Manual Start

This page is the entry point for the manual path. The Quick Start is faster when you have documents to feed to an AI agent; use this page when you are starting from scratch and entering data by hand.

The detail of how to add each entity lives on its concept page and, where one exists, a dedicated workflow. This page’s only job is the order — what to create first so nothing you add later has to wait on a missing reference.

Recommended order

1. Organizations — create the organizational units first. Every other entity is classified under one; starting here means you never have to go back and re-assign.
2. Business Capabilities — define what your business does, before you start listing what automates it. Applications realize capabilities, so the capability tree is the frame you hang applications off.
3. Applications — the central entity. Once applications exist, everything else has something concrete to link to.
4. IT Components — the technology layer under the applications. Add them as you discover what each application runs on; you do not need a full inventory up-front.
5. Data Objects — the business-level data concepts (Customer, Order, Invoice) that applications operate on and integrations carry. Add them before integrations so the integration form can link to them.
6. Integrations — data flows between applications. Integrations reference both applications and data objects, so they come after both.
7. Initiatives — optional, and usually later. An initiative scopes the architectural impact of a planned change; create one when you have a change to scope.

At any point you can stop adding by hand and feed the rest to an AI agent — both paths write to the same landscape.