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 service providers and coding harnesses.

It brings reliable architectural guardrails, authoritative design blueprints, and advanced governance 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

  • Reliable Architectural Guardrails

    Safeguard codebase quality and maintainability. Intent Architect's advanced guardrail system combines both deterministic and probabilistic enforcement to ensure architectural adherence without adding to the validation burden, and scales across teams without developers having to internalize their standards and context files to validate agentic adherence.

    Reliable Architectural Guardrails
  • Authoritative Design Blueprints

    Stay on top of your system's design and minimize technical and cognitive debt. Living blueprints give you an always-accurate visualisation of your design, making architectural decisions explicit and visible to the whole team. And provide an intuitive way to consistently confirm whether agents are meeting your specifications and making good design decisions.

    Authoritative Design Blueprints
  • Advanced Validation Tools

    Streamline validation and alleviate delivery bottlenecks. Denoise the review process and focus on the things that matter most, e.g., design shifts, architectural shifts and high-risk changes. Teams aren't overwhelmed by large PRs, don't just rubberstamp code, and never push significant risk downstream.

    Advanced Validation Tools
  • SDD with Traceability

    Go from requirements to production-ready code, step by step, with full traceability. Drive agentic development with high-quality specifications that are easier to comprehend and traceability features that answer the why – exactly which requirements drove which code, and vice versa. So you stay in control from requirements through to code.

    Spec-Driven Development with Traceability

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