# GaaS — Governance as a Service for AI Agents

> GaaS is a governance pipeline that sits between an AI agent's intent and its execution. It enriches context, evaluates policy, deliberates risk via multi-agent panels, and produces an immutable audit trail. Sub-100ms for routine actions. Full multi-agent deliberation for high-stakes decisions. Built by H2Om. See [full documentation](https://gaas.is/llms-full.txt) for complete technical details.

GaaS solves a critical problem: autonomous AI agents are acting in the world — sending emails, executing transactions, accessing records, posting content — and the governance model for most of them is "hope the prompt was good enough." GaaS provides the institutional checks that every hospital, bank, and trading floor requires of human employees, but for AI agents.

12 compliance frameworks, 60+ governance policies built in. Patent pending (provisional filed March 2026).

The governance pipeline has five stages: Intent Declaration (< 5ms), Context Enrichment (< 50ms), Policy Evaluation (< 10ms), Deliberation Engine (200ms–5s, only for high-risk), and Decision + Audit (< 25ms). 85–95% of actions are routine and complete in under 100ms. Only 5–15% trigger full multi-agent deliberation.

Integration requires three lines of code. SDKs available for Python, TypeScript, and Java. Framework plugins for LangChain, AutoGen, and CrewAI. REST/HTTPS protocol with JSON payloads.

## Main Pages

- [Homepage](https://gaas.is): Product overview, governance pipeline visualization, core principles, integration examples, trust tiers
- 27 native production connectors across enterprise, IoT, smart home, agriculture, energy, and education platforms
- [For Agents](https://gaas.is/for-agents): Page written directly for AI agents — explains GaaS value proposition from the agent's perspective, context window savings, integration examples, trust tiers, FAQ
- [Pricing](https://gaas.is/pricing): Transparent unit economics, pricing tiers, interactive calculator, overage rates
- [Start Shadow Mode](https://gaas.is/start): Free 14-day shadow deployment — full pipeline, real actions, zero enforcement
- [API Documentation](https://gaas.is/api-docs): REST API reference with endpoints, request/response schemas, SDK examples
- [A2A Protocol Governance](https://gaas.is/a2a-protocol/): GaaS as the governance layer for Google's Agent-to-Agent protocol — policy evaluation, risk scoring, audit trails for A2A interactions
- [Technical Specifications](https://gaas.is/tech-specs): Architecture deep-dive — control plane, inference plane, pipeline internals, and system design
- [About GaaS](https://gaas.is/about-gaas-and-how-GaaS-governs-agentic-AI): Visual explainer of how GaaS governs agentic AI — no code required

## Blog

- [Agentic AI Governance: The Infrastructure Gap Nobody's Filling](https://gaas.is/blog/agentic-ai-governance/): Why autonomous AI agents need institutional oversight, the self-governance fallacy, and what a governance pipeline looks like
- [AI Governance Pipeline: The Selective Membrane for Autonomous Agents](https://gaas.is/blog/gaas-pipeline/): The membrane metaphor — how governance pipelines act as selective barriers between agent intent and execution

## Documentation & Resources

- [OpenAPI Spec](https://gaas.is/openapi.yaml): Machine-readable API specification (OpenAPI 3.1)
- [The Context Dividend (White Paper)](https://gaas.is/the-context-dividend.pdf): How externalizing governance reclaims 30–60% of an agent's context window
- [GitHub](https://github.com/H2OmAI): Source code and SDK repositories
- [API Endpoint](https://api.gaas.is/v1/onboarding/quickstart): POST endpoint for onboarding (accepts email, org_name, description; returns api_key, membrane_id, quickstart_snippet)
- [The Context Dividend v2 (HTML)](https://gaas.is/the-context-dividend-v2): Interactive web version of the white paper

## Pricing

- GaaS Complete Starter: $500/mo — 50K actions, 3 agents, deliberation inference included
- GaaS Complete Growth: $2,500/mo — 500K actions, 15 agents, deliberation inference included
- GaaS Core (BYOM) Starter: $350/mo — 50K actions, 3 agents, bring your own model for deliberation
- GaaS Core (BYOM) Growth: $1,750/mo — 500K actions, 15 agents, bring your own model
- Enterprise: Custom pricing — 5M+ actions, unlimited agents, annual commitment
- Routine action cost: ~$0.00019 per action (control plane only)
- Deliberation cost: ~$0.02–0.08 per deliberation (LLM inference)

## Key Concepts

- [Bidirectional Governance](https://gaas.is/#bidirectional): Outbound (govern your agents) and Inbound (protect your digital property from visiting agents)
- [Trust Tiers](https://gaas.is/#trust-tiers): Registered → Verified (30-day compliance) → Certified (independent audit)
- [Five-Stage Pipeline](https://gaas.is/#pipeline): Intent Declaration → Context Enrichment → Policy Evaluation → Deliberation Engine → Decision + Audit
- [Shadow Mode](https://gaas.is/start): Full governance pipeline without enforcement — observe before activating
- [Compliance Frameworks](https://gaas.is/tech-specs#compliance): 12 frameworks (EU AI Act, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOC 2, NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, CMMC, NIST CSF, NIST AI RMF, FERPA, COPPA)
- [Security](https://gaas.is/tech-specs#security): Prompt injection detection (17 signatures), behavioral anomaly governance, SIEM integration (CEF format)
- Patent Pending: Provisional patent filed March 2026 covering the multi-stage governance pipeline architecture

## Markdown Versions (for LLM consumption)

- [Homepage](https://gaas.is/index.md)
- [Pricing](https://gaas.is/pricing.md)
- [Start Shadow Mode](https://gaas.is/start.md)
- [API Documentation](https://gaas.is/api-docs.md)
- [For Agents](https://gaas.is/for-agents.md)
- [A2A Protocol](https://gaas.is/a2a-protocol/index.md)

## Optional

- [Sign Up](https://the.gaas.is/signup): Create an account