Choose Arcobay when…
- Humans and agents both need architecture context in daily workflows
- You want team collaboration, billing, and exports in one place
- Client handoffs and investor presentations are part of your workflow
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Arcobay vs Zindex
Zindex focuses on agent-maintained scenes. Arcobay goes further.
Full product loop — team, billing, Q&A, video, and handoff.
Key differences
What Arcobay adds beyond Zindex.
- End-to-end workspace with roles, comments, and presence
- Human onboarding and stakeholder layers alongside agent context
- Monetized presentation exports with plan limits and notifications
- MCP server and agent context packs for Cursor / Claude
Capability checklist
Side-by-side with Zindex.
How Arcobay compares on the capabilities teams care about most.
| Capability | Zindex | Arcobay |
|---|---|---|
| Auto diagrams from repo | Yes | YesScan + webhooks |
| Diagrams before code exists | No | YesPrompt path → merge with repo |
| Why on the diagram (not separate ADRs) | No | YesDecision notes on nodes |
| Drift + undocumented-change alerts | Partial | YesDrift + decision-gap nudges |
| Q&A grounded in code + decisions | No | Yes |
| AI structural code audit | No | Yes |
| Stakeholder auto-simplified view | No | Yes |
| Onboarding tour for new hires | No | Yes |
| Comments on architecture components | No | Yes |
| Multi-repo unified architecture | Partial | Yes |
| Animated video export | No | YesMP4 / WebM / GIF |
| Living doc sync to GitHub | Partial | YesARCHITECTURE.md + PNG on drift |
| Team + billing + notifications E2E | Partial | Yes |
Zindex may still fit when…
- You only need agent-maintained visual scenes without a full team product
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See Arcobay on your codebase
Connect a repository or start with a prompt. Living diagrams, decisions, and doc sync — without maintaining a separate model or whiteboard.