A decision model for the
whole enterprise.
AlignX is built around a structured decision model: a connected set of objects, relationships and propagation rules that reflect how enterprises actually make and execute choices. Every object carries context. Every relationship carries meaning. Every change propagates intelligibly across the whole model. And every object, relationship and change record sits in Dataverse, within your Microsoft tenant.
What AlignX holds
Objectives
Strategic commitments and priorities: the intent behind investment and delivery.
Initiatives
Programmes, projects and investments, connected to the objectives they serve and the requirements they address.
Requirements
Business and functional needs: the translation layer between strategic intent and architectural response. A first-class governed domain.
Systems
Applications, platforms, capabilities and data assets: the current expression of how the enterprise is structured.
Risks
Identified threats, vulnerabilities and uncertainties, connected to the decisions and architecture that create or mitigate them.
Controls
Mitigations, governance policies and compliance obligations, connected to the risks they address and the decisions that govern them.
Decisions
Explicit decision records: the full business context of every significant enterprise choice. Preserved and navigable indefinitely.
Outcomes
Measured results, connected back to the investments, decisions and requirements that produced them.
How objects connect
Typed, meaningful connections across the model.
An objective is served by one or more initiatives.
An initiative responds to one or more requirements.
A requirement is addressed by one or more architectural components or systems.
A system creates or mitigates one or more risks.
A risk is governed by one or more controls.
A control satisfies one or more compliance obligations.
A decision authorises, shapes, or constrains any of the above.
An outcome is attributed to one or more decisions, initiatives, or investments.
When something changes, AlignX knows what it affects
AlignX treats change as information that propagates, not an event to be logged. When a strategic priority shifts, AlignX surfaces which investments are affected, which requirements need review, which architectural components are implicated, and which governance or compliance obligations are relevant. This is the mechanism that addresses execution drift: change does not dissolve strategic intent; it surfaces implications immediately across the connected model. Notifications and approvals flow through Power Automate and surface in Teams, so the people who need to act see the change in the tools they already use.
Bidirectional navigation across every connection
Traceability in AlignX is a property of the model, not a report. From any object, a strategic objective, an architectural component, a governance decision, you can navigate in either direction: toward the intent that drove it, or toward the outcomes it produced. Decision context is not historical record. It is live navigation through the choices that shaped the enterprise, queryable through Power BI and surfaceable in Teams, with identity and access governed by Microsoft Entra.