How is this different from drawing tools?

Drawing tools store pictures. Transitrix stores decisions as text that can be reviewed, validated and regenerated — the picture is derived.

Published 13 August 2026.

A conventional diagramming tool saves a picture: shapes and positions in a file format with no structure a machine can check. Transitrix stores the decision behind the picture instead — a goal, a process step, a capability — as a typed, schema-validated text object. The diagram is one projection of that object, generated on demand; a report or document is another.

Because the source is text, it reviews like code: diffs, pull requests, CI validation, history. A drawing has none of that — two versions of the same diagram can only be compared by eye.

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