AI Governance & Control Plane
Prevent runaway cost and instability — before inference happens
Sparse Guard sits in front of LLM and tool workloads. It enforces USL right-sizing, SatConform stability envelopes,
and credits-based budgets — then emits audit receipts and statements.
USL choose minimal required capacity
SatConform block unstable envelopes
Credits cap spend predictably
Receipts audit-grade evidence
How it works
Sparse Guard runs a preflight decision for every request. It decides ALLOW / DOWNGRADE / DENY before you pay for
expensive compute, then reconciles usage after the fact.
USL right-sizing selects the smallest capacity expected to meet the agreement target.
SatConform envelope prevents cost spikes and pathological configurations.
Budget gate enforces credits and optional energy/latency constraints.
Receipts record why the decision happened, with factor/method versions.
/v1/govern → execute → /v1/settle
Who buys it
Built for teams deploying AI into production with real financial, security, and governance constraints.
Finance (CFO): predictable spend, credits ledger, receipts.
Platform (CTO): stable quality, fewer retries/firefights.
Security/Risk: keys, idempotency, abuse resistance.
Sustainability: optional carbon statement for ESG/procurement.
Pricing: credits-only
Simple and procurement-friendly. No seats. No surprise bills. Buy credits, spend credits. Credits map to governed AI usage.
1) Start free
Create an account and tenant.
/console#auth
2) Mint API key
Put Guard in front of your workloads.
/v1/tenants/:id/keys
3) Top up credits
Use Stripe to fund usage.
/v1/stripe/create-intent
Carbon statement (optional)
When you need it, Sparse Guard provides an audit-grade carbon statement per tenant/app/key. It includes energy→CO₂e methodology versioning
and exportable usage records. Carbon is reported as a secondary governance output — not as marketing fluff.
Per-tenant breakdown: kWh and kgCO₂e equivalents alongside usage.
Methodology versioning: factor versions captured in receipts for traceability.
Reduction lever: USL right-sizing + envelope gating reduces unnecessary compute by design.
Trust
Sparse Guard is designed to resist common API exploitation patterns: replay, spoofing, tampering, and misuse of privileged endpoints.
Enterprise controls include tenancy isolation, signed webhooks, idempotency, and refusal of exploit guidance.
Webhook verification and event idempotency.
Key hygiene: prefixes + hashed secrets + revocation.
Audit receipts: immutable reason codes and factor versions.