Wardley Maps

Compatible with onlinewardleymaps.com subset

Strategic value-chain × evolution mapping. Plot components on Visibility (y) × Evolution (x: Genesis / Custom / Product / Commodity), connect them by dependency. Native — no other major diagram platform handles this.

Templates

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wardley

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Studio

Engine id

wardley

Open in Studio Upstream docs

In the same space

Most users come to Wardley Maps from onlinewardleymaps.com or MapKeep. Glyph runs this engine in the browser — no install, shareable via URL, exportable to PNG / SVG / PDF / source.

Syntax at a glance

anchor User [0.95, 0.5]
component Need [0.85, 0.55]
component Service [0.6, 0.4]
User -> Need

Paste this in the Studio code pane to see Wardley Maps render live. The full grammar is at the upstream-docs link above.

Sample templates

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business

Tea shop (classic intro)

Simon Wardley's introductory map — Cup of tea anchored at User.

business

B2B SaaS platform

Customer-facing product down through ML, compute, cloud commodity layers.

AI product strategy

User-facing AI app on top of frontier models, embeddings, vector DBs.

business

Fintech payments stack

Merchant journey down to networks; classic build-vs-buy decisions exposed.

architecture

Internal developer platform

Developer experience on top of paved-road CI/CD, K8s, cloud.

business

News organisation

Reader-facing surfaces over editorial workflow, distribution, hosting commodity.

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