rkitoThe Architectural Intelligence Layerempowers yourentire engineering teams
Keep your architecture aligned—even as everything changes
Supercharge developer productivity and collaboration by seamlessly integrating a powerful architecture review process into your existing agile workflows.
As an engineering leader, gain real-time visibility into your product and systems with rkito. Leverage active steering and control features to track architectural evolution across delivery cycles.
Systems scale.
Teams expand.
AI agents join the loop.
But architecture… fragments.
More static diagrams or unstructured documentation won't make architecture more accessible, consumable, or maintainable. What modern engineering organizations need is a shared living body of design knowledge that every engineer and stakeholder can access and act on.
Fills a critical gap in modern engineering workflows
It brings clarity, consistency, and design awareness to every part of your development lifecycle
Eliminate Architecture Drift
rkito embeds design alignment directly inside pre-merge checks and CI/CD, ensuring every change reflects your architectural intention.
Human + AI Collaboration
Whether changes are made by engineers or autonomous agents, rkito ensures both operate from the same architectural understanding.
A Living Design Knowledge Base
Capture, evolve, and operationalize your architecture—continuously. Every decision becomes searchable, traceable, and reusable.
Culture-Level Transformation
Shift from diagram-driven enforcement to design-driven collaboration. Empower every engineer to contribute with clarity and equity.
How rkito Works
Analyze changes in real-time from human or AI contributors
Compare against architectural intent captured in rkito
Provide guidance, warnings, and alternatives before merge
Update the design knowledge base as architecture evolves
Serve as a unified reference for every engineer and every AI agent
What Makes rkito Different
Built for dynamic architectures
Designed for fast-moving organizations
Works with both human and AI workflows
Scales across teams, repos, and services
Makes architecture accessible—not gatekept
rkito isn't a diagram tool.
It's an architectural intelligence layer.
rkito fills a critical gap in modern engineering workflows.
We're confident you'll love what it unlocks
Democratizing architecture for all engineers.
Help us build the architectural intelligence layer that empowers every engineer—from students to leaders—to contribute with clarity and equity.
For contributors, engineering leaders, students, and professors
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Works seamlessly with the tools you already use
GitHub
Connect your GitHub repositories to automatically track commits, pull requests, and branches linked to Rkito change intentions and change orders.
Rkito continuously monitors associated Jira issues and detects pull requests as they are created for implementation. It analyzes these changes in real time by comparing them against your organization's defined Lenses, Best Practices, Policies, and Architectural Decisions. When deviations are identified, Rkito proactively alerts stakeholders through multiple channels—directly within development IDEs, on GitHub pull request pages, and via Rkito's own platform notification mechanisms. This ensures developers receive timely, actionable feedback exactly where they work, often before formal code reviews with fellow engineers or architects take place.
Jira
Rkito provides powerful change control features through change intentions—units of work that can be linked to one or more Jira issues. Connect your Jira workspace to sync statuses seamlessly between both platforms.
Jira is a powerful platform for managing the full software development lifecycle at a granular level. Rkito complements this by introducing structured Change Orders, which can be mapped to multiple Jira issues. With bi-directional sync, Rkito keeps status updates consistent across both systems, enabling engineering and product teams to stay aligned without duplicating effort. This integration ensures traceability, accountability, and smoother change control across your workflows.
Lucidchart
Lucidchart makes it easy to visualize concepts and systems. With Rkito, architectural records become instantly represented in Lucidchart diagrams for better alignment and clarity.
Lucidchart is a powerful platform for visualizing systems, components, dependencies, and technical concepts. Rkito, as the system of record for architectural decisions and change control, captures the full architectural context across your organization. By integrating with Lucidchart, Rkito can automatically generate or update diagrams based on real-time architectural data—ensuring visuals always reflect the current state of your systems. This keeps architecture documentation accurate, accessible, and in sync with evolving decisions and dependencies.
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