# The Digital FTE

A Digital FTE (full-time equivalent) is an AI worker you manufacture, not a
chatbot you prompt. The shift is from asking a model questions to assembling a
durable employee: an agent with a defined role, a system of record it reads and
writes, the skills its job needs, and a governance envelope that says what it may
decide on its own and what it must escalate.

The Agent Factory thesis is that domain experts, not just programmers, can build
these workers by directing a coding agent. You describe the role and the rules;
the agent assembles the worker from prompts, skills, and specifications. The
output of traditional learning is knowledge. The output of the Factory is an
asset: a worker that does the job while you sleep.
