# Concept: Process (Labs)

A **process** is a versioned recipe for generating one kind of report: an ordered chain of AI steps (research, search, write), each with a versioned prompt and a model role. Labs ships a platform-global catalog of processes — `tracking-plan-fast`, `business-case`, `customer-discovery` and friends — the same catalog for every account, like the tool registry itself.

Versioning is append-only: saving a process writes a new revision and old ones are kept forever, so every deliverable can name exactly which process version and prompt versions produced it (its **provenance**). A generation run pins its process version at the start — a definition edit mid-run cannot change what the run executes.

Model names in a process are **role aliases** (`gpt-4o`, `gemini-search`), resolved against a live registry at run time, so a retired vendor model is repointed once, centrally, without touching any process.

Related: [Deliverable](/concepts/deliverable) · [Spending cap](/concepts/spending_cap)