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and ultimately the ROI story. And what factory really is to our customers is a set of building blocks for building a software software factory, right? And so, when we say software factory, what we mean is there's this implicit process that every organization in the world sits on top of, where signals from the outside world flow in on one side, and those signals could be a lot of different things. It could be customer conversations, it could be bug reports, it could be internal Slack or Teams conversations, it could be an executive saying, "We're going to build this thing," right? All of these are signals. Some of them have higher weight than others, and those signals flow in, and humans implicitly or explicitly then choose to then prioritize, triage, and build plans around those signals. Those plans are then converted, typically by software developers, into changes into some source of truth, a code base, an engineering system. Um and as those changes are actually executed on, they flow through a validation stage where people maybe review the code, they QA, they assess the security implications, they uh pass it through automated validation like SAST tools, linters, type checkers, and ultimately when everything passes, they then ship and deploy. And what do you do with deployed monitored software? Well, it it generates more signals, right? So, this implicit feedback loop is instrumented very poorly, to be honest, at most organizations. And if you're able to take AI and actually transform each of these stages of the pipeline and build an understanding of what the workflow looks like at your org from each stage to each stage, then you actually can get to the point where you have a a flow through from signal to deploy that has no human intervention. Now, importantly, that does not mean that humans are not a part of engineering this system, right? But it is that the flow of signal to deploy is uninterrupted by a human. Um and that software factory concept is