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Architecture Intent

Strategic Vision

  • What we are building: An Architecture Intelligence Platform that connects Business Intent to Code Reality through continuous reasoning loops.
  • Why it exists: To eliminate the governance velocity bottleneck and ensure implementation remains structurally aligned with strategic intent without manual overhead.

Project Context

primary_context: ideas-to-life-cas aw_count: 30 alignment_findings: 3

Current State Alignment

Critical misalignment detected. Implementation velocity is outpacing governance formalization (ADR acceptance). High backlog pressure (22 proposals) indicates a need for automated grooming and state reconciliation.

Focus Areas / Roadmap

  • Governance Reconciliation: Audit all 'DONE' items and promote to 'ACCEPTED' ADRs or revert state.
  • Backlog Grooming: Execute a grooming sprint to reduce proposal count below 3:1 threshold.
  • Business Intent Schema: Define and implement the formal schema for intent-to-code mapping.
  • Knowledge Graph Transition: Migrate from document-centric to graph-centric knowledge representation.

Gaps & Tensions (Risks)

  • Governance Synchronicity: Implementation (DONE) is leading authoritative decisions (ACCEPTED).
  • Backlog Pressure: Excessive un-groomed proposals (3.14:1 ratio) creating a cognitive bottleneck.
  • Persistence Gap: High-impact changes recorded as Work (AW) but missing formal Decision Records (ADR).
  • Intent Schema Gap: Lack of formal structure to represent Business Intent.

Principles

  • Decisions are Central: Every architectural change must be traceable to an ADR.
  • Traceability over Abstraction: Insights must be linked to verifiable evidence (Code/Work).
  • Human Authority, Machine Participation: Automation proposes and validates; humans govern and decide.
  • Rules Drive Stages: The lifecycle stage of a component is strictly governed by its decision status.

Emergent Heuristics

governance_synchronicity: Implementation state must never exceed the maturity of its corresponding decision record. backlog_pressure_limit: Maintain a proposal-to-completion ratio below 3:1 to prevent governance paralysis.