ProcessMind Clarity Engine: Empowering Process Understanding

ProcessMind Clarity Engine: Empowering Process Understanding

If you’ve ever struggled to interpret a complex process diagram, you know how critical a clear layout is for understanding and analyzing business processes. Yet, most tools force you to work with mediocre, confusing layouts that hinder insight and erode trust.

At ProcessMind, we believe you deserve better. That’s why we created the ProcessMind Clarity Engine, the most advanced, human-centric layout engine for process models. It supports both manually created or imported BPMN models as well as process mining models derived from event logs, giving you clear, consistent, and actionable process visualizations every time.

Why Layout Matters More Than Ever

A well-designed layout isn’t just about aesthetics—it’s the foundation for process understanding, effective analysis, and confident decision-making. Poor layouts create “spaghetti diagrams” and illogical flows that obscure the real process, frustrate users, and make it nearly impossible to spot improvement opportunities. The Clarity Engine was built to solve these problems.

What Makes the Clarity Engine Different?

Most tools rely on outdated algorithms like Sugiyama or force-directed layouts, resulting in unstable, cluttered diagrams that change unpredictably with every edit. These layouts often:

• Place elements off-grid, leading to messy, hard-to-follow shapes.
• Allow overlapping and crossing connections, making it difficult to trace paths.
• Present processes in a “data order” that doesn’t match how things actually happen.
• Force you on a left-to-right or top-to-bottom flow, regardless of what you prefer.

Some tools use process mining algorithms like the heuristic, fuzzy, or inductive miner that should improve clarity, but often make things worse by:

• Overusing gateways, cluttering the diagram and hiding the true process flow.
• Adding unnecessary loops and paths that confuse rather than clarify.
• Ignoring parallelism, making processes look much more complex than they are.

The Clarity Engine breaks this mold. We’ve combined the strengths of hierarchical, force-directed, and orthogonal layouts, infused with AI and years of practical process expertise, to deliver layouts that look as if they were crafted by a human expert—every time.

Regular dot Layout

Most tools use a variation on this layout.

Clarity Engine Layout

Choices and paths are presented much more clearly for better understanding.

Regular dot Layout

Dot layouts only use the graph structure and do not leverage the available data.

Clarity Engine Layout

Data is used to create the right process flow for analysis.

Key Features & Benefits of the Clarity Engine

• Grid-Based Precision: Every element is placed on a grid, making diagrams clean, structured, and easy to adjust. No more messy, misaligned shapes.
• Logical, Human-Readable Flow: The main process flow is always clear—left to right or top to bottom—so you instantly see how work gets done.
• Happy Path Highlighting: The main process path is laid out in a straight line, making it easy to spot the “happy path” and understand deviations.
• True Parallelism: Parallel paths are detected and displayed side-by-side, revealing the real structure of your process and eliminating unnecessary connections.
• Minimal, Meaningful Gateways: Only essential gateways are shown, reducing clutter and making decision points obvious.
• Swimlane Support: Visualize roles and departments with auto-ordered swimlanes for maximum clarity.
• Process Dashboards: Automatically lay out dashboards that combine models and charts for a holistic process overview.
• Data-Driven Intelligence: When process data is available, the Clarity Engine leverages it to order activities as they actually happen, highlight start nodes, and clarify the real flow.
• Effortless Layout Without Data: Even without event data, our engine creates beautiful, consistent BPMN diagrams—saving you hours of manual tweaking.
• Stable Layouts: Our engine produces layouts that remain consistent, even as your process evolves. This stability helps users build a reliable mental model and makes before/after comparisons effortless.
• Incremental Layouts: Small changes don’t disrupt your optimized layout—new elements are integrated seamlessly.
• Lightning Fast: Instant layouts, no waiting—ever.

Regular dot Layout

The classical spaghetti graph that most tools make of your process (and then claim your process is messy).

Clarity Engine Layout

Parallel paths are detected and displayed side-by-side, revealing the real structure of your process.

Human-Centric, Not Algorithm-Centric

No algorithm is perfect, and every organization has unique needs. That’s why the Clarity Engine gives you the best of both worlds: an intelligent, optimized starting point and the freedom to fine-tune layouts to match your mental model. Unlike other tools, we empower you to adjust and perfect your diagrams—because you know your process best.

Conclusion

Layout is the single most important feature in any process mining or BPM tool. A great layout unlocks understanding, drives adoption, and accelerates improvement. The ProcessMind Clarity Engine sets a new standard—combining cutting-edge algorithms, human insight, and user empowerment to deliver the clearest, most actionable process diagrams in the industry.

Don’t settle for spaghetti diagrams. Experience clarity and actionable insights with ProcessMind Clarity Engine.