Introduction to Intent Architect

Intent Architect is the first control plane for agentic .NET software development.

It's the platform .NET teams use to turn AI into a well-governed, repeatable, and enterprise-scale delivery system – using their preferred LLMs and AI-coding harnesses.

It brings reliable architectural guardrails, authoritative design blueprints, and advanced change-review tools to agentic development – giving teams the control they need to scale AI-driven velocity, without compromising on quality and accountability.

Overview

Getting started

Key Concepts

  • Authoritative Design Blueprints

    Condense validation and comprehension to a fraction of the time to minimize risk and sustain AI-driven velocity. Create living blueprints of your system design, that track code changes as they happen, and add advanced change-review tools to alleviate the bottlenecks of agentic coding.

    Authoritative Design Blueprints
  • Architectural Guardrails

    Guaranteed architectural adherence and consistency across teams and systems. Deterministic guardrails scale effortlessly to make AI-driven development more reliable without the need for constant validation – while deviations are automatically flagged to keep you in full control.

    Architectural Guardrails
  • AI Agents / Tools

    Use any LLM or AI-coding harness and add the control you need to scale agentic development safely and reliably. Leverage your existing context engineering setup via the Intent MCP, or drive agents directly in the platform.

    AI Agents / Tools
  • Codebase Control

    No matter the configuration you choose, you stay in full control with complete visibility and direct access to the entire codebase. Developers that work directly in the platform work in an integrated way with their existing IDE / coding harness.

    Codebase Control

Watch a demo of the latest features

Watch the Intent Architect version 5.2 new-features demo.

Gareth Baars, founder and CEO of Intent Architect, shares some of the recent enhancements around validating, trusting, and managing changes in an agentic development workflow, and expands on how Intent Architect gives teams enhanced control in this evolving landscape.

What's covered in this demo:

  • New traceability features for reviewing commits, giving teams visibility and clarity even as codebases become increasingly "black-boxed".
  • Enhanced change-review features to better support agentic development, making it easy to prioritize and optimize code-review processes.
  • Specification change tracking, surfacing exactly how your authoritative design specifications evolve over time.
  • A simplified, unified UI that brings your model, your code, and your repository together in a single, streamlined workspace.
  • A new Git Source Control panel and Changes Review tab, so you can see and review everything flowing through your solution without tabbing out.
  • The new Specifications panel and Spec-Driven Development (SDD) system (Beta), turning design specifications into a control plane for fully agentic software development.

Next Steps