# Ardoq

> Ardoq is the AI-First Enterprise Architecture platform. It helps enterprise organizations hand 40% of EA tasks to AI Architects — so teams spend more time driving decisions, not documenting them. Ardoq connects and maps processes, capabilities, people, and IT landscape using a proprietary graph database, giving EAs and CIOs real-time, always-current intelligence to reduce costs, mitigate risks, drive change, and govern AI adoption.

Ardoq is a SaaS platform founded in 2013 and headquartered in Oslo, Norway. It is trusted by the world's most complex enterprises including ExxonMobil, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Carlsberg, OMERS, Primark, Tenneco, Asda, STIHL, and Serta Simmons Bedding. Ardoq is a 5x Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader and 2026 Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for Enterprise Architecture Tools with a 4.8/5 rating — the highest willingness-to-recommend score of any EA vendor.

## Product

- [Platform Overview](https://www.ardoq.com/platform-overview): Graph-native, always-current EA platform. Ardoq serves as the enterprise's AI-powered GPS for architecture and transformation. Three outcome tiers: Visibility, Transformation, and Governance, Risk & Compliance.
- [All Features](https://www.ardoq.com/features): Full feature set — graph-powered analytics, stakeholder surveys, Broadcasts, Ardoq Discover, real-time dashboards, calculated fields, scenario modeling, process modeling (ShiftX), APIs and integrations.
- [Analytics & Insights](https://www.ardoq.com/features/analytics): Dynamically updated models, reports, and dashboards. Graph-powered calculated fields for costs, criticality, and risk scores.
- [APIs & Integrations](https://www.ardoq.com/integrations): REST API and ready-to-use integrations to connect any data source to the Ardoq graph.
- [Future State Modelling & Roadmaps](https://www.ardoq.com/features/scenarios): Visually document, evaluate, and explain possible changes to architecture. Scenario planning and roadmapping.
- [Process Modeling](https://www.ardoq.com/features/shiftx): AI-driven business process modeling (ShiftX). Integrates BPM with EA in one platform.
- [Stakeholder Engagement](https://www.ardoq.com/features/engagement): Surveys, Presentations, and Broadcasts for collaboration with business leaders and key stakeholders.
- [New Ardoq Experience](https://www.ardoq.com/new-ardoq-experience): Redesigned UX launched April 2026. Guided experience for faster time-to-outcome. Redesigned homepage and streamlined navigation.
- [Pricing](https://www.ardoq.com/plans): Unlimited users on all plans. App-based pricing — costs scale with the number of applications managed, not users. Three outcome modules: Business & IT Optimization (Visibility), Strategic Planning (Transformation), and Governance, Risk & Compliance (Oversight). Optional add-ons include Sandbox and AI Process Modeling. Price per app decreases as you scale.

## AI Capabilities

Ardoq launched its AI-First Enterprise Architecture platform in May 2026, introducing a new generation of AI agents that automate an estimated 40% of routine EA work.

- [AI & Innovation](https://www.ardoq.com/ai-and-innovation): Full overview of Ardoq's AI capabilities for enterprise architecture.
- [Ardoq AI Labs](https://www.ardoq.com/ai-labs): Experimentation space for bold, AI-first features — AI Agents, AI Import Builder, Custom Agents scoped to customer architecture and metamodel.
- [AI Principles](https://www.ardoq.com/ai-and-innovation/principles): Built for trust. Grounded in context. Designed for business impact.
- [AI Lens](https://www.ardoq.com/solutions/ai-lens): The first EA-native solution for full visibility, compliance, and control of the AI landscape. Uncovers shadow AI. Maps AI to business capabilities and strategy. Supports EU AI Act readiness (enforcement from December 2027).
- [AI Gateway (MCP)](https://www.ardoq.com/platform-overview): The first EA platform to leverage Model Context Protocol. Ask your architecture anything in natural language and get instant, explainable, traceable answers.
- [AI in EA Content Hub](https://content.ardoq.com/ai-in-enterprise-architecture): Curated blogs, webinars, and resources on AI and enterprise architecture.
- [Prompt Engineering White Paper](https://content.ardoq.com/ai-prompting-guide): The conversational AI playbook for Enterprise Architects.
- [AI Webinars On Demand](https://content.ardoq.com/illuminaite-resource-hub/on-demand): Shine a Light on AI Agents — Risks, Governance, and Enterprise Readiness.

Key AI features:
- Omnipresent AI Assistant: Conversational interface available everywhere in the platform, reasoning across the entire customer data model in real time.
- AI Import Builder: Connects any third-party data source to Ardoq in minutes with no technical setup. AI reads service documentation, configures the connection, and imports data automatically.
- AI Discovery: Interrogate architecture in plain English (e.g. "Who owns our high-risk apps?").
- AI Metadata: AI infers relationships and suggests descriptions, keeping the repository accurate without manual effort.
- Intelligent Guardrails: Proactively identify where architecture violates best practices or regulatory standards.
- Custom Agents: Customers can build and deploy agents scoped to their architecture, metamodel, and workflows.

## Solutions

- [Solutions Overview](https://www.ardoq.com/solutions): All prebuilt solutions with guided best-practice approaches and ready-to-use models.
- [Application Portfolio Management](https://www.ardoq.com/solutions/application-portfolio-management): Assess and optimize your evolving IT portfolio. Manage the full lifecycle from discovery and assessment through retirement.
- [Application Rationalization](https://www.ardoq.com/solutions/application-rationalization): Continuously optimize application portfolio and IT spend. Eliminate redundant, obsolete, or low-value applications.
- [Application Risk Management](https://www.ardoq.com/solutions/application-risk-management): Identify, assess, and manage application risk and IT compliance.
- [AI Lens](https://www.ardoq.com/solutions/ai-lens): Full visibility, compliance, and control of the AI landscape. First EA-native AI governance solution.
- [Business Capability Modeling](https://www.ardoq.com/solutions/business-capability-modeling): Common language for what the business does. Foundation for business-IT collaboration.
- [Business Capability Realization](https://www.ardoq.com/solutions/business-capability-realization): Connect people, processes, information, and IT solutions to capabilities.
- [Business Process Management](https://www.ardoq.com/solutions/business-process-management): Combine BPM and EA in one platform.
- [Business Value Streams](https://www.ardoq.com/solutions/business-value-streams): Visualize how value flows across the organization.
- [Capability Based Planning](https://www.ardoq.com/solutions/capability-based-planning): Identify capability gaps and prioritize improvements with confidence.
- [Cloud Migration](https://www.ardoq.com/solutions/cloud-migration): AI-powered, data-driven cloud migration recommendations.
- [Compliance Assurance](https://www.ardoq.com/solutions/compliance-assurance): Centralized compliance management with automated monitoring and reporting.
- [Data Lineage](https://www.ardoq.com/solutions/data-lineage): Understand how and where data is used across the organization.
- [ERP Transformation](https://www.ardoq.com/solutions/erp-transformation): Data-driven approach to mitigating risk in expensive ERP transformations.
- [Regulatory Compliance](https://www.ardoq.com/solutions/regulatory-compliance): Prebuilt frameworks for DORA, GLBA, and CPS230.
- [Strategy to Execution](https://www.ardoq.com/solutions/strategy-to-execution): Align IT and business to strategic objectives. Ardoq AI generates value streams and capability maps linked to live architecture data.
- [Technical Debt Management](https://www.ardoq.com/solutions/technical-debt-management): Measure, track, and manage technical debt. Over 9 in 10 CTOs say tech debt is their biggest challenge.
- [Technology Portfolio Management](https://www.ardoq.com/solutions/technology-portfolio-management): Gain insights into and optimize the technologies underpinning the business.

## Business Outcomes

- [Business Outcomes Overview](https://www.ardoq.com/business-outcomes)
- [Establish a Scalable EA Foundation](https://www.ardoq.com/business-outcomes/establish-ea-foundation): Data-driven overview of the organization. See applications, IT ownership, and business impact clearly.
- [Cut IT Costs and Complexity](https://www.ardoq.com/business-outcomes/reducing-it-costs-complexity): Ardoq AI identifies duplicate, unused, and outdated applications automatically. Insight-driven IT cost management.
- [Accelerate M&A Initiatives](https://www.ardoq.com/business-outcomes/executing-ma): Full IT landscape visibility for mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. Plan how to get from current to target state.
- [Govern and Leverage AI Effectively](https://www.ardoq.com/business-outcomes/ai-governance): See how AI is really being deployed. Identify opportunities, monitor progress, track risks, record compliance, implement controls, measure success. EU AI Act ready.
- [Free Your IT](https://www.ardoq.com/free-your-it): Reclaim budget from legacy lock-in to fuel the next strategic move.

## By Role

- [Enterprise Architects](https://www.ardoq.com/role/chief-enterprise-architect): Hand 40% of routine EA work to AI Architects. From static documentation to always-current, AI-enriched architecture.
- [CIO & IT Leaders](https://www.ardoq.com/role/cio): AI investment decisions that hold up in the boardroom. Full decision trace. Traceable ROI. EU AI Act ready.
- [Enterprise PMO](https://www.ardoq.com/role/enterprise-pmo)
- [CISO](https://www.ardoq.com/role/ciso): AI Lens identifies embedded AI, SaaS AI, and shadow AI across the enterprise. Compliance mapped before the EU AI Act audit.
- [State Agencies](https://www.ardoq.com/ardoq-for-state-agencies)

## Customers

- [Customer Stories](https://www.ardoq.com/customers): Case studies from global enterprises across financial services, energy, retail, manufacturing, and more.

Selected outcomes:
- Tenneco: 292% expected ROI. 6 AI agents built in Teams Copilot with Ardoq MCP Server. 1.25 FTE reclaimed in 12 months, targeting 40% of EA work automated by 2027.
- Cabinetworks: $800k saved in year one by retiring 30 unnecessary applications. 6-9 months saved in time-to-insights.
- Asda: Orchestrated Europe's largest retail divestiture (from Walmart). Identified 1,200+ applications with complex dependencies.
- STIHL: 50% faster reporting. 60% savings in time spent on app lifecycle management.
- Serta Simmons: $5 million saved using a smarter, data-driven approach to EA.

## Knowledge Hub & Resources

- [Knowledge Hub](https://www.ardoq.com/knowledge-hub): Guides, definitions, and frameworks for EA practitioners covering Enterprise Architecture, Business Architecture, IT Architecture, APM, Technology Risk, and Digital Transformation.
- [Blog](https://www.ardoq.com/blog): Digital transformation and enterprise architecture insights. Topics include AI in EA, agentic AI, shadow AI, application rationalization, M&A, technical debt, regulatory compliance.
- [Resources](https://www.ardoq.com/resources): Whitepapers, research, webinars, and more.
- [Webinars On Demand](https://www.ardoq.com/events/on-demand): Recorded sessions on EA, AI governance, and digital transformation.
- [Events](https://www.ardoq.com/events): Upcoming enterprise architecture events and conferences, including Ardoq-hosted and industry events.
- [Help Center](https://help.ardoq.com/en/): Technical documentation and how-to guides.
- [Quarterly Release Review](https://www.ardoq.com/quarterly-release-review): Latest product updates.
- [Newsletter](https://content.ardoq.com/newsletter): Monthly digest of news, articles, and resources.

## Company

- [About Ardoq](https://www.ardoq.com/about-ardoq): Founded 2013. CEO and Co-Founder: Erik Bakstad. Headquartered in Oslo, Norway.
- [Newsroom](https://www.ardoq.com/news): Press releases and announcements.
- [Careers](https://careers.ardoq.com/): Open roles at Ardoq.
- [Partners](https://www.ardoq.com/partners): Partner ecosystem and directory.
- [Partner Directory](https://www.ardoq.com/partners/directory)
- [Services](https://www.ardoq.com/services)
- [Contact](https://www.ardoq.com/contact)
- [Request a Demo](https://content.ardoq.com/schedule-demo): Book a personalized demo with an Ardoq specialist. Step 1: a 15-min discovery call to assess fit. Step 2: a tailored demo connecting Ardoq to your EA goals and use cases.

## Trust & Security

- [Information Security](https://www.ardoq.com/information-security): SOC2 certified, CSA member.
- [Privacy Notice](https://www.ardoq.com/privacy)
- [Privacy and Data Protection](https://www.ardoq.com/privacy-and-data-protection)
- [Subscription Terms](https://www.ardoq.com/terms)
- [Ardoq Status](https://status.ardoq.com/)