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Not all AI is built for architecture. Most tools stop at surface-level answers or general-purpose reasoning. But technical architecture is different. It is multi-dimensional, tightly coupled to business risk, and constantly evolving. It demands context, precision, and domain depth.
That is why we built Archie.
Archie is Catio’s architecture-native AI copilot. It is purpose-built for architecture teams who are navigating systems complexity, stakeholder alignment, and critical design tradeoffs. Often with too little time and too few resources.
More than a chatbot, Archie brings conversational intelligence directly into the tools you already use to analyze, plan, and improve your stack. It reads your architecture, understands your requirements, and responds with actionable, context-aware insights—bridging the gap between technical questions and strategic answers.
Whether you are a principal architect shaping modernization plans, a tech lead debugging bottlenecks, or a CTO aligning teams around platform strategy, Archie brings the clarity and depth of a trusted expert. On demand, and always in your context.
Our customers are already experiencing the value of this architecture copilot:
- “This is the most coveted tool for my team right now.” — CTO, Global eCommerce platform
- “This is very exciting and transformative” — CTO, Global Financial Institution
- “This is truly contextual, architecture-specific answers rather than generic AI responses I would get.” — Senior Architect
Turning Conversations Into Strategy
Archie enables architecture teams to ask natural-language questions about their systems and get intelligent, real-time answers. Whether you are designing a new service, evaluating tradeoffs, or investigating performance concerns, Archie gives you grounded, architecture-aware guidance without the delay or guesswork.
This release is a foundational step toward fully operationalizing architectural decision-making inside Catio. With Archie, expertise is no longer a bottleneck. It is embedded directly into the tools your team already uses.
What Archie Can Do Today
The Beta release includes several high-impact capabilities designed to support faster, smarter architecture decisions:
- Natural-Language Q&A: Ask questions about your current or planned architecture. Archie interprets the question in context and responds with targeted, accurate insights.
- Embedded Multi-Agent Expertise: Archie is powered by Catio’s multi-agent AI system, which understands cost, performance, resilience, security, and more. The result is a new level of architectural fluency available on demand.
- Proactive Optimization Signals: Archie surfaces risks and opportunities based on real-time architecture data so you can course-correct before issues impact the business.
- Generative Planning Capabilities: Ask Archie to draft a new capability or explore how to modernize a subsystem. It will generate architecture options, identify gaps, and produce roadmap-ready suggestions.
Why This Matters
Architecture leaders are under pressure to move faster, operate with less overhead, and align every decision to business value. Archie makes that shift possible by embedding a trusted copilot into the daily workflow of engineering and architecture teams.
Instead of relying on scattered knowledge, delayed design reviews, or costly external input, teams get immediate, expert-grade support aligned to their actual systems and goals.
This accelerates decision cycles, reduces technical debt, and creates a shared language between engineering execution and business strategy.
What’s Next
Archie is in Beta, and we are working closely with early users to guide its evolution. Here is what is ahead:
- Broader domain coverage including more infrastructure and application components
- Richer insights from deeper observability integration
- Tighter connection to Roadmaps, linking questions directly to initiatives and execution tracking
Architecture Guidance That Scales
This is not a chatbot bolted onto an observability tool. Archie is part of Catio’s broader mission to turn architecture into a strategic advantage.
With real-time visibility, AI-generated plans, and now conversational access to expertise, architecture teams are equipped to drive modernization, improve ROI on tech spend, and act with confidence.
Archie is currently available in Beta to all Catio users. If you are new to Catio, schedule a demo to see it in action.
Architecture is becoming operational. Archie is here to help you lead that change.