Choosing an EA tool without paying for Ardoq

The EA tool market has a midmarket gap. At the top end, Ardoq and LeanIX ship deep customisation, rich modelling languages and enterprise sales motions — priced accordingly. At the bottom, you get spreadsheets.

For a Nordic midmarket organisation (200-5.000 employees) running EA as a part-time role, both ends are wrong. You don't need ArchiMate 3.2 compliance. You need to know which apps are duplicates, which capabilities have no executing system, and where strategy and portfolio disagree.

That's the gap Atlas fills. Opinionated data model. AI alignment detection out of the box. Priced for teams, not enterprises. You get boardroom-to-portfolio coverage in a week, not six months of consulting.