What 7 AI analysts noticed in our EA repository this week
I've been building something in Waltz that I think changes how enterprise architecture teams interact with AI: instead of chatting with a model and getting a one-off answer, we gave seven AI analyst personas persistent access to the EA repository and let them work on a schedule.
Each persona has a distinct lens. A CTO persona focuses on infrastructure obsolescence. A Migration Architect looks for dependency cycles and shared-database cohorts. A TOGAF Enterprise Architect spots capability redundancy and standards drift. An Auditor reads what the other six produce and looks for agreement, gaps, and contradictions.
One persona spotted that a single end-of-life database is still serving six production apps. Another flagged three applications all providing the same capability to different business units, unaware of the others. The Auditor noted that two personas disagreed on the risk level of a shared integration layer and surfaced that as its own finding.
What makes this different from "AI generates a report":
These observations are structured, deduplicated, and lifecycled, not free-text that disappears after a conversation. If you dismiss a finding, it stays dismissed across future runs. If the same problem reappears, the system bumps the observation count and refreshes the wording rather than creating a duplicate.
Every finding is grounded in the EA repository. Every cited application, database, or capability is a real entity you can click through to. And every finding carries 1–3 recommended next steps phrased in actions you can actually take inside Waltz: open a Change Initiative, create an application group, request a data assessment.
The part I'm most pleased with: reverse lookup. From any application page in Waltz, you can see every persona finding that mentions it, bucketed by whether it directly affects that app, mentions it as part of a wider pattern, or is inter-persona quality assurance. The AI's work feeds into the operator's normal navigation, not a separate inbox.
This is a research snapshot, not a finished product.
Structured findings that persist, prescribe, and participate in the tool alongside the operator.
Curious what EA practitioners think. What would you want your AI analysts to notice first?
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