Mission · AI Lab

Isolated pods. Guards that step in before the action. Receipts after.

A pod is a bounded container with a pinned agent core, deterministic guards wired ahead of every tool call, a physical key for the actions that cost money or destroy, and receipts as first-class objects. We run our own company on it.

In your hands, obviously: the tech on screen. And if your lab grows, In many hands is right there.

We run on it

It is the harness we work in every day, not a feature list written for a launch: the panel, shown tab by tab on laeka.ai, is ours, the receipts on the board are ours, and the reviewer whose refusals are final refuses us too.

Your week with your pod

Monday

Your agent proposes a deploy. The card sits in the queue with its script, its backup taken before, its scope. It waits for the touch; it cannot touch the key itself.

Tuesday

The model emits a destructive command. The guard refuses before execution, exit 2, the refusal is journaled, the agent gets a clear ⛔ instead of a polite apology after the damage.

Wednesday

You rotate a provider key. The vault opens for that one action; nothing gets written in clear.

Sunday night

A pod is rebuilt from last night's copy. The restore result lands on the panel, dated.

Any day

You read the journal: agents in a pod cannot whisper, their coordination is readable by design.

Example receipt
ran
rm -rf emitted by the model against a witness directory
guard
refused before execution · exit 2 · deny journaled
EXIT=BLOCKED
Example receipt
ran
deploy prepared by the agent
key
waited in queue · authorized by physical touch
EXIT=OK
Example receipt
ran
weekly restore test from last night's copy
detail
database, schema, real data
EXIT=OK

Example receipts, so you see the shape. The first one mirrors a real bench we run on our own guards; on a real pod, every receipt is a real event, and EXIT=FAIL stays on the board.

The layers, in short

Sixteen named layers today, honest statuses: seven show on a panel, four work out of sight, and five more are the newest, each with its own receipt. Key (physical key beyond a capped budget, and on destruction), Governor (class decides what passes alone), Canary Camp (hourly self-mark with a probe that must fail), Vault (sealed secrets, except two declared kinds of keys that stay on the pod), Restore (nightly copy, weekly proven rebuild), Panel (ours today), Warden (isolated pods, public pages checked, sensitive numbers masked before the AI provider), Lenses and Judge (observation, journal only), Self Repair (thin, and said so), Loop (every error becomes a guard), Library Shield (packages only through the pod's own mirror, npm only), Airlock (after an untrusted read, the way out is cut and any send waits for a person), Readback (when switched on, the approver says in their own words what an authorization allows), Black Box (passive audit of the journal from outside the pod; thin, and said so), Backstage (daily scan of agent files, hooks, MCP servers, permissions and secrets). First public form of the spec at the Laeka Integrity Lab.

Pricing

Your pod: $99 a month. Flat, tokens included, with a real person for technical support.

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