Interactive architecture map
Explore the architecture
enterprise AI needs.
Select any numbered capability to understand its role. On mobile, expand nested capabilities as needed.Enterprise Intelligence Architecture EIA Architecture v0.3Interactive illustrated reference view
Reading the map Numbered cards are capabilities. Nested cards show parent and child relationships. Grey text gives descriptions or examples. G/A identify cross-cutting display references.
Knowledge Plane
Authoritative organisational knowledge, independent of models and agents.
Knowledge Integration
Selects, assembles and delivers relevant knowledge and operational context for the task at hand.
3 nested capabilities
8 nested capabilities
5 nested capabilities
5 nested capabilities
Operational Plane
Skills perform repeatable work; reasoning generates proposals; agents coordinate work within delegated authority.
5 nested capabilities
5 nested capabilities
Examples: Foundation models · Specialised models
9 nested capabilities
Enterprise Systems
Provide the operational data and transaction systems on which enterprise work depends.
ERP
Enterprise resource planning systems that manage core operational and financial processes and records.
CRM
Customer relationship systems that hold customer, sales, service and interaction state.
HR
Human resources systems that manage workforce, organisation, talent and employment records.
Finance
Financial systems that record, control and report monetary transactions, commitments and performance.
IT Service Management
Service-management systems that coordinate requests, incidents, changes, assets and enterprise services.
Collaboration & Content
Collaboration, productivity and managed content repositories, including M365 and equivalent services.
Other & Specialised Systems
Industry platforms, bespoke applications, legacy systems, IoT and other operational systems. Examples include supply chain, databases, cloud services and third-party applications.
Supporting examples: ERP · CRM · HR · Finance · ITSM / ESM · Supply chain · M365 · Databases · Content repositories · Cloud services · Legacy systems · IoT / edge · Third-party applications. Runtimes and systems enforce authorised actions, revocation and stops.
Architectural principles
Select a principle to read its description.
Reading the map / 01
Models change.
Enterprise capability must endure.
Enterprise Intelligence Architecture separates enduring organisational capability from the models and interfaces that consume it. Enterprise Knowledge remains authoritative. Enterprise Context is assembled for purpose. Authority and accountability remain traceable across the path to action.
AKnowledge is governed independently of the model.
BContext is deliberately orchestrated and delivered.
CAuthority is not inferred from technical permission.
DConsequential action remains reconstructable and accountable.
Research path / 02The argument,
The argument,
developed in public.
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