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Visualize & Deliver software faster

break silos • enhance visibility • promote collaboration

SandState is a visual-first, collaborative, AI-powered platform for system design
Screenshot of an AWS system diagram in SandState

Collaborative

Create, share, and collaborate on system design diagrams.

Developers Friendly

Track and review changes of system design like a code in git.

Interactive

Zoom-in and traverse your diagrams with just a click.

AI Powered

Improve your system design with context-aware tailored AI assistant.

    How SandState helps to deliver software faster

Makes teams work together

Break silos and promote visibility and collaboration across teams

Get rid of needless alignment meetings

Keep your system architecture updated

Eliminates wasteful work

Focus on what truly matters

Eliminate tech debt and time-consuming rework

Review and validate design upfront

Turn code into diagrams

Transform your git codebase into clear system design diagrams

Save time on documentation and streamline onboarding

Reveal and manage your architecture effortlessly

Anton Mosharov

SandState CTO & Co-founder

SandState is created to make your team aligned and productive with interconnected and interactive diagrams with architecture–as–code versioning.

SandState provides a collaborative platform for engineering teams with a visual-first representation of your architecture.

Context-aware AI assistant

SandState is the only solution with architecture-tailored context-aware AI assistant.

Virtual AI teammate knows everything about your systems, business and technical requirements. AI-assistant can help you with system selection, finding the right architectural patterns, or risks assessment.

SandState automatically validates and controls your architecture and suggests mitigation strategies.

SandState AI-assistant can evaluate reliability, cost, and performance of your systems. It allows your teams to perform better by delivering resilient, scalable and cost-efficient products faster.

What makes us unique?

SandState is a visual-first platform that serves as the single source of truth for a company's system landscape

Flexible diagraming

Create freely! SandState provides diagraming tools for any cloud, microservice, layered, and monolithic applications.

Notation agnostic

Use any notation and methodology you are comfortable with. Work with system design, not with shapes and lines.

Interactive zooming

Diagrams and elements are connected. Zoom-in/out and traverse between related system elements with a single click.

Codebase visualization

Turn your legacy codebase into a strategic asset by automatically generating system design diagrams from your code.

Online collaboration

Nothing great is made alone! Create and collaborate on system designs and ideas online. Share or work together with teammates, partners, and clients.

Context-aware AI assistant

Onboard AI teammate that knows everything about your systems, helps you with system selection, suggests architectural patterns, assesses the risks and proposes mitigation strategies.

Diagrams + Documentation

Say goodbye to silos! Keep diagrams together with business requirements, user stories, ADRs and other related artifacts.

Change tracking

See the progress! Track product increments, review features and systems changelogs, keep all stakeholders aligned.

Architecture as code

Treat your architecture as code. Use code-review, versioning and other practices with your architectural diagrams.

Compare SandState with other tools

Alternative to Miro

While Miro is a great collaborative tool for brainstorming, it is not suitable for complex architectures that combine visual and textual information, multiple perspectives, and evolution tracking.
FeaturesSandStateMiro
Interactive zooming
Layers
Codebase visualization
Diagrams + Docs
Architecture as code
Version control
AI-Assistant

Alternative to Draw.io

While Draw.io is excellent for creating quick drafts, it does not support online collaboration and is not suitable for complex architectures that require manual updates and review of changes, which can quickly become messy and obsolete.
FeaturesSandStateDraw.io
Interactive zooming
Online collaboration
Layers
Codebase visualization
Connected diagrams
Diagrams + Docs
Architecture as code
Version control
AI-Assistant

Alternative to PlantUML

While PlantUML is a great open-source tool, it requires prior knowledge of its markup language.
Additionally, PlantUML only provides a single-file view, without any connections between related elements and diagrams.
FeaturesSandStatePlantUML
WYSIWYG visual editor
Interactive zooming
Online collaboration
Layers
Codebase visualization
Connected diagrams
Diagrams + Docs
AI-Assistant

Alternative to Structurizr

While Structurizr is a strong tool to define your architecture in code, it imposes C4 modelling notation and requires prior knowledge of its markup language.
FeaturesSandStateStructurizr
WYSIWYG visual editor
Codebase visualization
Online collaboration
Notation agnostic
Connected diagrams
AI-Assistant

Alternative to IcePanel

While IcePanel is a visual appealing tool for system modelling, it imposes C4 modelling notation only, which limits your use-cases.
FeaturesSandStateIcePanel
Architecture as code
Codebase visualization
Notation agnostic
AI-Assistant

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This is how you can supercharge your team!

System design

Simple yet Powerful!

Draw diagrams for any cloud, microservice, layered, and monolithic applications.

Work with system design, not with shapes and lines.

System Design Diagram in SandState.io

Process design

Notation agnostic!

Use any methodology or notation.

Design process flows, user journeys, solution architecture and more.

Activity Diagram (Process scheme) in SandState.io

Codebase visualization

Transform your git codebase into clear system design diagrams

Save time on documentation and streamline onboarding

Reveal and manage your architecture effortlessly

Turn your codebase into system design diagrams in SandState.io

Interactive zooming

Everything is connected!

Forget about static pictures.

Zoom-in and Traverse related elements with a single click.

Online collaboration

Work together with your teammates.

Collaborate online.

Promote visibility and understanding of architectural decisions across teams.

AI Assistant

Onboard a virtual AI teammate!

AI assistant knows everything about your systems.

Get instant expertise on system selection, architectural patterns, cyber risks, and efficiency improvements.

AI Assistant in SandState.io

Architecture as code

Treat your architecture as code

Use code-review, versioning and other practices with your architectural diagrams

Architecture-as-Code in SandState.io

Track changes

See the progress!

Track product increments, review new features, and systems changelogs.

Keep all stakeholders aligned.

Change tracking with code-review in SandState.io
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