What BondFoundry replaces — and what it doesn't.
Honest positioning: BondFoundry is a governed AI agent layer. It runs alongside your OMS, and it optimizes for auditability where agent frameworks optimize for flexibility.
Not a replacement for your book-of-record.
BlackRock Aladdin, SimCorp Dimension, Charles River, Bloomberg AIM
These are the order-management and book-of-record systems a desk already runs. BondFoundry does not replace them — it is the governed AI agent layer that connects to them, typically over a FIX gateway, with a human in the loop on above-materiality orders.
Where BondFoundry optimizes differently.
LangChain / AutoGen
- They optimize for
- Orchestration flexibility
- BondFoundry optimizes for
- Governance auditability
General agent frameworks optimize for how freely you can wire tools and chains together. BondFoundry optimizes for provable governance: a pure-function policy gate, a hash-chained audit log, and framework_ref mapping to FINOS AIGF v2.0. The policy gate is publishable on its own and can be embedded in any agent loop.
Vendor SaaS "governed AI" platforms
- They optimize for
- Managed, closed-source service
- BondFoundry optimizes for
- Self-hosted, MIT-licensed, inspectable
BondFoundry is MIT-licensed and self-hosted. You can read every line, fork it for another domain, and keep your data and audit chain inside your own Postgres — no third party holds the record of what your agent decided.
What BondFoundry does and does not do.
| Capability | BondFoundry | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Pure-function policy gate on every action | Yes | decide(action, context) → Decision |
| Append-only audit enforced by the database | Yes | Postgres UPDATE/DELETE triggers |
| sha256 hash chain across audit rows | Yes | Tier-3 tamper-evidence |
| HMAC-signed HITL approvals the agent cannot forge | Yes | scoped to ISIN + notional + side |
| FINOS AIGF v2.0 coverage gate in CI | Yes | 23/23 risks, fails below 85% |
| Replaces your OMS / book-of-record | No | By design — it sits alongside |
More detail lives in the quants page and the open-source vs SaaS article.