Understand what exists
Applications, processes, data, teams and projects must be connected in a shared representation, not scattered across independent files.
Boldo's manifesto
We built Boldo because an organization's knowledge should not stay locked in files, slides and the heads of a few experts.
It should be live, connected and understandable by everyone who transforms it.
Why we built Boldo
Across our experience as consultants, product managers, enterprise architects and developers, we have worked with more than 40 organizations.
The contexts changed. The problems, much less.
An application evolved, but the diagram did not follow. A decision was made, then a few months later, no one really knew why anymore. A project started on an incomplete scope, and the dependencies appeared after the framing.
To find reliable information, you had to ask several people, open several files and cross-check contradictory versions.
These difficulties did not come from a lack of skill. They came from knowledge that was scattered, hard to share and costly to maintain.
An organization transforms better when its knowledge is shared
We tested our experience against hundreds of conversations with CIOs, CTOs, architects, consultants and business leaders.
See the dependencies
A decision becomes more reliable when its impacts, its owners and the other teams involved are visible before the project starts.
Share without translating
Experts must be able to model with precision, business teams contribute and decision-makers understand without waiting for another presentation.
A map should not only be accurate. It should be understood, used and maintained.
The cockpit and the copilot of transformation
Boldo is the cockpit that gathers the organization's knowledge and the copilot that helps put it to work.
A space where you understand what exists, analyze impacts and build transformations without starting from scratch on every new project.
- Precise enough for architects
- Accessible enough for business teams
- Clear enough for leaders
Because a business user should not need a PhD in architecture to understand how their organization works.
Our product principles
Beauty is functional
A clear, pleasant tool is easier to understand, share and maintain. Aesthetics contribute directly to understanding.
Everything must be connected
An isolated piece of data quickly loses its meaning. An application must be connectable to the processes it supports, the teams that maintain it and the projects that transform it.
Automate what can be automated
A repeated task should be able to become an import, a synchronization, a template or a feature. Teams' time must be spent on analysis and decision-making.
Reduce every friction
A frequent action must stay immediate. A complex action must stay understandable. Functional richness must never be an excuse for a needlessly complicated experience.
Build in depth
We prefer to durably solve an important problem rather than pile up disconnected features.
Every new capability must strengthen the shared repository and the uses that depend on it.
What this vision requires
Building an Enterprise Architecture Management platform is a software decathlon.
You need to bring together flexible modeling, readable inventories, collaborative diagrams, accessible visualizations, precise rights governance, interoperability, history and security.
You also need genuinely useful AI assistance: an AI that helps find, structure and enrich knowledge without taking away teams' control over their data and their decisions.
Bringing all these dimensions together smoothly and coherently is our everyday work.
And because data ownership is part of the product, Boldo is hosted in France.
What Boldo has become
Today, Boldo connects applications, processes, data, teams, projects and decisions in a single knowledge base.
Each profile then reads this knowledge in the form that is useful to them: inventory, diagram, chart, nested map or dashboard.
CIOs, architects and consultants use Boldo to scope their projects, analyze dependencies, explain a trajectory and maintain their map after a mission ends.
We are not trying to reproduce every feature on the market. We are trying to build the product that best helps teams understand their organization and transform it.
This manifesto is an invitation
If you also believe that an organization's knowledge should be live, connected and understandable by everyone who transforms it, we should talk.
- Precise enough for architects
- Accessible enough for business teams
- Clear enough for leaders
Let's talk about your organization
Tell us about your context, the information to structure and the projects to scope better.