Own what your agents ship.
Architecture health you can report, AI governance risk you can see, and a clear rule for when to escalate.
Everything for CTOs, in one place.
Architecture health for the board, AI governance risk, when to escalate.
CTO Playbook
- 01The 10-minute Monday check
- 02Reading DHS for board reporting
- 03AI adoption governance: what ADRIFT tells you
- 04When to escalate
- 05Architecture health as audit evidence
- 06Your role in Steering
Four numbers to watch
Ideas CTOs bring to the board.
Design Continuity is a formula — Rails plus Change Control plus Conformance — architectural intent that is known,…
PlatformArchitectural DriftThe silent, incremental divergence between agreed architectural intent and what actually ships — now accelerating as AI…
Human FactorsCognitive Debt in the Agentic EraAs AI multiplies the rate of architectural decisions, no architect's cognitive capacity can keep pace — a structural…
Same structure, different seat.
Security conformance, audit preparation and agent risk.
For VPs of EngineeringSprint conformance, team-level drift and process health.
For Chief architectsLens authoring, conformance review and blocked-PR triage.
For Product ownersDelivery predictability and design approval timing.
For SREsArchitectural risk, incident root cause and agent drift signals.
For EngineersHow rkito hooks into your PRs and governs your coding agents.