# Capability mapping and heat map

> Maps a list of applications, products or team responsibilities onto business capabilities, flags the ambiguous ones, and fills a heat-map CSV.

Canonical: https://mikereams.com/ai/capability-mapping

Skill · Original · Enterprise architecture · updated 2026-10-29. Part of the [AI Library](https://mikereams.com/ai).

What you get: A capability heat map (template TM-20) with every item placed at the right level, ids kept for re-import, and a list of what could not be placed.

- Written for the Blueprint Catalog, my free capability catalog; every path, tool and id it names is checked against each catalog build.
- Searches by what an item does, not its product name, and warns against capabilities named after applications or the org chart.

On the Blueprint Catalog (CC BY 4.0): [SKILL.md](https://catalog.mikereams.com/skills/capability-mapping/SKILL.md). Needs: The catalog's read-only MCP server (catalog.mikereams.com/mcp) or its HTTPS API. No key, no install.

Install with the skills CLI, from https://github.com/solventarchitect/skills:

```
npx skills add solventarchitect/skills --skill capability-mapping
```

Tags: capability map, application portfolio, heat map, CMDB