for onboarding teams migrating from diagram tools or cleaning up tech debt. This functionality is available with the Ardoq Scenarios add-on.
Read more about our Lucidchart Integration.
AI Process Modeling Meets Enterprise Architecture
General Availability – Now Live
Drag-and-drop images or paste text to instantly model business processes.
With ShiftX now natively available in Ardoq, we brought AI-powered process modeling into the EA experience.
Key innovations:
- Image import → AI auto-builds process model
- Text-to-process → Natural language input turns into structured workflows
- Visuals converted into clean data, ready for architecture mapping
- All natively integrated into Ardoq for connected EA and process modeling
From compliance to optimization, get process clarity at speed.
Prior AI Launches You Might Have Missed
From smart suggestions to natural language queries, these AI features have quietly shipped and are already helping architects work faster and smarter:
- AI-Powered Descriptions: Automatically drafts application and survey component descriptions to boost data quality and reduce manual effort.
- AI Assistant: A conversational support tool trained on Ardoq’s Help Center, providing best-practice advice and workflow guidance.
- AI View Builder: Simply ask in natural language and get a custom model view extracted from your graph, ideal for rapid insights.
- AI‑Driven Reference Creation: Suggests links between survey component entries (e.g. Apps ↔ Capabilities), dramatically improving completeness and reducing lookup friction.
- Ardoq for AI Innovation Management: Map, track, and analyze your organization’s AI initiatives, including aligning capabilities, infrastructure variations, dependencies, and risk.
What’s Next?
This fantastic momentum of Q2 has resulted in real, usable AI that solves pain points today and opens doors for tomorrow. We’re proud to be ahead of the curve, and we’re even more excited about what’s coming in the second half of the year.
Coming in the future:
- More AI automations to help architects work faster
- MCP extensions beyond querying and reasoning to doing
- Expanded support for context-aware prompts
- New Ardoq Labs previews and experiments launching every quarter
Thanks for joining us in building fast and putting EAs at the center of it all. We’re just getting started.