Developer Kit

Architecture Decision Recorder

Captures significant design decisions into structured Architecture Decision Records with context, options considered, decision made, and consequences. Useful for building the decision audit trail teams need for governance and onboarding. Tech leads and architects, engineering managers documenting design choices for governance, staff engineers building institutional memory, teams preparing for regulatory audits (SOC 2 change-control evidence). then vanish. Six months later, someone wants to change the design and nobody remembers why the current approach was chosen. Without ADRs, every decision gets re-litigated from scratch or, worse, gets reversed without anyone realizing there was a reason behind it. Teams that write ADRs well spend less time in meetings and more time shipping. The reason teams do not write ADRs consistently is not that they are hard — it is that nobody owns the first draft. A structured generator produces that first draft from a conversation, leaving review and final wording to a human.