When we joined as the technical leads for an AI talent marketing platform, the architecture documentation was a single diagram with 41 boxes, arrows in every direction, and a legend that described colours nobody used any more. New engineers looked at it once and then asked someone. Product managers never looked at it. When a security reviewer asked which components sent employee data to an external model provider, nobody could answer from the docs. We rewrote the documentation using the C4 model...
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C4 model worked example: documenting an AI marketing platform at all four levels
Our architecture docs were one giant box-and-arrow diagram that nobody trusted. We rewrote them with the C4 model for an AI talent marketing platform: context, containers, components and code, kept as text in the repo. Here is every level, and what each one is for.
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