The Platform
Canopy is an Enterprise Architecture management platform that creates a living digital twin of your IT landscape — giving teams a single, governed source of truth for every application, capability, process, and decision.
Overview
Most EA tools are built around rigid metamodels — fixed types, fixed fields, fixed rules. Canopy is built differently. Card types, fields, subtypes, relations, and stakeholder roles are all configuration, not code — so your architecture model evolves as your organisation does, without waiting for a vendor release.
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Start with the core inventory and expand when you're ready. Business Process Management, Project Portfolio Management, and GRC are optional modules that administrators can enable without any redeployment — combine freely as your EA practice matures.
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Real-time event streaming notifies stakeholders the moment architecture changes. AI-powered analysis surfaces patterns across your portfolio — vendor sprawl, functional duplicates, modernisation opportunities — on demand, when you need them.
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Stakeholder roles, threaded comments, data-maintenance surveys, and approval workflows make architecture knowledge a team practice — not a solo EA exercise. Every role sees the same model; every change is attributed and auditable.
Features
Purpose-built capabilities that work together as a unified system — or independently, wherever you need them.
Capture your entire IT landscape in a single governed inventory. Import from Excel or CSV, migrate from existing EA tools like LeanIX, or sync directly from ServiceNow CMDB — all consolidated into one configurable data model.
Define card types, fields, subtypes, relations, and stakeholder roles as data — not code. Every field carries a data-quality weight, so completeness scores automatically reflect your organisation's own definition of a well-documented asset.
Model business processes in BPMN 2.0, track initiatives through structured lifecycle stages, and enforce governance through card approval workflows and TOGAF-aligned Architecture Decision Records — all within the same platform.
Visualize and navigate the relationships between applications, capabilities, processes, and infrastructure using the Layered Dependency View. Understand how change propagates — and see the blast radius of any proposed modification before committing it.
Every capability is exposed as a clean, versioned REST API with extensive OpenAPI documentation. Integrate Rhizo into any stack, automate via the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, or build custom tooling on top of the full API surface.
Real-time event streaming, stakeholder role assignments, threaded card comments, and a full audit trail keep architecture teams aligned. When something changes, the right people know immediately — with full context on what changed and who changed it.
Integrations
Canopy connects to the tools at the heart of your IT operations. A comprehensive REST API and Model Context Protocol server mean you can integrate with anything — and an adapter-based migration framework makes it straightforward to import from the EA tools you're already using.
Talk to us about integrations →Bi-directional sync with ServiceNow CMDB — pull CI records, push EA enrichments, and keep both systems aligned with configurable field mappings.
Native connectorSSO via OAuth 2.1 for enterprise identity providers, plus SMTP-based email for user invitations, notifications, and password reset flows.
SSO + SMTPStructured migration from LeanIX and other EA platforms via an adapter-based import pipeline — including card types, relations, fields, stakeholders, and documents.
LeanIX + moreBulk import from Excel and CSV, export to JSON or CSV, and OData-compatible feeds for saved inventory views — ready for downstream BI or reporting tools.
Excel · CSV · ODataConnect any Ollama-compatible provider — including OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, DeepSeek, and Gemini — for AI-assisted architecture analysis and description generation.
Ollama-compatibleA built-in Model Context Protocol (MCP) server gives AI assistants governed read and write access to your EA data — with dry-run previews, batch tracking, and configurable guardrails on every write.
MCP · OAuth 2.1Security
Security isn't a feature — it's a foundation. Rhizo is designed from the ground up with enterprise-grade security, privacy, and compliance at every layer of the stack.
Every Rhizo instance runs on Google Cloud Platform with a dedicated compute service and an isolated database — your architecture data is never commingled with another organisation's. No telemetry, no shared schemas, no cross-tenant access.
Configurable roles with granular per-feature permission keys, supplemented by card-level stakeholder roles that grant additional access on specific assets. Administrators define exactly what each team member can view, create, edit, or approve.
Every create, update, and delete action is recorded in a structured event log linked to the actor, timestamp, and affected asset. The MCP server additionally tracks write operations in labelled mutation batches, making AI-agent actions fully attributable and reversible.