Catio
The Architecture IDE for modern software systems.

Catio is an Architecture IDE that helps engineering teams make deliberate, well-grounded architecture decisions rather than letting systems evolve through drift. It connects live system context with decision-making workflows, enabling teams to define what gets built, generate execution-ready specs, and detect drift over time. It sits above coding IDEs, providing the decision layer that guides what those tools actually execute.
Catio ingests live system and business context to surface dependencies and risks, helps evaluate options and trade-offs, produces execution-ready specs, and monitors for drift as the system evolves.
Engineering and architecture teams at software companies
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- unknown
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