# Blueprintr

> Diagram-first documentation that never drifts: system designs, architectures and visual explainers, each anchored to an interactive diagram.

## Key pages
- [Home](https://blueprintr.io/)
- [Vellum](https://blueprintr.io/vellum): The built-in diagram editor
- [Integrations](https://blueprintr.io/integrations): Everything Blueprintr connects to
- [Showcase](https://blueprintr.io/usecases): Live example blueprints
- [Pricing](https://blueprintr.io/#pricing): Personal, Premium, Team and Enterprise plans

## Use cases
- [Live Enterprise Documentation](https://blueprintr.io/usecases/live-enterprise-documentation): Documentation for an estate that keeps up with it.
- [Managed Services Providers](https://blueprintr.io/usecases/managed-services-providers): Document and hand over many client estates from one place.
- [Design Proposals](https://blueprintr.io/usecases/design-proposals): Send a design a client can open, click into and sign off.
- [How-To's and Knowledgebases](https://blueprintr.io/usecases/how-tos-and-knowledgebases): Guides and knowledge bases beside the diagrams they explain.

## Products
- [Blueprints](https://blueprintr.io/about/blueprints): A blueprint is a document that opens on a diagram. Every shape holds its own detail, and the whole thing publishes to one live URL you can embed anywhere.
- [Vellum](https://blueprintr.io/about/vellum): Vellum is Blueprintr's diagram editor: whiteboard-fast to draw in, presentable when you are done, with vendor stencils, live collaboration and a desktop app.
- [Stratum](https://blueprintr.io/about/stratum): A stratum is the layer behind a diagram shape: markdown, tables, code, files, links, even a diagram of its own. It opens when you click the shape.
- [Continuum](https://blueprintr.io/about/continuum): Continuum Cloud scans AWS and Azure read-only and draws what is actually running. Continuum Link attaches dated snapshots from 39 connectors to the shapes they belong to.
- [Folium](https://blueprintr.io/about/folium): A folium is an organisation's documentation site: nested pages, a contents tree and search, published on your own subdomain with live blueprints embedded in the pages.
- [Podium](https://blueprintr.io/about/podium): Podium turns a Blueprintr canvas into a presentation: every slide is a live region of a real diagram, organised into chapters and presented straight from the browser.
- [Atrium](https://blueprintr.io/about/atrium): Atrium is an organisation's internal homepage: categories, pinned documents and a team directory, built from blocks on your own subdomain and visible only to members.
- [AI Features](https://blueprintr.io/about/ai): Blueprintr's AI drafts diagrams from a description, turns documents you already wrote into canvases, and writes the detail behind a shape. AI Assist proposes each edit for you to confirm.

## Comparisons
- [All comparisons](https://blueprintr.io/vs): Blueprintr against the diagramming tools you already use
- [Blueprintr vs Eraser](https://blueprintr.io/vs/eraser): Blueprintr vs Eraser, side by side: documentation behind shapes, live AWS and Azure scans, embeds, version history and pricing, read from Eraser's own pages.
- [Blueprintr vs Whimsical](https://blueprintr.io/vs/whimsical): Blueprintr vs Whimsical: product-team boards and docs against diagram-first architecture documentation. Depth behind shapes, embeds, exports and pricing.
- [Blueprintr vs Cloudcraft](https://blueprintr.io/vs/cloudcraft): Blueprintr vs Cloudcraft: both draw AWS and Azure from a read-only scan. Compare documentation depth, Terraform drift, embeds, versioning and pricing.
- [Blueprintr vs Hava](https://blueprintr.io/vs/hava): Blueprintr vs Hava: both draw cloud estates from a read-only connection. Compare what happens after the scan, Terraform drift, documentation depth and pricing.
- [Blueprintr vs Lucidscale](https://blueprintr.io/vs/lucidscale): Blueprintr vs Lucidscale, now Lucid's Cloud Accelerator: both draw cloud accounts from a read-only import. Documentation depth, drift, embeds and pricing.
- [Blueprintr vs IcePanel](https://blueprintr.io/vs/icepanel): Blueprintr vs IcePanel: a governed C4 model against a diagram-first document. Compare documentation depth, cloud scans, embeds, versioning and pricing.
- [Blueprintr vs Structurizr](https://blueprintr.io/vs/structurizr): Blueprintr vs Structurizr: a C4 model written as code against a diagram-first document. Documentation, collaboration, embeds and pricing compared.
- [Blueprintr vs Ilograph](https://blueprintr.io/vs/ilograph): Blueprintr vs Ilograph: a YAML-defined interactive diagram against a drawn document with detail behind each shape. Depth, embeds, exports and pricing compared.
- [Blueprintr vs Mermaid](https://blueprintr.io/vs/mermaid): Blueprintr vs Mermaid and Mermaid Chart: Mermaid renders text, and Blueprintr includes it as an engine. What changes when the diagram becomes a document.
- [Blueprintr vs Lucidchart](https://blueprintr.io/vs/lucidchart): Blueprintr vs Lucidchart: a general diagramming suite against diagram-first documentation. Documentation depth, cloud scans, embeds, history and pricing.
- [Blueprintr vs draw.io](https://blueprintr.io/vs/drawio): Blueprintr vs draw.io: draw.io is a free editor and Blueprintr includes it as an engine. Compare what changes when the diagram becomes a published document.
- [Blueprintr vs Microsoft Visio](https://blueprintr.io/vs/visio): Blueprintr vs Microsoft Visio: a Windows diagramming app against diagram-first documentation. Cloud stencils, data linking, embeds, history and pricing.
- [Blueprintr vs Gliffy](https://blueprintr.io/vs/gliffy): Blueprintr vs Gliffy: a Confluence diagramming app against diagram-first documentation. Depth behind shapes, embeds beyond Confluence, history and pricing.
- [Blueprintr vs Miro](https://blueprintr.io/vs/miro): Blueprintr vs Miro: a whiteboard built for the workshop against a document built to be read after it. Documentation depth, cloud import, embeds and pricing.
- [Blueprintr vs FigJam](https://blueprintr.io/vs/figjam): Blueprintr vs FigJam: Figma's whiteboard against diagram-first documentation. Documentation depth, exports, embeds, history and pricing, from Figma's own pages.
- [Blueprintr vs Excalidraw](https://blueprintr.io/vs/excalidraw): Blueprintr vs Excalidraw and Excalidraw+: Excalidraw sketches, and Blueprintr includes it as an engine. What changes when the sketch becomes a document.

## Alternatives
- [All shortlists](https://blueprintr.io/alternatives): Shortlists for teams replacing a diagramming tool
- [Eraser alternatives](https://blueprintr.io/alternatives/eraser): Eight Eraser alternatives for architecture documentation: what to look for, how Blueprintr compares, and a fair line on every other tool.
- [Whimsical alternatives](https://blueprintr.io/alternatives/whimsical): Whimsical alternatives for diagrams and documentation: what to look for, how Blueprintr compares, and a fair line on Miro, FigJam, Eraser and more.
- [Cloudcraft alternatives](https://blueprintr.io/alternatives/cloudcraft): Cloudcraft alternatives for AWS and Azure architecture diagrams: what to check in a replacement, how Blueprintr compares, and a fair line on every other option.
- [Hava alternatives](https://blueprintr.io/alternatives/hava): Hava alternatives for automated cloud diagrams: what to look for after the scan, how Blueprintr compares, and a fair line on Cloudcraft, Lucidscale and more.
- [Lucidscale alternatives](https://blueprintr.io/alternatives/lucidscale): Lucidscale alternatives now that it is an Enterprise add-on to Lucidchart: what to look for, how Blueprintr compares, and a fair line on Cloudcraft and Hava.
- [IcePanel alternatives](https://blueprintr.io/alternatives/icepanel): IcePanel alternatives for software architecture: what to look for beyond the C4 model, how Blueprintr compares, and a fair line on every other option.
- [Structurizr alternatives](https://blueprintr.io/alternatives/structurizr): Structurizr alternatives now its cloud service is ending: what to look for in architecture docs, how Blueprintr compares, and a fair line on each option.
- [Ilograph alternatives](https://blueprintr.io/alternatives/ilograph): Ilograph alternatives for interactive architecture diagrams: what to look for, how Blueprintr compares, and a fair line on IcePanel, Structurizr and more.
- [Mermaid alternatives](https://blueprintr.io/alternatives/mermaid): Mermaid and Mermaid Chart alternatives for architecture diagrams: what to look for beyond text rendering, how Blueprintr compares, and a line on each option.
- [Lucidchart alternatives](https://blueprintr.io/alternatives/lucidchart): Lucidchart alternatives for architecture documentation: what to look for, how Blueprintr compares, and a fair line on Eraser, draw.io, Miro and more.
- [draw.io alternatives](https://blueprintr.io/alternatives/drawio): draw.io alternatives for architecture documentation: what to look for beyond a free editor, how Blueprintr compares, and a fair line on every other tool.
- [Microsoft Visio alternatives](https://blueprintr.io/alternatives/visio): Microsoft Visio alternatives for architecture docs: what to look for beyond stencils, how Blueprintr compares, and a fair line on draw.io and Lucidchart.
- [Gliffy alternatives](https://blueprintr.io/alternatives/gliffy): Gliffy alternatives for architecture diagrams: what to look for beyond a Confluence app, how Blueprintr compares, and a fair line on draw.io and Lucidchart.
- [Miro alternatives](https://blueprintr.io/alternatives/miro): Miro alternatives for architecture diagrams and documentation: what to look for beyond a whiteboard, how Blueprintr compares, and a fair line on every option.
- [FigJam alternatives](https://blueprintr.io/alternatives/figjam): FigJam alternatives for architecture diagrams: what to look for beyond a whiteboard, how Blueprintr compares, and a fair line on Miro, Excalidraw and more.
- [Excalidraw alternatives](https://blueprintr.io/alternatives/excalidraw): Excalidraw alternatives for architecture diagrams: what to look for beyond a hand-drawn whiteboard, how Blueprintr compares, and a fair line on every option.

## Blueprints
- [Data centre fabric — spine, leaf and the overlay on top](https://blueprintr.io/orgs/blueprintr/network-topologies-example): A 100G leaf-and-spine fabric drawn twice: the physical pods, spines and border once, then the EVPN/VXLAN overlay of tenants, VRFs and VNIs that rides on it. Every switch opens on its interfaces, addre…
- [Securing your account](https://blueprintr.io/josh/securing-your-account): Four slides on what a folium is, how its page tree works, and where everything else is configured.
- [Creating a stratum](https://blueprintr.io/josh/creating-a-stratum): Four slides on what a folium is, how its page tree works, and where everything else is configured.
- [Finding your way around the dashboard](https://blueprintr.io/josh/finding-your-way-around-the-dashboard): Four slides on what a folium is, how its page tree works, and where everything else is configured.
- [Importing existing content](https://blueprintr.io/josh/importing-existing-content): Four slides on what a folium is, how its page tree works, and where everything else is configured.
- [Connecting an AI agent](https://blueprintr.io/josh/connecting-an-ai-agent): Four slides on what a folium is, how its page tree works, and where everything else is configured.
- [The editor's three steps](https://blueprintr.io/josh/the-editor-s-three-steps): Four slides on what a folium is, how its page tree works, and where everything else is configured.
- [Reading a blueprint](https://blueprintr.io/josh/reading-a-blueprint): Four slides on what a folium is, how its page tree works, and where everything else is configured.
- [Drawing in Vellum](https://blueprintr.io/josh/drawing-in-vellum): Four slides on what a folium is, how its page tree works, and where everything else is configured.
- [Setting up a documentation site](https://blueprintr.io/josh/setting-up-a-documentation-site): Four slides on what a folium is, how its page tree works, and where everything else is configured.
- [Publishing your first blueprint](https://blueprintr.io/josh/publishing-your-first-blueprint): A five-slide walkthrough of the authoring loop, from the rail to a stratum.
- [Three independent choices](https://blueprintr.io/josh/three-independent-choices): Ownership, visibility and filing are decided separately — and only one of them changes the URL.
- [How SCIM reaches Blueprintr](https://blueprintr.io/josh/how-scim-reaches-blueprintr): Your directory pushes to the SSO service; Blueprintr pulls from it. And the one direction SCIM will not reverse.
- [Two keys, two servers](https://blueprintr.io/josh/two-keys-two-servers): Why a personal key and an organisation key are not one credential with different permissions.
- [Import vs connect](https://blueprintr.io/josh/import-vs-connect): Import copies content in once and it becomes yours; a connector leaves it where it is and renders it live per viewer.
- [Change request lifecycle](https://blueprintr.io/josh/change-request-lifecycle): Open, then approved and merged, rejected, or withdrawn — and why the docs agent files one rather than writing the page.
- [Continuum managed vs yours](https://blueprintr.io/josh/continuum-managed-vs-yours): A refresh rewrites the Continuum-managed half of a canvas and never touches the shapes you drew.
- [SSO vs SCIM](https://blueprintr.io/josh/sso-vs-scim): SSO decides who may sign in; SCIM decides who is a member. Without SCIM a leaver keeps the membership and the seat.
- [Stratum binding vs linking](https://blueprintr.io/josh/stratum-binding-vs-linking): A stratum is bound to exactly one shape, and can be linked to from anywhere.
- [Teams structure](https://blueprintr.io/josh/teams-structure): What belongs at the organisation level and what belongs to a team.
- [Publishing states](https://blueprintr.io/josh/publishing-states): Draft, published version, and the next draft — what readers see while you edit.
- [Visibility model](https://blueprintr.io/josh/visibility-model): What decides who can read a blueprint or folium: status first, then visibility, capped by organisation policy.
- [How Blueprintr fits together](https://blueprintr.io/josh/how-blueprintr-fits-together-2): Vellum draws a diagram, a blueprint wraps it with strata, files and prose, and one publish makes it readable four ways.
- [Anatomy of a stratum](https://blueprintr.io/josh/anatomy-of-a-stratum): One shape on a diagram surface, bound to a stratum holding five tab kinds.
- [Sixty thousand devices — the telemetry model](https://blueprintr.io/orgs/blueprintr/telemetry-model-example): What a fleet of connected heat pumps sends and where it lands: the device registry, an ingest path for a good connection and one for a bad one, the measurement schema and its cardinality budget, and h…
- [Multi-tenant SaaS — one platform, four hundred tenants](https://blueprintr.io/orgs/blueprintr/multi-tenant-saas-example): How one deployment serves four hundred customers without leaking between them: the control plane and the two data planes, tenant routing, isolation the database enforces rather than the code, per-tena…
- [The order model — twelve entities and the events that change them](https://blueprintr.io/orgs/blueprintr/data-model-example): The same retailer modelled from the inside: twelve operational entities with their keys and constraints, the events that move an order between them, the star schema the warehouse reads, and a dictiona…
- [Order to cash — the eleven systems that touch an order](https://blueprintr.io/orgs/blueprintr/integration-map-example): Every system an order passes through between the checkout and the ledger, and every hop between them: its transport, its schedule, its retry rule, its owning team, and what happens to the order when t…
- [Platform assessment — Windlass, before the Series C](https://blueprintr.io/orgs/blueprintr/platform-assessment-example): An advisory engagement's findings pack. The client's estate was drafted by AI from their own documentation and corrected by hand, and all sixteen findings are pinned to the shape each one concerns wit…
- [Multi-region failover, tested every quarter](https://blueprintr.io/orgs/blueprintr/region-failover-example): Two AWS regions with recovery objectives on every service, a twelve-step failover runbook drawn as a diagram, and the evidence from the last real failover attached to the steps it exercised. The runbo…
- [Datacentre exit — Halverstone, wave 3 in flight](https://blueprintr.io/orgs/blueprintr/datacentre-exit-example): A migration programme mid-flight: the client's own draw.io estate annotated wave by wave, the landing zone the workloads land in, a cutover runbook and a rollback point on every workload, and the stee…
- [Rivulet — a webhook relay, explained](https://blueprintr.io/orgs/blueprintr/tech-explanations-example): What a project README wants to be and cannot: one architecture drawing whose every box opens on the component behind it, the state machine that defines the delivery guarantee, the schema that implemen…
- [Ship it — from commit to production](https://blueprintr.io/orgs/blueprintr/devops-example): The whole delivery path for a service: trunk-based branches, the four gates that cannot be waived, a signed supply chain, Argo CD as the only deploy path, progressive rollout across two regions, and t…
- [Client design pack — Brightwater Foods managed platform](https://blueprintr.io/orgs/blueprintr/design-sharing-example): The whole artefact a consultancy hands a client: the proposed design, the options that were rejected and why, the risks, what it costs, the whiteboard it came from, the deck it was presented with, and…
- [Lakehouse, ingest to dashboard](https://blueprintr.io/orgs/blueprintr/lakehouse-platform): Meridian's analytics estate from Track event to executive dashboard: three feeds into a bronze/silver/gold lake, nightly models, Redshift and Athena — with a podium tour, a live Continuum warehouse sc…
- [Zero-trust access review](https://blueprintr.io/orgs/blueprintr/zero-trust-review): Meridian's quarterly entitlement review: the draw.io flow the team actually runs, each step carrying its live ServiceNow ticket, the access topology it polices, and the controls and evidence that prov…
- [Global WAN network diagram](https://blueprintr.io/orgs/blueprintr/global-wan-diagram): Meridian's seven-site WAN across EMEA, AMER, APAC and the Middle East: the original Excalidraw workshop design beside the Vellum topology that was built, with every circuit, route preference and failo…
- [Kubernetes platform reference](https://blueprintr.io/orgs/blueprintr/kubernetes-reference): The reference for track-prod, Meridian's EKS platform: a clickable Vellum topology with strata across the estate, mermaid sequences for the control loops, the platform handbook as a long-form folium,…
- [Your first two weeks](https://blueprintr.io/orgs/blueprintr/engineer-onboarding): Meridian's new-engineer onboarding in one link: a two-week journey map with a stratum on every milestone, the engineering handbook as a folium, and four podium decks — dev environment, first deploy, r…
- [Network site topology](https://blueprintr.io/orgs/blueprintr/network-site-topology): Rotterdam HQ from WAN hand-off to desk port: redundant perimeter, core, distribution and access layers, with a real port map and addressing record behind every device and live Continuum Link tabs besi…
- [Azure hub-and-spoke, end to end](https://blueprintr.io/orgs/blueprintr/azure-hub-spoke): Meridian's corporate Azure estate: a firewalled hub and four peered spokes reached over ExpressRoute from Rotterdam. The Continuum tab carries a scanned hub-and-spoke environment whose Routing view sh…
- [Multi-account AWS landing zone](https://blueprintr.io/orgs/blueprintr/aws-landing-zone): Meridian's three scanned AWS accounts — network, production and non-production — behind one transit gateway, with centralised inspection and egress and every subnet documented down to CIDR, tags and r…
- [Getting Started Overview](https://blueprintr.io/orgs/blueprintr-docs/getting-started/getting-started-overview)
- [Cloud Architecture Example](https://blueprintr.io/orgs/blueprintr/cloud-architecture-example): Basic Enterprise Azure Environment
- [Azure vWAN with Azure Firewalls](https://blueprintr.io/josh/azure-vwan-with-azure-firewalls): Typical architecture for vWAN with AFW - this is a test
- [This was oogly, now it's boogly](https://blueprintr.io/liammcleod/this-was-oogly-now-it-s-boogly)
- [Test Vellum](https://blueprintr.io/liammcleod/test-vellum): Test optional line
- [Podium test (Liam)](https://blueprintr.io/josh/podium-test-liam)
- [The Blueprintr dashboard](https://blueprintr.io/orgs/blueprintr-docs/getting-started/the-blueprintr-dashboard)
- [From organisation to Atrium](https://blueprintr.io/orgs/blueprintr-docs/getting-started/from-organisation-to-atrium)
- [Portfolios and folders](https://blueprintr.io/orgs/blueprintr-docs/getting-started/portfolios-and-folders)
- [Ways to import into Blueprintr](https://blueprintr.io/orgs/blueprintr-docs/getting-started/ways-to-import-into-blueprintr)
- [The settings hub](https://blueprintr.io/orgs/blueprintr-docs/getting-started/the-settings-hub)
- [The publish wizard](https://blueprintr.io/orgs/blueprintr-docs/getting-started/the-publish-wizard)
- [How a webhook delivery works](https://blueprintr.io/orgs/blueprintr-docs/getting-started/how-a-webhook-delivery-works)
- [How an embed resolves visibility](https://blueprintr.io/orgs/blueprintr-docs/getting-started/how-an-embed-resolves-visibility)
- [The SSO sign-in flow](https://blueprintr.io/orgs/blueprintr-docs/getting-started/the-sso-sign-in-flow)
- [Organisations, teams and roles](https://blueprintr.io/orgs/blueprintr-docs/getting-started/organisations-teams-and-roles)
- [Blueprintr's AI tools](https://blueprintr.io/orgs/blueprintr-docs/getting-started/blueprintr-s-ai-tools)
- [How a podium presents a diagram](https://blueprintr.io/orgs/blueprintr-docs/getting-started/how-a-podium-presents-a-diagram)
- [How a folium is built](https://blueprintr.io/orgs/blueprintr-docs/getting-started/how-a-folium-is-built)
- [Anatomy of a blueprint](https://blueprintr.io/orgs/blueprintr-docs/getting-started/anatomy-of-a-blueprint)
- [How strata work](https://blueprintr.io/orgs/blueprintr-docs/getting-started/how-strata-work)
- [Inside the Vellum editor](https://blueprintr.io/orgs/blueprintr-docs/getting-started/inside-the-vellum-editor)
- [How Blueprintr fits together](https://blueprintr.io/orgs/blueprintr-docs/getting-started/how-blueprintr-fits-together)
- [Getting Started with Blueprintr](https://blueprintr.io/orgs/blueprintr-docs/getting-started/getting-started-with-blueprintr): A placeholder article for the Blueprintr Docs knowledge base.
- [Oogly 3](https://blueprintr.io/jaja/oogly-draft-9zxrt4)
- [Oogly 2](https://blueprintr.io/jaja/oogly-draft-zgftac)
- [Embed Test](https://blueprintr.io/freetest1/embed-test): This should embed nicely
- [Testing](https://blueprintr.io/premiumtest1/testing)
- [Zero-Trust Network Access](https://blueprintr.io/liammcleod/zero-trust-network-access): Simple model demonstrating AWS implementation of a concept known as ZTNA.
- [Aspen Web Stack](https://blueprintr.io/liammcleod/aspen-web-stack-): Web stack used by the platform formerly known as Aspen by Network Diagnostics.

## Full content
- [llms-full.txt](https://blueprintr.io/llms-full.txt): Every public blueprint as raw markdown