About AXIOMS

Architecture as Evidence — Ending the Wilderness of Architectural Dogma

AXIOMS Team - From Chaos to Evidence

The AXIOMS Community: Architects Tired of Dogma

We are software architects, engineers, and thought leaders who grew weary of the "circus of confusing concepts" in software architecture. After years of debating Layers, Hexagons, Clean Architecture, and DDD with no verifiable outcomes, we decided to build a better way.

  • Enrique Pascalin Romo — Principal Architect & Specification Author with 15+ years building enterprise systems that actually work in production
  • Community Contributors — Developers, architects, and tech leads from companies who've suffered through architectural decay
  • Our Mission: Replace architectural fashion shows with verifiable proof, dogma with evidence, and opinions with objective measurements

We created AXIOMS because we felt the rising frustration of seeing beautiful architectural diagrams become lies six months into production. The pristine layers blur, quick-fix dependencies appear, and slowly the system drifts into a "ball of mud." Traditional architectures offer philosophy but no enforcement. AXIOMS changes that.

What is AXIOMS?

The Evidence & Contract Driven Architecture

From Architectural Wilderness to Civilization

AXIOMS is not "another architectural style." It's an engineering framework that replaces architectural dogma with verifiable proof. It answers the despair of endless debates about "Ports vs Interfaces" or "DDD vs Clean Architecture" by providing objective, measurable architectural integrity.

The Two Foundational Pillars:

Contract-Driven Design

Beyond simple API signatures. Every component is defined by comprehensive COSTTE contracts:

  • Context — Why the system exists
  • Ontology — What things exist and relate
  • Semantics — What data actually means
  • Taxonomy — How things are categorized
  • Topology — How things are connected
  • Epistemology — How we validate truth
Evidence-Driven Architecture

Architecture you can prove with automated, executable evidence via ARCH fitness functions:

  • Automated — Runs without human intervention
  • Relentless — Checks always, not once
  • Contextual — Knows its purpose and scope
  • Holistic — Sees the system, not just units

This dual paradigm ensures every architectural decision exists twice: once as a machine-readable contract, and once as evidence that the running system obeys it.

AXIOMS Dual Paradigm

The AXIOMS Feedback Loop: Contracts define intent, Evidence proves compliance

The Cell: Your Architectural Stem Cell

A polymorphic unit that adapts to any topological need

Canonical Cell Structure

CellName/
├── Knowledge/          # D1 – Contracts, specs, evidence
├── DNA/               # D3/D4 – Semantic core, entities, invariants
├── Behavior/          # D3/D4 – Use cases, workflows, orchestration
├── Integration/       # D3/D4 – Semantic edges and IO
├── Infrastructure/    # D3/D4 – Platform/runtime glue
└── Tests/             # D5 – Evidence generators

Every Cell is self-contained, independently deployable, and governed by formal contracts.

Polymorphic STA Adaptation

Think of an AXIOMS Cell like a biological stem cell. Your Cell adapts and transforms into any "tissue" you need within your software organism:

Modular Monolith

Cell acts as a module within a single deployable unit

Microservice

Cell deploys independently as a microservice

Serverless

Cell runs as serverless function with same structure

The Core Innovation

Unlike traditional microservices or modules, every AXIOMS Cell carries its own Knowledge Dimension — a machine-readable repository of intent, evidence, and truth that actively governs how all realms inside the Cell operate.

Read Cell Specification
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Architectural Dimensions

31

Normative Axioms

6

Cell Realms

4

Contract Types

GSSATO: The Periodic Table of Software Architecture

Global Standard for Software Architecture Taxonomy and Ontology

GSSATO 5 Dimensions

Ending the Conflation of Architectural Concerns

GSSATO provides a rigorous, orthogonal framework that allows architects to describe, compare, and evaluate software architectures using a common coordinate system. It decomposes architectural decision-making into five independent dimensions:

D1 Knowledge Dimension

How we understand and define what must be built

D2 Structural Dimension

How the system is decomposed and structured in space

D3 Epistemological Dimension

How we conceptualize, model, and reason about the solution

D4 Process Dimension

How people, practices, and pipelines build and evolve the system

D5 Quality Dimension

How we define, measure, and protect "how well" the system works

AXIOMS is the execution engine for GSSATO. It takes the taxonomy's dimensions and provides the mechanism to make them objective, automated, and undeniable.

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Why the World Needs AXIOMS

The symptoms of architectural chaos we're solving

End Vocabulary Wars

No more debates about "Is a Port in Hexagonal the same as a Use Case Interactor in Clean Architecture?" AXIOMS provides a unified lexicon that pins each concept to a specific dimension and directory.

Stop Golden Hammer Syndrome

No more applying full DDD ceremony to a simple reporting tool. AXIOMS Cells adapt to the complexity needed, preventing catastrophic over-engineering with inappropriate architectural complexity.

Eliminate Documentation Drift

Architecture documents become lies as systems evolve. AXIOMS keeps specifications versioned with code, with the CTK failing builds if human-readable specs contradict machine-readable contracts.

Architecture You Can Prove

Architectural compliance is no longer a matter of opinion. It's a measurable, non-negotiable property of the system, verified with every commit through automated fitness functions.

Ready to Leave the Architectural Wilderness?

Join the movement from dogma to evidence. Start building systems with objective, verifiable architectural integrity.

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