A structured, consistent framework for representing organisational architecture across strategic, operational, and supporting dimensions. Your semantic foundation.
The Orthogramic Metamodel provides the foundation for parsing, classifying, and synthesising business documentation into actionable insight. It serves as a universal grammar that enables consistent interpretation of enterprise architecture across any organisation.
Built on a schema-first approach using publicly available JSON Schemas, the metamodel enables automation, validation, and seamless integration into digital tools and platforms. Every domain is defined through attributes, elements, relationships, and interdependencies.
Cross-domain relationships provide structured links between entities—Customers to Capabilities, Policies to Services—allowing traceability, impact analysis, and improved alignment across the enterprise.
24+ interconnected domains
The metamodel is composed of three complementary sections that together provide comprehensive coverage of enterprise architecture.
Core domains that describe fundamental aspects of an organisation—Strategy, Customer, Capability, Value Stream, Products, Services, and more. Each domain has its own schema and defined relationships.
Structured links between entities across domains enabling traceability, impact analysis, and dependency mapping. Relationships are bidirectional and typed for semantic precision.
Common elements shared across domains including versioning, provenance, quality metrics, and governance attributes. Ensures consistency and enables unified lifecycle management.
The metamodel organises enterprise architecture into logical clusters, each containing related domains that work together.
The metamodel provides capabilities designed for real-world enterprise architecture challenges.
Every domain defined through publicly available JSON Schemas, enabling automation and validation.
Structured relationships between entities enable traceability and impact analysis across the enterprise.
Each domain includes comprehensive attributes capturing identity, structure, relationships, and metadata.
Built-in maturity assessment framework to track documentation completeness and quality.
Designed for seamless integration into digital tools, platforms, and automation workflows.
Applicable across government, enterprise, healthcare, finance, and any organisational context.
The metamodel includes translation layers and mappings to industry-standard frameworks and ontologies.
Banking Industry Architecture Network
Enterprise Architecture Framework
Financial Industry Business Ontology
The Open Group Architecture Framework
Business Analysis Body of Knowledge
Requirements Specification Template
Requirements Engineering Standards
User Stories & Epics Mapping
The Orthogramic Metamodel is freely available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. We believe that a universal grammar for business architecture should be accessible to all organisations, researchers, and practitioners.
See how the Orthogramic Metamodel can provide the semantic foundation for your organisation's architecture and intelligence.