Plan your AI route
Start from what you need. End at a stack you can explain.
Pick what you're trying to do, then choose at each stop. Not sure? Answer a quick yes-or-no question and the planner suggests the usual choice. You always make the choice.
Route planner
The route planner needs JavaScript. The service map has the same services, row by row.
How the planner helps
Suggestions, never decisions
Nothing here passes, fails or counts. Each stop shows the real options, what each one gains and costs, and when it's the right pick.
The cloud switch changes the service names and nothing else. Suggestions come from your answers about your work, your network and your people.
- Suggested for youAnswer “Not sure?” and the usual choice is outlined. If your answers point both ways, both are, with what each one means.
- Pick this ifEvery option says when it's right. Options that rarely are stay visible, with a quieter line, and are never suggested.
- Plan forYour route summary builds as you go. Each choice comes with what it commits you to, so the plan starts honest.
Is this an architecture?
No. It covers a handful of the decisions a real design needs, picked because they're the ones that most often go wrong. Use it for a better first conversation, not to sign off a design.
Why doesn't the cloud change the suggestions?
Because the suggestions come from your answers about your work, your network and your people, not from the platform. AWS, Azure and a sovereign or on-prem stack can each run every route here, with UK hosting. Pick the one you already run and can support.
Where do the service names come from?
From the service map, which is checked when cloud product names change. The sovereign / on-prem column shows common open-source options you could run yourself. They're examples, not recommendations.
Can I save or share my route?
“Copy for your team” gives you plain text to paste into an email or a ticket, and “Print” gives a clean summary. Your last route is remembered in this browser only. Nothing is sent anywhere, and there's no sign-up.
Planning a real route?
Your real route will have more stops than this. I can lead the architecture or support your architect. Let's talk it through.
