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Factory Runtime - Business Overview

Purpose

This section provides a business-oriented view of the ConnectSoft AI Software Factory runtime operations. While technical documentation focuses on implementation details, this documentation explains:

  • Why the runtime architecture matters for business outcomes
  • How reliability and scalability enable customer trust and growth
  • What operational excellence means for cost efficiency and customer satisfaction
  • How business continuity is ensured through failure handling and recovery

This documentation is essential for:

  • Product Managers understanding Factory capabilities and limitations
  • Sales Teams explaining Factory reliability and scalability to customers
  • Executives evaluating operational excellence and cost efficiency
  • Customer Success managing customer expectations and SLAs

Technical Details

For deep technical implementation details, see the Technical Runtime Documentation in the Technical Documentation repository.

Business Value of Runtime Architecture

Why Separation of Control and Data Plane Matters

The Factory's control plane / data plane separation delivers significant business value:

Scalability for Growth

  • Independent Scaling — Control plane (orchestration) and data plane (execution) scale independently
  • Horizontal Scaling — Data plane workers can scale to thousands of instances to handle peak loads
  • Cost Efficiency — Scale workers up during peak times, down during low usage

Business Impact: - Support growing customer base without infrastructure redesign - Handle seasonal spikes (e.g., end-of-quarter project generation) - Optimize costs by scaling resources based on actual demand

Reliability and Customer Trust

  • Failure Isolation — Worker failures don't affect orchestration; orchestration failures pause work without data loss
  • High Availability — Control plane redundancy ensures Factory remains available even during worker issues
  • State Preservation — Run state is preserved, enabling recovery from failures

Business Impact: - Maintain customer trust through reliable execution - Meet SLA commitments (uptime, success rates) - Reduce customer churn due to reliability issues

Operational Excellence

  • Automated Recovery — Automatic retry and recovery reduce manual intervention
  • Self-Healing — Workers automatically restart and recover from failures
  • Cost Optimization — Efficient resource utilization reduces operational costs

Business Impact: - Lower operational overhead (fewer manual interventions) - Reduced operational costs (efficient resource usage) - Faster time-to-resolution for issues

Key Business Benefits

Reliability

The Factory runtime is designed for high reliability:

  • Automatic Retry — Transient failures are automatically retried
  • State Preservation — Run state is preserved, enabling recovery
  • Failure Isolation — Failures in one area don't cascade to others

Customer Impact:

  • Runs complete successfully even with transient failures
  • Reduced need for manual intervention
  • Higher customer satisfaction and trust

Scalability

The Factory runtime scales horizontally to support growth:

  • Worker Pools — Separate pools for different job types scale independently
  • Auto-Scaling — Workers scale up/down based on queue depth and workload
  • Multi-Tenant — Supports multiple customers with resource isolation

Business Impact:

  • Support growing customer base without infrastructure changes
  • Handle peak loads (e.g., end-of-quarter project generation)
  • Optimize costs by scaling resources based on demand

Cost Efficiency

The Factory runtime is cost-optimized:

  • Resource Optimization — Efficient resource utilization reduces costs
  • Scale-to-Zero — Workers can scale down to zero during low usage
  • Cost Tracking — Per-customer and per-project cost tracking enables optimization

Business Impact:

  • Lower infrastructure costs per customer
  • Better cost predictability and budgeting
  • Competitive pricing enabled by cost efficiency

Simple Architecture View

graph TD
    subgraph Factory["AI Software Factory"]
        Control[Control Plane<br/>Orchestration & Coordination]
        Data[Data Plane<br/>Work Execution]
    end

    Customers[Customers] --> Control
    Control --> Data
    Data --> Output[Generated Artifacts<br/>Repos, Pipelines, Code]

    style Control fill:#2563EB,color:#fff
    style Data fill:#10B981,color:#fff
    style Output fill:#EAB308,color:#000
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Key Points:

  • Control Plane — Manages orchestration, state, and coordination (always available)
  • Data Plane — Executes work and generates artifacts (scales based on demand)
  • Separation — Enables independent scaling, failure isolation, and cost optimization

Documentation Structure

This business runtime documentation covers:

Factory Overview

Operations

Technical Documentation