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Product Portfolio

This document defines ConnectSoft's product portfolio across four main pillars. It is written for product managers, sales, and anyone understanding ConnectSoft's complete offering.

ConnectSoft's product portfolio consists of four main pillars that work together to deliver value to customers: the AI Software Factory, ready-made SaaS Platforms, AI Product Squads, and the Marketplace (future).

Note

Each pillar serves different customer needs: Factory for teams building their own platforms, Platforms for ready-to-use solutions, Squads for managed development teams, and Marketplace for extending capabilities with third-party content.

Four Product Pillars

1. AI Software Factory (.ai)

What it is: The core platform that generates SaaS solutions using intelligent agents, standard templates, and cloud-native patterns.

Key capabilities:

  • Multi-agent system that generates microservices, libraries, infra, docs, tests
  • Integrates with Azure DevOps (repos, work items, pipelines, artifacts)
  • Opinionated for multi-tenant SaaS, .NET, Azure
  • Knowledge & memory system that learns from every project

Value proposition: Turn product ideas into full SaaS solutions — complete with clean architecture, microservices, tests, and cloud infrastructure — using intelligent agents and opinionated templates.

Target customers: CTOs, platform leads, enterprises building internal platforms, consultancies

2. SaaS Platforms (.io)

What it is: Ready-made SaaS platforms built by the AI Factory, available as hosted services or self-hosted licenses.

Current Platforms (4 live):

  • Identity & Access Platform - OpenID Connect server and identity backend for multi-tenant SaaS
  • Audit Trail Platform - Centralized, tamper-evident audit logging for compliance-driven systems
  • External Configuration Server - Central source of truth for application configuration and feature flags
  • AI Bot Platform - Enterprise AI chatbot backend with identity, conversation history, and observability

Expansion Plan:

  • Expanding to 100+ platforms across 12 categories
  • Platform Categories: Infrastructure & Core Services, Data & Analytics, Communication & Collaboration, Payments & Billing, Security & Compliance, Workflow & Automation, Content & Media, Customer & Relationship Management, Marketing & Growth, HR & Talent Management, E-Commerce & Retail, Vertical-Specific Solutions
  • See: Platform Categories Overview and Platforms Roadmap

Value proposition: Production-ready SaaS platforms you can deploy today, all built on the same enterprise-grade architecture and cloud-native stack.

Target customers: Product companies, platform teams, modernization programs

Deployment models:

  • Hosted SaaS on connectsoft.io
  • Optional self-host license for enterprise (read-only repo or package)

3. AI Product Squads (Teams of Agents)

What it is: "AI Team-as-a-Service" — configurable virtual teams of specialized agents (Architect, Dev, QA, DevOps, Product, Governance, AI/ML) that build and maintain SaaS components.

Squad types:

  • Starter SaaS Squad - For MVPs and early-stage products (1 new microservice + 2 epics/month)
  • Growth SaaS Squad - For scaling teams (2 new microservices + 4 epics + 1 integration/month)
  • Platform Squad - For enterprises building internal platforms
  • Integration & AI Bot Squad - Specialized in integrations and AI capabilities

Value proposition: Instead of hiring and onboarding an entire team, configure a virtual squad with the right mix of roles and get concrete outcomes every month.

Target customers: Startups, SaaS companies, enterprises needing platform teams

Pricing model: Monthly subscription with outcome-based scope (microservices/epics/integrations per month)

4. Marketplace (Future)

What it is: Marketplace for templates, agents, microservices, and connectors that plug into the Factory and platforms.

Marketplace categories:

  • Template & Blueprint Marketplace - Microservice templates, blueprint packs, front-end templates, CI/CD pipelines
  • Agent & Skill Marketplace - Specialized agents and skills for the factory
  • Module / Microservice Marketplace - Prebuilt microservices and vertical modules
  • Data / Integration & Connector Marketplace - Connectors/bridges, RAG data packs

Value proposition: Extend the Factory with third-party templates, agents, and modules. Revenue share model between creators and ConnectSoft.

Target customers: Advanced factory users, platform teams, vertical domain experts

Phasing: Phase 3+ (after Factory and Platforms are proven)

How They Work Together

graph TB
    subgraph Ecosystem["ConnectSoft Ecosystem"]
        Factory["AI Software Factory<br/>(.ai)"]
        Platforms["SaaS Platforms<br/>(.io)"]
        Squads["AI Product Squads<br/>(Teams)"]
        Marketplace["Marketplace<br/>(Future)"]
    end

    Factory -->|"Generates"| Platforms
    Squads -->|"Uses Factory to build"| Platforms
    Squads -->|"Uses"| Factory
    Marketplace -->|"Extends"| Factory
    Marketplace -->|"Extends"| Platforms
    Marketplace -->|"Extends"| Squads

    style Factory fill:#e3f2fd
    style Platforms fill:#f3e5f5
    style Squads fill:#e8f5e9
    style Marketplace fill:#fff3e0
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Flow:

  1. Factory generates SaaS platforms and components
  2. Platforms are ready-made products customers can use immediately
  3. Squads are managed agent teams that use the Factory to build for customers
  4. Marketplace extends all three with third-party content

Product Positioning

Factory vs Competitors

Dimension Generic AI Tools Low-Code Platforms ConnectSoft Factory
Primary focus Code snippets Apps Multi-tenant SaaS platforms
Stack Language-agnostic Proprietary Opinionated .NET / Azure
Unit of value LOC generated Apps built Running SaaS platforms + templates
SaaS primitives Not explicit Limited Tenants, editions, features, quotas
Outputs Repos + docs Black box Repos + infra + observability + docs
Marketplace Not public yet Limited Planned (templates, agents, modules)

Platforms vs Build-Your-Own

Why buy vs build:

  • Time-to-Value: Build = 6-12 months; ConnectSoft = weeks to pilot, few more to production
  • Architecture & Compliance Risk: Build = risk of shortcuts; ConnectSoft = same well-defined architecture in every deployment
  • Total Cost of Ownership: Build = hiring, maintaining, re-training; ConnectSoft = focus team on unique domain logic

Squads vs Traditional Hiring

Why AI Squads:

  • No hiring/onboarding overhead
  • Consistent architecture across all deliverables
  • Faster time-to-production (2-5× faster)
  • Lower long-term cost by avoiding rewrites
  • Stronger compliance posture from day one

Strategic Goals

  1. End-to-end AI-driven SaaS delivery (not just snippets)
  2. Modular, multi-tenant, multi-service scale
  3. Security, trust, and compliance by design

Reference

For detailed product definitions, see: