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Vantio is infrastructure-level security for autonomous AI.

Who Vantio is

Vantio AI is a Pittsburgh-based cybersecurity company founded in 2026. We build infrastructure-level security and governance for autonomous AI agents and large language models, using operating-system and host controls rather than software-only application layers.

Vantio provides infrastructure-level enforcement for autonomous AI, keeping agent actions inside the boundaries an organization defines.

Vantio AI, Inc. is a Delaware C Corporation founded in 2026.

Present

Available today

These are the three products a team can start with today. Gate is not a current product.

Observe

Vantio Optics

Free, forever

Optics is Vantio’s free observability product for teams beginning to understand autonomous-agent activity. It shows where supported agents connect and provides process and trace context without storing prompts or completions. Optics makes activity visible. It does not claim to enforce paths it cannot control.

Observe · Enforce · Control

Vantio Phantom Engine

Contact Vantio

Phantom Engine is the infrastructure enforcement layer for autonomous AI. It observes agent activity, enforces policy on supported application paths, and maintains host-level authority on enrolled Linux infrastructure when application controls are bypassed. A node is one enrolled Linux worker node, virtual machine, or host running Phantom Engine, counted during each billing period. It is not a user seat or a general endpoint license.

Govern

Vantio Enterprise

Contact Vantio

Phantom Engine answers what an agent is allowed to do. Vantio Enterprise governs who may authorize that authority and preserves evidence of what happened. Vantio Enterprise is optional. It does not create a certification by itself.

Roadmap

Not yet available

These are not live products today.

  • Windows and macOS host control are not available. Phantom Engine host protection is for enrolled Linux.
  • Certifications such as SOC 2, ISO 42001, and FedRAMP are not held. We map evidence to those programs. That is not the same as holding a certification.
  • An independent install on infrastructure Vantio does not operate is still open, not passed. Company-operated evidence does not replace that walk.
  • Robotics, drone, industrial, and vehicle protection are not shipped products. Vantio does not control motors, flight, or braking.
  • Gate is not a current SKU. Enforce is a technical plane inside Phantom Engine. Do not treat Gate as a product you can buy today.
  • Vantio does not claim universal endpoint protection, protection of machines that have not been enrolled, or the ability to reverse an action that has already completed outside the host.

Coverage detail lives on Architecture and Docs.

How we use this on our own hosts

Optics is free and self-serve on GitHub.

Vantio-operated environment

We run Optics and Phantom Engine on the agent infrastructure we operate, and we publish clearly labeled operational evidence. That shows how we use the system.

Optics
Attached to the agent processes we run
Enforce
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

This is evidence from infrastructure Vantio operates. 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.

Read the full evidence record

Vantio protects the Linux hosts that agents and planners run on, including lab boxes and fleet servers next to physical systems. It does not own motors, safety loops, or clinical or vehicle certification. Formal certifications and authorizations remain a separate program. Detail lives on Compliance.

Solutions

How we design Vantio

These are the design principles we use when we build Vantio. They describe how we work. They are not a guarantee of every deployment.

  • An agent cannot approve its own authority expansion.
  • Unknown state is never shown as protected.
  • Application controls stay distinct from host Control.
  • Optics does not retain prompts or completions.
  • Evidence is exportable.
  • Customers can stop, verify, recover, and leave.
  • Certifications are separate from product evidence.

Product and install questions: hello@vantio.ai. Phantom Engine and Enterprise: sales@vantio.ai. Vulnerability reports: security@vantio.ai.

Common questions

What is Vantio?
Vantio AI is a Pittsburgh-based cybersecurity company founded in 2026. We build infrastructure-level security and governance for autonomous AI agents and large language models, using operating-system and host controls rather than software-only application layers. Vantio provides infrastructure-level enforcement for autonomous AI, keeping agent actions inside the boundaries an organization defines.
What Vantio products are available today?
Three products are available today. Optics is free forever and shows supported AI-agent activity without storing prompts or completions; it does not block. For Phantom Engine, contact Vantio. It observes agent activity, enforces policy on supported application paths, and maintains host-level authority on enrolled Linux. Vantio Enterprise is optional governance and evidence on Phantom Engine. Contact Vantio.
What is not yet available from Vantio?
Windows and macOS host control are not available. Certifications such as SOC 2, ISO 42001, and FedRAMP are not held. An independent install on infrastructure Vantio does not operate is still open, not passed. Robotics, drone, industrial, and vehicle protection are not shipped products. Gate is not a current SKU. Enforce is a technical plane inside Phantom Engine. Vantio does not claim universal endpoint protection.