Company - Catio

Architecture broke when decisions stopped compounding

More code is being written than ever

Decisions are made locally without system context

Systems fragment

Dependencies sprawl

Technical debt accumulates faster than it’s resolved

So architecture evolves through drift, not deliberate decisions.

The Architecture IDE — for making and compounding architecture decisions

A control plane where systems are understood, trade-offs are evaluated, and decision-grade specs are generated at AI speed.
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Teams continue shipping using Coding AI. Architects govern through exception-based reviews and feedback from execution.

So architecture decisions happen at AI speed, and what gets built stays aligned to intent as the system evolves.

Built by a team who’s had to make these decisions and seen how they play out

Focused on how modern systems are decided, designed, and evolved at leading engineering orgs. And how that needs to evolve in the age of AI.

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We’re building the Architecture IDE, the system for making and compounding architecture decisions.

If you think in systems and want to define a new category, we should talk.

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Advised by leaders in architecture and engineering

“I’m excited about the visibility Catio brings to software and infrastructure teams and the gaps it fills with reasoning and design guidance.”

Emil Ibrishimov

CTO of

Gem

"Facing numerous competing priorities and scarce time, Catio enhances our decision-making process with a neutral outsider perspective – delivering efficiency gains comparable to those of GitHub Copilot."

Harald Prokop

CTO of

Just Appraised

The system for reasoning and compounding software systems