Containerized AI

Run enterprise AI inside your own environment.

Haystac deploys containerized AI inside your data center, private cloud, or hybrid environment — so teams can classify documents, extract data, ask questions, and trigger workflows without sending sensitive content to public AI services.

haystac.local · OmniSuite · containerized runtime · perimeter view
Keep data inside
01
No public cloud AI exposure
Deploy faster
02
Without a 12–24 month DIY build
Reduce security friction
03
Pre-hardened and audit-aligned
Control every output
04
Inside your own governance model
YOUR ENVIRONMENT · NIST 800-53 BOUNDARY healthy
pod · ingestChicagoclassify
pod · extractNashvillestructure
pod · ragOrionreason
pod · orchestratePolarisact
pod · apiGatewayREST · MCP
pod · auditAuditSIEM · logs
claim_4471_packet.pdf · processed in-memory ✓ contained
Egress monitor0 bytes
vendor-cloud-ai.example.comAllowed: no
outbound: prompt.apiBlocked
outbound: telemetry.svcBlocked
policy: default-denyEnforced
Security controlsverified
Signed images
Non-root containers
Read-only filesystem
No internet egress
NIST 800-53 aligned
The problem

Most AI deployment models do not work for regulated enterprises.

Banks, insurers, healthcare organizations, government agencies, and BPOs want the benefits of AI. But their most valuable content is also their most sensitive content: claims, medical records, loan files, case records, contracts, policies, and regulated customer data.

Public AI services create exposure. DIY builds create delay. Waiting keeps manual work in place. That is why so many AI initiatives stall before production. The model may be impressive. The deployment model is wrong.

01

Public cloud AI creates data exposure.

Sensitive documents leave the customer’s control, or require teams to rely on vendor promises, contracts, and security policies.

02

DIY private AI takes too long.

Building a secure AI runtime, model governance, hardened infrastructure, audit evidence, and compliance alignment from scratch can take 12–24 months before production use.

03

Security review slows everything down.

CISOs, legal teams, compliance leaders, and risk teams do not just ask whether the AI works. They ask where the data goes, who can access it, what gets logged, and how the system can be audited.

The answer

Deploy AI where your data already lives.

Haystac gives regulated enterprises a third path: the control of a private build, with the speed of a product. OmniSuite™ is fully containerized and designed to run inside the customer’s own environment. No external AI APIs. No SaaS dependency. No data egress. The AI operates as an internal, governed software component — not as another external risk surface.

So teams can use modern AI on sensitive enterprise content without moving that content outside the boundary they already trust.

Your environment

Run on-premises, in a customer-managed private cloud, or across a hybrid architecture.

Your data boundary

Documents, records, prompts, and outputs stay inside the customer-controlled environment.

Your governance

Security, compliance, audit, and operational controls fit the way the enterprise already approves software.

Your timeline

Deploy a hardened AI stack without spending 12–24 months building the runtime from scratch.

How it works

Four steps from container to controlled AI.

Containerized AI is not just a packaging choice. It is the deployment model that lets regulated organizations use AI without expanding their risk boundary.

01 Deploy inside the boundary

Install AI where the customer controls the infrastructure.

Haystac runs inside on-premises environments, customer-managed VPCs, sovereign cloud environments, or hybrid architectures.

Customer env → deploy containersdeploy.install
your envcluster.internal
chicagov2.4
nashvillev2.4
orionv2.4
polarisv2.4
What users can do
Use AI on sensitive documents without sending data to public AI services.
02 Process content in hardened containers

Run each AI service as a controlled internal component.

Chicago, Nashville, Orion, and Polaris operate as containerized services with hardened defaults and controlled communication patterns.

Hardened · non-root · read-onlyprocess.run
chicago
non-root · r/o fs
:8443tls
nashville
non-root · r/o fs
:8443tls
orion
non-root · r/o fs
:8443tls
polaris
non-root · r/o fs
:8443tls
What users can do
Classify, extract, reason, and orchestrate workflows inside the same governed environment.
03 Keep data from leaving

Contain sensitive content by architecture.

The system is designed with no internet connectivity, no outbound data flow, no sensitive content logging, and in-memory processing controls.

Egress → blocked at boundarycontain.deny
prompt + doc content
egress
What users can do
Use AI against regulated content without relying on policy promises that data will not leak.
04 Return governed outputs

Send structured results back to enterprise systems.

Outputs can flow into ECM, case management, workflow, CRM, ERP, analytics, and downstream review systems through controlled integrations.

Outputs → enterprise systemsreturn.api
decision + audit
REST / MCP
ECM
case mgmt
CRM / ERP
What users can do
Move from document processing to operational AI without changing the enterprise control model.
What it enables

Use AI on the content your teams could not send to the cloud.

Classify sensitive documents

Automatically separate and route claims, applications, medical records, case files, contracts, and regulated correspondence inside your own environment.

Extract regulated data

Pull fields, tables, entities, clauses, codes, signatures, and relationships from documents without exposing the source content to external AI services.

Ask questions securely

Use retrieval-grounded AI against internal policies, procedures, records, and documents while keeping prompts and answers inside your infrastructure.

Validate decisions

Compare documents against rules, requirements, eligibility criteria, coverage policies, or compliance standards with source-backed evidence.

Trigger workflows

Route clean cases forward, escalate exceptions, generate summaries, notify reviewers, or update downstream systems.

Prepare for audit

Keep source references, confidence signals, operational logs, and workflow records inside the customer’s governance boundary.

Why it matters

Cloud AI asks regulated teams to accept a new risk category.

For many organizations, public AI is convenient. For regulated enterprises, it can be impossible. The issue is not only whether the vendor says the data is protected. The issue is whether the organization can prove where sensitive content went, how it was processed, what was logged, who could access it, and whether the output can be defended. That is a hard conversation with cloud AI. It is a simpler conversation when AI runs inside the environment the enterprise already governs.

Cloud AI data leaves
your env
(docs · PII)
vendor AI
(external)
× data egress × vendor-held logs × new approval path
Haystac data stays
your environment · NIST 800-53
chicago
nashville
orion
polaris
gateway
audit
no outbound egress · 0 bytes
✓ 0 data egress ✓ your audit log ✓ existing security model
×
Cloud AI depends on trust.
Vendor promises, contracts, policies.
Haystac depends on containment.
The architecture prevents data from leaving.
×
Cloud AI moves data outward.
Sensitive content goes to external services.
Haystac brings AI inward.
The model runs where the content already lives.
×
Cloud AI creates new approval paths.
Every use case needs a fresh vendor review.
Haystac fits existing security models.
It looks like internal software, because it is.
×
Cloud AI mitigates leakage risk.
You patch the exposure with contracts.
Haystac is designed to eliminate data egress.
The exposure is not there to mitigate.
Build vs. buy

A private AI build is not a side project.

Building a secure, compliant AI environment from scratch is not just a model deployment. It means designing the runtime, hardening the framework, managing model governance, aligning to NIST and FedRAMP expectations, building MLOps controls, preparing audit evidence, and maintaining the environment over time. That is an infrastructure program before it is an AI program. Haystac gives teams the private deployment model without forcing them to build the whole AI platform themselves.

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DIY requires security architecture.
Network policy, secrets, identity, hardening.
Haystac ships with hardened deployment patterns.
Pre-built defaults aligned to regulated environments.
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DIY requires compliance mapping.
You write the SSP from a blank page.
Designed around NIST 800-53 and FedRAMP expectations.
Controls and evidence are part of the product.
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DIY requires model operations.
Training, eval, retrieval, governance — you own all of it.
Haystac includes the content, extraction, reasoning, and workflow stack.
Operational from day one, not from quarter four.
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DIY delays business value.
12–24 months before the first regulated workload runs.
Haystac gets teams to production faster.
Weeks, not quarters.
Use cases

Built for AI workflows that cannot leave the enterprise boundary.

Banking document intelligence

Loan, KYC, trade, and regulatory files.

Process loan files, KYC packets, trade documents, regulatory records, and internal procedures inside customer-controlled infrastructure.

Insurance claims automation

Claims processing with PII contained.

Classify claim packets, extract facts, identify exceptions, reason over policy language, and route cases without exposing PII.

Healthcare records processing

Chart and payer logic inside the boundary.

Read clinical records, prior authorizations, lab results, payer rules, and treatment documentation within controlled environments.

Government case intake

Casework with full data containment.

Process applications, permits, eligibility files, FOIA records, and compliance documents with data containment and auditability.

Regulated BPO operations

Multi-tenant document processing.

Run high-volume document processing for customers with strict data handling, isolation, and deployment requirements.

Enterprise knowledge Q&A

Ask your own policies, privately.

Let employees ask questions against policies, procedures, records, and repositories without sending prompts or documents to external AI services.

Business impact

Faster AI adoption with less internal resistance.

Shorter path through security review

The deployment model matches how regulated enterprises already approve internal software: controlled infrastructure, defined boundaries, documented controls.

Lower data exposure risk

Sensitive content stays inside the customer’s environment instead of moving to external AI services.

Faster time to production

Teams avoid the long build cycle required to create a secure AI runtime from scratch.

More control over models and outputs

The organization controls where models run, what content they access, what they produce, and how results are logged.

Better fit for compliance teams

NIST 800-53 alignment, FedRAMP-ready architecture, signed artifacts, hardened containers, and audit-ready controls reduce review burden.

A foundation for governed AI operations

Once AI runs inside the enterprise boundary, teams can safely expand from document processing to reasoning, validation, and workflow execution.

OmniSuite™

Every part of the AI stack runs where you control it.

Containerized AI is the deployment foundation for OmniSuite™. Each module can operate inside the customer’s environment, connected through controlled services and APIs.

Chicago
classify
inside boundary
Nashville
extract
inside boundary
Orion
reason
inside boundary
Polaris
act
inside boundary
Chicago
Classify inside the boundary.

Separates and routes documents without moving sensitive intake streams outside the customer environment.

Nashville
Extract inside the boundary.

Turns documents into structured data while keeping source content, model training, and validation under customer control.

Orion
Reason inside the boundary.

Answers questions using retrieval-grounded enterprise content without sending prompts or documents to public AI services.

Polaris
Act inside the boundary.

Coordinates tools, systems, workflows, and human review with full auditability and control.

Classify, extract, reason, and act — without moving the work outside your environment.

Deployment models

Choose the control model your environment requires.

Maximum control
On-premises

Haystac runs inside the customer’s data center. Recommended for organizations with the strictest data residency, sovereignty, and compliance requirements.

Best forGovernment, defense, top-tier banks, highly regulated healthcare and insurance environments.
Faster access
Private cloud

Haystac runs inside a customer-managed VPC on AWS, Azure, or GCP. Dedicated environment. No shared SaaS tenancy.

chicago nashville orion polaris
Best forInsurers, healthcare organizations, regional banks, and enterprises that want private deployment without hardware procurement.
Best of both
Hybrid

Sensitive intake on-prem. Elastic reasoning in private cloud. Classification and extraction stay close to data; reasoning uses cloud GPU where appropriate.

on-prem
intake
vpc
reason
Best forLarge enterprises transitioning between data center and private cloud strategies.
Security architecture

Controls built in, not bolted on.

Haystac’s containerized AI framework is designed to reduce the amount of custom security work customers need to do before production. The controls are part of the deployment architecture, not optional services added later.

net

Default-deny network policies

No inbound or outbound access by default. Network access is explicitly granted only where required.

net

No internet connectivity

Containers can operate without external service dependencies, keeping data away from public AI services.

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Signed and verified artifacts

Container images are cryptographically signed and verified to reduce supply chain risk.

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Hardened containers

Non-root execution, read-only file systems, minimal base images, and reduced attack surface.

runtime

In-memory processing

Sensitive content can be processed without persistent storage exposure.

log

No sensitive content logging

Operational logs capture events without recording regulated document content or sensitive prompts.

nist

NIST 800-53 aligned controls

Boundary protection, information flow enforcement, vulnerability management, and software integrity controls are built into the architecture.

fed

FedRAMP-ready architecture

Designed to reduce the compliance burden for government and highly regulated environments.

The difference

Not cloud AI. Not a multi-year DIY build.

Requirement
Public cloud AI
DIY private AI
Haystac containerized AI
Data control
Relies on vendor policy
Customer-controlled
Customer-controlled by architecture
Deployment speed
Fast, but external
Slow
Fast inside customer environment
Security work
Vendor-dependent
Built from scratch
Pre-hardened deployment model
Compliance fit
Requires review of external risk
Must be designed and validated
NIST/FedRAMP-aligned architecture
Data leakage risk
Mitigated by contract and policy
Depends on implementation
Designed for no data egress
Audit readiness
Limited to vendor controls
Customer must build evidence
Controls and architecture documented
Best fit
Low-risk AI use cases
Large teams with long timelines
Regulated AI workflows needing control and speed

“Haystac does not ask regulated enterprises to choose between control and speed.”

FAQ

Common questions about Containerized AI.

What does Containerized AI actually mean?

It means Haystac’s AI services are packaged and deployed as controlled containers that run inside the customer’s own infrastructure, rather than as an external SaaS AI service.

Does data leave our environment?

No. Haystac is designed so documents, prompts, outputs, and model operations stay inside the customer-controlled environment.

Is this only for on-premises deployments?

No. Haystac supports on-premises, customer-managed private cloud, and hybrid deployment models.

How is this different from cloud AI?

Cloud AI requires sensitive content to move to an external provider or external service boundary. Haystac brings the AI stack to the content instead.

How is this different from building it ourselves?

A DIY build requires teams to create secure runtime architecture, model governance, compliance alignment, hardening, MLOps, and audit evidence from scratch. Haystac provides the hardened AI platform as a deployable product.

Can it integrate with existing systems?

Yes. OmniSuite™ is designed to work with ECM, case management, workflow, CRM, ERP, and other enterprise systems through controlled APIs and deployment patterns.

Is it aligned to regulated environments?

Yes. The architecture is designed around data containment, NIST 800-53 aligned controls, FedRAMP-ready expectations, hardened containers, and audit-ready operations.

Ready when you are

See what AI looks like inside your environment.

Haystac brings document intelligence, grounded reasoning, and governed workflow automation into the infrastructure you already control.

We enable highly regulated organizations to build, govern, and operate domain-specific models within their own infrastructure and governance frameworks.