BUILD VS BUY
Your engineers can build it. The real question is whether you want them spending the next several quarters on trust-layer plumbing instead of the AI your business asked for.
THE SCOPE
Anthropic’s Zero Trust for AI Agents framework defines what secure looks like. Building it yourself means delivering all of these:
Your build list: 0 items
Then add the parts the framework doesn’t cover:
THE COSTS THAT DON’T SHOW UP IN THE PLAN
AI security, data governance and platform engineering, all at once.
New models, new agent frameworks and new protocols like MCP arrive every quarter. Your controls have to keep up with each one.
New modelRegulators and auditors want answers in hours. Someone has to build and maintain the provenance pipeline.
Monitoring, incident response and upgrades, indefinitely.
Build in-house: a multi-quarter platform program
TrustHouse: under a week
| Build in-house | TrustHouse | |
|---|---|---|
| Time to production | A multi-quarter platform program | Under a week from signed agreement |
| Where it runs | Your environment | Your VPC, operated as a managed service |
| Keeping up with new models and frameworks | Your team | Included in the managed SLA |
| Trusted business context | A separate build | Context Engine |
| Decision provenance | A separate build | Built in |
| Lock-in | To your own code | None. Your data, models and IP stay yours. |
Time to production
Under a week from signed agreement
Where it runs
Your VPC, operated as a managed service
Keeping up with new models and frameworks
Included in the managed SLA
Trusted business context
Context Engine
Decision provenance
Built in
Lock-in
None. Your data, models and IP stay yours.
KEEP WHAT YOU’VE BUILT
Point TrustHouse at any existing AI build on Bedrock, Vertex, Azure OpenAI or any model, and it comes under policy immediately. Your engineers keep building the AI. TrustHouse runs the trust layer around it.
Yes. Policies, guardrails and corporate guidelines are yours to define. TrustHouse enforces them.
There's no software license to unwind and no architectural lock-in. Your agents, data and models stay where they are.
TrustHouse runs as a managed service inside your infrastructure, under an SLA.