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Udal is a self-hosted, governed platform for building and running AI agents entirely inside your own environment. The whole lifecycle — author, check, promote, govern, observe — on infrastructure you own. Built for regulated finance and government.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
Every team in regulated finance and government wants to ship AI agents. Almost none of them can, because the honest answer to "where does our data go?" is "to a vendor who sees everything." For a bank or a government department, an ungoverned agent isn't a productivity tool, it's an operational risk.
We built Udal so you don't have to choose between shipping agents and keeping control.
Udal installs inside your own environment, EKS, AKS, GKE, OpenShift, or bare metal, and gives you the entire paved road for agents, not a single feature bolted on at the edge. It rests on four pillars:
Stays on your ground - every component runs self-hosted. Models run on your hardware or a no-retention endpoint. The vendor never sees your data, and the platform can prove it.
Governed by default - a control plane screens every request for policy, safety, and cost before the action happens. Agents act with the invoking user's permissions, never an all-powerful service account.
A paved road - describe an agent in a readable manifest, write only the custom logic in Python, and promote it through dev → staging → prod with GitOps and eval gates. Days, not months.
Provable evidence - every decision, model call, and tool use lands in a hash-chained, tamper-evident audit log that exports as compliance evidence and streams to the observability stack you already run.
About the name: udal tenure (say "OO-dal") is an old Norse and Scottish form of land ownership, you hold your land outright, with no feudal lord above you and no one who can take it back. That's exactly how we think you should hold your AI agents. Owned ground. No superior. Absolute control.
We're in v1.0 preview and opening up private instances now. If you're wrestling with agents in a regulated environment, we'd love your take, what's blocked you from putting agents into production so far?
— The Udal team
How does deployment actually work on day one, do you package it as containers we can drop into our existing k8s cluster or do we need a separate control plane host?
How does the governance layer actually work day to day, like are approvals enforced automatically through policy checks or is it still a manual review step before agents go to production?
How does governance actually work in practice here, like is it policy-as-code or more of a manual review workflow before agents get promoted?
For teams already knee-deep in Kubernetes, how painful is the initial setup, and does it play nicely with existing CI/CD pipelines like GitLab or Argo?
Self-hosted agent platform with proper governance baked in is genuinely rare, glad someone finally tackled this for regulated teams. Curious how the promotion workflow holds up in practice.
About Udal on Product Hunt
“Your agents. Your ground.”
Udal was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 8 upvotes and 11 comments, placing #47 on the daily leaderboard. Udal is a self-hosted, governed platform for building and running AI agents entirely inside your own environment. The whole lifecycle — author, check, promote, govern, observe — on infrastructure you own. Built for regulated finance and government.
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