No six-figure contracts. No consultant-dependent onboarding. No diagrams you have to reformat for two hours before a presentation. Just tools that work.
Free while in beta — and it will never be expensive
The tools that exist were built to win procurement deals, not to help architects do their jobs. We're done with that.
$30,000–$100,000 per year for software that does things you could do in Visio. Pricing designed to be buried in IT budgets, not to deliver commensurate value.
Complex metamodels, mandatory training courses, professional services engagements. By the time you're "onboarded," the project has already moved on without you.
You export a capability map, spend the next hour tidying it in PowerPoint before the leadership meeting. Then someone asks for a small change and you start over. Every time.
Proprietary formats, no real CSV export, switching costs baked in at every layer. They make it expensive to leave so you never ask whether staying is actually worth it.
I am so tired of expensive Enterprise Architecture tools that don't do the things I want. I want tools that do the boring work — like laying out a model I can actually hand to someone.— Nick, the architect building this
A browser-based editor for business capability models. Import from a spreadsheet, arrange visually, and export to native PowerPoint shapes — not a screenshot.
Paste your existing capability inventory from a spreadsheet. Import it and click Auto Layout — you have a clean, presentation-ready model in under two minutes.
Move groups and capabilities freely. Click outside a group and everything snaps into a neat grid automatically. No fiddling with alignment guides.
Export to real PowerPoint shapes — not a flat image. Every box is a native object you can recolor, resize, and annotate inside your existing slide templates.
Rate each capability's current and target maturity on a 1–10 scale. Enable the heatmap to see gaps as green, amber, and red — instantly readable in any boardroom.
Link capabilities to strategic initiatives. Select a strategy and the heatmap shows only the maturity gaps that matter for that initiative — everything else fades.
Create filtered views for different audiences without duplicating work. The board sees the full picture; technology teams see just their relevant capabilities.
No credit card. No trial expiry. Just free.
We're in beta. The product is still evolving and it would be wrong to charge full price for something we're still building together with early users.
When we move out of beta, there will be a paid tier. It will be the kind of number a solo architect can afford — not the kind that requires a purchase order and three stakeholder sign-offs.
The goal has always been practical tools at honest prices. That won't change. Early users who help shape the product will always get a better deal than anyone who comes later.
Capability Modeler is the first tool. We're building out a full suite — each one targeting a specific, painful, expensive problem that EA teams deal with every week.
Import your capability inventory from a spreadsheet and you'll have a presentation-ready model in minutes. It's free and it doesn't need IT approval.
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