# 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:

| Machine | Codename | RAM | Role |
|---------|----------|-----|------|
| Mac Studio 1 | **ANVIL** | 96 GB | Infrastructure — databases, Docker, daemons, orchestration, Cloudflare tunnels |
| Mac Studio 2 | **FORGE** | 256 GB | Compute — AI inference, heavy models (72B+), agent worker pool |

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

## Key Components

```
ALAI System
│
├── 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

| Product | Description | Status |
|---------|-------------|--------|
| **Drop** | Digital banking / remittance platform (PSD2-compliant) | Active development |
| **Plock** | AI-native warehouse management system (Sweden) | Active development |
| **Lobby** | AI-native HR platform | Active development |
| **Bilko** | Balkan accounting software | Active development |
| **BasicFakta** | Invoice/faktura tool | Active development |
| **Tok** | Open banking platform | Active development |