ArchForge Documentation

ArchForge is the system of record for your IT architecture. It gives your decisions, RFCs, principles, standards, reference architectures, solution designs, C4 diagrams, technology components, playbooks, and application inventory one searchable home, with a shared review flow so everyone knows what is official and what is still in progress.

This documentation is for everyone who works in an ArchForge workspace: authors writing artifacts, reviewers approving them, and administrators setting the workspace up.

Start here

• Getting Started: sign in, find your way around, and create your first artifact.
• Core Concepts: artifacts, types, reference IDs, lifecycles, versions, links, and roles.

Working together

• Reviewing and approving: how the shared review flow works for authors and reviewers.
• Notifications: what you get notified about, in the app and by email.

Decisions and governance

• Writing an ADR: record a decision and take it through review.
• Running an RFC: propose a change, gather comments, and turn the outcome into a decision.
• Principles: the shared beliefs behind your decisions.
• Standards: the guardrails every team builds within.

Architecture and design

• Reference architectures: reusable, approved blueprints.
• Composite reference architectures: blueprints built from other blueprints.
• Solution designs: how one initiative will be built.
• C4 diagrams: landscape, context, and container views over one shared model.

Components and operations

• Application catalog: the inventory of every application you run.
• Technology components: the technologies you depend on, with an adoption stance for each.
• Playbooks: repeatable operational procedures.
• Knowledge graph: every artifact and the links between them in one view.

Administration

• Workspace settings: name, accent color, and reference ID prefix.
• Members and roles: invite people and manage access.
• Artifact types and templates: choose which types your workspace uses and tailor their templates.
• Managed lists: the curated values people pick from.

Looking for something specific? Press <kbd>⌘K</kbd> (or <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>K</kbd>) to search the docs.