New products are often described through familiar software categories. Glages may be compared with agent frameworks, workflow engines, rules systems, knowledge graphs, retrieval products, and evaluation tools because each of them touches part of the problem. The comparison is useful only after the main category is clear. Glages is a

The idea of reusable formal business models is easy to summarize. Building a factory that can produce them reliably is difficult. The challenge is not generating descriptions of processes. LLMs can already produce convincing explanations. The challenge is creating models that remain coherent, machine-checkable, composable, reusable, and useful in

A Glages model is not a finished application for one market. It is a reusable software foundation that organizations can use to build several kinds of software systems and automation services. The organization remains responsible for its market, customers, interface, integrations, deployment, and support. Glages supplies the formal process or

When software does not perform the requested action, people often describe the event as a failure. That word is too broad for controlled automation. A payment decline, blocked refund, missing evidence, or unsupported request may be a valid business result of a correctly executed process. The model must distinguish these

AI products are often designed around the current capabilities of a particular model. The prompts, tools, memory, and orchestration become the center of the architecture. Glages places the formal business model at the center instead. The agent becomes one execution mechanism among several. The Activity Must Outlast the Agent A

Most project knowledge loses value after delivery. It remains inside implementation code, scattered documents, and the memories of the people who built the system. A model factory is designed so that completed work can become a reusable production asset. The Model Library The Glages model library contains more than finished

A formal process model is useful during execution, but its value begins before runtime and continues afterward. The same model can support readiness assessment, requirements, testing, controlled execution, self-service, verification, certification, and product design because all of these activities need a common definition of the business process. Before Development

A reusable model cannot assume that every company stores the same data, uses the same software, or names the same states in the same way. At the same time, company differences should not force the process itself to be redefined for every implementation. Company connection separates these two problems. The

Payment is present in almost every transactional business, but it rarely exists as one isolated action. Authorization, capture, decline, retry, duplication, reversal, settlement, and refund all affect what the business can do next. A reusable payment model gives these events a common formal meaning. Payment Is a Process, Not a

Refund looks simple when described as a button or an API call. In a real business, it is a process with Entities, facts, states, authority, conditions, actions, and several possible results. That makes refund a useful example of a reusable process model. The Common Process A refund request must refer

Most organizations describe automation through workflows, prompts, integration code, and operational instructions. The actual meaning of the activity remains spread across those artifacts and the people who interpret them. Glages uses a stricter formula: The model is the automation. The model is not a picture of the automation or documentation