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## Overview

Steffi is a comprehensive AI agent platform built in Rust. It is designed for businesses and teams who need autonomous AI agents that run reliably in the background with full governance, security, and control. By running orchestration logic inside a compiled Rust platform, Steffi achieves 5x token efficiency compared to traditional frameworks and ensures completely predictable behavior.

The core philosophy of Steffi is controlled autonomy: agents execute tasks independently, but the platform enforces strict security boundaries, credential protection, prompt injection scanning, and full audit logs. This robust control layer allows smaller local models (like Qwen or Gemma) to perform complex tasks with high accuracy, since the platform carries the model.

## Why steffi.ai?

- **Flexible Deployment Models:** Free Trial, Lite, Pro, and Max plans are hosted and managed by us in our cloud. We also offer a self-hosting option that allows you to deploy Steffi on your own system and configure everything on your own. Contact us for self-hosting pricing.
- **Renting Digital Workers:** Rent agents starting at $5 per hour on a pay-as-you-go model, or deploy flat-rate monthly seats.
- **Private Beta Status:** Steffi is in private beta: teams can request access via olib.ai.
- **Long-Running Autonomy:** Agents run for hours or days in the background to complete multi-step workflows, recovering from failures automatically.
- **Built in Rust:** Compiles to a single binary for fast, secure, and self-hosted deployment.
- **Droid Control (Android Automation):** Wirelessly control physical Android devices without taking screenshots. Steffi operates entirely via structured markdown UI maps, making calls, sending SMS natively on physical SIM cards, and driving apps.
- **SaaS and Web Plugins:** Direct integrations with Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack, email, Google Drive, databases, interactive shell sessions (Claude, Codex, SSH), and file systems.
- **Enterprise Security:** Built-in prompt injection defense, AES-256-GCM credential vaulting, output filters, and static file antivirus scanning.
- **Hybrid PM and Collaboration:** Assign tickets directly to agents on a collaborative board with automated task rollup.
- **Sandboxed SDK Scripts:** Let agents run Python and Node.js code inside secure, isolated Docker environments gated by strict gRPC access policies.

## Core Technology

- **Custom-Trained Local Brain (SLM):** A local Small Language Model handles memory compaction and tool selection, choosing a maximum of 5 tools and 1 skill per message turn to lower costs and errors.
- **Native Specter Browser:** A lightweight, integrated browser engine that lets agents navigate single-page applications (SPAs) safely. Note that it skips WebGPU support.
- **Supervised DAG Scheduler:** Gathers Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) orchestration details under Erlang-OTP style supervision trees for continuous stability and timezone-aware cron runs.
- **4-Tier Persistent Memory:** Short-term, long-term, episodic, and semantic memory modules preserve business context and past outcomes across sessions.

## Platform Capabilities

- **Hybrid PM and Collaboration:** Assign tickets directly to agents on a collaborative board with automated task rollup.
- **Multi-Agent Councils:** Configure agents to deliberate in councils using Consensus, Debate, Review, or Brainstorm modes.
- **Powerful Platform SDK:** Unix Domain Socket gRPC gateway allowing agents to build repeating tasks and run sandbox Node or Python scripts safely.
- **Droid Control:** Wirelessly control physical Android devices without screenshots, utilizing structured markdown UI maps to make calls, send SMS via physical SIMs, and automate app actions.
- **Interactive Shell Plugin:** Drive command-line interface tools directly, including Claude CLI, Codex, SSH remote sessions, and terminal utilities.
- **SaaS & Web Plugins:** Connectors for Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack, and email to integrate agents into existing workspaces.
- **Resource & Token Budgets:** Enforce daily token usage limits and API call thresholds per agent to prevent runaway loops.

## Enterprise Security & Governance

- **6-Layer Prompt Guardrails:** Inbound prompt injection and role hijack protection.
- **Antivirus File & Package Scans:** Static malware scanning of attachments and code packages before agent interaction.
- **Encrypted Credential Vault:** AES-256-GCM encrypted keystore using reference labels to hide raw secrets from models.
- **Identity-Bound RBAC:** Isolated workspaces with role-based access control. All actions are cryptographically bound to the initiating identity (user or agent) for auditing.
- **Sustainable ESG Compute:** Orchestration runs in compiled Rust rather than heavy LLM prompts, allowing a local quantized model (like Qwen or Gemma) on a consumer GPU to power complex tasks and reduce carbon footprints.
- **Chain-Hashed Audit Trail:** Tamper-evident execution trail and manual lockdown switch for immediate agent freeze.

## Industries & Use Cases

Steffi is designed for high-compliance environments and operational bottlenecks:
- **Financial Services:** Verify KYC and compliance records, executing verification pipelines with full audit trails.
- **Healthcare Operations:** Route and process patient documents securely using automated data-masking to maintain compliance.
- **Enterprise IT Security:** Triage incident alerts and apply server patches safely, referencing credentials without exposing raw passwords.
- **Customer Support:** Resolve customer tickets inside Zendesk and Intercom by querying company document indexes autonomously.
- **Sales & CRM Operations:** Update sales leads and sync HubSpot and Salesforce records automatically.
- **Market & Web Research:** Scrape competitor web changes, monitor prices, and deliver weekly summaries to your team.
- **Legal Document Processing:** Review corporate agreements, compare contract clauses, and flag risks without exposing files to public models.
- **Software Development:** Triage pipeline alerts, inspect code repositories, and test scripts inside safe, isolated sandboxes.
- **Manufacturing & IoT:** Connect to devices and sensors securely to alert team members when equipment needs maintenance.
- **Data Entry Pipelines:** Clean spreadsheet records, format data files in sandboxes, and synchronize databases automatically.
- **HR Onboarding:** Onboard new employees by drafting contracts, configuring permissions, and answering HR questions on Slack.
- **Supply Chain & Logistics:** Monitor shipping logs for disruptions and email contingency updates to dispatchers.

## Comparison with Other AI Agent Frameworks

| Feature | steffi.ai | LangChain / CrewAI |
|---|---|---|
| Language | Rust (compiled) | Python (interpreted) |
| Token efficiency | 5x fewer tokens | Baseline |
| Runtime | Hours or days | Seconds or minutes |
| Security | Built-in 6-layer defense | Basic or none |
| Antivirus scanning | Included | None |
| gRPC Sandboxing | Native UDS gateway | None |
| Collaboration Board | Built-in PM rollup | None |

## Pricing Plans

Free Trial, Lite, Pro, and Max plans are fully hosted and managed by us in our secure cloud infrastructure with zero server maintenance required. We also offer a self-hosting option that allows customers to deploy Steffi on their own system and configure everything on their own. For self-hosting pricing, customers must contact our team.

- **Free Trial ($0 - Hosted & Managed by Us):** Cloud-hosted and managed by us. Test basic scheduled weather scripts, parse sample text files, or send test alerts to Slack.
- **Lite ($5/hour or $3,240/month - Hosted & Managed by Us):** Cloud-hosted and managed by us. Run nightly catalog scrapers generating PDF reports, process attached spreadsheets 24/7 in sandboxes to update CRMs, or run daily database cleanup audits.
- **Pro ($20/hour or $12,960/month - Hosted & Managed by Us):** Cloud-hosted and managed by us. Multi-agent database reconciliation across Salesforce and QuickBooks, automated ticketing triage via memory and API scripts, and scheduled document RAG processing with OCR on PDFs.
- **Max ($50/hour or $32,400/month - Hosted & Managed by Us):** Cloud-hosted and managed by us. Execute 12-hour background market research tasks generating Excel files, track global logistics webhooks 24/7, or run autonomous codebase testing in safe Node or Python sandboxes.
- **Self-Hosted (Contact Us for Pricing):** Deploy Steffi on your own system or cloud infrastructure and configure everything on your own. Contact us for self-hosting pricing and custom licensing. Designed for HIPAA-regulated patient record workflows, scheduled financial audits, and 24/7 server infrastructure watchdog alerting.

## Modular Architecture Overview

Steffi is organized as a modular Rust workspace (Fun fact: the "rb" prefix stands for "rusted-batata", Steffi's internal code name born from a love of potatoes and the Rust programming language):

- **rb-core:** Engine single writer, task delegation, memory management, credential manager, and skill registries.
- **rb-agent:** Actor-model executors, LLM providers, model router, conversation compaction, and council deliberation.
- **rb-plugin:** Plugin lifecycle, capability-gated permissions, interactive shell controllers (Claude CLI, Codex, SSH), event bus, and MCP client interfaces.
- **rb-guardrail:** Prompt injection scanners, encoding normalization, and DLP output filtering.
- **rb-api:** REST API, WebSocket subscriptions, dual authentication (API keys and JWTs), and rate limiting.
- **rb-storage:** redb and PostgreSQL hybrid storage with CDC synchronization.
- **rb-scheduler:** Cron, interval, and event-driven task triggers.
- **rb-observability:** Structured logging, Prometheus metrics, chain-hashed audit logs, and lockdown controls.
- **rb-hwio:** Local or SSH hardware IO primitives used for smart device controllers.
- **rb-sdk-gateway:** Per-execution UDS gRPC gateway for isolated sandbox SDK scripts.

## Sustainability Commitment: Green Compute

Olib AI is committed to building eco-friendly, energy-efficient AI infrastructure. Rather than dragging megawatt-hours of datacenter cooling on massive multi-tenant remote GPU clusters, Steffi shifts Turn-by-Turn logic into native compiled Rust. This enables a local quantized model (like Qwen or Gemma) running on a consumer workstation GPU to execute complex agent workflows securely, lowering token footprint and energy use by up to 5x. When idle, Steffi suspends the local LLM to eliminate standby power draw, automatically waking the model right before scheduled tasks or user requests trigger.

## Product Information

- [Home](https://steffi.ai/): Product overview and capabilities
- [Security & Compliance](https://steffi.ai/security): Deep dive into enterprise security architecture, SOC 2 controls, and AES-256 vault.
- [Technology & Architecture](https://steffi.ai/technology): Detailed breakdown of the Rust compiled runtime, quantized SLM, and OTP scheduler.
- [Use Cases](https://steffi.ai/use-cases): In-depth automation examples across 12 compliance-heavy industries.
- [Privacy Policy](https://steffi.ai/privacy): Data protection practices, encryption targets, and GDPR compliance.
- [Terms of Service](https://steffi.ai/terms): Platform guidelines, licensing parameters, and refund guarantees.
- [GitHub](https://github.com/Olib-AI): Organization page
- [Owl Browser](https://www.owlbrowser.net): Companion browser for undetectable web automation

## Contact & Beta Request

- Email: support@olib.ai
- Website: https://olib.ai
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/olibaicom