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frIdA

Routes every workload. Logs every decision.

frIdA is the orchestrator inside SAPTIVA Studio. It places every workload across cloud, on-premises, hybrid and air-gapped clusters, logs every decision and meters every cost. It is not sold separately. It is what makes Studio run where you decide.

Model-agnostic

Any LLM. Any version.

Environment-agnostic

Cloud, hybrid, on-prem, air-gapped.

Routing

Residency, cost, latency.

Audit

Every decision, logged, defensible.

Why it matters

Adoption comes first. The bill comes second.

Every enterprise that puts AI in production hits the same three questions inside a year: where is it running, what did it decide, what did it cost. Studio answers all three on every run. frIdA is the part that places the workload.

Capabilities

What frIdA actually does.

Compute placement.

frIdA reads every workload's metadata - data classification, data perimeter, SLA, cost envelope - and routes it to the compute environment that satisfies every constraint. Public cloud for cost-optimized batch, on-prem for sensitive data, air-gapped for isolated workloads. The operator sets the placement per data class. frIdA applies it on every run.

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Model routing.

frIdA selects the optimal model for each task: open-source for sensitive data, commercial frontier models for low-risk general tasks, domain-specific fine-tunes for enterprise workflows. Model choice becomes a configuration, not a rewrite. When a new model releases, frIdA can adopt it without touching application code.

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Observability and audit.

Every decision frIdA makes is recorded: which workload, which configuration, which model, which environment, with what metadata, at what timestamp, authorized by whom. The audit log is immutable, queryable, and exportable. When audit asks, you have a defensible answer in seconds. Not a week of forensics.

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Environment-agnostic execution.

Customers change deployment strategies without rewriting applications. Migrate from public cloud to an in-country region. Add an on-prem cluster. Extend to a new market. The application code does not change. frIdA re-plans the route.

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Architecture

How frIdA routes a workload.

Applications emit requests with metadata. frIdA applies your configuration, selects compute and model, dispatches the workload, and writes an audit record. Every step defensible.

SAMPLE SAPTIVA STUDIO Custom Workflowvia Studio SDK joins the lanes WORKLOAD INGRESS frIdA ORCHESTRATOR EXECUTION TARGETS PLACEMENT MODEL ROUTING COST & LATENCY AUDIT WRITER Request data_class: pii · config: 01 On-premises RAGster · v2.4 $0.0028 · 214 ms ✓ 2ef9·1701 runs on On-premises Request data_class: general · config: 02 Public cloud Claude $0.0009 · 96 ms ✓ 91c3·0be2 runs on Public cloud Request data_class: financial · config: 03 Hybrid Your model $0.0031 · 140 ms ✓ 5b7e·02ad runs on Hybridburst to cloud Air-gapped no requestin this sample AUDIT STREAM ✓ 704d·ddac ✓ 2ef9·1701 ✓ 91c3·0be2 ✓ 5b7e·02ad TAMPER-EVIDENT · SIGNED · QUERYABLE SAPTIVA STUDIO Custom Workflowvia Studio SDK joins the lanes frIdA ORCHESTRATOR Request data_class: pii · config: 01 PLACEMENTOn-premises MODEL ROUTINGRAGster · v2.4 COST & LATENCY$0.0028 · 214 ms AUDIT WRITER ✓ 2ef9·1701 runs onOn-premises Request data_class: general · config: 02 PLACEMENTPublic cloud MODEL ROUTINGClaude COST & LATENCY$0.0009 · 96 ms AUDIT WRITER ✓ 91c3·0be2 runs onPublic cloud Request data_class: financial · config: 03 PLACEMENTHybrid MODEL ROUTINGYour model COST & LATENCY$0.0031 · 140 ms AUDIT WRITER ✓ 5b7e·02ad runs onHybridburst to cloud Air-gapped no requestin this sample AUDIT STREAM ✓ 704d·ddac ✓ 2ef9·1701 ✓ 91c3·0be2 ✓ 5b7e·02ad TAMPER-EVIDENTSIGNED · QUERYABLE
  1. A request enters with its data class and its configuration.
  2. Placement follows the configuration set for that data class.
  3. Model routing picks the model.
  4. Cost and latency are measured.
  5. The audit writer signs the record.
  6. The request runs on its target: on-premises, public cloud or hybrid.
  7. The signed record joins the audit stream.
Three requests, three routes. Each follows the configuration set for its data class. Each leaves a signed record.

Select a request lane to open its record.

Compatibility

Vendor-agnostic, by architecture.

frIdA does not ship with a preferred model, cloud, or hardware stack. It routes across all of them. The compatibility matrix exists to make that explicit, not to sell you a particular option.

Models
  • OpenAI GPT family api · enterprise
  • Anthropic Claude family api · enterprise
  • Google Gemini family api · enterprise
  • Meta Llama family self-hosted · open weights
  • Mistral models self-hosted · api
  • Qwen, DeepSeek, Gemma self-hosted · open weights
  • KAL open weights · Mexico
  • Domain-specific fine-tunes customer-owned
Compute
  • AWS, Azure, GCP any region
  • In-country cloud regions mx
  • Private cloud / VPC customer-operated
  • On-premise hpe, dell, nvidia
  • Air-gapped isolated deployment
  • Neo-cloud providers runpod, lambda
Integration
  • Identity saml, oidc, scim
  • Secrets vault, kms, customer hsm
  • Observability datadog, prometheus, splunk
  • Audit export siem, s3, customer warehouse
  • Data sources snowflake, databricks, postgres
  • Deployment terraform
The wall · Five conflicts

They will not follow. Following breaks their business.

Each serves one buyer. Serving all four breaks their model.

AlternativeThe conflict
01Single-jurisdiction cloudsOne control plane per cloud. Outside it, the client starts from zero.
02Model-first platformsTheir model first. Routing to a rival is revenue leaving their model.
03Ontology platformsYour business's meaning moves into their layer. Leaving means extraction.
04Developer gatewaysSold by the seat to engineers. Routing goes to zero. Production does not.
05Incumbent stacks and hoursInside the account already. Sold in hours, delivered in twelve months. Two weeks cuts both.

THE REAL SUBSTITUTE IS THE DEFAULT: THE CLOUD'S OWN AI, THE INTEGRATOR'S HOURS, THE INTERNAL BUILD.

42% OF COMPANIES ABANDONED MOST OF THEIR AI INITIATIVES IN 2025 · S&P GLOBAL

SAPTIVA AI

The control plane itself. Nothing else to protect. Four yeses, one contract, two weeks.

Gaps close. Conflicts do not.

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In Production

“A financial institution put its stalled pilots into production on SAPTIVA Studio. What blocked them was never the model. It was the layer that decides where it runs and proves what it did.”

Deployment evidence
Production · Financial services · Central America
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