Open Digital Product Factory

Projects, rentals & engagements · You rent, build & advise

Software & platforms — your whole business in one place

A public website, your day-to-day office work, and AI coworkers that already speak your line of work — set up for you in minutes, on your own computers.

Software products and platforms — including the Open Digital Product Factory itself, running its own operations as a worked example.

In plain terms

One install gives you a website your customers can use, a place to run the work, and AI coworkers that already speak your line of work. You approve the important moves, and everything stays on your own computers.

Three ways in

Use it · Resell it · Understand it

Use it

Run your software & platforms business

Move from inquiry to proposal to milestone billing, with each client’s estate kept clean and isolated.

See the value & capabilities ↓
For owners & operators
Resell it

Package it for clients

One platform you set up per client — brand it, support it, repeat for the next client. No custom app each time.

Explore the reseller path ↓
For partners, MSPs & consultants
Understand it

Inspect the architecture

How it's built, how every AI action is approved and logged, and where it stands against emerging AI-agent standards — auditable, not a black box.

See under the hood ↓
For architects & standards reviewers

How the work flows

How a software & platforms business works

Inquiry → demo / pilot / partnership → proposal → engagement → live install and ongoing support. The platform powering its own go-to-market is the proof.

How a Software & platforms business runs on DPF The customer engages your business, which runs on DPF; value is delivered and money recognised, an AI coworker assists, the whole flow is governed, and the relationship loops back. You approve every step · scope, estate isolation & duty of care CUSTOMER inquires orreserves YOUR BUSINESS · ON DPF Quote · agreement ·project or rental period VALUE + MONEY The engagement Milestone or usage billing AI COWORKER speaks your language, not jargon inquires / reserves delivers over time Renew the agreement for the next project

Scroll the diagram sideways to read every stage →

DPF sets all this up for you out of the box — your public website, the words your AI coworker uses, your scheduling, your pricing, and the licence checks you need all come ready.

Start to finish

Your work, one step at a time

Every business finds customers, takes the work, does the job, gets paid, and keeps them coming back. What changes is the step that makes or breaks your kind of business — highlighted below.

Trust & licence checks — across every step

  • S1Marketing
  • S2Inquiry / contact
  • S3Send to product backlogmake-or-break
  • S4Engagement
  • S5Live install
  • S6Support & co-sell

Your AI coworker — turns enquiries into work, in your words

The pain today

Problems we solve

  • Prospects look like customers. Vocabulary distinguishes users, developers, and enterprise prospects from end-customers.
  • Inquiry → backlog is manual. A “send to product backlog” action turns a lead into a tracked item on the product.
  • Pilots and partnerships are invisible. Service agreements track pilot terms, feature requests, and co-sell outcomes.
  • Platform-speak leaks to customers. Internal product language stays separate from customer-facing copy.

Out of the box · each tied to a part of DPF

What DPF gives you

  • Prospect intake for company size, team, and current operating-model pain. Website & enquiries
  • Inquiry-to-backlog creating a tracked item on the product itself. Website & enquiries
  • Pilot & partnership tracking via service agreements. AI coworker & workflow
  • Portfolio decomposition across platform, build, and coworker offerings. AI coworker
  • Two vocabularies — product language internally, plain business language for customers. AI coworker

What it looks like

A look at the real screens

A few of the screens a software & platforms business actually uses — the work board, and an AI coworker proposing the next move. Nothing happens until you approve it.

Operations · work board
Inquiry
Site survey — Acme
Proposed
Proposal v2
Engaged
Milestone 2
Billed
Retainer — paid

The internal workspace home — demand becomes routed, trackable work.

AI coworkerProposal-gated
Where are we?
engagementMilestone 2 is ready to invoice and the Acme retainer renews in 11 days. Want a draft proposal for phase 3?
Draft invoiceDraft proposal

The coworker proposes; nothing consequential happens until you approve.

Trust & compliance. Data-privacy obligations (GDPR, CCPA) apply where the platform integrates with customer data; the engagement layer itself carries no special regime.
Vision · not yet shipped

The mobile app — where this gets even better

Even when the work isn’t in the field, you are. We want a pocket app that pings you when a coworker needs a yes or no on a risky step, and lets your customers book, track, and pay from your own branded app.

One generic native iOS/Android app (published by Arcamanus LLC) that connects to your own install and lets the platform drive its look and features — so field techs, customers, and you each get the right screens without a separate app per business.

Where it stands today: the foundation is real and in the codebase — a React Native/Expo app shell (native shell + install manifest + offline form/screen renderer), a REST API, and secure sign-in. The end-user experience — persona-aware screens, connecting one app to any install, push notifications, and App Store / Play delivery — is the next phase and not yet available. We’re building toward field dispatch and owner approvals first.

Vision

Engagements

Acme — site visit 9:00Survey + selections · 5 mi
DirectionsOpen project

For builders, resellers & architects

Under the hood — how DPF builds this

The rest of this page is the technical detail for people who extend, resell, or evaluate the platform. In one line: one install becomes a governed system for your whole business — the business type shapes everything, every AI action is approved and logged (the TAK runtime), and each AI coworker carries a checkable identity and an evidence trail (GAID). Most owners can stop above.

How it's built

One business type generates the whole setup

The business type you pick at setup is the single source of truth (StorefrontConfig.archetypeId in the data model). From it, DPF generates the public website wording, scheduling defaults, finance assumptions, licence hints, the words each AI coworker uses, and the direction of the mobile app — which is how one platform covers many business types without a custom app for each. (For builders, the precise internal term is the “archetype”.)

SOURCE OF TRUTHBusiness typeStorefrontConfig.archetypeId
DERIVESGenerated setupactivationProfile · axes · vocabulary
Storefrontintake, CTAs, sections
AI coworkervocabulary, tools, routing
Workflowsscheduling, finance, compliance
Mobile manifestcapability direction (vision)
Setup · choose your business

Step 2 of 5 · What kind of business is this?

Software & platforms
Equipment & storage rental
Home building & construction
Professional services

Your choice becomes StorefrontConfig.archetypeId — everything else generates from it.

yourbusiness.exampleGenerated
Let’s scope your projectConsult · proposal · milestones
Design consult
60 min
Project quote
quote
Retainer
monthly
Request a consult

Public storefront, vocabulary and CTA generated from the archetype — no page-building.

For architects & standards reviewers

DPF as a reference implementation

DPF is a working prototype for two proposed standards — not a claim of full present-day conformance. TAK governs what an agent may do; GAID governs who the agent is and what evidence follows its actions. Here is what is real today, what is partial, and what is still proposed — the gaps are mapped, not hidden.

TAK — Trusted AI Kernel

The runtime-governance harness: authority mediation, tool-execution gating, human-in-the-loop, memory limits, and audit/evidence — enforced as an agent operates.

GAID — Global AI Agent Identification & Governance

Who an agent is, the claims it carries, and how its actions are identified and traced — identity documents, badges, authorization classes, and action receipts.

Implemented now

  • Route-scoped AI coworkers — each route gets a purpose-built coworker with its own tools and vocabulary
  • Tool authority = grant ∩ user capability — every tool exposure filtered by user authority, mode, and external-access posture
  • Proposal-mode gated actions — consequential actions break the loop and return an approval payload instead of executing
  • Tool-execution audit logging — every call written to ToolExecution — agent, user, tool, params, result, route, duration, audit class
  • Archetype-driven UX & vocabulary — storefront, scheduling, finance and compliance defaults generated from one archetype
  • Internal agent registry — stable identifiers, model bindings, supervisors, delegates, grants, HITL defaults

Partially implemented

  • TAK runtime transparency — an Authority & Audit workspace with a supervisor-ready Agent Card snapshot
  • Agent Card / AIDoc projection — the registry approximates an AIDoc — not yet signed or resolvable
  • Stable internal agent identity — platform-local today, not yet canonical GAID identifiers
  • HITL tier metadata — carried per agent, not yet one uniform runtime policy engine
  • Delegation & authority modeling — supervisor & delegation recorded, not yet a receipt-backed chain
  • Chain-of-custody trace — agent, user, route and tool recorded; not yet end-to-end across boundaries

Planned / proposed

  • Signed / tamper-evident receipts — cryptographically verifiable receipts for consequential actions
  • GAID public/private namespaces — explicit private vs externally-accredited public identity scopes
  • Public verifier metadata — published A2A Agent Cards and external receipt-status endpoints
  • External certificates & status — issuer validation and public status services for exposed agents
  • Capability & governance badges — evidence-backed assurance levels
  • Repeatable conformance suites — automated TAK & GAID test packs preserved as evidence

Grounded in the platform’s own first-pass assessment: TAK / GAID conformance assessment · TAK · GAID · governance white paper. DPF is the proving ground where these ideas are exercised in real workflows.

For architects · the evidence trail

Every AI action is identified and logged

A supervisor-ready snapshot of any coworker: who it is, what it may touch, the mode it runs in, and the evidence behind its last action.

Authority & Audit · Agent CardTAK · GAID-direction
Agentengagement
Route/operations · engagements
Tool grantsengagement.read · billing.write
HITL tierProposal-gated
ModePropose → approve → bill
Last actionDrafted milestone-2 invoice
Receipt● awaiting approval

A supervisor-ready snapshot: who the agent is, what it may touch, and the evidence behind its last action.

For partners, MSPs & consultants

A repeatable vertical you can resell

Package once, deploy per client.

DPF turns a business type into a complete, ready-to-run setup. Instead of building a custom app for every client, you install one platform, pick the business type, brand it, and support it — the same way for the next software & platforms client and the one after that.

Partner & contribution path
  • Archetype-based configuration, not custom code per client
  • Local install on the client’s own hardware — you own the support relationship
  • Reusable industry patterns shared through the opt-in Hive Mind
  • Governed coworkers and audit trails regulated-sector clients require

Ready to see it for your business?

Install on your own computers in minutes — the setup asks one question and sets up everything else for software & platforms automatically.

Install All business types

Plain-language checked — the everyday copy on this page reads at about a Grade 9 level (Flesch–Kincaid Reading Ease 44). We hold business copy to a high-school reading level; the architecture and standards sections are intentionally more technical.

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