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Generate

Use AI to generate architectures from images, documents, and more.

Overview

The Generate page lets you create secure, optimized cloud architectures using natural‑language prompts. Dawnguard guides you through the process, asking clarification questions, gathering relevant context, and producing a structured architecture design that aligns with your guardrails and organizational context.

Use Generate to:

  • Start a new architecture from scratch
  • Refine or extend an existing design
  • Ask questions about design decisions
  • Turn conversations into reusable, saved designs

Generate methods

Generate with chat

  1. Open Generate to start a new chat.
  2. Describe the system, workload, or requirements
  3. Click ↑ to submit
  4. Dawnguard asks for missing details when needed.
  5. The system gathers requirements and generates the initial architecture.
  6. A status indicator shows real‑time progress (e.g., gathering requirements, generating design).
  7. You can stop generation at any time using the Stop button.

Generate from image

Coming soon: You will be able to upload an architecture diagram or sketch. Dawnguard will interpret the structure and generate a corresponding cloud architecture.

Generate from document

Coming soon: You will be able to upload architectural documentation (policies, design docs, system descriptions) and generate a design based on that context.

Generate from code

Coming soon: You will be able to provide code (IaC snippets, config fragments, or deploy scripts) and generate a validated architecture from the source material.

Review and refine

  • Refinements made in chat after saving will not update the saved design
  • You can continue the chat conversation to explore changes, adjust requirements, or generate an improved version, but this will produce a new generated design, not modify the saved one
  • You can always refine in chat, but saved designs never change
  • Once you save a design, it becomes a static snapshot

After generation, you can use the chat to review and refine the architecture.
You can continue iterating as long as the design has not been saved yet.

You can:

  • Ask why specific components were chosen
  • Modify requirements or constraints
  • Explore alternatives
  • Regenerate sections of the design
  • Keep iterating until you’re satisfied

Save as design

When you’re ready to preserve the generated design:

  1. Open the generated architecture
  2. Click Save as design

Your design is added to Designs for later access.

Once you save a design, it becomes a static snapshot.

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Chat history

Every generated design maintains its full chat history.

You can:

  • Review earlier reasoning
  • Continue the conversation after saving
  • Explore refinements or new directions
  • Generate new versions without altering saved designs

Provide feedback

Click Thumbs up or Thumbs down on chat responses to help us improve Dawnguard future chat results.

Copy text

You can click Copy on any message to extract:

  • Summaries
  • Component explanations
  • Design decisions
  • Architecture rationale

Perfect for documentation, reviews, and handovers.