Right now, businesses are deploying agents into production with no way to contain them.
The credential moves out of the agent's environment and into the Gateway. The agent receives a scoped, signed, time-bound delegation. Network policy keeps the chokepoint honest.
Deployment, vendor strategy, and model economics are all pushing in the same direction. We're building into the gap they're opening.
Teams are pushing agents into production systems now. Security frameworks don't exist yet. Your CISO is afraid. That fear is the entire market.
Palantir, Microsoft, Google, AWS all have delegation and audit. Every one locks you to their model roster. Model portability dies when you adopt their governance. That's not solving the problem; that's moving it down.
Cost, availability, performance, bias. Every model is a different trade-off. Operators should swap models without rebuilding governance. Right now they can't. That's the gap.
Your business shouldn't have to choose between safe agents and the freedom to use whatever AI model you need. Every major platform — Microsoft, AWS, Palantir — forces that choice the moment you adopt their governance tools. And it's not a policy you can negotiate around. It's structural: their guardrails are bolted to their model roster. Switch models, lose the guardrails. AXIS separates the two. Governance is ours. Model choice is yours.
| Product | Governance | Model choice | Vendor lock-in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Copilot Studio | ✓ | Microsoft only | Full |
| AWS Bedrock Agents | ✓ | AWS roster | Full |
| Palantir AIP | ✓ | Enterprise contract | Full |
| AXIS / N7 | ✓ | Any, swap freely | None |
Already have agents deployed? The SDK bolts governance on without rebuilding anything. Starting fresh? N7 gives you governance as the foundation, not a feature — with full freedom to swap AI models whenever you need to. Same identity standard either way.
Add governance to existing deployments. No rebuild, no architecture change. Agents get verifiable identity, scoped permissions, signed actions, instant revocation. When the operator is ready for the full harness, N7 is the upgrade path.
Deploy agents on a foundation built for governance. Governance isn't a feature, it's the floor. Model-agnostic: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Mistral, Ollama. Tiered routing picks the right model for the right turn, cost-aware. Running in production at Offworld News today.
N7 wins on integration discipline and a developer experience for governed agent deployment that incumbents can't replicate without rebuilding their core. AXIS is the open protocol that compounds that lead over time. If it becomes the reference implementation, the one the spec-writers reference when they write the spec, the upside is category-defining. But the business doesn't require that outcome to work.
Spec, manifest format, registry interface, conformance suite. Apache 2.0 licensed. Public on GitHub.
Canonical operator key lookup and public verification endpoint. Running on Cloudflare Workers.
Register an agent, sign tokens, verify identity, in one small library. Zero dependencies. Runs in Node, Cloudflare Workers, Deno, Bun, and the browser. Available on GitHub.
Run agents with governance built in. Capability-sandboxed skills, signed approvals, full audit trail. The harness this site was built on.
Five-agent editorial newsroom running on N7 and the AXIS SDK pattern. Production traffic since 2025. Agent-signed commentary, identity-aware engagement.
First cross-operator delegation use case filed with W3C DID working group. NIST NCCoE submission live. Not planned, filed.
We're looking for 3 to 5 technical teams deploying agents into production systems right now who want to build alongside us.
Run N7 or the AXIS SDK with your next agent deployment. Free. We scope the integration based on what you're solving. You get governance infrastructure built for your specific use case. We get signal on what matters. After 90 days, we decide whether it makes sense to go deeper.
If that's you, let's talk.