Collaborate on architecture

Architecture is rarely built by a single person. Uxxu provides a collaborative environment where teams can work together to define, document, and evolve system architecture. By sharing architecture models across organizations, teams gain a common understanding of how systems interact and how the architecture evolves over time.

Collaborate on architecture

Collaborative Architecture

  1. Organizations and Teams
    Create organizations to represent your company or teams and invite collaborators to participate in building and maintaining the architecture.

  2. Flexible Roles and Permissions
    Collaborators can join with different roles:

    • Viewer – explore diagrams and architecture documentation
    • Editor – create and modify diagrams and architecture elements
    • Admin – manage projects, users, and organization settings

  3. Shared Architecture Knowledge
    Teams can work together to define systems, containers, components, and workflows while maintaining a shared understanding of how the architecture works.

  4. Real-Time Collaboration
    Multiple users can collaborate simultaneously on architecture diagrams, making it easier for teams and groups to work together when designing or evolving complex systems.

  5. Architecture as a Team Asset
    Instead of architecture knowledge being isolated in individual documents or diagrams, Uxxu provides a shared platform where architecture becomes a collective resource for the entire organization.

Why Collaboration Matters

When architecture is shared across teams, knowledge silos disappear.
Uxxu helps organizations maintain a single source of truth for their architecture, enabling teams to design systems together and evolve them collaboratively.

Get started with Uxxu

Uxxu is a collaborative software architecture platform built around the C4 model. Teams use Uxxu to design, document, analyze, and evolve complex systems. Move beyond static architecture diagrams with connected views, dependency intelligence, technology lifecycle management, and real-time collaboration.

Start modeling your architecture today. Organize systems into projects, create C4 diagrams at multiple levels of detail, connect diagrams together, and explore architecture insights that help your team understand complexity and manage technical debt.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the C4 model?

The C4 model is a lightweight approach to software architecture documentation created by Simon Brown. It describes architecture using four levels of diagrams: Context, Container, Component, and Code. Each level provides a different level of detail, allowing teams to communicate architecture clearly to different audiences. Uxxu is built around the C4 model and supports Context, Container, and Component diagrams out of the box.

How does Uxxu differ from traditional diagram tools?

Traditional diagram tools like Draw.io, Lucidchart, or Miro treat architecture diagrams as collections of shapes and arrows. Uxxu treats architecture as a structured model. Architecture elements such as systems, actors, applications, containers, components, and stores are defined once and reused across multiple diagrams. This means diagrams stay consistent, relationships are tracked, and the architecture can be analyzed to produce insights about complexity, dependencies, and technology usage.

Can multiple teams collaborate on the same architecture in Uxxu?

Yes. Uxxu is designed for team collaboration. Organizations can invite collaborators as Viewers, Editors, or Administrators. Multiple users can work on diagrams and architecture elements simultaneously. Architecture is organized into organizations, projects, and subprojects so different teams can manage their own sections while still contributing to a shared organizational architecture model. This makes Uxxu suitable for both small engineering teams and large organizations managing multiple products and domains.

How does Uxxu handle large and complex architectures?

Uxxu is built to scale with architecture complexity. Large systems can be broken down into organizations, projects, and subprojects. Diagrams are connected together so teams can navigate from a high-level system context down to detailed container and component views. Architecture elements are shared across related projects to maintain consistency. Built-in analytics provide metrics such as architecture size, diagram density, and dependency concentration to help teams understand how their architecture is growing and where complexity is accumulating.

What is technology lifecycle management in Uxxu?

Technology lifecycle management in Uxxu allows teams to tag architecture elements with the technologies they use and assign each technology a lifecycle status: Future, Production, Deprecated, or Removed. This makes it possible to track which technologies are actively used, which are being phased out, and which are planned for future adoption. Teams can then generate reports showing the distribution of technology lifecycle stages across the entire architecture, helping them prioritize modernization efforts and manage technical debt proactively.

Is there a free plan available?

Yes. Every organization in Uxxu includes a free plan that supports up to 100 architecture items. This is enough to model a meaningful architecture and explore all the core features of the platform before committing to a paid plan. Architecture items include systems, actors, applications, containers, components, stores, and groups. Diagrams are not counted toward the item limit. Paid plans unlock higher item limits, advanced analytics, real-time collaboration features, and priority support.