ArcKit

From ArcKit to McKinsey-Style Infographics in an Afternoon

The last article in this collection argued that ArcKit has removed the economic justification for roughly a billion pounds of UK…

I built ArcKit for myself. You Made It Real

That is the honest origin story

ArcKit v4.3.0: A Complete Wardley Mapping Suite for AI-Assisted Strategic Architecture

Most architecture toolkits treat Wardley Maps as a single artefact. Draw a map, discuss it in a workshop, file it somewhere, move on…

ArcKit v5.0.0: One toolkit, seven plugins, install only what you need

ArcKit just shipped its biggest structural change since the toolkit was first published. Until today, ArcKit shipped as a single Claude…

ArcKit and OKF: Knowledge Interoperability Without Giving Up Governance

ArcKit now treats Open Knowledge Format as an interoperability boundary. Native ARC artifacts remain the source of truth, but architecture…

Britain’s War on Consultants: What the Procurement Data Actually Shows

For three years, cutting the consultancy bill has been one of the few things every Chancellor and Cabinet Office minister agrees on. The…

The Supplier Side of G-Cloud: ArcKit’s New Bid-Authoring Overlay

ArcKit has always governed the buyer — specifying, procuring and assuring public-sector technology. arckit-uk-gcloud turns the harness…

ArcKit Self-Harness: When ArcKit Starts Improving Itself

ArcKit’s original autoresearch loop optimised command prompts. Self-Harness extends that idea to the whole harness: traces, weakness…

Don’t Build an AI App. Build an AI CLI Harness

If your product creates long-running AI work, a standalone SaaS app inherits the worst part of the business: inference cost. A harness…

How an Independent Architect Becomes a Big Four

The Big Four monetise the scarcity of artefact production. ArcKit commoditises that layer, so the only things left to compete on are…

Your Wardley Maps Belong in Git: What Mermaid Support Changes

For most of the last decade, Wardley Maps lived in three places: a whiteboard, a PNG screenshot in a deck, and (if you were lucky) an…

The token budget behind ArcKit’s plugin split, and how to split a plugin of your own

Every architecture decision has a number behind it. The number behind ArcKit v5.0.0 came from one command: claude plugin details.

ArcKit v5.14: Mistral Vibe Joins the Harness

ArcKit now ships a Mistral Vibe CLI extension, published from its own arckit-vibe repository.

GenAI Generated Wardley Maps Can be Messy. How ArcKit tidies Wardley Map labels

A step through of the deterministic placement engine

ArcKit 4.9.0: Wardley Maps Now Render Natively In Your Architecture Docs

If you have ever tried to embed a Wardley Map into a governance document, you know the usual story. You draft the map in…

ArcKit v5.4: NHS Clinical Safety, the Second Sector Overlay

ArcKit v5.4 ships today. It adds the second sector-specific community overlay, NHS clinical safety and UK / EU medical device…

ArcKit 5.9.0:

ArcKit now connects to a live index of UK public sector contract awards, so business cases, risk registers and vendor evaluations can cite…

The Five Wardley Commands in ArcKit: Every Command, What It Does, When to Run It

Wardley Mapping is often reduced to the drawing. You sketch user needs at the top, arrange components by evolution, and call it a strategy…

ArcKit — new commands since v0.3.0 (what they do & how to use them)

ArcKit’s grown a toolbox for planning, governance, security, procurement, and diagrams, all designed to be model-agnostic and…

ArcKit v5.3: The First Sector Overlay, for UK Finance

ArcKit v5.3 ships today. It introduces a new kind of community overlay, a sector overlay rather than a jurisdiction overlay, and four…

ArcKit v5.1: 10 USA Federal Civilian Commands, Community Overlay

ArcKit v5.1, shipped today, adds ten commands covering the United States federal civilian regulatory stack. They sit alongside the existing…

The Leaf Node Problem: Why Your AI Pilot Is Optimising the Wrong Thing

Most AI pilots in large organisations are funded by a team and accountable to a team. The team has KPIs. The pilot is judged against those…

ArcKit FDE is now a plugin: generate your own ArcKit Business in one command

White-label the bootstrap sprint. Your brand, your pricing, your contact, published to GitHub Pages.

Which Anthropic model should you use for which type of Wardley Map you are creating.