Bizzdesign bolts AI and whiteboarding onto enterprise architecture with Unify
Bizzdesign bolts AI and whiteboarding onto enterprise architecture with Unify

Bizzdesign, the enterprise-architecture software company formed from last year's merger of the original Bizzdesign, MEGA International and Alfabet, today launched Unify, a product that sits in a gap most transformation teams will recognise: the distance between a Miro or Mural whiteboard, where ideas actually get sketched, and the EA repository, where the dependencies and risks live.

Unify brings architectural data into a whiteboard-style visual workspace and puts an LLM layer on top of it. Business stakeholders can ask natural-language questions about the estate (which applications depend on a given system, what the cost exposure looks like for a particular re-platform) without being fluent in the modelling conventions architects use. A set of AI "co-worker" agents summarise designs, flag improvements and surface risks from the underlying data.

The pitch to the market is tool consolidation. Transformation programmes typically sprawl across ideation tools, workshop whiteboards, PPM platforms and EA repositories, each owned by a different team, each holding a partial view of the estate. By pulling the collaborative surface into the data layer, Bizzdesign is arguing the workshop and the source of truth can be the same artefact.

Two named customers gave testimonials. Matthew Beech at Rolls-Royce SMR said it lets his team "move quickly while keeping decisions grounded in real architectural data". Partha Mukherjee at Kappahl Group described collaborating with the business "in plain language and still keep everything connected to the architecture behind it".

Most organisations are dealing with growing tool sprawl, where teams collaborate in one place while critical enterprise data lives in another. Unify closes that gap.

Bert van der Zwan, CEO of Bizzdesign

Unify is generally available from today. Competitive pressure comes from two sides: LeanIX, Ardoq and ServiceNow's EA module on the enterprise-architecture flank, and Miro and Mural's own AI upgrades on the collaboration flank. The more interesting question is whether workshop tools or EA tools grow into the middle ground faster. Bizzdesign is betting on the latter.

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