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
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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 
 
 
 
 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