What is the Orbit Framework?

The Orbit Framework is a platform foundation that empowers Business Units (BUs) to build their own domain-specific AI agents using proven toolkits, starter kits, and shared infrastructure.

It provides the building blocks, development tools, and production platform needed to transform your ideas from concept → custom agent → live application.

Orbit is designed for BU teams that want:

Autonomy — build agents using your domain expertise with proven templates and toolkits.
Self-Service — leverage shared infrastructure without waiting for custom development.
Interactivity — transform your agent concepts into live dashboards, workflows, and forms.
Choice — choose the platform option that fits your team: Console or Hosted.

Why Orbit Exists

Most organizations face two problems when BUs want to build agents:

Starting from scratch — every team reinvents basic patterns (authentication, UI, deployment, governance).
Scattered expertise — domain knowledge exists in BUs, but they lack platform infrastructure to build on.

Orbit solves this by providing:

Platform foundation → shared infrastructure, standards, and toolkits you can build on.
Starter kits & templates → proven patterns that jumpstart development for common use cases.
Self-service tools → everything your team needs to go from idea to production independently.

Platform Options

Orbit provides two options for teams building agents, depending on your infrastructure and control preferences:

Orbit Console → Orbit-hosted development toolkit for building, testing, and publishing agents to the marketplace. You then host production agents in your own infrastructure.
Orbit Hosted → Complete platform toolkit you deploy and manage in your own infrastructure, including development, marketplace, and production runtime.

Platform Components

Starter Kits & Toolkits — pre-built templates and building blocks that jumpstart your agent development.
Orbit Flow — UI components you use to turn agent responses into interactive dashboards, forms, and workflows.
Agent Services — development tools for building, testing, validating, and sharing your agents.
Orbit App — production platform where your finished agents can run with built-in authentication, dashboards, and user management.
Blueprints & Protocols — shared standards that ensure your agents work with others in the ecosystem.
Agent Marketplace — community space for sharing and discovering agents built by other BUs.

How Your Team Uses Orbit

Your developers start with Starter Kits and build using Orbit Console (or Hosted environment).
You validate your agents with Blueprints & Protocols, ensuring they work with the broader ecosystem.
Your finished agents are hosted in your own infrastructure where users access them via Orbit Flow interfaces.
The Orbit App provides the production platform with dashboards, chats, and user management built-in. It can be used as an external extension to your platform if you don't want to natively add your new agents into your code right away.
Agent Services handle the infrastructure concerns (security, compliance, monitoring) so you can focus on your domain logic.

Next Steps

Choose your Platform Option (Console or Hosted).
Explore Orbit Flow components you'll use to build interactive experiences.
Learn about Agent Services development tools and standards.
See the Orbit App production platform where your agents will run.

Orbit is where your domain expertise becomes intelligent applications.
Built by your team, powered by proven platform infrastructure, delivered through professional interfaces.