The speaker defines a software-factory orchestrator as a system that executes factory-definition code to move work through stages, call the right models, and load the right skills.

“Sometimes people talk about the orchestrator like it's the whole platform. I think it's a piece of it. What I mean by orchestrator is like you need some system that will take the factory definition code and then actually move work along the different stages, calling out to the right models, loading the right skills, et cetera.”