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Business Intent Integration

Summary

Integration of Business Intent into the architectural reasoning loop to ensure strategic alignment.

Details

This work item bridges the gap between high-level business vision and architectural execution. It involves creating a formal mechanism for the system to ingest 'Business Intent' artifacts and use them as constraints during the 'Analyse' phase of the governance loop.

Decision

Proposed: Formalise the 'Business Intent' artifact schema and integrate it as a mandatory input for the Alignment Engine.

Rationale

The vision emphasizes 'connecting business intent to code reality'. Without this integration, architectural governance remains focused on technical consistency rather than strategic value.

Implementation Plan

  1. Define the Business Intent Schema. 2. Update the Alignment Engine to weight 'Intent Alignment' as a high-severity metric. 3. Create a 'VisionToIntent' workflow to automate artifact generation.

Alternatives Considered

['Manual mapping of intent to architecture (rejected as non-scalable)', 'Treating intent as purely narrative documentation (rejected as it prevents automated alignment validation)']

Risks

['Ambiguity in business intent could lead to conflicting architectural constraints', "Potential for 'intent drift' where business goals change faster than architecture can evolve"]

Expected Outcomes

Traceability from code to business value; automated detection of 'Strategic Drift'; improved prioritisation of Architecture Work based on business impact.

Dependencies

Alignment Engine, Vision Artifacts

Conduct a pilot mapping of the 'CAS 2026 Vision' to the proposed Business Intent Schema.