AI Control Plane

What is an AI control plane for business?

Daena is an AI control plane for business that centralizes LLM routing, governance enforcement, memory, and audit logging — so a company can deploy AI agents across teams without losing oversight or reproducibility.

Daena v3.7 in production
9 LLM runtimes, hot-swap
3,086+ tests passing
Runs on Google Cloud Run

What a control plane is — and why agents need one

In networking, the control plane decides where traffic goes while the data plane moves it. Applied to AI, the control plane is where you decide which model runs a task, whether an action is allowed, what the agent remembers, and how it is logged. Without one, every team re-invents those decisions and governance drifts.

What Daena centralizes

Four things, in one layer: routing across 9 LLM runtimes; governance via the 10-stage pipeline and four-tier risk policy; memory via the 5-tier NBMF; and audit via an immutable per-action log. Agent code stays simple because policy, memory, and routing live in the plane.

Separating model choice from policy

Because policy is enforced in the control plane, switching the underlying model never relaxes it. The same governance applies whether a task runs on Claude, GPT, Gemini, or a local Ollama model — which is what makes multi-vendor AI safe to operate at a business.

Frequently asked questions

What is an AI control plane?

Borrowing the term from networking, a control plane is the layer that decides and enforces policy while the work runs underneath. An AI control plane centralizes model routing, governance, memory, and audit for a company’s agents, separating those concerns from the agent logic itself.

Why do businesses need an AI control plane?

Once more than one team is shipping AI agents, you get inconsistent policy, scattered logs, and vendor lock-in. A control plane like Daena gives one place to enforce governance, route across models, and produce an audit trail — so oversight does not depend on each team remembering to add it.

How is a control plane different from an agent framework?

A framework helps developers build agent behavior; a control plane governs and operates those agents in production. Daena composes with frameworks: you build with the framework and run, route, and audit through the control plane.

Does the control plane lock me into one LLM?

No. Daena separates model choice from policy and routes across 9 runtimes with hot-swap, so you can change providers without rewriting workflows or relaxing governance.

Is Daena production-ready?

Daena v3.7 runs in production on Google Cloud Run with 3,086+ tests passing, and its architecture is covered by two USPTO provisional patents.