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Half your engineers' time is onboarding other engineers and producing compliance evidence. Archiet ships the architecture pack with the code so the next new hire is productive on day one and the next audit pulls evidence from docs/ instead of from Google Docs.
New hire opens the repo, can't find the architecture doc, asks on Slack. Three engineers drop what they're doing to explain. Multiply by every new hire. Multiply by quarterly turnover.
Auditor asks for control evidence. Someone maps the compliance framework to the codebase manually. Two weeks of an engineer's time, gone, in a quarter that was supposed to be feature work.
The architecture doc says one thing. The code says another. Nobody noticed when they diverged. You find out in the post-mortem.
New engineer reads docs/README.md → docs/decisions/INDEX.md → skims the Mermaid diagrams. Done. They know why Postgres, why JWT cookies, why this state machine. They can contribute by afternoon.
docs/compliance/ contains the populated GDPR DPIA, HIPAA risk assessment, PCI scope statement, or SOX control matrix. Auditor asks for evidence → you send them a link to the repo. Not a compiled PDF you'll have to rebuild next year.
ADRs are versioned alongside the code they describe. When the code changes, the ADR changes. When the ADR is superseded, the old one stays in the history. No more 'which wiki page is current?'
Free trial. No credit card. Generate the codebase for one upcoming project, hand the handoff pack to your team, see what they say. If it does not save a week of onboarding + a sprint of audit work, you have your answer.