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Open Source Execution, Commercial Evidence

AKIOUD AI maintains three products. They serve different jobs, and understanding which one fits your use case starts with knowing what each product is designed to do.

AKIOS Pro: compliance evidence for regulated enterprises

AKIOS Pro is a self-hosted platform that monitors existing AI agent workflows and produces regulator-ready evidence. It captures LLM calls, tool activity, policy findings, review decisions, and retention events. It keeps all data inside the customer's infrastructure — VPC, on-prem, or air-gapped. It does not execute, orchestrate, or replace the customer's workflow engine. That separation is intentional: evidence from an independent observer carries more weight with auditors and procurement teams.

AKIOS OSS: execution safety for developers

AKIOS OSS is an open-source execution cage for AI agents. It provides kernel-level sandboxing, real-time PII redaction, tamper-evident audit trails, and cost kill-switches. It is designed for developers and security engineers who need to constrain what an agent can do at the system level. It is licensed under GPL-3.0 and developed in the open at akios.ai.

EnforceCore: enforcement primitives for framework builders

EnforceCore is an Apache 2.0 runtime enforcement framework. It provides policy interception, sandboxing, and Merkle-chained audit trails as a standalone Python library. It works with LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, and plain Python. Teams that want policy enforcement without adopting a full product can integrate EnforceCore directly.

How they relate

The three products are siblings in the same engineering family, not a dependency chain or a free-to-paid upgrade path. AKIOS OSS and EnforceCore demonstrate technical depth in agent enforcement and safety. AKIOS Pro builds on that credibility as a separate product for a different buyer — the compliance, legal, and platform engineering teams in regulated enterprises.

Choosing the right product

If your team needs to sandbox agent execution, enforce policies at the kernel level, and run local audits during development, start with AKIOS OSS or EnforceCore.

If your organization needs to produce regulator-ready evidence from existing agent workflows — trace records, PII findings, control mappings, export bundles — and keep everything inside your infrastructure, evaluate AKIOS Pro.

The choice is not about paid versus free. It is about the problem you need solved.