Designed for enterprise control.
IIOS is built to satisfy IT, data, and security leaders. It reasons across your systems while your data stays under your control — with the deployment, permissions, and governance your organization requires.
Security protects your data.
Atlas also protects your judgment.
Atlas is designed to keep meaningful distinctions between what was observed, what a model inferred, what a person judged, and what the organization decided — so intelligence keeps its history.
Source evidence
What was actually observed, with its origin retained.
AI inference
What a model concluded from that evidence — marked as such.
Human judgment
What a person weighed and decided to trust.
Organizational decision
What the institution committed to, and why.
Important intelligence is designed to retain its provenance. Changing an AI model should not silently redefine what an organization knows, believes or has decided.
Your data stays yours
IIOS does not require customers to surrender ownership of operational data. Customer data remains under customer control — the platform reads and reasons over it without taking custody of your systems of record.
IIOS is designed to minimize data replication. Wherever practical, it reasons across customer-controlled data sources rather than creating duplicate enterprise data stores.
IIOS does not need to own every dataset. It can read, reason across, and structure knowledge while you retain control of the underlying data.
Atlas remembers what matters — not everything it reads.
If Atlas understands your organization this deeply, the natural question is what it actually keeps. The answer is an architectural choice: reason across what you authorize, and retain only what your intelligence and organizational memory require.
Three different things
Access ≠ Processing ≠ Retention
Access
You authorize Atlas to reach a source. Being permitted to reach information is not the same as storing it.
Processing
To reason over an email, document or CRM record, Atlas may need to read its contents for that task.
Retention
What Atlas keeps afterwards is a separate decision — designed around what your authorized intelligence actually needs.
Your information · customer-controlled
- Documents
- CRM
- Databases
- Local files
- Licensed data
Underlying content can remain in your existing systems, wherever the architecture and deployment permit.
Authorized processing
Atlas reasons over what you permit.
Processing information to perform a task does not inherently require keeping another permanent copy of it.
Atlas remembers what matters
- Source & provenance
- Relevant context
- Relationships
- Signals
- Decisions
- Outcomes
- Organizational memory
Understand more. Hold only what is necessary.
Your systems stay the place your information lives. Atlas maintains the intelligence your organization creates from it.
Information does not have to become Atlas-owned data in order to take part in Atlas reasoning. Action is recommended by Atlas and authorized by your people.
Minimum necessary knowledge
Retain what is necessary to provide the intelligence and organizational memory you've authorized — rather than accumulating information simply because it is available.
What Atlas may retain includes
- Source references
- Provenance
- Timestamps
- Entities & relationships
- Permissions & rights
- Signals
- Context
- Decisions
- Outcomes
- Other derived intelligence
Not an exhaustive list. What is retained depends on the source, its rights, the deployment and your configuration — and some capabilities or deployments do require storing or caching source content.
Your information remains your information. Your private information does not become another customer's intelligence.
Atlas operates according to your permissions and information rights. Customer-private information and customer-specific intelligence are isolated from other customers.
Deploy where your policies require
Deployment answers two questions: where Atlas runs, and who controls the customer-specific intelligence environment. What is available today, what is configured per engagement, and what remains architectural direction is marked explicitly below.
Where Atlas runs
From a fully managed cloud to private, customer-controlled infrastructure.
Who controls the intelligence environment
Atlas is not designed to require permanent dependence on Atlas as the custodian of your accumulated intelligence.
Atlas Cloud
Fully managed, tenant-isolated platform — the fastest path to first value, with your data read through governed access rather than taken into custody.
Atlas Private Node
A dedicated, single-organization environment provisioned and scoped for you, with tighter isolation of your intelligence environment.
Atlas Private Enterprise
Private, customer-controlled infrastructure scoped to your requirements through an implementation engagement.
Customer cloud & disconnected operation
Deployment into your own cloud account (AWS, Azure, GCP), customer-managed keys, and fully disconnected / air-gapped operation are directions we design toward and scope per engagement — not universal, self-serve options today.
Connect on your terms
IIOS can reach data through whichever mechanism your security team approves — always governed, always auditable.
APIs
Read through governed, read-only API connections to your systems of record.
Customer-controlled databases
Reason over replicas or views you provision and control, without taking custody of source data.
Secure file exchange
Structured import through encrypted, permissioned exchange for regulated environments.
Customer-provisioned environments
Deploy the reasoning layer beside your data in an environment you own and administer.
Reasoning sits above your data — it does not absorb it
IIOS adds a governed reasoning layer on top of the systems you already own. Underlying data can stay in your systems of record; the platform reads through approved, auditable access and returns evidence-linked reasoning to the people who decide.
Studios & Applications
Role-based reasoning environments. Every output is permissioned and evidence-linked.
IIOS Reasoning Layer
Knowledge Fabrics, Industrial Graph, and the Reasoning Engine — governed by RBAC, provenance, and audit.
Governed, Auditable Access
Read-only APIs, customer-controlled replicas, or secure exchange — approved by your security team.
Your Systems of Record
ERP, CRM, PLM, warehouses, and documents. You remain the owner and system of record.
The dashed boundary is the trust line: nothing crosses it without access your security team has explicitly approved, and everything that does is logged.
Different information. Different rights.
Atlas does not treat every piece of information as if it carried identical rights — and is designed to preserve those distinctions.
Transforming information into a signal or conclusion does not erase the rights or restrictions attached to where it came from.
Public / external
Information Atlas is lawfully permitted to acquire from the external world.
Stays traceable to its provenance and rights
Licensed
Commercial information you have rights to use, subject to the provider’s terms.
Remains governed by the applicable license
Customer-private
Documents, email, CRM, internal research, customer information, decisions and other proprietary knowledge.
Yours — never shared Atlas intelligence
Derived intelligence
Signals, relationships, conclusions, decisions, opportunities and memory produced through authorized reasoning.
Carries the restrictions of its sources
Reasoning across rights
Atlas does not need to own information to reason over information you are entitled to use.
Customer-controlled
Your organization owns its proprietary information and the intelligence derived from it.
Access follows permissions
Atlas reasons only over what a given person or process is entitled to see.
Provenance and rights preserved
Public, licensed and internal information each keep their source and the terms that govern them.
Minimal movement
Atlas keeps references, relationships, permissions and derived memory — not unnecessary copies of underlying content.
Never another customer’s intelligence
Customer-private information is not pooled, and does not inform or improve what any other customer sees.
Seeing, processing and remembering
Short answers to the questions that come up first. The exact boundary for any engagement depends on the sources, deployment and your requirements.
Does Atlas copy all of our documents and email?
Atlas does not need to create a permanent copy of everything it processes. Depending on the source and deployment, underlying information can remain in your existing systems while Atlas retains the context, provenance, relationships, and derived intelligence necessary to provide the capabilities you authorize.
Does Atlas read proprietary information?
When you authorize Atlas to reason over proprietary information, that information may need to be processed. Atlas distinguishes processing from retention: using information to perform an authorized task does not inherently mean permanently storing another copy of it.
What does Atlas retain?
Atlas retains information necessary to provide the intelligence and organizational memory you've authorized. This can include provenance, relevant context and relationships, signals, decisions, outcomes, permissions, and other derived intelligence. What is retained depends on the information source, applicable rights, deployment architecture, and customer configuration.
Does our information become available to other Atlas customers?
No. Customer-private information and customer-specific intelligence remain isolated from other customers. Atlas may separately maintain external intelligence that Atlas has the rights to acquire and reuse.
Can our data stay in our environment?
In many cases, yes. Atlas is designed to work with customer-controlled information sources so that underlying content can remain within the customer's environment while permitted information and derived intelligence participate in Atlas reasoning. The exact boundary depends on the source, deployment, and customer requirements.
Access and accountability by design
- Role-based access control across entities, relationships, and Studios
- Per-user and per-group permissions with least-privilege defaults
- Audit trails of queries, reasoning actions, and changes, designed for defensibility
- Source provenance designed to travel with assertions in the graph
- Evidence history so conclusions can be inspected and defended
- Decision traceability from question to answer to outcome
Reasoning you can oversee
- Human-in-the-loop reasoning — the platform proposes, people decide
- Evidence-linked outputs with traceable sources and confidence
- Configurable models, including customer-approved and private models
- Prompt governance and configurable usage policies
- Customer-controlled data-usage and retention policies
Built to connect to what you already run
IIOS is designed to sit above your existing enterprise stack and reason across it.
The reasoning layer above your systems — not a replacement for them
IIOS does not compete with your systems of record. It makes them more valuable by reasoning across them.
- A replacement for your ERP
- A replacement for your CRM
- A replacement for your BI stack
- A replacement for PLM
- A replacement for document management
Bring your security team to the table.
Request our security architecture, deployment options, and governance documentation for your evaluation.