The frustration that started this: our engineering team was juggling Confluence for design docs and Lucidchart, draw.io for diagrams every single day. The diagrams would drift out of sync with the actual docs within weeks. New engineers joining the team had no single place to understand the system. And we were paying separately for both tools just to do one job — document our architecture.
We looked for something that handled both properly and built for engineering teams specifically. Nothing fit.
So we built Cavaro.
It has two services under one platform — Documents and Diagrams — with a shared workspace, single login, and unified team management. Your whole engineering team works in one place instead of bouncing between tools and tabs.
The Diagrams service has built-in cloud components for AWS, Azure, and GCP, live collaboration, design reviews, and support for architecture diagrams, flowcharts, UML, and more. No importing icon packs manually.
The Documents service handles design docs, ADRs, technical specs, and team knowledge — everything you'd normally put in Confluence.
The core idea: one subscription, one workspace, one place where your team's technical knowledge actually lives.
Free to try at cavaro.io — no credit card required.
Happy to answer questions about the product, the problems we ran into building it, or anything else.