What is a "workplan" vs a "report"?

Last updated: February 23, 2026

A workplan defines a reusable analytical workflow. When you submit a prompt, ALFA decomposes that instruction into a deterministic execution graph composed of tool calls, data dependencies, and reasoning steps. This graph persists as a long-lived asset you can rerun, modify, or schedule. A report, by contrast, is a single execution of that workplan at a specific point in time. Reports contain the final outputs including tables, summaries, and artifacts and reflect the data and system state at the moment of execution.