Day one
Useful now, not after months of building.
As part 1 showed, a factory needs connections, credentials and know-how before it can do real work. Building them all first can take a long time, and a factory that does nothing for months is a hard thing to keep believing in.
So one sensible start is to let a service hold those pieces at first. Your tools are connected, your credentials sit in one store you can see into, and the factory has guides for its tools. It can start working on the first day.
The path
Three stages, one factory.
The order matters. The factory moves onto your own systems early, because that is where it belongs. The pieces around it can follow at your own pace, one at a time, or stay with a service for as long as that suits you.
What moves, what stays
The factory stays. The pieces around it can move.
Stays yours throughout
The factory
- Where it runs
- On your hardware or a server you control, from stage 2 on.
- What it holds
- Your processes, your records, your agents and how they work together.
- Which models
- Any you choose: closed, open or local, and several at once.
Can move when you want
The pieces around it
- Connections
- To your own data team, to another provider, or kept with a service.
- Credentials
- To a store you build or already run, or kept with a service.
- Know-how
- Your own guides and analysts, or a provider's.
So whatIf leaving a service would mean rebuilding your factory, the factory was never really yours. Choose arrangements where it would not.
StarMynd's role, said plainly
One route: a stopgap you can leave.
StarMynd founded this Foundation, and funds and staffs it today, so we say plainly what it offers and where it fits.
StarMynd is one service that can fill stage 1. It has an automated onboarding: you connect your systems to it, and it holds the connections for your factory in one place, for any model. As StarMynd describes its service, it also gives you a record of which AI used which secret and one place to change a credential, an AI-ready guide for each tool it connects, and a data analyst for each source of data, which StarMynd creates and maintains.
StarMynd may host a factory temporarily during setup, but does not run factories long term. Its stated aim is the fastest path to a factory you own, on your own hardware or virtual server. You can use it to get started right away and move off it later, and StarMynd says you can leave whenever you want.
You do not need StarMynd, or any service, to use Infinity OS. StarMynd's own site is starmynd.com.
Other routes
The same path, other ways.
- Do it yourself from day one. Start at stage 2 with the free software and the Foundation's guides, and build the pieces as you need them.
- Use what you have. If you already run a credential system or have a data team, point them at the factory from the start.
- Use another provider. Any service that works with any model and lets you leave can fill stage 1 too. Part 2 has questions to ask it.
- Hire an implementer. Someone experienced in setting up Infinity OS can take you through all three stages.
The whole ideaStart fast, in whatever way suits you. End up owning it.
- Part 1: What every factory needsConnections, credentials and know-how, and why the burden pushes businesses onto the biggest platforms.
- Part 2: Four ways to fill the gapBuild your own, an in-house team or system, another provider, or StarMynd. The trade-offs, side by side.
- Download Infinity OSIt is early. What you can download today, honestly labelled.
Disclosure: StarMynd founded the Foundation, and funds and staffs it today. This article describes StarMynd as one route among several.
Infinity OS is being built and is not yet released. Nothing in this article describes a released product.