Question-first diagramming

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Describe what your audience needs to understand. Mosofin recommends one bounded visual recipe—plus the evidence it must contain, when not to use it, and a prompt you can copy.

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Recipe library

Small, opinionated starting points, one question each.

Each recipe answers one business, finance or systems question. That boundary keeps the result legible, reviewable, and honest about missing evidence.

Every recipe has its own answer page

How does the whole business run, and which system owns each part of it?Business operating map · architecture diagram
Which team or system owns each step, and where does work change hands?Business handoffs · workflow diagram
What holds the business up, which system owns each pillar, and what does it all stand on?Business pillars · pillars diagram
What happens to one order, in time, across every system it touches?Order journey across systems · sequence diagram
How does this company make money, and what is source of truth for orders, cash, and books?Finance money map · architecture diagram
What happened to one order or payout, in time, across commerce, payments, and the books?Finance order path · sequence diagram
Why don’t Shopify, Stripe, and QuickBooks show the same revenue?Finance revenue walk · data flow diagram
What is month-end, in order, and who owns each gate?Finance month-end close · workflow diagram
If commerce refunded it, is the money actually done?Finance dispute lifecycle · lifecycle diagram
Where did Stripe cash go relative to the bank and QuickBooks?Finance payout rec · data flow diagram
Who is allowed to say this customer owes us?Finance customer and AR · architecture diagram
Can we make payroll, and what inflows are actually named?Finance cash to a date · data flow diagram
What exists, who owns it, and how is it connected?System overview · architecture diagram
Where does each workload run, and what crosses a boundary?Deployment ownership · architecture diagram
How does an agent plan, get permission, act, recover, and report?Agent tool-call loop · workflow diagram
How does a change move safely from commit to production?Delivery workflow · workflow diagram
How do responders detect, triage, mitigate, verify, and escalate?Incident runbook · workflow diagram
Who calls whom, in what order, and what returns?API request chain · sequence diagram
What happens after the initial request returns?Async roundtrip · sequence diagram
Where does data come from, how does it change, and who consumes it?Data lineage · data flow diagram
Which events move through which topics, processors, groups, and failure paths?Event-stream topology · data flow diagram
Which states exist, what events move between them, and how does it end?Object lifecycle · lifecycle diagram
What state is a release in, and what can happen next?Deployment lifecycle · lifecycle diagram

For AI agents: llms.txt · llms-full.txt · recipes.json

Generated from the same recipe source as the Mosofin CLI. mosofin guide "your scenario"

Choose the question.Get the right diagram.

What must the diagram explain?

Small, opinionated starting points, one question each.

Choose the question.
Get the right diagram.