Self-hosted AI agents and control-plane ownership

Self-hosted AI agents require enterprises to evaluate not only model placement but also ownership of orchestration, session handling, inference, analytics, connected tools, maintenance, and support access. Factory presents Managed as a hosted control-plane option and Private as a customer-hosted alternative, with deployment choices determined by specific requirements for data boundaries, access controls, and operational responsibility rather than by labels alone. Organizations considering private deployments should map data flows, gateways, retries, diagnostics, and dependencies; establish processes for releases, recovery, certificate management, model validation, and incident response; and test complete workflows rather than isolated model responses. Airgapped deployments impose additional restrictions by eliminating runtime connectivity and disabling cloud-dependent features, while GovCloud hosting and customer-operated infrastructure do not by themselves demonstrate completed authorization, particularly as Factory’s FedRAMP status was described as in progress. The recommended approach is to compare options through bounded tasks, approved permissions, known test suites, output quality, review effort, and the organization’s ability to operate and validate the chosen system.

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