Manifesto · seven convictions
What we believe.
The convictions the substrate is built on: what a record of an AI agent's actions has to be, where it has to live, and what we will and will not claim about it.
The record is a property of the action.
We build the record as the action happens. Audit by construction, not audit by archaeology.
A record built as a byproduct is already too late. The record has to be the product.
The record comes first. Gates are yours to turn on.
A policy can block a message at the boundary, and a budget scope can refuse a send. Both are off until you set them, and every refusal lands on the record. Keep the controls you already run.
The gate sets the boundary. The record keeps what the system reported.
In your perimeter, on your terms.
Plexus installs and runs in your environment, never hosted in ours.
The record of what your systems did must never leave the boundary that answers for them.
Verification you can run yourself.
A record is only evidence if someone other than its author can confirm it. You confirm it yourself rather than taking our word that it is intact.
Audit integrity cannot depend on vendor assertion. It rests on math you can run yourself.
Every action carries a name.
Plexus attributes every recorded action to the specific agent runtime that executed it, preserving handoff provenance rather than flattening it into a summary.
Autonomy without attribution is deniability with better tooling.
You should be able to operate Plexus without us.
Plexus builds on an open-source coordination core anyone can read, carries zero proprietary runtime tethers, and is designed for your staff to operate independently.
An audit substrate you cannot operate without the vendor is an asset you do not own.
We claim only what we have built.
We describe engineering capability, not regulatory authorization. Where the substrate is built to meet a standard, we specify built-to-meet, never certified. Unreleased capability is labeled roadmap.
Disciplined posture is not a differentiator. It is the prerequisite for everything else on this page.