1.1 What is ALAI?

What is ALAI?

ALAI Holding AS is an AI-first company factory. Instead of a traditional software company with developers, ALAI operates a system of AI agents organized into virtual companies that build, review, secure, and deploy software products autonomously.

Core Principle

"ALAI AS is not a holding company that happens to have a build pipeline. ALAI AS IS the build pipeline. The pipeline is the product."

The Machine

The system runs on two Mac Studio M3 Ultra machines:

Connected via 10Gbps Thunderbolt bridge (10.0.0.1 ↔ 10.0.0.2).

Key Components

ALAI System
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├── Mission Control (MC)          — Task database (SQLite) — the single source of truth
├── Pi-Orchestrator               — Daemon that pulls tasks from MC, classifies, routes, executes
├── Virtual Companies (8 active)  — Specialized AI agent teams with souls, configs, blueprints
├── Pipeline Engine               — BUILD → REVIEW → SECURITY → OPS → DOCS chain
├── Minion System                 — One-shot autonomous agents for task execution
├── HiveMind                      — Shared knowledge base with semantic search (Qdrant)
├── Ollama Fleet                  — Multi-host model serving (qwen, kimi, llama, custom models)
└── BookStack                     — Documentation wiki (this!)

Products Currently Built by the System