dpf-platform

Open Digital Product Factory

The platform that builds itself. An open-source, AI-native operating platform for small businesses and product teams under human governance. A DPF install starts from a market archetype, gives the business a customer portal and internal workspace in its own vocabulary, and puts purposed AI coworkers at the center of daily work. Single-org install on your hardware; opt-in cross-install contribution through the Hive Mind.

For potential users and customers, start at opendigitalproductfactory.com — the canonical product tour with capability inventory, archetypes, coworker workforce, maturity surface, and standards conformance.

This README is for people working with the project source — contributors, integrators, and anyone running the install scripts or modifying the codebase.

Product posture

DPF's user story is now archetype-led rather than module-led:

• Pick the business type first: HVAC, clinic, retail, nonprofit, HOA, professional services, software platform, and other small-business categories.
• The selected archetype shapes the customer portal, internal workspace vocabulary, worker home, marketing posture, and feature-contribution applicability.
• AI coworkers are the primary interaction surface. They are purposed by role and route, but every side effect still goes through role checks, agent grants, approval gates, and audit logs.
• Voice is an optional coworker modality: speech-to-text for input, text-to-speech for narrated decision/profile output where consent and provider setup allow it.
• Build Studio is the governed self-development surface, but it is still being hardened. Use it honestly: ready for guided platform work and evidence capture, not a claim that every complex source change is fully autonomous today.

User-facing narrative lives in Market Archetypes And Coworkers, with proof personas under docs/personas/.

AI Agent Standards

This repository hosts a draft standards family for trustworthy AI-agent operation and identity. DPF is the first implementation and conformance case.

• Trusted AI Kernel (TAK) — runtime governance, authority mediation, HITL, delegation, audit, provider backpressure, queueing, failover
• Global AI Agent Identification and Governance (GAID) — identity, issuer / accreditation, badging, assurance, authorization classes, chain-of-custody
• Trusted AI Agent Governance White Paper — market, policy, and implementation case
• DPF Standards Conformance Assessment — how the platform maps to the proposed controls today

Publication outputs are generated from the Markdown sources of truth:

pnpm docs:tak
node docs/architecture/generate-gaid-docx.mjs
node docs/architecture/generate-agent-standards-white-paper-docx.mjs

Quick install

These commands assume a fresh machine with no DPF repo yet. If you've already cloned the repo (contributors), skip to Step 2 from inside the repo.

Windows 10 / 11 — GA

The Windows installer is a self-contained PowerShell script that clones the repo for you.

# Step 1 — download the installer (run from any directory)
iwr -UseBasicParsing https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenDigitalProductFactory/opendigitalproductfactory/main/install-dpf.ps1 -OutFile install-dpf.ps1

# Step 2 - run it (prompts for install directory; may suggest a non-C drive)
powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File install-dpf.ps1

macOS Apple Silicon — Early access · full guide

The Unix installer sources helper libraries from inside the repo, so you must clone first.

# Step 1 — clone the repo and enter it
git clone https://github.com/OpenDigitalProductFactory/opendigitalproductfactory.git
cd opendigitalproductfactory

# Step 2 — run the installer
bash install-dpf.sh

Linux (native Docker) — Early access · full guide

git clone https://github.com/OpenDigitalProductFactory/opendigitalproductfactory.git
cd opendigitalproductfactory
bash install-dpf.sh

Cloud Single VM (AWS / GCP / Azure) — Early access · pilots wanted · full guide

Inside the VM:

git clone https://github.com/OpenDigitalProductFactory/opendigitalproductfactory.git
cd opendigitalproductfactory
bash install-dpf.sh --headless --release

Terraform modules for the cloud-VM path live under infra/terraform/single-vm/{aws,gcp,azure}/.