Getting Started
Go from sign-up to a populated architecture graph in under an hour. This guide walks through creating your account, setting up a project, and the three main ways to populate your graph.
1. Create your account
Visit kyb.fyi/signup to create a free account. You can sign up with email and password, or use Google or GitHub single sign-on. No credit card required.
2. Your first project
When you sign in for the first time, Kyb creates a default project for you. A project is a workspace that contains your architecture graph -- all your entities, relationships, and views live inside a project.
You can rename your project or create additional ones from Settings > Projects. Later, you can organise related projects into a hierarchy using sub-projects (see Core Concepts).
3. Populate your graph
There are three ways to add architecture knowledge to Kyb. You can use any combination of these, and the graph merges everything into a single coherent model.
Chat with the AI Assistant
Open the chat panel in the Explorer and describe your systems in natural language. The Kyb Analyst will classify entities, propose relationships, and add them to your graph after you confirm. This is the fastest way to get started if you know your architecture but don't have it documented.
Learn more about the AI AssistantConnect your cloud (GCP)
Upload a GCP service account key and Kyb will scan your cloud project, discovering VMs, GKE clusters, Cloud Run services, databases, networks, and 30+ resource types. Each discovered resource is proposed as an architecture element for your review.
Learn more about Cloud DiscoveryImport an Archi model
If you already use the open-source Archi modelling tool, you can import your native .archimate file or an ArchiMate Open Exchange Format .xml file directly. All elements, relationships, and views are preserved. Re-imports are idempotent.
4. Create your first view
Once you have some entities in your graph, create a view to organise them. Click New View in the view selector at the top of the Explorer. Add entities to the view by selecting them in the entity browser and adding them, or by dragging them onto the canvas.
Views can be static (manually curated) or dynamic (auto-expanding by following relationships). See Views & Dashboards for the full guide.
Next steps
- Read Core Concepts to understand entities, relationships, and ArchiMate layers
- Explore the Graph Explorer to learn layout options, grouping, and editing tools
- Set up Team Management to invite collaborators