A NovoCircle practice · for Sparx EA teams

AI-Augmented Architecture, and we go deepest on Sparx EA.

Architecture is being repriced from deliverables to outcomes. Demand is rising; headcount isn't. We teach architects and EA teams to do AI-augmented work on the Sparx platform — and we bring the deepest tool expertise to prove we can teach it.

A conversation, not a sales call. You'll speak with a practitioner. Why Sparx EA →

The discipline

What AI-Augmented Architecture is

Four kinds of work where AI changes how architecture gets done — and where the architect stays the translator between business and IT.

Modeling

Architecture Modeling

Agents extract data, populate the repository, and generate diagrams and documentation — accelerating current-state capture and future-state design.

Analysis

Architecture Analysis

Query the model in plain language. Surface relationships, dependency chains, and impact assessments in minutes instead of weeks.

Governance

Architecture Governance

Validate models, check standards compliance, and generate review summaries — reducing manual oversight. Automation checks completeness, never correctness.

Stakeholder

Stakeholder Engagement

Connect the architecture platform to the enterprise AI ecosystem so insights reach business and IT partners — no modeling expertise required.

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How we work

The Method, for architects

The NovoCircle Method was distilled from enterprise-architecture, project-management, and business-analysis frameworks — stripped back to the four questions they all share. Applied to an EA practice, it turns paralysis into a plan.

1

What is the problem?

Name the specific problem before chasing tools. It's the step teams skip — and the most expensive one.

2

What are the pieces?

Current reality, constraints, resources, skills, the repository you already have. Most pieces exist to be set aside.

3

What does success look like?

A real, dated outcome — not a wish list. "By this date, our practice does this."

4

What are the options?

See the full range of paths before committing to one. Sequence by impact, not by emotion or urgency.

From paralysis to a plan. Leaders use it to sequence where to start; architects use it on the work already on their plate.

What makes us different

Deep tool expertise — whatever AI you have

AI amplifies expertise; it doesn't manufacture it. To use the agents well, you have to know how to do the architecture. We teach the craft on the tool you already have — and we go deeper on Sparx EA than anyone.

Inside EA

Kernaro Assist

AI working directly inside Enterprise Architect.

Foundations →
Hub

Kernaro Hub

The AI and stakeholder layer over your repository.

Foundations →
Deep path

Claude & GitHub Copilot

Powered by our own AI Power Tools for EA — the deepest connection between Sparx EA and AI.

Foundations →
Already have it

Microsoft 365 Copilot

If M365 Copilot is the AI you already have, do AI-Augmented Architecture with it.

Foundations →
By discipline

Your discipline

APM, MBSE, data, solution, software, IT and enterprise architecture, and more.

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Our product

AI Power Tools for EA

The connective technology behind the Claude and Copilot paths.

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Where to start

Two ways in

For Architects

You've got the tools — we teach you the craft

Foundations courses on your AI tool, AI-augmented work in your discipline, and 1:1 mentoring to build the habit.

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For Architecture Leaders

Lead the practice transition

From a scoped AI roadmap to a working practice and an outcome-driven operating model — plus cross-discipline programs.

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Already governed. Already MDG-based. Already semantically structured.

Exactly what AI needs to be useful.

Why Sparx EA

The platform for the long arc

AI is only as good as the model underneath it. Sparx Enterprise Architect is already a governed, metamodel-driven, semantically structured repository — the foundation that makes AI-augmented architecture trustworthy instead of plausible-but-wrong. It's why a Sparx EA team comes to us instead of a generalist.

Why Sparx EA →

Tell us where your practice is on the journey.

A 30-minute conversation with a practitioner — no pitch. We'll give you useful guidance regardless of whether we work together.

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