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Atlas The Governance Layer for Enterprise AI.

Users, agents, and data sources — all governed through a single policy engine. Atlas controls who accesses what, classifies every document on ingest, and enforces compliance across your entire AI stack in real time.

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The challenge

Without governance, AI creates risk.

Deploying AI against sensitive data without a governance layer exposes organizations to risks that existing security tools were not built to address.

Risk 01Uncontrolled data access

AI models query across entire datasets without respecting organizational access boundaries or data classification.

Risk 02Compliance violations

Regulated data flows through inference pipelines with no audit trail, no policy checks, and no proof of compliance.

Risk 03No visibility

Organizations cannot see what data models accessed, what was returned, or how inferences were constructed.

Risk 04External data exposure

Cloud-hosted AI services require data to leave the organization, breaking sovereignty and custody requirements.

Atlas solves this by introducing a governed intelligence layer between models and enterprise data — controlling access, enforcing policy, and logging every interaction.

How it works

Atlas sits between your models and your data.

Instead of letting models access raw data directly, Atlas governs how information flows through the AI system.

Inference layer
AI ModelsvLLM · TGI · Triton · llama.cpp
governed requests ↓   scoped context ↑
Governance layer
AtlasPolicy + Classification + Audit
approved collections only ↓   classified metadata ↑
Storage layer
Enterprise DataStarfish · S3 · DBs · filesystems
01Data classification

Scans and labels datasets by compliance category at ingestion. Classification metadata follows data through the entire pipeline.

02Retrieval pipelines

Orchestrates governed RAG pipelines that enforce access boundaries on every query. Denied collections are excluded before vector search executes.

03Policy enforcement

Every data request is evaluated against organizational policies — user identity, data classification, and operation scope — before execution.

04AI observability

Emits immutable audit events at every stage: query receipt, retrieval, inference, and response delivery. Complete trail for compliance and forensics.

Classification

Data Classification Engine.

Atlas scans datasets at ingestion and identifies compliance signals across categories. Organizations understand where regulated data exists before AI systems interact with it.

Compliance frameworks · detected and enforced across all governed collections
GGDPREU General Data Protection Regulation
CCPRACalifornia Privacy Rights Act
HHIPAAHealth Insurance Portability
PPCIPayment Card Industry DSS
CCUIControlled Unclassified Info
PPIIPersonally Identifiable Info
Classification pipeline

Every document passes through classification before entering the governed data layer.

01

Ingest

Data enters the system.

02

Scan

Classification engine analyzes content.

03

Tag

Compliance labels attached as metadata.

04

Enforce

Policy engine uses tags at query time.

Classification results are stored as metadata and referenced by the policy engine during query evaluation. Every collection carries its compliance profile forward through the entire pipeline.

Retrieval governance

RAG Governance.

Atlas orchestrates retrieval pipelines and ensures models only access approved collections. Every query is scoped, evaluated, and logged before documents reach the model context.

— request— approved collection- - excluded by policy
01User identity

Authenticated principal and associated credentials determine base access level. Token validated against configured IdP before any query executes.

02Organizational roles

Role-based policies restrict retrieval scope to authorized departments and teams. Group membership evaluated via IdP claims at query time.

03Data classification

Compliance labels on collections are evaluated against the requesting context. A user without PCI clearance cannot retrieve from PCI-tagged collections.

04Project context

Queries are scoped to specific projects, limiting lateral data access across boundaries. No fallback to broader scope when project filtering is active.

Policy enforcement

Policy Engine.

Define declarative policies governing how AI interacts with enterprise data. Policies are evaluated at query time and enforced before any data is returned.

Policies control · evaluated on every request, no caching of decisions
Who can query specific collections

Principals and roles are bound to collection-level permissions. No implicit access.

What data models can access

Model invocations are restricted to pre-approved data scopes per zone.

How sensitive data is processed

Processing rules enforce redaction, masking, or denial based on classification tags.

atlas-policy.hcl
policy "restrict-pii-access" {  scope = "collections:financial-records"   enforce {    require_role    = ["compliance-officer", "senior-analyst"]    require_project = true    classification  = ["PII", "PCI"]    action          = "allow-with-redaction"  }   audit {    emit_event  = true    log_level   = "detailed"    retain_days = 2555  }}
declarative · versioned · evaluated per request
Observability

Every interaction is recorded.

Atlas emits structured audit events at each stage of the pipeline, producing a complete trail of AI activity.

step / 1
Query

The original request, including principal identity, timestamp, and target collection scope.

step / 2
Retrieved documents

Every document returned by the retrieval pipeline, with source collection and classification metadata.

step / 3
Model invocation

The model endpoint called, token count, latency, and parameters used for inference.

step / 4
Response generation

The generated output, including any redactions applied and policy evaluations triggered.

Events are stored in append-only, tamper-evident logs. Queryable for compliance reporting, incident investigation, and operational analysis. Exportable as JSON-lines or CEF to external SIEM systems.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure & Deployment.

Atlas integrates with modern AI infrastructure and deploys entirely within your environment. Policy enforcement applies at every integration boundary.

Integrations
LLM inferencevLLM · TGI · Triton · llama.cpp
Embedding pipelinesGoverned vectorization with metadata preservation
Vector databasesQdrant · Milvus · Weaviate · pgvector
Agent frameworksLangChain · LlamaIndex · custom agents
Storage systemsS3-compatible · NFS · HDFS · Ceph
Identity providersLDAP · SAML · OIDC · Kerberos
Deployment targets
Target 01On-premisesBare metal and VMware deployments with full hardware control.
Target 02Private cloudOpenStack, private VPC, managed Kubernetes clusters.
Target 03HPC clustersSlurm-managed GPU clusters and research compute grids.
Target 04Air-gappedFully disconnected environments with no external network path.
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Deploy Atlas

Deploy governed AI infrastructure.

Talk to the Aberspace engineering team about deploying Atlas in your environment.