Simara Architecture Studio Before you build,
make the decisions clear.
Map the work. Design the handoffs. Put a cost and a test beside the proposal.
What the Architecture Studio does
The Simara Architecture Studio is a free tool for planning one AI workflow before anyone builds it. You describe a real process in plain words: what starts it, what gets decided along the way, and what has to be true at the end. The Studio returns a decision pack that a finance director can read and an architect can build from.
Most AI projects go wrong on questions nobody wrote down, such as who checks the output, what happens when the model is wrong, and what the thing costs at real volume. The pack puts those answers on paper while changing your mind is still cheap.
What is in the decision pack
- Who does what
- Each task is given to a model, to ordinary software or to a person, with the reason. Reading a free-text email is model work. Checking that a total matches an order is software work. Approving a refund above a limit stays with a person.
- How it fits together
- Every handoff between steps, the check that sits at each one, and what happens when a step fails.
- What it costs to run
- A monthly estimate for model calls, software and the staff time that remains, set against a budget ceiling you choose. The same sum is worked again at double the demand, so you can see where the budget breaks.
- What it is worth
- Time released, cash saved and payback, stated separately. Released time only becomes a saving when spending actually falls, and the pack keeps the two apart.
- What you told us, and what we did with it
- Each statement from you or your colleagues, quoted as it was said, beside the design decision it led to.
- What is still open
- The questions a real project would have to answer before it starts. A blank in your brief stays a blank, and the pack says so.
How it works
- 1
Describe the process
Six short steps, and only three of them need an answer. Where you don't know something, say so and the Studio keeps it as an open question.
- 2
Confirm your work email
Nothing is generated until you click the link we send you.
- 3
The pack is written, then checked
A second model reviews every draft for claims that don't hold. A draft that fails is marked as needing revision and shown with the reviewer's reasons, so you can correct the brief and generate it again.
- 4
Read it, then revise
You get an email when the pack is ready. Read it on a private page or download the illustrated PDF. Change the brief as your thinking changes, and each revision keeps its own assumptions.
Who it is for
- Operations and finance leaders who have been handed an AI proposal and want their own view of the running cost and the value claim before approving it.
- Founders and managing directors of smaller firms, where one failed automation project is a real hit.
- Architects and IT leads who have to turn a vague request into a scoped piece of work.
- Consultants who want to walk into a client meeting with the decisions already framed.
Who it is not for
- Teams looking for a chatbot. The Studio is for processes with decisions in them.
- Anyone wanting a build quote. The pack estimates the cost to run, and leaves the cost to build for a conversation.
- Projects already in production. If the thing is built and misbehaving, it needs a review of what exists.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Related reading and tools
- How to build the business case for an AI workflow before you build the workflow
- Automation Priority Scorer, if you have several processes and need to pick the first one.
- Workflow Time Savings Calculator, for a quick estimate of the hours one workflow takes today.
- What happens to your brief, the Studio's data use notice.
- Book a thirty-minute call with Lana to talk through a process before or after you run it through the Studio.
