For CFOs & risk sponsors
The ROI case for enterprise architecture
Architects choose tools for capability. Finance approves them for cost, risk and return. This page is for the budget owner — the CFO, the risk sponsor, the buyer who has to defend the spend. Archilu is built so that the numbers work in your favour: transparent pricing you can plan, a cost that does not climb with headcount, and calculators that let you build the business case from your own figures rather than ours.
Where the value comes from
These are structural cost advantages, not promotional figures. Each one is something you can verify against your own contract terms and infrastructure.
Predictable, public pricing
Pricing is published, not negotiated behind an NDA. You can plan the budget line before you talk to sales — no per-seat surprises and no opaque enterprise quote that grows every renewal.
Unlimited users, flat cost
Cost does not scale with headcount. Business, IT, risk and compliance teams can all use Archilu without the per-seat tax that punishes you for involving more stakeholders.
EU hosting or on-premise
Hosting in the European Union or deployment on your own infrastructure keeps data residency and audit costs under control, instead of paying later to retrofit sovereignty onto a US-hosted tool.
Faster time-to-value
A focused, opinionated platform shortens the path from purchase to a usable architecture repository, so the investment starts producing decisions and documentation sooner.
A budget line you can defend
No per-seat tax, no surprise renewal uplift.
Many enterprise architecture tools price per named user. The more people you involve — and a useful EA practice involves a lot of people across business, IT, risk and compliance — the higher the bill climbs. That model puts you in the awkward position of rationing access to a tool whose whole point is shared visibility.
Archilu prices for unlimited users. Adding stakeholders does not change the invoice, so the platform can be rolled out as widely as adoption demands without re-opening the budget. Combined with public pricing, that means the cost you approve today is the cost you can plan for — see the figures yourself on the pricing page.
Lower compliance and audit cost
Sovereignty designed in, not bolted on.
For regulated finance, the hidden cost of a tool is often the work needed to make it acceptable to risk, audit and the regulator. A US-hosted platform can require additional contractual, residency and transfer-risk effort that lands on your teams later.
Archilu is hosted in the European Union or deployed on-premise under your control, with a GDPR-by-design posture and the regulated-finance context — DORA, CSSF supervision — built into how it is designed. That keeps the compliance overhead of adopting the tool lower from the start. The detail is on the security & compliance and sovereign enterprise architecture pages.
Quantify the case with your own numbers
We do not publish a generic ROI percentage or a payback period, because a credible business case has to use your figures, not ours. Instead, Archilu gives you the tools to build that case and put a number on it.
EA TCO calculator
Model the total cost of ownership of your enterprise architecture tooling and approach using your own inputs, so the comparison reflects your situation.
Open the TCO calculatorApplication rationalization calculator
Estimate the savings opportunity from retiring and consolidating overlapping applications — one of the most direct ways an EA practice returns money to the budget.
Open the rationalization calculatorStart from where you are
Before you size the investment, it helps to know your baseline. The EA Maturity Assessment gives a structured read on where your architecture practice stands today, which makes the expected return — and the priorities to fund first — concrete rather than abstract.
Take the EA Maturity AssessmentBuild the business case with us
A demo grounded in your numbers, not a generic pitch.
If you are the one signing off the spend, the fastest way to test the case is to run your figures through the calculators and then walk through the result with us. We can show how Archilu maps to your scope and constraints, and how the cost compares to your current tooling.