Against autonomy-first self-hosted agents.
The closest relatives. Same boundary story, the data stays home. The divergence is what happens at the moment of action, and whose name is on it.
Respect first: this category is engineering-serious. Self-hosted like us, bring-your-own-model like us, read-only by default like us. The leading products are ahead of us today on things buyers rightly value: production references at enterprise scale, secret redaction before model calls, integration breadth, and team size. If you are choosing on maturity and surface area, they earn the look. What follows is the difference in kind, not degree.
The honest table
Where the postures diverge.
Shared ground, stated once: runs in your cluster; your model, including local; investigations read-only by default; structured records of agent activity. If a vendor in this category claims otherwise about us or we about them, question 10 settles it. Now the divergence:
THE DIVERGENCE
| The question | Autonomy-first self-hosted agents | Infraware |
|---|---|---|
| What can it do without a human? | The direction of travel is autonomy: pre-approved actions and signed runbooks execute without a human present for that decision. | Reads run autonomously under a read-only policy. Writes run on a named human's grant: per action, or as a standing signature for an exact context once the record has earned it, same identity binding, same audit line. The grant is the product, not the speed bump. |
| Whose identity executes? | Scoped service identities; the session is attributed to a user, the execution runs as the service. | Execution runs as a ServiceAccount mapped from the approver. The identity on the action is derived from the person, not adjacent to them. |
| Who approved, on what evidence, what ran? | "What did the agent do, and who was in the session", answerable. The per-decision approval chain, not their model. | Answered per command, by construction: the audit entry carries approver, resolved principal, command, outcome. |
| What happens when the model is wrong? | Guardrails filter actions; quality of the filter varies with the action surface. | Wrong output becomes a wrong proposal in a report a human reads. The failure mode is wasted minutes. |
| Verify before you pay? | Hosted sandboxes and guided pilots; deployment quoted in weeks; pricing by sales conversation. | Failure suite in your cluster, first root-cause report inside an hour, pilot scoped on one call, fixed after it |
| Where they beat us today | Production references, pre-model secret redaction, integration breadth, headcount. | We are younger and smaller, and we say so; what we have that they do not is the gate. |
If your operations can be fully pre-approved, autonomy-first is coherent, standing grants are rung 3 of our own autonomy ladder too, Roadmap : the same identity binding and audit line, traced to the policy’s named signer, once it ships. If your auditor, insurer, or client will one day ask who approved a specific change, that question is our architecture, on every rung.
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