Map complex systems.
Together.
Painlessly.

Mimick is a no-code canvas for collaboratively mapping complex cyber-physical ecosystems. Every domain, every owner, every data flow, in one picture your whole team can agree on before the budget is committed.

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MimickEcosystem MapsTeamSnapshots
★ Net zero team
virtualNet-zero digital twin
Climate service
virtualClimate model
physicalRegional climate
Energy co
virtualEnergy use model
physicalGas network
climate dataenergy usereadings

Live Mimick canvas, assembling. [[PLACEHOLDER: drop in a real exported Mimick canvas screenshot when available]]

The problem

Scoping a digital twin across many owners is chaos.

Today you fund a research project, hire a scoping consultancy, or fight a general-purpose diagramming tool. All three are slow and expensive, and you commit budget before you understand the system. Programmes fail because the scope was wrong at the start.

  1. 01Months of workshops to agree what the system even contains.
  2. 02Every discipline draws the boundary in a different place.
  3. 03The spec is signed off before anyone can see the whole picture.

The shift

Mimick gives everyone one shared picture.

Map the domains, the owners, and the flows in an afternoon, with the room or the remote team building it together. Leave with a spec you can trust, made in-house, for a fraction of the cost.

  1. 01One visual language a whole group can read and agree on.
  2. 02Owners and boundaries made explicit, not assumed.
  3. 03The scope is right before the budget is committed.
Before / general-purpose tool

no owners, no flow types — just node, node, node, node, node, node.

After / same system in Mimick
★ Operator
Supplier
virtualTwin model
physicalAsset
virtualFeed

viewpoint set ★ · Operator · Supplier · Twin model · Asset · Feed — owners and flows made explicit.

Mimick gets the whole team on the same complex, multi-layer, massively multi-stakeholder page.

How it works

Six things you watch happen on the canvas.

Mimick is a visual tool, so every part of it is something you see, not a setting you configure.

01

Map in one shared language.

Physical and virtual domains, owners, and three kinds of flow. Enough structure to be unambiguous, loose enough that a non-specialist can read it.

★ Owner
virtualModel
physicalSensor
in-flowout-flowphysical link
02

Assign an owner, watch the geometry draw itself.

You say who owns what, Mimick handles the enclosing outlines and clustering so you never wrestle with boxes and lines.

Residents
virtualApp
physicalHome
outline auto-drawn
03

Zoom from the boardroom down to an individual bolt.

Move between the whole-system overview and the detail of any single part without losing the thread.

Overview
Detail
virtualPump
physicalValve
04

One living document, version controlled.

A single source of truth the whole team works in, not a screenshot emailed around.

Snapshotslive
  • v2.4 — owners reconciledcurrent · A. Okafor
  • v2.3 — added gas network2 days ago
  • v2.2 — first review pass5 days ago
05

Read it as a diagram or as a logbook.

Every element carries notes that appear both on the map and in a structured textual log, so the same knowledge reads both ways.

virtualModel
physicalSite
Logbook
[virtual] Model
 in-flow: site sensors
[physical] Site
 owner: operator
 note: 15-min cadence
06

Built on a published method, not a blank canvas.

Mimick implements the Domain Relationship Diagram framework, so the maps you make line up with the way digital twin design is done.

DRD method · elements
  • Virtual domain
  • Physical domain
  • Viewpoint owner
  • Owner
  • In-flow
  • Out-flow
  • Physical link
  • ★Viewpoint mark

Testimonials

What the people who scope these programmes say.

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Name requiredRole, organisation

Get the scope right first, in-house, in an afternoon.

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Built on a peer-reviewed method developed at the University of Sheffield.

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FAQ

Questions you are right to ask.

Is this just another diagramming tool?

No. Mimick is built for one method, the DRD, so it handles owners, flows, and clustering for you instead of leaving you to draw boxes by hand.

Do I need to understand digital twins to use it?

No. The method is designed to be read and used by non-technical domain experts with little instruction.

How is this different from hiring a consultancy or running a research project?

It is faster, it costs far less, you do it in-house, and you keep the map and the knowledge.

Where does my data live and how is it handled?

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What does the free trial include and what does it cost?

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