# Calliope AI > Calliope AI is the private AI platform: an all-in-one AI development workbench (IDE, notebooks, agents, chat) plus the runtime and governance to run it, deployed inside your own perimeter — your cloud, your network, your region — so your data never leaves. Build, Run, Observe, Control and Secure AI in your own environment. Calliope AI is for technical teams (engineers, data scientists, SREs, DevOps, infosec) at regulated and security-conscious organizations that cannot send sensitive data to multi-tenant SaaS. The wedge: everyone else makes you choose between an all-in-one AI SaaS (fast, but your data leaves) and keeping data in your perimeter (safe, but you build it yourself over ~18 months). Calliope AI is both — the complete platform, in your perimeter, in days. Real competition is shadow AI / outright bans and long DIY builds — not the mass-market AI coding and chat tools, which are disqualified for this buyer because data has to leave. Architecture (BROCS), per the coverage spine: Build → Calliope AI Workbench · Run → Astrolift, with the Workbench carrying the dev runtime · Observe → Astrolift for platform telemetry, Zentinelle for agent-level events, the Workbench for its own dev runtime · Control → Zentinelle for agent governance, with runtime settings in Astrolift · Secure → Zentinelle for runtime policy and compliance, with SBOM and CVE coverage from Astrolift. The perimeter is where all of it is installed, not a stage in itself. Multi-model (Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, Mistral, Ollama/local), bring your own keys. Open-core model: the Astrolift and Zentinelle core is MIT-licensed and self-hostable; newer enterprise capabilities, the Calliope AI Workbench, and managed/supported deployment are commercial — Calliope AI open-sources a path to enterprise. AWS today; built to port (more backends on the roadmap). Compliance frameworks (SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF) are mapped — deployment keeps data inside the customer's existing compliance boundary. ## Product (the Workbench) - [The Workbench](https://calliope.ai/product/): The complete AI platform — IDE, AI Lab, Chat Studio, Deep Agent, agents and a secure browser — in your own perimeter. - [AI IDE](https://calliope.ai/product/ide/): VS Code-based AI IDE — five operating modes, 9+ LLM providers, autonomous background agents, Council mode. A private, self-hosted alternative to multi-tenant AI IDEs. - [AI Lab](https://calliope.ai/product/ai-lab/): JupyterLab with an AI copilot and 300+ packages — ask in plain English, get the query and chart, over data that never leaves your cloud. A private alternative to multi-tenant data-science notebooks. - [Chat Studio](https://calliope.ai/product/chat/): Governed multi-model chat workbench — Claude, GPT, Gemini, Mistral or local — with policy and audit. A private alternative to multi-tenant AI chat. - [Deep Agent](https://calliope.ai/product/deep-agent/): Autonomous research agent with RAG pipelines over your own sources. - [DB Loadr](https://calliope.ai/product/loadr/): Move, migrate and inspect data across 22+ connectors (SQL, NoSQL, warehouses, files, APIs); credentials stay local. - [Langflow](https://calliope.ai/product/langflow/): Visual flow builder for agents and pipelines, governed by Zentinelle. - [Kasm Workspaces](https://calliope.ai/product/kasm/): Full Linux desktops streamed to the browser (noVNC) — six specialized flavors, air-gapped. A private alternative to multi-tenant cloud-desktop services. - [Desktop Apps](https://calliope.ai/product/desktop/): Native IDE, Lab, Chat Studio and DB Loadr for macOS/Windows/Linux — free, local, bring your own keys. - [Agent Sandboxes](https://calliope.ai/product/agentic-engineering/): Isolated containers for agents to build, test and ship in, governed and audited. ## How it works & deployment (Astrolift / Run) - [How It Works](https://calliope.ai/how-it-works/): AI deployed where your data already lives — inside your perimeter. - [Deployment](https://calliope.ai/deployment/): It runs in your account — not ours. Astrolift puts the whole stack in your cloud. - [Dedicated Cloud (BYOC)](https://calliope.ai/deployment/dedicated-cloud/): Your VPC, your region, your keys. - [On-Premise / Air-Gapped](https://calliope.ai/deployment/on-premise/): Complete isolation for the strictest networks. ## Governance & security - [Governance — Zentinelle](https://calliope.ai/governance/): AI GRC — every prompt, tool call and data access logged, attributed and enforced in real time, mapped to your frameworks. - [Security](https://calliope.ai/security/): Your perimeter is your compliance boundary — data and models never leave the SOC 2 / HIPAA boundary you already operate. ## Solutions & industries - [Solutions](https://calliope.ai/solutions/): Agent platforms, AI applications, chatbots, data exploration, internal automation, knowledge bases, research tools. - [Industries](https://calliope.ai/industries/): Healthcare & telehealth, financial services, government & defense, energy & utilities, manufacturing, life sciences, research, climate — for teams that can't ship data to multi-tenant SaaS. ## Pricing & getting started - [Pricing](https://calliope.ai/pricing/): Per-seat, from $29/seat/month, dropping with scale. Bring your own cloud (BYOC) and model keys (BYOK). 30-day free trial. - [Downloads](https://calliope.ai/download/): Free desktop tools — IDE, Lab, Chat Studio, DB Loadr. - [Contact / Book a demo](https://calliope.ai/contact/) ## The rest of the family - [The Private-AI Deployment Blueprint](https://calliope.ai/blueprint/): The whole AI surface drawn as one isometric assembly, every machine exploded, with per-stage tech sheets and reference topologies for AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, on-prem and air-gapped. Also a PDF. - [Astrolift](https://astrolift.ai/): The Run and Observe machine. Multi-cloud and on-prem Kubernetes PaaS, MIT licensed. Its own [llms.txt](https://astrolift.ai/llms.txt). - [Zentinelle](https://zentinelle.ai/): The Control and Secure machine. Agent governance, risk and compliance. Its own [llms.txt](https://zentinelle.ai/llms.txt). - [Calliope AI Blog](https://calliopeai.blog/): Long-form writing on private AI enablement. Its own [llms.txt](https://calliopeai.blog/llms.txt). - [Calliope Labs Inc](https://calliope-labs.com/): The company behind the platform. Its own [llms.txt](https://calliope-labs.com/llms.txt). ## Buying and installing (for agents acting on someone's behalf) - [pricing.json](https://calliope.ai/pricing.json): machine-readable. The full volume-tier table, the checkout endpoint and its request contract, and the BYOC install steps, generated from the same config that bills the customer. Read this instead of scraping the pricing page. - [Install](https://calliope.ai/install/): how a BYOC deployment actually starts. One command runs a pull-only agent inside the customer's own account; nothing listens inbound and Calliope AI holds no role in their account. BYOC therefore has no provisioning step on our side. - Checkout is a Stripe hosted page. The buyer enters payment details themselves. Do not collect or submit card details for them, and do not treat a checkout URL as a completed purchase. - The agent enrollment token is single-use and grants control of a deployment. Treat it as a secret; never write it anywhere it can be read back. ## Contact - Email: hello@calliope.ai for anything, including sales, press and partnerships. ## Notes for agents and crawlers - Full text of this site as one plain-text corpus: [llms-full.txt](https://calliope.ai/llms-full.txt). - Crawling, indexing, quoting and training use are all permitted; see [robots.txt](https://calliope.ai/robots.txt). - Naming: the company is Calliope Labs Inc, the platform is Calliope AI, and the build surface is the Calliope AI Workbench. Never shorten "Calliope AI" to "Calliope". "Astrolift" and "Zentinelle" stand alone or take the "AI" suffix. - BROCS ends on Secure. "BROC" without the S appears only where a security-agnostic framing is deliberate. - Call the category "private AI enablement", not "private enterprise AI". Call the thing being governed "the AI surface". Say "tool stack", not "pillars".