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Capstone EA: your architecture office, run as a service.

Govern every architecture decision. Rationalize the portfolio. Fund one roadmap the board can defend. For banks, insurers and regulated enterprises.

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The problem

Governance slows change while the estate keeps growing.

2-5 days

To prepare a single architecture review by hand

Months old

The typical portfolio view CIOs rely on, often in a spreadsheet no one trusts

Board-level

IT strategy, risk and assurance under RBI's 2023 IT Governance Master Direction

01

Review bottleneck

Submissions arrive incomplete, reviews vary by reviewer and findings stay informal.

02

Lost decisions

Rationale lives in slides and email, so teams repeat debates and contradict past choices.

03

Invisible estate

No trusted inventory of applications, data and platforms, their owners or their condition.

04

Unpriced tech debt

Duplication, end-of-life risk and TCO are guessed, so modernization money follows the loudest voice.

The result: Slower delivery, audit findings on traceability, and a roadmap the board cannot defend.
The service

Four offices, one accountable partner.

StratifyIT products + expert architects, paid against agreed outcomes.

Govern

Architecture Governance Office
Run intake, triage and ARB sessions
Maintain principles, standards and patterns
Track conditions, exceptions and fixes
ARB AI Agent + ADR Register

Remember

Architecture Knowledge Office
One authoritative decision register
Link proposals to precedent
Flag contradictions and expired exceptions
ADR Register

Steer

IT Strategy and Portfolio Office
Living inventory of the IT estate
Score risk, TCO, tech debt and fitness
Prioritized roadmap and investment view
StratifyIT Platform

Assure

Performance and Assurance
Review cycle and compliance KPIs
Exception and remediation tracking
Monthly scorecard, quarterly review
All three products
Outcome: every change reviewed against standards, every decision traceable, every asset on a funded roadmap.
Why it is different

From periodic reviews to an always-on architecture office.

Traditional approach
With Capstone EA
Periodic, manual reviews
AI-prepared review dossier in hours; your architect decides
Decisions scattered across documents
Searchable, governed decision register
Point-in-time inventory
Living portfolio scored on six dimensions
Manual compliance checks
Repeatable standards checks and exception tracking
Strategy separate from delivery
Decisions linked to assets and roadmap priorities
Consulting billed by effort
Managed service paid against outcomes
What changes for you
Review backlog cleared without adding headcount
Evidence ready when audit or the regulator asks
One roadmap the CIO, CFO and board agree on
Tech debt and TCO priced, owned and scheduled
Architects spend time deciding, not formatting
AI does not replace your architects. It makes an expert-led architecture function repeatable, measurable and scalable.
How it works

A closed loop from architecture review to roadmap.

1
Intake

Change submitted via Teams, portal, ServiceNow or Jira.

2
Validate

ARB AI Agent checks standards and NFRs across seven domains and builds the dossier.

3
Decide

Your architect decides: approve, approve with conditions, defer or reject.

4
Record

ADR Register keeps rationale, alternatives, conditions, owner and review date.

5
Link

StratifyIT Platform ties the decision to the affected assets.

6
Analyse

Portfolio view surfaces exceptions, duplication, tech debt and risk.

7
Improve

Standards, patterns and investment priorities are updated, feeding the next review.

Human in the loop: the agent advises, your architects decide. Every agent action, retrieval and override sits in an immutable audit log.

Governance and compliance

Every review backed by evidence, every decision on record.

4 hours

Pre-ARB review dossier, versus 2-5 days by hand. NFR scores across all seven domains, each traced to an enterprise standard.

ARB AI Agent: seven domain agents in parallel

AI GovernanceApplicationDataBusiness / SolutionTechnology / InfraIntegrationDevOps

Decision taxonomy, no ambiguous outcomes

ApproveApprove with conditionsDeferReject

ADR Register: every decision has a lifecycle

AuthoredIn reviewPublishedEvolvingSuperseded

Built for BFSI evidence

Board-level IT governance evidence for RBI's 2023 Master Direction
Traceable exceptions and risk acceptances with named owners
Sector standards in the knowledge base: BIAN, ACORD
Immutable audit log of every agent action and override
Faster reviews never mean weaker governance: fees are never tied to approval rates.
Portfolio rationalization

Price the tech debt, cut the TCO, fund one roadmap.

Apps, databases, infrastructure, middleware, cloud services and third-party platforms are all in scope.

Every asset scored on

FitnessRiskCost / TCOStrategic alignmentTechnical debtSecurity posture

Recommendation per asset

Invest: high fit, high value
Tolerate: keep and contain cost
Migrate: valuable, poor technical fit
Eliminate: duplicate or end of life
01
Wave 1 · Quick wins

Retire duplicates, consolidate licences.

02
Wave 2 · Reduce risk

End-of-life and security debt.

03
Wave 3 · Modernize

Migrate and consolidate platforms.

Board-ready outputs: executive summary, asset heat map, investment priority matrix and duplication alerts. Every initiative has an owner, milestones and KPIs.
How we deliver

Products plus architects, run as one service.

01
Discover

Baseline review cycle times, decision records, standards and portfolio data.

Agreed KPI baseline
02
Configure

Load principles, standards, NFRs and patterns; deploy the three products.

Configured toolchain
03
Onboard

Connect Teams, ServiceNow or Jira, CMDB and Confluence; load the asset inventory.

Live intake and inventory
04
Operate

Run intake, ARB sessions, decision records, exceptions and portfolio scoring.

Contracted review SLAs
05
Improve

Monthly scorecards, quarterly strategy reviews, standards and roadmap updates.

Scorecard every month
Your Capstone EA team

An engagement lead, accountable enterprise architects, a platform engineer and a service manager, sized to your review volumes and portfolio scope.

One team designs, deploys and runs it: no hand-offs between consultant, vendor and integrator.
Commercial model and outcomes

Four stages, paid on acceptance, measured by KPIs.

Stage 1 · 6-8 weeks

Pilot

OUTCOME

One domain live: standards set, ADR Register running, before-and-after KPI report

ACCEPTED WHEN

Pilot KPI report signed off

Stage 2 · 2-3 months

Implement

OUTCOME

Full standards, integrations, asset inventory, scorecards and governance forums

ACCEPTED WHEN

Operating readiness review

Stage 3 · Annual term

Operate

OUTCOME

Contracted review volumes, decision records, portfolio scoring and reporting

ACCEPTED WHEN

Monthly KPI scorecard

Stage 4 · On demand

Expand

OUTCOME

New business units, rationalization programmes, cloud roadmaps, specialists

ACCEPTED WHEN

Fixed scope per initiative

Target KPIs, agreed against your measured baseline
≤1 day
Review dossier
Complete, in-scope submissions
30-50%
Faster decisions
Intake to decision vs baseline
95%+
Standards coverage
Checked vs mandatory standards
95%+
Traceability
Decisions in the ADR Register
100%
Blocking findings
Tracked with a named owner
90%+
Portfolio coverage
Assets owned and assessed

Targets are proposed starting points, fixed against a measured baseline in the statement of work. AI preparation time is reported separately from decision time.

Commercial model

Fees that follow outcomes.

One-time

Onboarding fee

Discovery, baseline, standards and governance setup, product configuration and integrations. Fixed fee, paid by milestone.

Recurring

Managed service fee

Monthly minimum on an annual contract, covering agreed review volumes, architect capacity, portfolio coverage and reporting.

Variable

Outcome-linked fee

Quarterly or annual bonus earned against measured KPIs. Never linked to approval rates.

On demand

Expansion and advisory

Modernization programmes, new business units, cloud roadmaps and specialist architects, at fixed scope.

Pricing is shared in discovery. StratifyIT product subscriptions (ARB AI Agent, ADR Register, StratifyIT Platform) are priced separately for transparency.

Next steps

Start with a paid 8-12 week pilot on one domain.

Weeks 0-2
Baseline

Workshops with the CIO, Head of EA and risk; measure today's review cycle and decision records.

Weeks 3-8
Run one domain

Live intake, AI-prepared dossiers, decision records and exception tracking on real submissions.

Weeks 9-12
Prove and link

Before-and-after KPI report and a first portfolio view of the domain's assets.

You walk away with
Measured before-and-after KPIs
A governed decision register in daily use
A first portfolio heat map and quick wins
A fixed-price proposal for full roll-out

Decision needed: name an executive sponsor and the pilot domain.

The pilot fee can be credited against implementation when the managed service is signed within the agreed window.

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