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Architecture Review Board

A guided walkthrough of a complete Tessera ecosystem, start to finish. The Architecture Review Board ecosystem convenes a panel of senior reviewers that pressure-tests a proposed AWS solution architecture from security, reliability, cost, data/privacy, and operations angles — letting the submitter defend points, preserving dissent, and returning a defensible go / go-with-conditions / no-go verdict.

Unlike a standard orchestrated workflow, this ecosystem uses Tessera's quorum model: reviewers are empanelled from a catalog of personas, deliberate over multiple rounds, and sketch a shared whiteboard as they reason.

The four short clips below follow the full loop: build the ecosystem in the visual Builder, run it, watch the live deliberation, and review the verdict. Each video is click-to-play.

1. Build the ecosystem​

Compose the ecosystem in the visual Builder — set the quorum empanelment, the dimensions the panel must cover, and the verdict scale, then save and deploy. No code; the Builder compiles it into a runnable review. For the full walkthrough, see Build an ecosystem.

2. Run it​

Open the saved ecosystem, paste the proposed architecture (or attach the design PDF) and any context, and convene the board.

3. Watch the live deliberation​

The review streams in real time: the chair runs the room, reviewers raise findings across their dimensions, the submitter can defend points, and the panel sketches a shared whiteboard as the discussion develops.

4. Review the verdict​

When deliberation concludes, the board returns a defensible verdict — defensible, defensible with conditions, or indefensible — stating what it fails against, the indefensible elements, and the remediation. Dissent is preserved rather than averaged away. For how to read a run and iterate on it, see Run and review.

Try it yourself​

  1. Deploy and seed the platform (Installation).
  2. Open the UI and build or pick this ecosystem.
  3. Provide the proposed architecture and context, convene the board — then watch the deliberation and review the verdict.