Archium
Self-hosted · Excel-native · privacy-first AI

Map it. Prove it.
Fund it.

Archium turns one shared Excel workbook into a live enterprise architecture platform and a Treasury-grade business case — generated on load, refreshed on every save. No per-application licence. No data leaves your building unless you say so.

210 / 210automated checks
$0community tier, forever
ISO 55000asset lifecycle model, built in
< 90 mincold-start usability test
Archium executive summary showing capability coverage, process maturity, data-quality gaps and funding readiness, computed live for a sample utilities landscape
FIG. 01 — EXECUTIVE SUMMARYlive data, not a mockup
Sheet 01
The problem

The landscape is real. Your record of it isn't.

Most organisations run their architecture the same way: a Visio diagram nobody trusts, a spreadsheet three people have a different copy of, and a business case rebuilt from scratch every funding cycle.

$91,000/yr

One published example of a single negotiated per-application EA platform deal — a 300-application portfolio. Individual deals vary.

Source: public pricing analysis, 2025
167,132

TOGAF-certified practitioners worldwide — and most still assemble their business case in Word, by hand.

Source: The Open Group certification directory
0

Major EA platforms whose published feature lists include a Five Case Model business case builder, as at July 2026.

Survey of vendors' published feature lists, July 2026
Sheet 02
How it works

Three steps. No server, no consultant, no six-week rollout.

1

Load your workbook

Fill three plain-language Excel tabs — providers, capabilities, what each system actually sends — or drag in an existing export. Drop it on the page. Everything else computes.

2

Explore instantly

Coverage percentages, inferred gaps, a live mind map, drill-down fact sheets, and a 13-gate business-case readiness score — all recomputed the moment the file lands, all traceable back to the row that produced them.

3

Export what you need

Editable draw.io diagrams, TOGAF ADM artifacts, a Five Case Model business case document, or the updated workbook itself — every output is a real, editable file, not a locked screenshot.

Sheet 03
The drawing set

Everything an architecture practice actually uses, in one file.

Coverage & gap analytics

Every gap is inferred from what's missing in the data — nobody hand-tags a risk register that goes stale.

Diagram Studio

Drag-to-arrange landscape, integration and capability maps. Export editable draw.io XML, SVG or PNG.

Business Case Builder

The Five Case Model with live NPV, BCR, payback and a 13-gate readiness score that shows what a review board will flag.

TOGAF Artifact Generator

ADM phases A–H — capability catalogs, application portfolios, gap analyses — generated as editable xlsx and markdown.

Fact Sheets & Inventory

One consistent, editable page per provider, system or capability, with a completeness seal — the LeanIX pattern, without the licence.

AI Assist, on your terms

Bring your own OpenAI-compatible endpoint — including a fully local model. Redaction on by default; nothing sends without your review.

Sheet 04
Business case

The half of the category nobody else built.

Five Case Model

NPV, BCR and payback — computed, not eyeballed.

Strategic, Economic, Commercial, Financial and Management cases, structured to the HM Treasury Green Book Five Case Model. Every option's arithmetic is one click from the formula that produced it.

  • Options appraisal with ±20% benefits sensitivity — the standard optimism-bias check
  • Benefits realisation register: no owner, no baseline, no target means no benefit
  • Risk and change-impact registers, seedable straight from the live landscape
See what's included in every tier →
Business case options appraisal table showing NPV, BCR and payback for three funding options
FIG. 04 — OPTIONS APPRAISALNPV $6.52M · BCR 2.29
Readiness gate

Know what the review board will flag — before they do.

13 gates across all five cases, scored live: has the problem statement been written, is a preferred option flagged, does every benefit have an owner. Ship a business case that survives Gateway review the first time.

  • One click exports the full case as an editable document
  • Change-impact register seeds itself from retiring and planned systems in the landscape
  • The same engine that scores readiness also generates the TOGAF compliance checklist
Try it on your own numbers →
Business case overview showing a 13 of 13 readiness score and options at a glance
FIG. 05 — READINESS SCORE13/13 gates, live
Architecture Explorer

Every capability, system and data object — one graph away.

Drag any node, zoom into a cluster, click through from a data standard to the object it governs, to the capability that consumes it, to the system that runs it. The whole chain, live — not a static diagram someone drew once and forgot to update.

  • Filter by capability group or relationship layer — standards, objects, capabilities, systems
  • Click any node for its full detail and every connection, without leaving the graph
Architecture Explorer showing a network graph connecting data standards, data objects, capabilities and systems, filterable by capability group
FIG. 06 — ARCHITECTURE EXPLORERdrag, zoom, trace every link
Sheet 05
Run the numbers

What would Archium be worth to you?

The same NPV formula the Business Case Builder uses on your architecture data, run here on your team's reconciliation effort. Move the sliders — nothing is sent anywhere; this runs entirely in your browser.

Reconciliation cost avoided, year 1$0
Tooling cost avoided, year 1$0
3-year NPV at 7% discount rate$0
Payback period

Illustrative, using the same annuity method as the in-product Business Case Builder: (1−(1+r)⁻ᴺ)÷r at r=7%, N=3 years. Replace with your own figures inside Archium for a defensible, auditable number.

Sheet 06
Against the status quo

You're not choosing between vendors. You're choosing between an hour of setup and another year of drift.

Spreadsheets & VisioTypical per-app EA platformArchium
Pricing"Free" — hidden reconciliation costScales with app countFlat, unlimited apps & users
Where data livesScattered across ownersVendor's cloudYour infrastructure, self-hosted
Business caseRebuilt by hand each cycleNot on published feature lists (July 2026)Built in — Five Case Model, live NPV
Gap detectionWhoever remembers to askManual taggingInferred automatically from the data
DiagramsHand-drawn, drift within weeksLocked to the vendor's canvasGenerated, editable draw.io export
AI featuresNoneVendor-managed, data leaves your networkBYO endpoint, redacted by default
Time to first valueN/A — always "in progress"Weeks of configurationMinutes — drop a file on the page
Sheet 07
Verified, not assumed

Built for any asset-intensive sector. Tested by someone who'd never seen it before.

Every foreign key resolves. Every capability has a system for every vertical. Every funding-readiness gate has evidence behind it — reconciled automatically, every time the workbook reloads.

An automated integrity suite — not a human spot-check — verifies the data model after every change: every cross-reference, every coverage gap, every funding-readiness precondition. Separately, the underlying workflow was validated in a usability test where a non-technical operations manager filled in the template cold, using only the built-in README, and was productive in under 90 minutes.

24capabilities modelled
77%coverage, honestly shown
210/210automated tests passing
7expert-persona design review
Asset lifecycle view showing capabilities placed on ISO 55000 stages, with a manual/spreadsheet-only stage flagged as a coverage gap
FIG. 07 — LIFECYCLE VIEWgaps shown, not hidden
Sheet 08
Security & privacy

Built for the security review, not around it.

Self-hosted by default

One static file. Docker, Kubernetes, SAP BTP or your own web server — your data never touches our infrastructure because we don't have any in the loop.

AI is opt-in, always

No AI call happens without you configuring an endpoint and previewing the exact outbound text first.

Redaction by default

Provider, system and personnel names are replaced with placeholders before anything leaves your browser — mapped back to real names only on your machine.

No lock-in

Your data lives in a standard .xlsx file you already own. Stop using Archium any day and keep everything.

Sheet 09
Pricing

Priced by organisation. Never by how much you use it.

Community
$0/forever

The full core product. Self-host it today.

  • Unlimited users, apps & capabilities
  • Coverage analytics, Mind Map, Explorer
  • Business Case Builder, Diagram Studio, TOGAF generator
  • Excel round-trip, dark/light themes
  • Deployment support
  • SLA-backed support
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Pro
$1,200/mo flat

Deployment support and an SLA, self-serve.

  • Everything in Community
  • Docker / K8s / BTP deploy support
  • Email support, 2-business-day SLA
  • Up to 5 portfolios (roadmap)
  • SSO / managed AI gateway
Start Pro
Enterprise
Customfrom ~$45k/yr

Your infrastructure, a named engineer.

  • Everything in Pro
  • Platform-layer SSO via deployment support; native SSO & managed AI gateway (roadmap)
  • Dedicated Slack, 4-hour SLA
  • Unlimited portfolios, executive rollup (roadmap)
  • Custom TOGAF artifact templates
Talk to us

Items marked (roadmap) are committed but not yet shipped. Today the product has no in-app auth surface: single sign-on is delivered at the platform layer — a reverse proxy or SAP BTP approuter in front of your self-hosted instance, covered by Enterprise deployment support. AI Assist ships in every tier as bring-your-own-endpoint (including fully local models), with redaction on by default.

Sheet 10
Questions

Frequently asked

Do I need to be technical to use this?+
No. The workbook has a Quick Start with one fully worked example to copy. Our own usability test used a non-technical operations manager who had never seen an architecture tool before — he was productive in under 90 minutes using only the built-in README.
Where does my data actually live?+
Nowhere but your own infrastructure. Archium is a single static HTML file — host it on your own server, a Docker container, SAP BTP, or just open it locally. There's no Archium cloud your data ever touches.
What happens to my data when I use the AI features?+
Nothing is sent automatically, ever. You configure your own AI endpoint (including a fully local model), and every request shows you the exact outbound text — with real names replaced by placeholders by default — before you approve sending it.
Can I switch from our existing spreadsheets?+
Yes — that's the common starting point. Map your existing export into the three core tabs (providers, capabilities, what each system sends) and drop it on the page. There's no migration tool because there's no proprietary format to migrate into.
What does the "readiness score" actually check?+
13 gates across the Five Case Model: a written problem statement, at least three funding options including do-nothing, a flagged preferred option, quantified benefits with named owners, risks with mitigations, milestones, and a change-impact register. It's the same checklist a Gateway or Treasury review panel uses — so you see the gap before they do.
How is this different from just using LeanIX or Ardoq?+
Those platforms are priced per application or per seat and host your data in their cloud. Archium is flat-priced per organisation, self-hosted, and includes a business-case module that, as at July 2026, appears on neither of their published feature lists. See the comparison above, or talk to us about running both side by side during a transition.
Free forever, self-hosted

Your architecture already exists. Start showing it.

Download the Community edition, or talk to us about Enterprise deployment on your own infrastructure.