Decision Workers
01 / 03The Action Layer to Orchestrate AI Agents
Business-as-Code keeps agents in check by codifying the deterministic parts of your workflows while agents handle the fuzzy logic.
Business-as-Code
The Action Layer for Agents
The Saddle Command Center platform orchestrates agents inside deterministic workflows, allowing you to agentify your most demanding mission-critical processes.
Beyond the SaaS Stack
02 / 03Competitive Advantage You Can't Buy Off the Shelf
Business-as-Code allows IT teams to create digital capabilities that you can't buy off the shelf by combining AI-driven decisions with deterministic workflows across existing systems.
Beyond Durable Execution
03 / 03Write Code Closer to Business Value
Business-as-Code allows developers to work at a higher level of abstraction, closer to business value. Don't just replay side-effects. Orchestrate your business.
Your Agents Need an Action Layer
Business processes are fragmented across dozens of SaaS solutions, microservices, people, tribal knowledge, and legacy systems. This blocks agents and modernization efforts, and creates reliability & plumbing issues that slows down engineering and IT teams.
Without an explicit orchestration layer, business process logic remains hidden in point-to-point connections between systems, queue consumers, emails, and spreadsheets, and agents just become another automation island.
Business-as-Codesupport-ticket · generated WfSpec
Codify Your Business ProcessSupportTicket.java
var route = wf.execute( "triage-ticket-agent");
wf.doIf( route.isEqualTo("CANCEL_ORDER"), body -> {
body.execute("process-refund");
body.execute("cancel-order");
}).doElseIf( route.isEqualTo("SEND_ORDER_INFO"), body -> {
body.execute("send-order-info");
}).doElseIf( route.isEqualTo("ESCALATE_TO_TEAM"), body -> {
body.assignUserTask( "review-ticket", "support-agent", "support-team");
});
Orchestrate and Govern Across Your SystemsWfSpec
Business-as-Code: The Action Layer for AI
Just as Infrastructure-as-Code brought governance and agility to DevOps, Business-as-Code does the same for your business processes by orchestrates your business flows across SaaS systems, microservices, people, and agents
Business-as-Code provides an action layer for agents by codifying the deterministic parts of your processes while letting agents do the fuzzy parts.
Get Started With a Business-as-Code Workshop
Bring us a business process, integration, or automation challenge that is costly, slow, manual, or opaque. Our Business-as-Code Practice will help you map the current process and reimagine it with Business-as-Code.
Our Business-as-Code Workshop is a 3-4 week, on-site engagement with our Business-as-Code Practice and has delivered results in various industries.
From challenge to blueprint
Business-as-Code Workshop
3-4 weeksOn-site collaboration
01
Discover
Map the process
Surface the systems, people, handoffs, and hidden rules.
02
Reimagine
Design the workflow
Define orchestration, agent boundaries, and governance.
03
Deliver
Plan the build
Turn the new process into an actionable implementation plan.
Workshop outcome
A shared process map and implementation plan
Trusted Across Industries
Teams across various industries are building their competitive edge with Business-as-Code.
Payments / FinTech
KYC and Customer Onboarding
European payments broker orchestrates complex multi-step merchant onboarding across internal and external services.
Eliminated the need for complex reactive programming, SAGA transactions, and the Outbox Pattern.
Read the case studyLogistics / Fleet Management
Fleet Maintenance Solution
U.S. logistics company with thousands of trucks outgrew its iPaaS and work order management systems.
Now able to bid on more jobs and lose fewer jobs when trucks fail because of increased maintenance efficiency.
Read the case studyE-Commerce / AI
Gen AI Inference & GPU Orchestration
Software provider enhances the e-commerce experience with generative AI imagery at high throughput and low latency.
Replaced complex, homegrown process orchestration logic which was error-prone and costly to maintain.
Read the case studyLogistics / IoT
IoT & Order Processing
U.S. logistics company handles orders and tracks fulfillment across a fleet of IoT devices with LittleHorse.
Enhanced agility, visibility, and scalability enables the business to scale to 2x volume of orders.
Read the case studyConsulting / Advisory
SaaS System Integration
U.S. consulting and advisory firm connects NetSuite, Slack, HubSpot, and other SaaS platforms into unified workflows.
Clients enjoy a seamless experience across SaaS platforms with custom, lightweight integration workflows.
Read the case studyWhy Teams Choose LittleHorse
Software Engineers
Business-as-Code allows software engineers to work at a higher level of abstraction: the business process. This brings you closer to business value while allowing engineers to work with your preferred languages and deployment runtimes.
What you can do
- Orchestrate agents as part of deterministic business flows.
- Respond to events with low-latency, durable workflows.
- Build long-running, asynchronous processes that wait for callbacks and external events.
- Handle exceptions in complex business processes without DIY retry and DLQ logic.
- Debug and trace end-to-end flows across microservices.
- Reliably update multiple systems at once with automatic rollback on failure.
- Orchestrate flows across microservices without the distributed systems headache.
- Manage and catalog events from multiple systems in a single place.
- Visualize and govern the code built by coding agents.
Enterprise IT Executives
For years, enterprises changed their business practices to fit the opinions of the software systems they bought. Business-as-Code flips that on its head by adapting the software to meet changing business requirements.
What you can do
- Build custom business processes that aren't possible in out-of-the-box SaaS Towers.
- Automate regulated processes using agents with predictability, compliance, and human-in-the-loop.
- Extract value from agents in a deterministic and predictable manner.
- Codify, automate, and optimize critical processes using Business-as-Code to harness agents
- Get specific automations and integrations delivered turnkey, even without a large internal team.
- Turn software, data, and IT into a competitive advantage rather than a cost center.
- Use agents to predictably automate business processes with auditing and compliance.
- Contain SaaS costs and build custom processes not supported by the SaaS Towers.
- Build a resilient IT foundation on open-source to avoid vendor lock-in.
Business-as-Code in Action
Microservices
- Catalog every service as a governed, reusable building block
- Compose multi-service processes with retries and SAGA rollbacks
- Trace requests end-to-end from a single dashboard
Event-Driven Architecture
- Respond to Kafka events with durable, multi-step workflows
- Pause for callbacks and external events, then resume automatically
- Eliminate hand-rolled Transactional Outbox and DLQ patterns
SaaS Integrations
- Build custom logic between and around SaaS towers like SAP and NetSuite
- Connect to existing APIs and interweave them with your own business logic
- Replace expensive SaaS modules with in-house capabilities
Workflow Automation
- Automate long-running processes with human-in-the-loop approvals
- Insert agents into critical workflows with predictability and compliance
- Retries, timeouts, and exception handling built into the platform
Orchestrate, Connect, Process, Govern.
Orchestrate
Orchestrate processes through Business-as-Code with the LittleHorse Kernel.
Connect
Connect to external API's, services, and systems with Harness Connect.
Process
Process events to extract real-time business insights with LittleHorse StreamSense.
Govern
Govern and monitor workflows with Pony ID.
Built to turn your software into a competitive edge.
Codify Your Processes
Write Business-as-Code in a language of your choice, codify your process, and pave the way for agentic automation.
Optimize Your Business
Capture events and extract real-time business insights, then trigger responsive action automatically.
React to Events in Real Time
Integrate event streams with workflows so your business responds to changes as they happen.
Resilient & Durable Automation
Built-in retries, error handling, and dead-letter queues ensure every process completes — even through third-party outages.
Connect People, Systems, and AI
Orchestrate processes that span software systems, human approvals, and AI agents — in a single governed flow.
Open & Developer-First
Any developer can build workflows in the language they already know. Deploy in your environment or use our managed cloud.
Leverage and Enhance Your Existing Stack
LittleHorse integrates with many ubiquitous modern technologies, allowing you to adopt it seamlessly and incrementally, without refactoring.
Commonly Asked Questions
Start Codifying Your Business.
Ready to turn your software and data into a competitive advantage?