Orchestrate complex business processes.
Axoniq Flows is built natively into the Axoniq Framework as the modern, simplified replacement for legacy Sagas. Imperative, top-down code for orchestrating multi-step business processes, without standing up new infrastructure.
THE CHALLENGE OF TRADITIONAL EVENT SOURCING FRAMEWORKS
Most workflow engines run the workflow and discard the trail. Axoniq makes the trail your system of record.
Multi-step business processes — order fulfillment, claims approvals, customer onboarding — are the backbone of every enterprise application. They're also the most fragile thing your team owns.
The Saga pattern was the original answer. It scattered orchestration logic across event handlers, made retries and compensating actions a nightmare, and left every senior engineer with at least one war story.
Then came other standalone workflow tools, but with a real cost: a new infrastructure cluster to operate, a new database to monitor, opaque execution logs that expire on retention, and a runbook your platform team has to learn.
Most teams are now choosing between two bad outcomes: keep the saga complexity, or take on a new infrastructure dependency. Axoniq Flows is the third option.
What Axoniq Flows is
What you get when orchestration lives inside the framework.
Axoniq Flows is a lightweight module of the Axoniq Framework. It runs inside your existing application and uses the event store you already have.
Replaces complex Sagas with simple, top-down code
Instead of building scattered event handlers and brittle saga logic, developers use an imperative programming model to write workflows as readable, top-down code. One central orchestration layer coordinates commands, queries, parallel tasks, and external service calls from one easy-to-understand place.
Handles the hard parts
of distributed systems
Orchestration primitives
Pause for days or years, wait for approvals, fan-out/fan-in, handle timeouts.
Automatic crash recovery
Workflows resume from the exact point of interruption. No restarts from zero
No manual error handling
Retries, compensating actions, and failure logic live in the engine.
Generates a business-meaningful audit trail
Other workflow tools emit opaque, temporary technical logs (workflow.timer.fired, step.started) that are eventually deleted. Axoniq Flows record every single step directly into your event store as a business-meaningful domain event (PaymentStepStarted, OrderConfirmed). This integrates the workflow directly into your domain model and gives you a forensic-grade, permanent history of the process.
What makes Axoniq Flows different
Unlike other workflow tools, which operate as standalone orchestration engines, Axoniq Flows are built natively into the Axoniq Framework and operate with a specialized event store. Five differences matter when engineering teams compare them.
Zero new infrastructure
Others require you to deploy and manage heavy, dedicated server clusters and separate worker databases. Axoniq Flows are designed as a lightweight module that plugs natively into your existing Axon Server (or Postgres setup), meaning there is no new infrastructure to provision.
Execution architecture
With others, the state machine actually runs on their dedicated external servers, which then send requests back to your application. Axoniq runs the execution and state machine entirely within your client application, utilizing Axon Server purely to store and deliver the events.
Business-meaningful events vs. technical logs
Others track progress by emitting opaque, low-level technical logs (workflow.step.started or workflow.timer.fired). These logs are generally hidden, have retention limits, and are eventually deleted. Axoniq Flows record every execution step directly into the event store as a business-meaningful domain event (PaymentStepStarted, OrderStepConfirmed).
Permanent history for analytics and AI
Because Axoniq integrates workflow events directly into your permanent domain model, the data becomes fully accessible for business analytics and serves as a forensic-grade, permanent memory backbone for AI agents.
80% of Fortune 100 companies use Axon Framework.
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