Ardoq Launches the New Ardoq Experience to Bring Enterprise Architecture Closer to the Entire Organization

The most significant redesign in Ardoq's history reduces friction, accelerates time to insight, and lays the foundation for AI-powered Enterprise Architecture.

OSLO, Norway – 28 April 2026 – Ardoq, the AI-powered Enterprise Architecture (EA) platform, has launched the New Ardoq Experience: a foundational redesign that makes it easier for organizations to get value from their architecture, faster and at greater scale.

The new experience isn't a cosmetic update. It rethinks the entire user journey, from onboarding to modeling to insight delivery, to reduce the friction that has historically kept architecture insights confined to a small group of expert users. With this launch, Ardoq sets a new standard for what an EA platform should look like in an AI-driven world.

"We've been focusing on building deep and powerful capabilities. One thing we haven't done a good enough job of is connecting the user journey," said Erik Bakstad, CEO and Co-Founder of Ardoq. "This is the change that connects the dots — making it easier to get started, get insight, and engage the organization to do more."

From Powerful Tool to Connected Experience

Enterprise Architecture doesn't fail because of missing data. It fails when the rest of the organization can't engage with it.

That insight drove the redesign. Ardoq set out to make the platform accessible not just to architects, but to the business stakeholders, CIOs, and leaders who need to act on architecture insights every day.

The New Ardoq Experience delivers on this with five interconnected improvements:

Guided experience for faster time-to-outcome. A redesigned homepage and streamlined navigation surface key actions, meaningful metrics, and personalized guidance from the moment users log in. New customers benefit from guided onboarding from day one, reducing setup time and getting teams to meaningful work faster.

Effortless modeling. Architecture work is complex; navigating through it shouldn't be. Ardoq has simplified how users explore, edit, and connect data, with faster data ingestion, visual data exploration, smarter reference creation, and inline editing that cuts unnecessary clicks.

A reimagined Discover experience. The Discover experience has been rebuilt as a core part of the platform, giving contributors and architects alike a consistent, modern interface for finding, sharing, and exploring architecture insights. Smoother navigation, unified permissions, and smarter search make it significantly easier to get information to the people who need it.

Clearer insights for confident decisions. Tailored dashboards and more flexible formatting options make it easier to communicate change, risk, and impact, so stakeholders understand not just what is happening, but why it matters.

AI-powered data quality and discovery. Users can now ask questions about their architecture in plain language, generate queries without learning syntax, and surface relevant insights through context-aware semantic search. AI-driven suggestions also help identify and resolve missing or inconsistent data directly from report results.

"If you don't engage your organization, you're doomed to fail either as an EA function or as an EA project," said Ian Stendera, CPO at Ardoq. "We had all the tools in the toolbox — but maybe not the exact instructions to help guide you to that outcome. This experience changes that."

Setting the Foundation for What Comes Next

While the changes are immediately visible in the user experience, much of the work happened at a structural level. Ardoq has invested heavily in improving data quality, performance, and platform architecture, work that will power the next generation of AI-driven capabilities.

"AI is only as good as the data you provide it," noted Erik Bakstad. "This isn't just about improving how Ardoq works today. It's about enabling what comes next."

The New Ardoq Experience is designed to be the starting point for a more agentic, AI-powered platform, where workflows can be automated, insights generated dynamically, and experiences tailored to each user's role and context.

Availability

The New Ardoq Experience is available now to all customers. To tour the New Ardoq Experience, visit ardoq.com/new-ardoq-experience or watch the on-demand webinar.

About Ardoq

Ardoq is the AI-powered Enterprise Architecture platform that turns enterprise complexity into connected intelligence. Built on a proprietary graph foundation, Ardoq helps organizations visualize how people, processes, and technologies interact, delivering real-time insight into how change impacts the business. Through automation and applied AI, Ardoq transforms static documentation into decision intelligence, empowering leaders to simulate outcomes, reduce risk, and accelerate transformation.

Trusted by over 400 global enterprises, including British Telecom, MUFG, Carlsberg Group, and ExxonMobil, Ardoq enables organizations to act with clarity and confidence in an AI-driven world. Learn more at www.ardoq.com.

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