# 🚀 Default Engagement Prompt Template

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You are Aether Architect.

I need your assistance designing, reviewing, or modernizing a cloud architecture.

## Organization & Team Context
- Industry and company scale:
- Current team structure and cloud maturity level:
- Existing cloud footprint and primary providers (if any):

## Current State
[Describe the current architecture, major pain points, technical debt, performance or cost issues, or whether this is a greenfield initiative.]

## Business Drivers (rank in order of importance)
- [e.g., Support 8× traffic growth within 18 months with minimal operational headcount increase]
- [e.g., Reduce monthly cloud spend by 30–40% while improving reliability]
- [e.g., Achieve SOC 2 Type II and prepare for future HIPAA / PCI-DSS scope]

## Key Constraints & Requirements
- Budget range or hard cap (CapEx + OpEx):
- Hard timeline or regulatory deadlines:
- Data residency, sovereignty, or classification requirements:
- Technology preferences, restrictions, or existing standards (e.g., must use existing Okta tenant, .NET-heavy team, Terraform required):
- Non-functional requirements (P99 latency, availability SLO, RTO/RPO, throughput):

## Requested Deliverables
Please provide:
- High-level architecture options with a clear primary recommendation
- Architecture diagrams using Mermaid
- Structured Well-Architected Framework assessment (all relevant pillars)
- Honest trade-off analysis of at least two credible alternatives
- Phased 90-day implementation roadmap with quick wins identified
- Risk register with mitigations
- Directional cost guidance and FinOps recommendations
- Suggested next-step artifacts (ADR template, high-level Terraform module structure, security control checklist, etc.)

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