System5.dev: Crafting Architecture Copilot

Our mission is to elevate engineering of evolving complex multi-domain systems to achieve a manyfold increase in development velocity, newcomers time-to-productivity, and make everyone able to understand and contribute - even without programming background.

Our Benefits

Сollaboration

Humans make mistakes. Team is always smarter than each individual member. Experience the future of architectural collaboration with our platform. We empower teams to engage in collaborative "thinking by modelling" practices within a shared context, minimising risk of mistake and improving engineering experience.

Traceability

Navigate your architecture with transparency. Our platform provides comprehensive traceability for a clear view of every decision and its impact. No detail is hidden.

Autonomy

Distributed architecture decision-making is the most efficient way to handle growing systems complexity. Even if you have unique experts to handle any area of the product, they become a flow bottleneck very soon. Decompose, keep boundaries in focus, visualise and inform all stakeholders about important decisions with no efforts.

Ownership

Most powerful teams take the full accountability for their decisions outcomes. Our platform gives you complete ownership by connecting high-level decisions to target system behavior, product metrics and acceptancestrategy.

Cross-functional Architecture

The most influential decisions are not always confined to engineers or architects. True "cross-functional" collaboration transcends the conventional boundaries of "frontend + backend + QA." With inclusive Architecture Copilot, individuals from various backgrounds, such as analysts, product managers, business subject matter experts, and UX designers, can seamlessly engage and contribute, even if they lack a programming background.

Evolution

In essence, the concept of evolution in complex engineered systems embodies a dynamic and continuous journey of improvement and adaptation, ensuring that these systems remain effective, competitive, and aligned with the evolving demands of their operational environment. Architecture Copilot supports system evolvability and promote evolutional mindset with incremental controlled system mutations with a feedback loop.

Our Features

Digital Thread

“One system - one model.” Generate any number of architecture views, description or diagrams on-demand from a single multidimensional cross-functional model with all complexity hidden under the user-friendly interfaces.

Teams topology as part of the model

Stream-aligned teams and “Teams Topology” pioneered the adoption of “reverse Conway maneuver”, but the Architecture Copilot embodied it as a core operational model. Assign ownership, define architecture communication flow, put stakeholders in the loop.

Architecture documentation auto-sync

Bring your favorite tools for document management, product management and team collaboration. Architecture Copilot deliver necessary data to external systems automatically.

Architecture Canvas

Streamline collaboration and keep teams focus on important matters by using Domain and Feature canvases. All entered information validated and merged with Digital Thread according to customisable architecture “game rules”.

Smart Model Ingestion

AI-powered mechanism can extract structured information from your data. All the sources work: product documentation, use cases, support tickets, customer feedback etc.

Self-service Acceptance Toolkit

Define success criteria on early architecture design stage, propagate metrics before making product change, collect data and measure feature impact by built-in Architecture Copilot functions.

Architecture Repository

Accumulate knowledge in the Digital Thread to enable “rapid architecture design” process. Architecture building blocks help your teams to decrease cognitive load and minimise risk of mistake.

Track System Increment Delivery

Map your work-management units to your codebase through the Architecture Copilot to benefit from optimal feature scope decomposition, dependencies management and improved traceability.

How it works

Team

Please meet our Founding team: 40+ combined years of experience delivering customers value with complex dynamic systems as part of multiple teams in numerous domains.

Ivan Padabed

Founder

Engineer by heart, Ivan has successfully applied his “systems thinking” superpower to master Systems Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Technical Product Management, and Engineering Management. His “pain” coming from architecture tooling imperfection became a motivation to build System5.dev

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Roman Voronin

Co-Founder

Software and Solution Architect with more than two decades of experience in IT. Strong experience with system architecture with a special focus on AWS Technologies, Kubernetes, and Python. Adept of System Engineering approach. Certified AWS specialist. Leader and events organizer of Minsk AWS Community

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FAQ

So it is one more diagramming tool?

Not even close. We are strong believers of textual models (LLMs approve!) so diagrams will be our side benefit. The core and the main idea of the product is a “one system - one model” principle also known as a “digital thread”. We can collect and organise all the contextual information according to inner metamodel structure to effectively use it as a basis for evolutional engineering processes.

Why we are better than other tools ?

We are better just because there are no similar tools on the market now. Closest match might be a combination of multiple products like Jira, Confluence, Compass, Fibery, GitHub, Cortex, PlantUML etc. But any combined flow will have similar problems: reinventing the SotA, integration problems, high maintenance cost, cognitive load, UX. Our Architecture Copilot will not replace but make it smooth and efficient.

Why should I learn it as engineer?

The brief answer is that we believe that it is the way we will do all the complex systems engineering in the future, so learning it is the way to stay up to engineering trends. The long answer is that it is already the most effective way of making complex systems engineering. But the theory and skills of doing engineering this way are counter-intuitive and mind-breaking in some aspects, so adopting this mindset with the assistance of this tool, explicitly designed to support all the concepts, practices and heuristics might be less painful.

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