Learn your domain

A how-to guide for Wahab Waypoint: Domain Context Learner — the first step of every good architecture decision.

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Learn your domain

Domain Context Learner captures the business context that an architecture decision should never ignore: what your organization does, what it cares about, and how its data really flows. It takes about a minute and produces a domain profile that Architect and Reviewer reuse automatically.

⏱️ About 1 minute 🧠 Step 1 of 3 💾 Saves in-browser
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You only need to do this once. The profile stays saved in your browser and is applied every time you open Architect or Reviewer — until you update or clear it.

When to use it

  • Before your first architecture evaluation — so Architect starts pre-tuned.
  • When your business context changes, e.g. a new compliance regime or a shift toward real-time operations.
  • When you want a reminder of the qualities driving your decisions.

The four steps

Choose your business domain

Pick the domain that matches your organization from the twelve available options.

Rank the qualities that matter

Select and order the qualities that drive your decisions — cost control, time-to-market, resilience, compliance, and more.

Describe the shape of your data

Answer four questions about your data: volume, real-time needs, integration complexity, and sensitivity.

Save your profile

Confirm and save. Architect and Reviewer will pick the profile up automatically from now on.

The twelve domains

Domain What it covers
Financial ServicesPayments, banking, capital markets, compliance.
HealthcareClaims, patient data, care coordination, compliance.
E-Commerce & RetailOrders, inventory, personalization, peak traffic.
Logistics & Supply ChainTracking, carriers, fleet telemetry, cost control.
Media & StreamingContent delivery, events, analytics at scale.
SaaS & Multi-tenantMulti-tenant products, feature velocity, isolation.
Manufacturing & IndustrialOT/IT integration, sensor data, reliability.
Public Sector & GovernmentCitizen services, auditability, strict compliance.
Energy & UtilitiesGrid telemetry, forecasting, mission-critical uptime.
Travel & HospitalityBookings, availability, reservations, volatility.
Education & EdTechLearning platforms, student data, seasonality.
Other / GeneralA domain not listed — choose what fits best.

The eight qualities

You rank the qualities your business weighs most heavily when making architecture decisions:

  • Cost control — keeping operating costs predictable.
  • Time-to-market — shipping quickly and iterating fast.
  • Regulatory compliance — meeting audit and industry rules.
  • Resilience & uptime — staying up when it matters.
  • Data privacy — protecting personal and sensitive data.
  • Scalability — handling growth and peaks.
  • Interoperability — integrating with other systems.
  • Security & auditability — controlling and evidencing access.

The four data questions

Question Options
Data volumeLow · Medium · High
Real-time needsNone · Medium · High
Integration complexitySimple · Complex
Sensitive dataNot sensitive · PII · PHI · Cardholder data

What happens next

Your saved profile is stored under the wahab-waypoint.domain-profile key in the browser. From now on:

  • Architect pre-tunes its priority sliders from your domain and ranked qualities.
  • Reviewer adjusts requirements with the same domain context before scoring.

To redo it, simply run the learner again and save — the new profile replaces the old one.

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