Autonomous agents should be open source.
We're building Appstrate because the future of software runs agents, and that future should belong to the people who ship — not to the vendors who rent them.
Software is going to be run by agents. Not the copilots that suggest code, not the chatbots that answer questions — agents that receive goals and complete them. Autonomously. At scale.
If that future is built on closed platforms, the next generation of software runs on someone else's terms. That's not acceptable. We've seen what happens when critical infrastructure becomes a vendor lock-in. We're not doing it again.
So we're building the agent platform we'd want to use. Apache 2.0. Self-host in 2 minutes. Bring your own models. Run offline. No phone home. No feature gates. No proprietary formats. Full data portability by the API.
We make money on Cloud and Enterprise — managed deployment, premium support, compliance packages. The core platform stays open because it has to.
Sovereign by design isn't a marketing line. It's a technical property. Your infrastructure, your models, your customers' data — yours to control, yours to audit, yours to own.
Ship agents you can trust with the things that matter.
The bolt and the brackets.
The bolt is the agent — power, action, autonomy. The thing that reasons and decides and reaches into the world.
The brackets are the sandbox — the isolation around it. The Docker container, the sidecar proxy, the permission boundary, the audit log. The reason you can run an autonomous agent on real data without losing sleep.
[ power, contained ].
What we commit to
Apache 2.0 core, forever
The core platform will never change license. Period.
No feature gates in OSS
Everything in the code runs without a cloud account.
Full data portability
Every entity exportable via API. No lock-in, ever.
Build in the open
Public roadmap, public issues, public RFCs, public changelog.