Compare
How it compares, and how it fits with what you have.
Most tools for AI agents do one part of the job well. This one is built so a regulated team can show what ran.
The landscape
Four kinds of tools, four different jobs.
Here is what each kind is built for, in plain words.
A fast computer per agent
Built to run code quickly and at huge scale, usually in the vendor's cloud.
A watcher on the side
They find agents, score their risk and filter what they say, while the agents run somewhere else.
Retries in your code
They resume steps in your own application, so work survives a failure.
Your own glue
Your own servers, network rules and logs, held together by your team.
Side by side
Side by side.
Read the proof rows first: they show who can hand an auditor proof to check for themselves.
| What you get | Agent sandboxes | AI security tools | Workflow engines | Do it yourself | VOLENT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runs the agents | Yes | No | partial | Yes | Yes |
| Runs on your own servers, even offline | partial | partial | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| One door for everything that leaves | partial | partial | No | partial | Yes |
| A crash does not repeat an action | No | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Signed proof of what started and where it connected | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Your auditor checks it without trusting the vendor | No | No | No | partial | Yes |
| Mature, with certifications | Yes | Yes | Yes | depends | Not yet — pre-1.0 |
| Start-up time | tens of ms | not applicable | not applicable | varies | about 3.5 s cold start |
Categories, not products. Products vary and change. These ratings are the authors' reading, not a benchmark. Snapshot and warm-pool products quote start-up in tens of ms on modern servers; ours is a cold start of a whole sealed system on 2013 hardware.
Measured 2026-10-14 on the image built from tag phase-7, median of 3 runs where run three times, 2013 Intel i7-4770 under KVM.
Fits in
Use them together.
You do not have to pick one. The sealed room is where your other tools can do their jobs.
Keep your agent framework
It is not an agent framework. It runs, limits and records agents. It does not decide what they should do.
Keep your models
Use open-weight models that you run yourself, or hosted models through places you approve. Every model call passes the same door.
Keep your security tools
A tool that watches what agents say still works. The room adds the hard limit on what leaves, and the proof.
Honest fit
When it is the right choice, and when it is not.
If you need proof for an auditor, it fits. If you need millions of short jobs as fast as possible, a sandbox fits better.
A good fit
- Someone will ask for proof: an auditor, a regulator or a customer's risk team.
- Agents take real actions: they move money, change records or send messages.
- It must run on your own machines, in your cloud account or on a closed network.
Not the right tool
- Huge numbers of short jobs where start-up speed is all that counts.
- You need a certified product today. It is pre-1.0, with no certifications yet.
- You need data hidden from the host operator. That is not built yet.
Not sure where it fits in your stack?
Book 30 minutes. Bring the tools you use today, and we will show where the room fits.