AI infrastructure

From raw LLM to governed service

Understanding the paradigm shift from AI products to AI-based service infrastructure. Software is no longer just a tool: it delivers outcomes.

The substrate — the context engine

The right context, assembled on demand.

Capture, index across multiple memories, then retrieve exactly what's needed — from each one — to build an agent's context. Live.

Context Engine — knowledge substrate
CaptureIndexRetrieveAssemble
Sources
Indexing
Memories
DocumentsPDF · DOCX · MD
SQL databasePostgres · MySQL
API / WebhookHTTP · n8n
Conversationlive session
Chunk · Embed · Relate
Vectorrel + embeddings
12,840 vectors
Graphontology
3,120 relations
Documentsemi-structured
9,450 documents
Filesobjects
2,210 files
?“ What is our refund policy? ”
Assembled context0 / excerpts
Agent · sourced answer
grounded · cited · traceable
  1. 1Capture
  2. 2Index
  3. 3Retrieve
  4. 4Assemble
Sources
DocumentsPDF · DOCX · MD
SQL databasePostgres · MySQL
API / WebhookHTTP · n8n
Conversationlive session
Chunk · Embed · Relate
Memories
Vectorrel + embeddings
12,840 vectors
Graphontology
3,120 relations
Documentsemi-structured
9,450 documents
Filesobjects
2,210 files
Assembled context
VECvector · sim 0.86 · chunk #1284
GRAPHgraph · 3 neighbors · ontology
DOCdocument · manual v4 · §2.1
Agent · sourced answer
grounded · cited · traceable
CaptureDocuments, SQL and graph databases, APIs, conversations — everything enters through the indexer.
IndexChunked, vectorized, related — routed to the memory that fits it.
RetrieveOne query draws from several memories: nearby vectors, graph neighbors, exact rows.
AssembleThe excerpts form the agent's exact context — every answer traceable to its source.

Retrieval — multi-RAG & consensus

Many methods. One consensus.

Vector, graph, full-text, SQL: every memory is queried in parallel, then the results are crossed. What several methods confirm rises; the noise drops. Every dial is in your hands — or automated for performance.

queryTermination clauses for critical suppliers
auto
vector · precision ↔ recall
Assembled contextHIGH
5 retained4 consensus4/4 methods
  • Amendment 2024-117 · early termination (90-day notice)contract · active
    ×4 consensus
  • Procurement policy · supplier exit conditionsdoc · v4
    ×3 consensus
  • Email thread · notice period with ACME Corpmessage · 03-2024
    ×2 consensus
  • Critical suppliers register · tier 1table · sql
    ×2 consensus
  • Internal newsletter · new suppliers Q3doc · comms
    1 method

Consensus across methods is what makes precision. The threshold tunes vector recall — raise it to cut noise, lower it to widen.

The control surface

No decision behind a curtain.

You stay in control of every AI decision — which model, which knowledge, which database, how it's retrieved, monitored, versioned. Pick a node's model and watch sovereignty react.

model · per node
storage · substrate
Risk levelMEDIUM
ProcessingAnthropic · US cloud
StorageSyrtis · on-prem
GDPRNon-EU transfers
EU AI ActConditional
SovereigntyVendor dependency
SecurityCloud exposure

Knowledge stays in the sovereign substrate; only the processing location changes.

Sovereignty by selection

Point sensitive steps at a local model — data never leaves your perimeter — and reserve hosted frontier models for the steps that deserve them, in the same flow.

“Lovable for pipelines”

Describe the flow in plain language; Syrtis turns it into a buildable Scenario blueprint, constrained to the real vocabulary and the 31 real nodes. An AI service in hours, not months.

Iterate without risk

Every slot and the API are versioned; the Trace node consolidates a run's full history. Quality, drift, cost, CO₂ — observable, audit-ready.

How it's built

A micro-services platform, one control plane.

Three applications, a message bus, a multi-store data layer, and a deterministic DAG executor. One vocabulary, from the UI down to the tables.

Interface

Manager

The graph-first scenario editor, the test chat/console, the request waterfalls and the supervision dashboards.

Source of truth

API

The single source of truth. Persists every entity, enforces access rights, records requests and bridges to Core over the bus.

Execution engine

Core

The brain. Consumes jobs, runs the node DAG, drives the LLM interactions and rendering — and emits the Messages.

The library — 31 atomic nodes

AI / LLM06
  • Converse
  • Reason
  • Extract
  • See
  • Listen
  • Imagine
Knowledge05
  • Ingest
  • Chunk
  • Embed
  • Retrieve
  • Ground
Messages04
  • Emit
  • Seal
  • Stream
  • Archive
Flow06
  • Branch
  • Route
  • Loop
  • Compose
  • Pass
  • Wait
Integration07
  • Code
  • Shell
  • Remote
  • Fetch
  • n8n
  • Query
  • Graph
Session03
  • Pulse
  • Scan
  • Trace

The orchestrator in action

Syrtis captures heterogeneous sources, orchestrates specialized agents, and delivers results into the channels where your teams already work.

Interface

Slack

Data sources

Gmail
SYRTIS AIIntelligent orchestrator

Distribution

Slack

Interface

Slack

Data sources

Gmail
SYRTIS AIIntelligent orchestrator

Distribution

Slack

First principles

Large language models (LLMs) are not products in themselves — they are closer to a commodity, like electricity.

Just as electricity only becomes useful once it is combined with machines that turn it into tangible products (light, washing, computation), LLMs must be embedded in structured applications to deliver real services. This is the dawn of a new era: service-as-software.

Comparison: black-box AI vs. Syrtis

SystemApproachLimitationsSyrtis differentiation
ChatGPTUniversal black-box applicationLimited customization, no traceabilityComposable models + full audit trail
ClaudeGeneral-purpose AI assistantBlack box, compliance risks, opaque tuningDomain-specific governance and compliance
Open-source LLMsCommunity frameworksHeavy engineering effort, fragmented toolingOpen models inside a governed control plane
SyrtisOrchestration & control planeNone of the black-box constraintsModularity, prebuilt modules, enterprise oversight

Introduction & positioning

1. Introduction

Syrtis was born from a simple but demanding question: can we design an autonomous system able to teach, guide and assess learners in real time?

Education is one of the hardest human processes to model. It demands:

2. From education to enterprise AI

The lessons drawn from education were transformative:

3. Founders' vision

Our goal was not to build yet another chatbot. We wanted a virtual teacher able to guide thousands of learners at once, while upholding the same principles as a human teacher — fairness, explainability and adaptability. What started as a way to solve one of AI's hardest problems (autonomous teaching) evolved into an enterprise AI control plane.

4. Why this matters now

Enterprise AI has reached a tipping point. Budgets are shifting from experimentation to deployment, yet most organizations remain stuck in proof-of-concept cycles. Meanwhile, new regulations such as the EU AI Act are raising the stakes around compliance, transparency and sovereignty.

The Syrtis approach

Syrtis reduces the complexity of enterprise AI deployment to a production line for reliable, auditable AI services. The platform combines ingestion, design, testing, deployment and monitoring into one coherent control plane.

5.1 Ingestion & indexing

Outcome: a living enterprise knowledge layer that evolves with the organization.

5.2 Design

Outcome: a custom AI assistant built in hours, not months.

5.3 Testing

5.4 Deployment

5.5 Monitoring

5.6 End-to-end value

By unifying these five stages — Ingestion → Design → Testing → Deployment → Monitoring — Syrtis delivers a CI/CD pipeline for generative AI, a control plane that governs both AI and non-AI, and a reliable path from prototype to production, grounded in European values of sovereignty, transparency and compliance.

Modular architecture

At Syrtis, we believe enterprises should take control of AI, not the other way around. By breaking services down into agents and nodes, teams build workflows like assembling building blocks — dramatically cutting development time while keeping every workflow transparent and auditable.

6.1 Prebuilt modules for every team

6.2 Vibe configuration: AI for non-specialists

6.3 Enterprise oversight & governance

6.4 From modularity to productivity

The platform

Syrtis is the control plane that turns modular building blocks into production-grade, fully traceable AI services — faster than black-box apps, with enterprise governance built in.

Visual scenario builder

Drag-and-drop workflows made of agents and nodes (LLM or classic code) let teams model any synchronous or asynchronous service in minutes.

Agnostic & composable

Syrtis is model-agnostic: OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, Gemini or open-source LLMs, combined with search, RAG, HTTP calls and business rules in a single graph.

Iterate safely

Every change comes with built-in versioning, live experimentation and automated evaluations — a test harness and a citation trail for every iteration.

One-click deploy → monitor

Audit-ready by design

Agents, nodes & scenarios

AI applications in Syrtis are built step by step through scenarios (a full service), composed of agents (specific goals), themselves composed of nodes (LLMs or other functions).

Experimentation & versioning

Oversight & governance

Conclusion

Syrtis turns LLMs from a raw material into governed, modular, enterprise-ready AI services. By combining visual design, modularity, prebuilt modules, safe experimentation and governance, Syrtis lets organizations:

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