Architecture practice, not folklore.
Northwise helps architecture teams document, govern, and decide — with the structure of TOGAF, the depth of ArchiMate, and the speed of a tool that actually gets used.
From €120/architect/month · Reader access free for everyone · Built in the EU
The three things every architecture practice forgets
Standards become wallpaper.
Principles published in a Confluence space that nobody reads. The mandate is there. The behaviour change isn't.
Decisions get rerouted by chance.
No clear path from a team's question to an architecture answer. The right person finds out three months later, in prod.
Drift happens silently.
What's running in code never quite matches what's documented. The gap widens until an audit surfaces it.
What Northwise does about it
Plumbline — automated governance assessments
Plumbline runs structured assessments against your architecture principles and produces a readiness score by section. When scores dip, the AI-author drafts principle suggestions into an inbox you review, accept, or reject. Governance that happens, not governance that's promised.
Learn more →Decision Matrix — every decision routed, recorded, audited
A short questionnaire determines whether a change needs no review, a lightweight async sign-off, or a full architecture board decision. Routing follows your responsibility matrix. The full cycle — submit, claim, decide, revise — is tracked end-to-end.
Learn more →Git Tech Discovery — catalogue from code, not from rumours
Connect GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, or Azure DevOps. Northwise scans dependency manifests, populates your technology catalogue with production dependencies, and automatically raises Findings when Hold or Banned technologies appear in mapped applications.
Learn more →Built for how architecture practice actually works
ArchiMate + TOGAF, native.
First-class metamodel with the full element and relationship vocabulary. 15 TOGAF deliverable types. Your artefacts carry structure, not just labels.
Read access is free for everyone.
No per-viewer fees. The whole organisation can see what architecture decides. Governance is only useful if people can read the output.
EU-built, EU-hosted, GDPR-clean.
Hosted on Scaleway and Hetzner datacentres in the Netherlands and Germany. No data leaves the EU. No exceptions.
Bring your own LLM key.
Per-tenant Anthropic configuration for AI-author features. You control the model, you control the spend. No bundled AI cost surprises.
How we compare
The EU-native mid-market alternative to incumbent EA suite vendors. No per-viewer fees, no US-hosted data, no "contact for pricing" theatre.
| Northwise | Enterprise EA tools | Confluence + diagrams | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Per-user pricing | €100–120 / architect | €200–400 / seat | Varies by licence |
| EU sovereignty | Hetzner / Scaleway | Varies (often US) | Tenant-dependent |
| Reader access free | ✓ | — | Confluence seat required |
| Decision routing built-in | ✓ | Enterprise tier only | — |
| Code-to-catalogue automation | Git scanning | Partial (some tools) | — |
| AI-authored governance | Bring your LLM key | Proprietary AI add-on | — |
Pricing at a glance
No per-viewer fees. No "contact for pricing" theatre. Real numbers, up front.