The shift
Three forces, converging.
None of these is hypothetical — they are happening inside the enterprise right now.
1. AI detonated software supply.
Business units can now produce working software without asking anyone. The constraint is no longer “can we build it.” It’s “can we run it, secure it, and prove it.”
2. Central IT can’t absorb the volume.
The machinery built to govern a trickle of software — backlogs, review boards, quarterly roadmaps — was not designed for a firehose. The gap between what’s built and what’s governed is widening.
3. The structural answer is a factory.
Not another dashboard, not another governance checklist. A factory that converts abundance into deployable applications — applying the crosscuts by construction, not by exception.