Design Your System

Before You Build It.

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The intelligent architecture canvas for developers. Drag smart components, get real-time analysis, catch design flaws before writing code, and generate project scaffolding that matches your system design.
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About Archway

Architecture
deserves better
tooling.

Most teams sketch architecture on whiteboards, take photos, and never look at them again. Archway replaces that broken workflow with an intelligent, persistent canvas that grows with your system.

Secure
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50+Smart Components
12Analysis Rules
100%Open Source
0Vendor Lock-in
Features

Everything you need to architect with confidence

A purpose-built toolkit that transforms how teams think about, design, and maintain system architecture.

2 Minutes Setup

Get your architecture canvas up and running in under 2 minutes.

Intelligent Components

Drag smart architectural blocks — databases, load balancers, queues, and services.

Real-time

AI-Powered Analysis

Get instant architecture reviews that identify bottlenecks and security gaps.

Intuitive Visual Canvas

Design complex systems effortlessly with our drag-and-drop interface.

Canvas preview

Export & Share Anywhere

Export as PNG, JSON, or Markdown. Share live previews with your team or stakeholders.

How It Works

From blank canvas to production-ready

Four steps. Zero guesswork. Go from idea to deployable architecture in minutes, not weeks.

Step 01

Drop your components

Start by dragging intelligent components onto the canvas — services, databases, message queues, load balancers, CDNs, and more. Each component comes pre-configured with sensible defaults.

50+ componentsSmart defaultsDrag & drop
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Step 02

Connect & configure

Draw connections between components to define data flows, API calls, and event streams. Configure protocols, ports, and authentication through an intuitive panel.

Visual flowsAuto-routingProtocol aware
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Next.js
Express
PostgreSQL
Redis
Step 03

Analyze & iterate

The AI engine continuously evaluates your design, surfacing warnings for missing caches, single points of failure, security gaps, and performance bottlenecks.

AI-poweredReal-timeActionable
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Load Balancer
API Server
Worker
PostgreSQL
Step 04

Export & ship

Export your validated architecture as Docker Compose files, Kubernetes manifests, folder structures, and infrastructure-as-code configurations.

Multiple formatsProduction-readyOne click
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Get In Touch

Let's build the future of System Design

Have feedback, want to contribute, or just want to say hello? We'd love to hear from you. Archway is a community-driven project and every voice matters.

Open source project built for developers who think before they code

Figma gave designers a canvas. VS Code gave developers an editor. Archway gives architects an intelligent environment — where system design becomes a first-class discipline, not an afterthought.