Vance
The Operating System for AI Agents
Route. Govern. Execute.
The industry built brains. Nobody built the body. Vance is the integrated runtime that routes tasks across providers, enforces governance on every action, and manages budget automatically — one system instead of three bolted together.
The problem is not capability anymore.
A company deployed AI agents with dashboards, alerts, and provider spending caps. An agent loop ran unchecked. $47,000 gone in one incident. They had observability. They didn’t have enforcement.
The market split into gateways that route calls and frameworks that run agents. Nobody merged them. Companies bolt three products together and hope.
Agents pick expensive models with no budget awareness
Bad outputs pass through unchallenged
Policies exist on paper, not in code
3+ products bolted together
One system. Six capabilities.
What takes competitors three products to assemble, Vance ships as one runtime.
Cost-Aware Routing
Classifies tasks and routes to the optimal model across 8 providers. Automatic tier degradation at budget thresholds.
Quality Validation
9 trigger types — hallucination, shallow output, format violation — with auto-failover or escalation to a stronger model.
Runtime Enforcement
37 hooks firing on every tool call. Spending guards, credential isolation, fork boundaries, PII protection. Patent-pending.
Autonomous Operations
Daemon, heartbeat monitoring, crash recovery, auto-respawn, standing orders. The agent stays alive.
Budget Management
4-level hierarchy: monthly, daily, session, task. Degrades tiers at 80%, 90%, 95% spend. No more runaway bills.
Persistent Memory
Cross-session knowledge that survives restarts, crashes, and model changes. The agent remembers.
The integrated stack has no funded competitor.
Palo Alto acquired Portkey for the gateway. Microsoft ships three separate products. Okta covers identity only. Nobody has merged routing, enforcement, and agent runtime.
| Routing | Quality | Enforcement | Runtime | Budget | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portkey | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| LiteLLM | ✓ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ✓ |
| Microsoft (3 products) | ✓ | ~ | ✓ | ✓ | ~ |
| Okta / Rutile | ✗ | ✗ | ID only | ✗ | ✗ |
| LangGraph / CrewAI | ✗ | ~ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Vance | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
TaG — Trust and Governance
The open-source governance layer extracted from Vance. Portable hooks, policy engine, local-first routing. The body that makes the brain accountable. 7 patent claims filed.
Spending guards, credential isolation, fork boundaries, PII protection — firing on every tool call.
Works across Claude, GPT, Gemini, Ollama, DeepSeek, Groq — any provider, any model.
7 claims filed. Prior art advantage vs Microsoft — agnostic hooks, not vendor-locked.
Already running. Already shipping.
Vance isn’t a slide deck. It’s 18 services running in production.
FIND IT Sales
A methodology-agnostic sales coaching and grading platform — built entirely by Vance using TaG as the governance core. Deployed inside a $200M vertical SaaS company. Real users. Real feature requests. Real traction.
FindIT is a separate product and brand. It exists because Vance built it — that’s the thesis in action.
finditsales.com →SaaS Intelligence Workflow
Weekly competitive intelligence reports for a vertical SaaS company — fully automated by Vance.
Production Stats
The founder who can’t write code built the cage.
I’m a 53-year-old non-coder with 20 years in automotive software. I built this entire system — router, enforcer, gateway, memory, 18 running services — using AI agents. Then I used it to build and deploy a paying SaaS product inside a $200M vertical SaaS company.
I am the proof that agents need governance. And I am the proof that governed agents build real products.
Jason McCall
Founder & CEO, AIO Machine Built
Charlotte, NC
Open source builds trust. Managed service captures revenue.
TaG
Free governance hooks, policy engine, routing primitives. Community adoption drives brand and inbound pipeline.
Vance
Hosted agent governance. Teams sign up, configure policies, route agents. Usage-based pricing per routed call, per enforced policy, per managed agent.
Self-Hosted
On-prem deployment with support contract. Custom hook development, compliance integration, SLA.
The integrated stack has no funded competitor.
We’re raising a seed round. If you’re building with AI agents, investing in AI infrastructure, or running a team that needs governance — let’s talk.