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| Criterion |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Growth Hooked Model |  Architecture C4 Model |  Growth Flywheel |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | ARID examines how well developers can work with a technical design. It focuses on a part of the system that can still be revised, between the architecture overview and the detailed specification. | The Hooked Model helps clarify engagement loops, user behavior, and experiments. It makes repeat behavior measurable and captures the result as a hooked loop, trigger map, and reward design. | The C4 Model makes a system legible across several resolution levels, from context down to code. It suits situations where different audiences need to understand the same architecture from different altitudes. | Growth often breaks down where a reinforcing mechanism builds up too much friction. A Flywheel shows the cycle of value, repetition, and reinforcement meant to sustain growth. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | Multiple workshops over several weeks | 1-4 h | 60-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 2-8 | 1-5 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Hooked loop, Trigger map, Reward design, Ethics check | Context Diagram, Container Diagram, Component Diagram | Flywheel Map, Friction Points, Growth Levers, Experiment Backlog |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | GrowthBehaviorRetention | ArchitectureCommunicationVisualization | GrowthRetentionConversion |