Workflow for agents,people and systems.
Built into every system we deliver
One of two enginesinside everything we build.
Every system that comes off our factory line starts with two engines already built. Pharos runs the business process: agent, human and system steps in one long-running flow. Alexandria holds the knowledge, so every step has exactly the context it needs.
Why “Pharos”? Named after the Lighthouse of Alexandria, which guided ships safely into harbour for centuries.
Pharos isn't a product we sell. It's licensed for use within the systems we build for you.
How it works
Agents, people and systems,in one durable process.
A process that waits days for an approval, or hits a failure halfway through, never loses its place or its work.
Change the process, not the code
Each process is a published, versioned definition, edited in a visual editor. Publish a new version and new cases follow it, while every case already in flight stays on the version it started with.
Agents, people and systems
Background work runs automatically; human steps wait for a person. A step can collect a name today, an address tomorrow and documents next week. Branches run in parallel and join when every required step is done.
Durable by design
Every step’s work is checkpointed as it goes. A case survives crashes and restarts, failed work is retried without duplicating results already accepted, and when retries run out the case waits for a person rather than failing.
Processes within processes
A step can start another process as its own sub-journey, such as an address check and a document check in parallel, and wait for both results before the case moves on.
The process editor
Change the process,not the code.
Your team sees every process as a map: automatic actions, sub-journeys that run in parallel, and the steps that wait for a person. Edit it as a new draft and publish; cases already running keep the version they started on.
Instead of a workflow platform
No SaaS workflow productto rent.
Long-running processes usually mean buying a workflow or case-management platform: per-seat or per-case licences, consultants to configure it, and your processes locked inside someone else's product. Pharos does that job inside the system we build for you, with no platform licence and no lock-in.
It keeps everything in PostgreSQL, inside your own infrastructure: the process definitions, every case, its progress and its execution history. There's no separate workflow platform or outside vendor in the loop. Restart the servers and every case is exactly where it was.
Each step records its status, timing and results, so you can see where every case stands and how it got there. Where your regulator asks for more, the system adds a full audit history on top.
Where it fits
Processes that takemore than one step.
Our worked example is customer onboarding at a bank, with a customer portal and workspaces for analysts, compliance, operations and audit. Screening checks run in the background; an analyst asks for missing details; the customer answers days later in their own portal; the case comes straight back to the analyst. Add a compliance approval in the editor, publish, and new cases follow the new route, with no code changes.
The same shape fits claims handling, regulatory change, supplier onboarding: wherever work moves between people, agents and systems over time.
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