Kernaro Assist
An AI assistant that works inside Enterprise Architect. You describe the change, the question or the check in plain language, and it works on the live model without you leaving the tool.
What it is
Kernaro Assist is an add-in from Sparx Systems that puts a chat panel inside Enterprise Architect. Sparx names five capabilities: Model Chat, Core Modeling, Diagram and Model Analysis, Event-Driven Architecture Agents, and Governance and Validation. It works on the live model and respects the repository’s structure and your MDG Technology.
Agents can be set to run when something happens in EA, such as a connector being created, and to ask your approval before they change anything. It runs on its own, or connects to Kernaro AI Hub when a team wants single sign-on, shared agents and an audit trail.
Who it is for
Architects who model in Enterprise Architect all day and want the AI in the same window. It is the modeler’s tool in the Kernaro family. Analysts and stakeholders who never open EA are served by Kernaro AI Hub and Prolaborate instead.
What it helps you do
- Modeling
Describe the elements, relationships and diagrams you need and review what it makes in the model. Sparx’s example prompt is “Create a capability map for CRM.” It works in your MDG, so what comes back is already in your language.
- Analysis
Ask the repository a question in plain language, such as which applications support a process, and get a structured answer without writing a query. It follows relationships, dependencies and hierarchies across the model.
- Governance
Ask it to check the model against your standards. Sparx says it finds “inconsistencies, missing relationships, naming issues, and structural deviations.” Agents can run checks as architects work, so problems are caught at the source.
When Kernaro Assist is the right choice
Choose it when your architects live in Enterprise Architect and you want the AI there, with a path to central control through Kernaro AI Hub later. It fits a modeling team, because it has no surface for people who do not open EA.
It works on the model in front of it. Stakeholder answers, Power BI feeds and work across Jira or Confluence belong to Kernaro AI Hub. For the widest range of guided work on the live model, including building reporting and Prolaborate views, look at Claude + AI Power Tools.
You license it from Sparx Systems. The Basic license reads the model, and the Advanced license changes it and runs agents. You bring your own LLM from Anthropic, OpenAI or Azure OpenAI and pay that provider for usage.
How we help
Set it up on your repository
We configure Kernaro Assist for your repository, your MDG Technology and your IT constraints, and prove the first tasks on your own model before your architects take over.
Configure the solutionTrain and mentor your architects
The Foundations course with Kernaro Assist teaches your architects to state intent, set the standard and judge what comes back, on your own repository. We mentor them until it sticks.
The courseSparx Office Hours
A standing session where your team brings what they are stuck on and sees how others solved it.
Ask about Office Hours