# CDW

- **Event:** [Global Codex Hackathon: [San Francisco]](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/openai-hackathon-sanfrancisco)
- **When:** Thu, Apr 16 at 10:00 AM – 8:00 PM (PDT)
- **Where:** 1515 3rd Street, San Francisco, CA
- **Team:** [Michael Davidson](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/realityenigma), [Datthesh Shenoy](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/datthesh-shenoy)
- **Demo video:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49e1IWYtcQI
- **Gallery:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/openai-hackathon-sanfrancisco/hackathon/gallery
- **Page:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/openai-hackathon-sanfrancisco/hackathon/gallery/7

Application Factory is a CDW-internal meta-builder, an AI-powered platform that builds other applications on demand for CDW teams. Instead of engineers hand-scaffolding each internal tool, a CDW user describes what they need in natural language, and the Factory specs, generates, tests, reviews, and ships a working app end-to-end grounded in CDW's stack, patterns, and governance.

Key features:
1. Natural-language intake that converts CDW business requirements into a structured app spec (entities, workflows, UI, integrations)
2. CDW-aware template library
3. Codex-powered generation of backend logic, frontend views, and integration glue
4. CDW sandbox deployment (currently on host)
5. Iterative refinement

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