Optics
Know what is acting.
Optics records the destination, process, timing, volume, and trace for supported agent and model calls. It never stores prompts or completions, and it never blocks a request.
Explore OpticsThe enterprise authority plane for autonomous systems
Put autonomous AI to work without giving it unlimited authority.
Vantio gives enterprises one authority system for the agents, models, tools, and machines they operate. Observe activity with Optics, enforce policy with Gate, control supported Linux execution with Phantom Engine, and govern authority and proof with Enterprise.
Intelligence is not authority.
Models can reason. Agents can act. Neither should decide its own permissions. Vantio keeps authority outside the model and binds consequential work to identity, objective, policy, enforcement, verification, and evidence.
One authority system, five jobs that hold it together
Application controls only work when the agent uses them. A process can call a different library, open a raw connection, spawn a child, or act directly on the host. Each part of the platform covers a different one of those moments.
Gate
Decide what is permitted.
Gate turns your policy into live decisions on the supported application path. You can refuse a destination, strip sensitive fields, cap size and spend, and preview every decision before you enforce it.
Explore GatePhantom Engine
Control what can execute on supported Linux infrastructure.
Phantom Engine runs on the Linux hosts you enroll and holds the execution envelope underneath the application. It keeps host-level evidence and names the gap when the host sees traffic the application path never recorded.
Explore Phantom EngineEnterprise
Govern who authorized it and prove what happened.
Enterprise adds durable evidence, audit records, dual-control, and governance process on top of Phantom Engine, so the people accountable for the work can review it and export it.
Explore EnterpriseContinuous Assurance
Keep the complete control chain true.
Continuous Assurance keeps checking that the controls you enabled are still on, still current, and still provable. It detects drift, repairs what it safely can, proves posture, and exports the evidence.
How the platform stays trueWhat has to be true before an agent acts
Consequential work should carry its own paper trail. Every link below answers a question a reviewer will eventually ask.
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Enterprise intent
A person or a standing policy decides what the work is for.
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Identity
The acting agent, process, or host is named rather than assumed.
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Objective-bound capability
Permission is scoped to that objective, expires, and cannot grow when it is delegated.
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Policy decision
Gate evaluates the action and can allow it, refuse it, redact it, cap it, or send it for approval.
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Controlled execution
Phantom Engine holds the execution envelope on the Linux hosts you enroll.
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Independent verification
A check the acting worker cannot satisfy by simply reporting success.
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Durable evidence
The decision and the outcome are recorded so a reviewer can read them later.
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Revocation or recovery
Authority can be withdrawn, and the system can be brought back to a known state.
Why this is urgent now
Agency is not permission. The gap between what an agent can reach and what anyone actually approved is where the risk lives.
- Agents increasingly use real tools, real credentials, and real money.
- Model capability is advancing faster than the operational controls around it.
- Prompt instructions are guidance, not permission boundaries.
- Standing privileges outlive the task that justified them.
- Human review does not scale with the volume of autonomous work.
We run our own enterprise on the same authority platform.
Vantio-operated environment
Vantio Enterprise is our internal production tenant. It runs the company's own autonomous operations under Optics, Gate, and Phantom Engine, on a Vantio-operated environment we call the root cell. That gives us real evidence about how the platform behaves under real work.
- Optics
- Attached to the agent processes we run
- Gate
- Enforcing the policy we configured
- Phantom Engine
- Protection enabled on the enrolled Linux hosts
- Continuous Assurance
- Checking that those controls are still on
- Prompts and completions
- Not stored
- Evidence as of
- 2026-09-04
This is dogfood proof. It shows that we trust the platform enough to run the company on it. It is not a customer deployment, it is not an independent audit, and it does not stand in for validation on infrastructure Vantio does not operate.
What this does not cover
- No customer deployment has been independently validated.
- No design partner has run this on their own infrastructure yet.
- Certifications and authorizations are separate programs and are not held.
- Robotics, drone, industrial, and vehicle deployment do not exist.
One authority model across autonomous compute
The same question shows up wherever autonomous software runs: what is this allowed to do? Here is how far we have actually taken that, and where we have not.
Present proving ground
Enterprise agents and customer-controlled Linux infrastructure.
This is where the product runs today. Optics and Gate work on supported application paths, and Phantom Engine works on the Linux hosts a customer enrolls.
Read the detailDesigned expansion
Cloud, Kubernetes, agent computers, and edge nodes.
The authority model is designed for these node classes, and parts of the Kubernetes path are implemented. None of it has been validated on infrastructure Vantio does not operate.
Read the detailLonger-term validation
Robotics companion computers, drone compute, industrial gateways, vehicle-side compute, and physical-effect authorization.
These are research and design targets. Vantio has no robotics, drone, industrial, or vehicle deployment, and does not control motors, flight, or braking.
Read the detailYour agents. Your infrastructure. Your authority.
The intelligence may be rented. The authority belongs to the enterprise. Vantio is the system that makes your decision enforceable — it does not take the decision from you.
- You own the policy. Vantio does not decide what your agents are for.
- You set the level of autonomy, and you can turn it down at any time.
- You can revoke a capability, and the enforcement point stops honoring it.
- You can export the evidence and take it with you.
- There is no hidden Vantio remote override on your infrastructure.
- Independent safety systems keep the authority they were designed with. Vantio does not replace an interlock, an e-stop, or a local controller.
Coverage and limits
Reachability is not authority. These are the edges of what Vantio covers today.
- Optics and Gate cover supported wrapped application paths. A process that skips the wrap, opens a raw socket, uses curl, or forks away can egress without a record.
- Gate does not mediate every browser, SaaS, socket, or tool path. The unsupported paths are documented rather than implied away.
- Phantom Engine applies only to the Linux hosts you enroll. Windows and macOS host control are not available.
- Vantio does not claim universal agent discovery.
- Certification alignment is not the same as certification held.
- Vantio has not yet completed an install validated by an independent operator on infrastructure Vantio does not run.
Start with visibility. Add authority as the work becomes consequential.
Optics is free and installs from npm or PyPI, so you can see what your agents are doing before you change anything. Add Gate when you want policy to act on that path, Phantom Engine when you need control on Linux you own, and Enterprise when the proof has to travel with the work.
Optics is free. Gate is $499 per month. Phantom Engine is $799 per enrolled Linux node. Enterprise governance is talk to sales.