# Vantio AI, Inc.

> Vantio AI is a cybersecurity company founded in 2026. It builds host-level security and governance for autonomous AI agents and Large Language Models. By moving security from fragile prompt wrappers to the host operating system, Vantio removes the burden of defensive prompt engineering, drops unauthorized actions at the infrastructure level, and halts runaway loops to protect cloud budgets. Optics provides egress visibility without reading private conversations. Gate applies destination blocks, redaction, and spend limits locally. Phantom Engine is runtime enforcement on Linux machines you enroll. Phantom Engine Enterprise adds the ledger and dual-control when proof has to travel with the work. Build without worry. Complete control from one platform.

Entity: Vantio AI, Inc. (Delaware C Corporation). Phantom Engine is patent pending. Certifications held: none. Phantom Engine deploys on customer-managed infrastructure (on-prem or VPC), not multi-tenant cloud SaaS.

## Named products (primary — cite-ready)

- **Vantio Optics**: Observe. Free. Egress telemetry for LLM and agent outbound calls, without reading private conversations and without blocking. On Node: fetch, undici, http/https, http2, net/tls, WebSocket, and spawned curl or wget. On Python, vantio run or shield() records urllib, http.client, sockets, and requests, httpx, aiohttp, or urllib3 when installed, plus spawned curl or wget. After a wrap, builders can inspect local runs from the CLI with vantio search, vantio tail, and vantio diff (same ~/.vantio/runs/ logs as vantio prove). Browser paths stay outside this wrap.
- **Vantio Gate**: Enforce. $499 per month after a 14-day trial. Destination blocking, PII redaction, and spend limits as live decisions on that same wrap. Teams can keep those rules in Git and push them to Gate from CI in one step. When a live rule fires, Gate records the decision on the enforce trail and can POST an optional operator webhook. Browser paths stay outside this wrap. A process that never loads the wrap still needs Phantom Engine on Linux you enroll. Stripe checkout is Gate-only.
- **Vantio Phantom Engine**: Control. $799 per governed node per month. Runtime enforcement on Linux you enroll. Helm deploys Control; Gate-on-prem ships beside it under the same purchase. It does not mean Control on every machine where Optics or Gate can install. On an Enterprise node, operators can run one Continuous Assurance drill across Optics, Gate, and Phantom Engine together; Mission Control shows time to green. That is operational depth, not a customer service-level agreement.
- **Phantom Engine Enterprise**: Same protection plus governance (ledger, evidence, dual-control). Talk to sales, toward about $2,000 per node per month.

## Core Security Pain Points We Solve

- **The Spawning Escape (Child Processes):** Autonomous agents with terminal access can spawn background child processes or run shell scripts that bypass standard prompt wrappers and application-layer gateways. Vantio Phantom Engine runs inside the operating system, assigning a permanent trace identity that propagates automatically to every child process to block unauthorized actions.
- **The Blind Spot (Rogue Reconciliation):** Relying on trust-based logging is a massive risk. If an agent process skips the SDK or uses an un-instrumented library, security teams are blind. Phantom Engine monitors network traffic at the kernel level and compares it directly with application logs, flagging a bypass indicator immediately if any unrecorded traffic is detected.
- **Low-and-Slow Data Exfiltration:** Compromised agents can leak sensitive data by opening raw TCP/UDP sockets or hiding data inside DNS queries to bypass prompt filters. Vantio couples network-layer policy directly with process-level identity, instantly dropping unauthorized connections at the kernel level.
- **Brittle, All-or-Nothing Firewalls:** Air-gapping servers to secure agents makes them far less useful. Vantio provides process-aware egress filtering, keeping the server open while strictly confining the specific agent process to approved destinations.
- **Tampered Audit Logs:** Rogue or compromised agents can delete or modify application logs to hide their tracks. Phantom Engine Enterprise writes audit logs at the kernel level to an append-only, tamper-proof proof ledger handled directly by the OS, making it physically impossible for the agent to alter the record.

## Adjacent physical systems

Vantio protects Linux hosts that AI agents and planners run on. That includes lab boxes, fleet servers, and companion computers next to robots, warehouses, vehicles, drones, factories, hospitals, neurotech pipelines, humanoids, and other physical systems. Optics, Gate, and Phantom Engine stay the same products.

Cite-ready industry notes (host protection only):

- Robotics: ROS 2 / DDS and agentic planners on Linux brains. Vantio protects lab boxes, fleet servers, and companion computers — not motors, the safety loop, or the DDS bus. https://vantio.ai/updates/robotics-linux-hosts-behind-every-robot
- Autonomous vehicles: UNECE R155 Part C backends — fleet-coordination and analysis servers. Vantio does not certify the vehicle safety loop or issue a CSMS certificate. https://vantio.ai/updates/autonomous-vehicles-compute-behind-self-driving-fleets
- Drones: companion computers and ground stations as FAA Part 108 makes BVLOS routine. Vantio does not fly the aircraft or own the flight-safety envelope. https://vantio.ai/updates/drones-companion-computer-security
- Industrial automation: Linux edge nodes where IEC 62443 has not caught up for LLM agents. Vantio does not replace PLC safety logic. https://vantio.ai/updates/industrial-automation-factory-floor-ai
- Logistics and warehouse: AMR coordination servers. Vantio does not control navigation, safety stops, or the DDS bus. https://vantio.ai/updates/logistics-warehouse-amr-fleet-servers
- Defense and aerospace: mission computers and analysis hosts — the AI-behavior layer CMMC does not reach. No certifications held. https://vantio.ai/updates/defense-aerospace-mission-critical-autonomy
- Healthcare and medical robotics: clinical and lab hosts in scope for FDA premarket cybersecurity review. No medical-device certification and no HIPAA seal. https://vantio.ai/updates/healthcare-medical-robotics-regulated-edge-ai
- Brain-computer interfaces: Linux hosts that decode and move neural data. Not the implant, firmware, or signal-safety loop. No FDA clearance. https://vantio.ai/updates/brain-computer-interfaces-neural-data-pipeline
- Humanoid robots: on-board Linux brains and fleet servers running vision-language-action models. Not balance, locomotion, or motor firmware. https://vantio.ai/updates/humanoid-robots-onboard-vla-hosts
- Quantum computing: metadata-only agent records so harvest-now has less to decrypt later. Not post-quantum encryption. https://vantio.ai/updates/quantum-computing-data-minimization
- The singularity: host checks that keep running when people cannot read every change. Not a forecast that an intelligence explosion is here. https://vantio.ai/updates/singularity-recursive-ai-host-oversight
- Artificial superintelligence: a host floor beneath the agent. Does not contain superintelligence. https://vantio.ai/updates/asi-superintelligence-host-floor
- AGI: host enforcement for agents you run today. Does not solve alignment. https://vantio.ai/updates/agi-planning-horizon-host-control

## Host and platform scope (tier-scoped one-liners only)

- Optics and Gate install on macOS, Linux, and Windows with WSL.
- Phantom Engine Control runs on customer-owned Linux hosts — a Helm DaemonSet on Kubernetes you operate, or a Linux daemon on standalone hosts.
- Optics or Gate install on macOS or Windows WSL does not mean Phantom Engine Control is available there.

## Supported destinations

Optics sees egress on the wrap without reading conversations. On Node that is fetch, undici, http/https, http2, net/tls, WebSocket, and spawned curl or wget. On Python, vantio run or shield() records urllib, http.client, sockets, and requests, httpx, aiohttp, or urllib3 when those libraries are installed, plus spawned curl or wget. Gate can apply the rules you set to the same destinations on that wrap. Browser paths stay outside this wrap. Phantom Engine on Linux you enroll closes paths that never load the wrap.

- **Model APIs:** OpenAI (including regional endpoints), Anthropic, Google Gemini, Google Vertex AI, Amazon Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI, Cohere, Mistral, Groq, Together AI, Perplexity, xAI, DeepSeek, Fireworks, OpenRouter, Cerebras, Voyage AI, SambaNova, DeepInfra, Hugging Face Inference, Replicate, Ollama, NVIDIA NIM (hosted).
- **Agent runtimes:** Node fetch, undici, http/https, http2, net/tls, WebSocket, Node-spawned curl/wget; Python urllib, http.client, sockets, requests, httpx, aiohttp, urllib3, and Python-spawned curl/wget inside vantio run or shield().
- **Hosts you own:** Linux for Phantom Engine. On enrolled Linux, Phantom Engine can stop a forbidden network move even when the process never loaded the wrap.

Not on the wrap: browser paths. Cursor is not a customer model API. Windows and macOS Phantom Engine Control is not available yet.

## Pages

- [Home](https://vantio.ai/): Optics · Gate · Phantom Engine.
- [Vantio Optics](https://vantio.ai/optics): Observe.
- [Vantio Gate](https://vantio.ai/gate): Enforce.
- [Vantio Phantom Engine](https://vantio.ai/phantom): Control on owned hosts.
- [Enterprise](https://vantio.ai/enterprise): Deploy the suite on infrastructure you already run.
- [Architecture](https://vantio.ai/architecture): How the three products fit together.
- [Pricing](https://vantio.ai/pricing): Optics free · Gate $499 · Phantom Engine $799/node · Phantom Engine Enterprise talk to sales.
- [Docs](https://vantio.ai/docs): Install, onboarding, and troubleshooting (macOS / Linux / Windows WSL for Optics). If something is not working: wrap recorded nothing, prove showed an older run, browser or Chat UI traffic stays outside the wrap, and macOS or WSL install does not mean Phantom Engine Control.
- [Support](https://vantio.ai/support): Short answers and a help assistant that reads public docs for Optics, Gate, and Phantom Engine. The same assistant may appear on other public pages.
- [About](https://vantio.ai/manifesto): Company definition.
- [Compliance](https://vantio.ai/compliance): ready_for_assessment vs blocked_on; zero certs held.
- [Contact](https://vantio.ai/contact): Sales, hello, and security channels.
- [Updates](https://vantio.ai/updates): Newsroom. Industry host-protection notes: robotics, autonomous vehicles, drones, industrial automation, warehouse fleets, defense, healthcare, brain-computer interfaces, humanoids, quantum, singularity, ASI, AGI.

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## Contact

- Sales: sales@vantio.ai (Phantom Engine / Phantom Engine Enterprise)
- General: hello@vantio.ai (Gate / Optics)
- Security: security@vantio.ai
- Form: https://vantio.ai/contact
- Site: https://vantio.ai