Jonhathan Rodas

Architecture for companies that renew themselves while they keep running.

I design enterprise platforms and the products that run on them, from a multi-company ERP to a B2B marketplace with AI. I write about what that work teaches on integrations, data adoption, applied AI and platform governance.

Recent essays

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How I would know this theory is wrong

[Essay · Digital urbanization 12/12 · 16 min · Sep 25, 2026]

Framework validation applied to my own preprint on digital urbanization. The rival explanations, three tests with their failure conditions, the known limitations and the four-stage route for putting DWU to the test.

  • The digital urbanization canvas: 10 diagnostic questions

    [Essay · Digital urbanization 11/12 · 18 min · Sep 25, 2026]

    A ten-question canvas for an evidence-based enterprise architecture assessment that covers the seven DWU systems plus habitability, informal settlements and urban debt. It includes a filled-in fictional case and a way to test whether the canvas actually helps.

  • Urban debt and renewing the city without evicting it

    [Essay · Digital urbanization 10/12 · 16 min · Sep 25, 2026]

    What urban debt is, how it extends technical debt to the enterprise's digital territory, and why the digital urbanization framework treats legacy modernization as renewal block by block, with governance exceptions that expire.

  • AI agent governance: civic identity and jurisdiction

    [Essay · Digital urbanization 9/12 · 18 min · Sep 25, 2026]

    Digital urbanization approaches AI agent governance through civic identity. Verifiable AI agent identity, an accountable sponsor, jurisdiction, bounded delegation and revocation, worked through the civic profile of a purchasing agent in the fictional Northstar case.

Series

Each series is a territory. Its color marks the architecture layer it covers.

Twelve articles on digital urbanization, a way to govern a company's digital world as a territory inhabited by people, applications, data, and AI agents. The ideas come from building Grupo Diveco's corporate platform, and the framework's six propositions still await empirical validation.

Digital urbanization

[Series · Strategy · 12 essays]

A data unit built a capable analytics tool, and the organization did not trust its numbers. This series follows how that credibility gap closed through behavioral design, told from engineering, criminology and career strategy.

How a data tool gets adopted

[Series · Business · 4 essays]

Work

Systems I designed, grouped by the organization where they run.

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