We are building the company brain, through Enterprise Intelligence Management

Every company, from a five-person startup to a global group, has a strategy, the capabilities that deliver it, the systems and suppliers those capabilities depend on, the money it spends, the risks it carries and the people who own each piece. That knowledge is spread across spreadsheets, diagrams, contracts, tickets and people's heads. When someone asks "what breaks if this fails?", "what does this really cost?" or "are we doing what we said we would?", the answer is assembled by hand, late, and rarely trusted.

This isn't a search problem, and it isn't a chatbot problem. Searching your documents faster doesn't fix knowledge that was never written down in a structured, checkable form, and a chatbot repeats the same gaps with more confidence. What's missing is a company brain: a living, explainable model of how the enterprise actually works, kept current and queryable by the people who run it.

Enterprise Intelligence Management is the capability that builds it. Customer relationship management gave every company one record of its customers. Enterprise resource planning gave it one record of its operations and finances. Enterprise Intelligence Management gives it one record of the enterprise itself: a company brain holding strategy, business, applications, data, technology, people, money, risk, suppliers, operations and AI, kept current from the systems that master each fact, and turned into answers, insights, recommendations and simulations for every person who runs the business, and for the machines that work for them.

It is a capability, not a department. A startup is an enterprise. So is a 200-person family business, a scale-up preparing for its first audit and a multinational with ten thousand applications. Each of them needs to know what it runs on, what that costs, what could go wrong and whether its plans are working. What changes with size is the depth of the model, not the need for it.

Entelim defines the category. Entelim is built around eighteen capabilities that together make up Enterprise Intelligence Management, from strategy and portfolio management through risk, compliance, data, AI and vendor management to the intelligence, simulation and automation that reason over all of them. Every answer Entelim gives cites the records it came from and shows how confident it is. When it does not know something, it says so. When its AI assistant proposes a change, nothing changes until a person approves it.

It starts working the day you sign up. Import an existing architecture model, or start from a blank organisation, and Entelim answers its first cross-layer question in minutes: what depends on this, what breaks if it fails, and who needs to know.

Why now: every company needs a company brain

AI assistants are becoming the way people ask questions about their company, and the blocker is rarely the model anymore. It's that the company's own knowledge was never written down in a structured, checkable form. This isn't a problem a better search box or a chattier assistant fixes: it needs a living, explainable model of how the enterprise actually works, with every answer traced back to the record it came from. Enterprise Intelligence Management gives every assistant one governed, time-aware, cited model of the enterprise to stand on, the same way a CRM is the source a sales assistant should read about customers. That positions Entelim as the company brain other AI tools plug into, rather than another AI feature bolted onto an architecture tool. Read access for external AI assistants, through the open Model Context Protocol, is part of where the company brain goes. Today, Entelim's own assistant already works this way: every action passes one permission check and every change waits for approval. See Agentic Automation among the eighteen capabilities.

What we believe

• Never invent a value. When Entelim does not know something, it says so, rather than guessing or filling a gap with a plausible-looking number.
• Explain everything. Every answer shows the records it came from and how it was worked out, so you can check it rather than take it on faith.
• People approve changes the platform did not observe. When the model or an AI assistant proposes a change, nothing happens until a person approves it.
• One engine per question. The same question gets the same answer everywhere it is asked: in a screen, in the API or through an AI assistant.
• Open by contract. Every connector and every assistant acts through the same governed interface, logged and revocable, not a side door.
• Portable and sovereign. Your model is yours. It is built on the open ArchiMate 3.2 standard, and the whole platform is open source, so you are never locked into a proprietary format or a single vendor.

Where Entelim is today, and where it goes

Entelim's company brain grows in five stages. Today it is modelled: import an existing architecture model and ask cited questions about it. Synchronised connects it to the systems you already use and opens read access for your own AI assistants. Operational brings in operations and finance. Predictive adds forecasting and the first scenarios. Self-maintaining lets it keep itself current within limits you set. See all eighteen capabilities for what each one delivers today.

Open source, so nobody's locked in

Entelim is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL-3.0). Self-host your own infrastructure, at any size, for as long as you want, free — that path is not a trial, it is the product. A commercial licence exists for organisations that want Entelim run for them or need different terms. Entelim is also built on the ArchiMate 3.2 open standard, so your model is never locked into a proprietary format.

How we run our own company on it

Archiet Ltd, the company behind Entelim, runs its own operating model in Entelim: roadmap and stop/go decisions trace back to the same twin the product sells, not a spreadsheet kept alongside it. See how Archiet runs on Entelim.

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