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Infrastructure
for the Web4 Era

The fully Open Source project enabling autonomous economies.

For Developers For Enterprise
Stack Agnostic Development
Unified Data Planes
Strictly Defined Runtimes

The Nervous System of Your Entire Network

Open Prem allow your applications to speak the same language, regardless of their stacks, interfaces, or even environments. This replaces middleware’s functionality and creates one unified plane for granular control over your data and infrastructure without the overhead.

Now with rise of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, middleware has created even bigger problems within large networks.

The Problem

Software is Failing at Scale.

For decades, engineering distributed systems meant accepting painful trade-offs. Now, the explosive rise of AI is pushing even small networks to their limits. Modern software simply wasn’t built for the demands of the AI era.

Centralized middleware

Centralized Approaches

Every byte routes through a central choke-point. This creates a single point of failure, massive latency, and a bottleneck that prevents true scalability.

  • BenefitsSimplified central management & granular controls.
  • DownsideSingle point of failure and massive latency bottlenecks.
    • Point-to-point sprawl

    Decentralized Approaches

    Direct connections avoid the hub but multiply communication points exponentially. This leads to unmanageable technical debt and fragile, impossible-to-audit architectures.

  • BenefitsHigh speed, no central bottlenecks, development freedom.
  • DownsideExponential complexity and unmanageable at scale.
    • The Solution

    The Infrastructure Designed for a New Era

    Open Prem began when a team of researchers grew tired of fighting a losing battle against technical debt. They set out to find a permanent solution; a groundbreaking architecture and interconnect technology built on foundational research. By uniting your entire infrastructure over a single, centrally distributed plane, Open Prem ensures your systems stay connected, scalable, and permanently clear of most constraints from the past.

    With OpenPrem

    The Best of Both Models

    Applications communicate peer-to-peer while you retain central governance. This creates an opportunity to leverage your systems in ways never before possible.

    • Scale Peer-to-peer data flow. No more middleware.
    • Management One policy, one identity, one audit log. Owned by your organization.
    • Security Strictly defined access without compromising performance.
    Security model

    Your Network Comes Alive!

    Your network truly comes to life when communication barriers fall. By solving data friction, different applications from competing vendors finally work together in a unified format. This seamless integration transforms your standalone tools into a responsive nervous system that synchronizes your entire operation.

    Benefits
    1. 01

      Reduced Development Times

    2. 02

      Extend System Lifetime

    3. 03

      Reusable Applications

    4. 04

      Unified Data Handling

    5. 05

      Distributed Scaling

    • Reduce Technical Debt

      Teams now spend less time and resources on maintaining and playing catch up with systems saving millions of dollars in IT and software spend.

    • Increase Operational Efficiency

      Operations are built to be systemic clearing most inefficiencies inside of the enterprise creating not only cost savings, but streamline production.

    • Strictly Defined Oversight

      Security and compliance teams can now have full oversight into each network granting granular access to applications, humans, and even agents.

    How it works

    Three Simple Steps.
    One Unified Deployment.

    Open Prem sits on-top of your applications and gives each one a standard way to expose capabilities. Systems stay where they are, speaking the way they already speak. Your data stays on your terms.

    01

    Create Access Points

    Define your applications abilities into an infrastructure to gain full access to the applications capabilities. This can be through backend functions, APIs, or even RPA for legacy deployments.

    02

    Deploy Infrastructure

    Define how your environments will behave while in operation. This will allow you to give teams sovereignty over their projects and gain oversight on each operation.

    03

    Define Sessions

    Define network behavior and utilize the Simple Orchestration Language (SOL) to program the entire network around your policies giving you granular controls to secure your entire network.

    Read the full architecture, with code samples

    Open Source Commitment

    Openly Building the Future

    We believe in the power of open collaboration to solve the most pressing challenges in software.

    Fully Open Source

    The entire project is fully Open Source, giving you full freedom to develop to your projects without any limitations whatsoever. We will never comprise the product or its licensing via our Licensing Commitment making sure anything we release is for the greater good.

    Publishing Research

    All of our research will be published publicly making sure our work goes into creating a safe and sustainable future for software and artificial intelligence system alike. Our goal is to accelerate research around solving efficiencies inside of software system to enable Web4.

    Collaboration Efforts

    We view collaboration to be necessary to maintaining the project and we encourage contributions from the community. We seek guidance from our design partners in developing the project further into an infrastructure that everyone can rely on.

    Leverage the Frontier
    Inside Your Operations

    Work with a team at the frontier of distributed systems and AI research.

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