The foundation.
Core provides the capabilities every PIHI-based product can rely on — including identity, tenancy, security and the fundamental services needed to operate a SaaS product.
Built once. Shared by every PIHI-based product.SaaS platform
Build the business, not the basics.
PIHI is a reusable platform for building and operating SaaS products.
It provides common capabilities, reusable modules and product blueprints so new software businesses can focus on what makes their product valuable — instead of rebuilding the foundations every time.
The problem
Every product needs the same foundations.
A new SaaS product needs much more than its unique business functionality.
Identity, security, administration, shared business capabilities and the operational foundations behind the product.
These are essential — but rebuilding them for every new product consumes time that could be spent solving the actual customer problem.
PIHI turns those recurring needs into a reusable platform.Why PIHI?
Pre-Integrated Hosting Infrastructure.
PIHI originally stands for Pre-Integrated Hosting Infrastructure.
The name reflects the idea the platform started from: bringing the common foundations of a SaaS product together before product-specific development begins.
Today, PIHI extends that idea beyond infrastructure into reusable core capabilities, modules and product blueprints.
The platform
Reuse at different levels.
Not everything should be shared in the same way. PIHI separates reusable capabilities into layers, allowing each product to use the right level of common foundation.
Reusable business capabilities.
Modules provide capabilities that are common to many products but not necessarily required by all of them. Products can adopt the modules they need instead of implementing the same functionality repeatedly.
Use what the business needs.Repeatable product patterns.
Blueprints combine platform capabilities into proven starting points for particular types of applications and services. They help a new product start from an established structure while leaving room for the functionality that makes the business unique.
Start further ahead.Future direction
04MarketplaceAn expanding ecosystem.
As PIHI evolves, reusable capabilities can extend beyond the platform itself. The longer-term direction is an ecosystem where modules and other reusable capabilities can be shared, extended and adopted across PIHI-based products.
Extend the platform without rebuilding it.The idea
Build once. Reuse where it matters.
PIHI is designed to shift development effort away from rebuilding common foundations and towards the capabilities that create value for the product and its customers.
Start from a working foundation.
New products can begin with established platform capabilities instead of an empty project and a new implementation of the same fundamentals.
Improve once. Benefit across products.
Reusable platform capabilities can evolve independently of individual products, allowing improvements to benefit more than one PIHI-based application.
Put differentiation where it belongs.
Development effort can concentrate on the customer problem, product experience and business capabilities that actually make one software business different from another.
Built through real products
A platform shaped by real product needs.
PIHI isn't being developed in isolation.
NUGAO is the first PIHI-based product. It provides a practical environment for building, testing and validating platform capabilities against the needs of a real software product.
What we learn from building NUGAO feeds back into PIHI — helping distinguish what belongs in the reusable platform from what should remain product-specific.
PlatformPIHIReusable platform
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ProductNUGAOReal product
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ValidateLearnValidate in practice
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PlatformImproveStrengthen the platform
The goal isn't to generalise everything. It's to learn what is genuinely reusable.
From platform to business
Separate the platform from the business using it.
PIHI separates the reusable platform from the software businesses operating on it. In our first implementation, Aguun Inc. represents that business layer and NUGAO its application/service.
Aguun Inc. is a registered auxiliary business name of Nuuga Oy and is used conceptually to model a business operating on PIHI.
Built for software businesses
Designed for products that need to evolve.
A software product changes as its customers, business model and capabilities evolve. PIHI is being designed around architectural principles that support that evolution from the beginning.
Built for more than one customer.
PIHI provides a foundation for products serving multiple organisations and users while keeping their data and access appropriately separated.
Part of the foundation.
Identity, authentication, access control and security are platform concerns rather than features every product should have to reinvent.
Share capabilities without making products identical.
PIHI-based products can adopt reusable modules where they make sense while retaining their own product-specific capabilities and experience.
Designed for modern software operations.
PIHI is built around cloud-based deployment, automation and continuous evolution rather than a traditional application-and-server model.
An architectural decision, not an afterthought.
PIHI is being designed with explicit consideration for where customer data is stored and processed. For our European environments, the architectural objective is to keep server-side storage and processing of Customer Data within the EU wherever the selected services allow it.
Current status
PIHI is being built now.
Currently in development.PIHI is currently in active development.
The first platform capabilities are being implemented and validated through NUGAO, our first PIHI-based product.
The objective is not simply to create one application. It is to prove that the same foundation can support additional software products — while allowing each product to remain focused on its own customers, business and capabilities.
PlatformCore capabilities being built
First productNUGAO in development
ValidationReuse tested in practice
Technology foundation
Built on Microsoft Azure.
PIHI is currently being built on Microsoft Azure and Microsoft identity technologies, using modern cloud-native architecture, automation and managed services.
Technology choices serve the platform — they don't define it. PIHI's reusable capabilities and product model are designed around software business needs rather than individual cloud services.
Build on PIHI
Build products. Reuse the foundation.
PIHI is Nuuga's approach to turning common software foundations into a reusable platform for new products and software businesses.