The architectural record your codebase doesn't have yet.
Architecture Governance Infrastructure — Patent Pending
Axiom Refract is a governance platform that produces a single source of truth about any codebase's structure, risk, and compliance posture — readable by humans and machines alike.
The problem nobody budgets for.
Every codebase past a certain size runs on tribal knowledge. Architecture decisions live in the heads of the three people who made them. Dependency relationships are assumed but undocumented. Compliance posture is a best guess until someone spends two weeks and a six-figure consultant fee proving otherwise.
Then something breaks the chain. A key engineer leaves. A firm acquires the company. An AI agent starts contributing code nobody fully reviews. And the unwritten knowledge holding the architecture together — the only thing holding it together — disappears with no record it ever existed.
This isn't a tooling problem. It's a knowledge persistence problem.
What we believe.
Architecture knowledge shouldn't depend on who's still in the building. It should be a governed, persistent, verifiable record that any stakeholder can read — a team lead reviewing a report, a CI pipeline enforcing policy, an auditor checking compliance, or an AI agent planning a refactor.
One source of truth. Not a wiki someone stopped updating in Q2.
What Axiom Refract does.
Axiom Refract analyzes a codebase and produces that record. Structure, risk, dependency relationships, compliance posture, dead code, single points of failure — extracted automatically, verified programmatically, delivered in formats that serve every consumer.
Human-Readable
For your team.
Machine-Readable
For your toolchain.
Governed
For your auditors.
Future-Proof
For whatever comes after all three.
Why “whatever comes next” matters.
Development tooling changes every year. The way code gets written is changing faster than that. Teams that rely on any single tool's proprietary view of their architecture are rebuilding that view every time the landscape shifts.
Axiom Refract doesn't care who or what is reading the output. It produces a universal architectural record — stable, structured, and consumable by any process that needs to understand a codebase. Today that's your engineering team and your CI/CD pipeline. Tomorrow it's autonomous agents. The record stays the same.
Cerebrum Cadre
Axiom Refract is a product of Cerebrum Cadre, a division of CSI, Inc.
We build tools for teams that need to maintain architectural control as complexity scales — whether that complexity comes from growth, acquisition, AI-assisted development, or all three at once.
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Frequently asked questions
- What is architecture governance?
- Architecture governance is the practice of maintaining a governed, verifiable record of a codebase's structure, dependencies, risk posture, and compliance status. Axiom Refract automates this by producing a single source of truth that is readable by humans, CI/CD pipelines, auditors, and AI agents.
- What programming languages does Axiom Refract support?
- Axiom Refract supports 145+ programming languages including Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, C#, Go, Rust, Ruby, PHP, Swift, Kotlin, C++, Scala, Terraform, and many more. The analysis engine uses tree-sitter parsers for accurate structural analysis across all supported languages.
- How is Axiom Refract different from SonarQube?
- SonarQube focuses on code quality rules and bug detection. Axiom Refract focuses on architectural governance — dependency graphs, single points of failure, blast radius analysis, dead code detection, and compliance mapping. They solve different problems and can complement each other. Learn more →
- What is blast radius analysis?
- Blast radius analysis measures how many files, modules, and systems are affected when a single file changes. Axiom Refract computes blast radius using graph traversal algorithms, identifying which files are critical single points of failure and which changes carry the highest risk. Learn more →
- Does Axiom Refract integrate with AI coding tools?
- Yes. Axiom Refract exposes 16 MCP (Model Context Protocol) tools that allow AI agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf to query architectural data directly. AI agents can check blast radius before making changes, find dead code, identify SPOFs, and understand dependency relationships — all programmatically. See integrations →
- What is dead code and why should I remove it?
- Dead code is source code that is never executed — unused functions, unreachable branches, orphaned files, and abandoned database tables. Dead code increases maintenance burden, slows CI/CD pipelines, confuses developers, and creates false positives in security scans. Axiom Refract identifies dead code automatically with safe-to-remove recommendations. Learn more →
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