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What is an AI software factory?

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An AI software factory is a system that turns a business’s own rules into working software through a fixed production line — questions, a written plan, building, an independent check, repair, delivery, hosting and maintenance. AI models do the work; a person makes the business decisions.

Not an assistant, not an app generator

An AI coding assistant helps a programmer write code faster; the programmer still designs, tests, deploys and maintains. An AI app generator produces an application from a prompt; the rules it did not ask about are guessed.

A software factory does the whole job, with stations, rules and records. It asks before it builds, plans in writing, has the work checked by a different AI, repairs what fails, runs the result and keeps every decision for the next change. The person who knows the business does not write code and does not supervise each step.

The production line

  1. Interview

    It asks about the rules only you can decide.

  2. Written plan

    Your answers become a plan; you say yes before building starts.

  3. Build

    The work is split into clear tickets and built in phases by suitable AI models.

  4. Independent check

    A model from a different AI company checks the result against the agreed rules.

  5. Repair

    Problems go back for repair and are checked again; repeated failure stops for a person’s decision.

  6. Delivery

    You receive the working result, its checks and what is still open.

  7. Hosting

    The application runs with its domain, secure connection and backups.

  8. Maintenance

    Every later change returns to the same project, with its whole history.

What the person does

You answer the questions only you can answer: who approves, what happens at a limit, what must never be lost. You read the written plan and say yes before anything is built. A missing business decision comes back to you instead of being guessed. At the end you receive the working result, its checks and a clear list of anything still open.

Where it runs

CodeHero PRO installs on your own computer or server — an ordinary machine is enough (minimum 1 CPU core, 4 GB RAM, 40 GB disk; with 8 GB it runs comfortably). The code, the data, the decisions and the history stay there.

The AI models are workers the factory uses: Anthropic (Claude), OpenAI (GPT and Codex), Google Gemini, xAI Grok, GLM, Qwen, OpenRouter or local models — by API key or subscription. They receive the part of the work they need for the current job. Where your data goes explains exactly what that means.

A real example

A small company asked for an equipment-requests app: up to €500 approved automatically, above that a manager approves — never their own request. One AI built it; a model from a different AI company checked it, found two problems on phones that the builder had missed, and opened a repair; the repair was checked again and passed. See the recorded run.

When it is the right choice

A factory fits software that is made of business rules: internal tools, approval flows, bookings, orders and stock, customer portals, dashboards, and larger platforms built in phases. It does not replace your decisions, and it does not certify regulatory compliance on its own — those stay with the people responsible for them.

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