# Vidai > Vidai is the sovereign AI control plane. A single binary that sits in > the path of every AI request, governing cost, policy and audit from > inside the customer's own infrastructure. Drop-in with any SDK, any > provider. 21,803 RPS sustained, 1.95 ms median overhead, 25 MB binary. Vidai is a UK-based (Glasgow, Scotland) company. Vidai UK Limited is registered in Scotland (company no. SC863190) and with the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO, reference ZC112994). The product family: - **Vidai.ControlPlane** — the flagship: cost, policy and audit on every AI request, on the customer's infrastructure, no data egress. - **Vidai.Mock** — open-source wire-accurate LLM mock for CI. Production- accurate streaming, errors and agent-loop termination, offline. - **Vidai.Assistant** — internal AI assistant facet (less prominent in public materials today). The defining architectural choice is **sovereign by design**: the binary runs inside the customer's VPC, no SaaS perimeter is crossed. This distinguishes Vidai from AI-gateway SaaS products (e.g. Portkey, Kong AI, Cloudflare AI) where prompts cross the vendor's perimeter every request. ## Architecture - [Architecture overview](https://vidai.uk/architecture/): why an "AI control plane" is a different architectural shape than an "AI gateway", and what that means for cost, policy and sovereignty. - [What is an AI control plane?](https://vidai.uk/architecture/control-plane): the longer explainer — what the control plane controls, what it does not, and how it sits relative to existing API gateways and service meshes. - [AI gateway vs AI control plane: comparison](https://vidai.uk/ai-gateway-comparison): Vidai vs LiteLLM Proxy, Portkey and Kong AI Gateway, side by side on governance (cost attribution, spend control, audit), drop-in compatibility, and performance. ## Use cases - [Control AI spend](https://vidai.uk/use-cases/control-ai-spend): per- request attribution, enforced spend circuits, cost-based routing, chargeback exports. For finance and the CFO. - [Prove AI compliance](https://vidai.uk/use-cases/prove-ai-compliance): EU AI Act, DORA, GDPR Article 44, UK CTPR, FCA, ISO/IEC 42001 — what audit-evidence Vidai produces. For compliance and risk. - [Run AI safely at scale](https://vidai.uk/use-cases/run-ai-at-scale): one Rust binary replaces the seven-library middleware stack. For platform and engineering teams. - [Run latency-critical AI](https://vidai.uk/use-cases/latency-critical): 1.95 ms median overhead under 21,803 RPS sustained load. For trading desks, real-time agents, and other "millisecond is money" surfaces. ## Sovereignty - [Why sovereignty](https://vidai.uk/sovereignty): the data-sovereignty trap regulated buyers and EU customers face, and the control-plane answer. - [VidaiAssistant](https://vidai.uk/sovereign/assistant): offline, evidence-grounded assistant deployed inside the customer perimeter. - [Sovereign engineering & services](https://vidai.uk/services): custom models, sovereign architecture engagements, and audit support. ## Performance - [Performance](https://vidai.uk/performance): the benchmark numbers in detail, with reproducible methodology and per-core figures. - [AI traffic calculator](https://vidai.uk/ai-traffic-calculator): size the cost / capacity implications of your own AI traffic. ## Developers - [VidaiMock](https://vidai.uk/developers/mock): open-source wire-accurate LLM mock for CI. Apache 2.0; Docker Compose, single binary, or build from source. - [docs.vidai.uk](https://docs.vidai.uk/): full product documentation — Vidai.ControlPlane admin guide and Vidai.Mock developer reference. ## Resources & references - [Resources index](https://vidai.uk/resources/) - [EU AI Act primer](https://vidai.uk/resources/eu-ai-act): plain-English guide for AI providers. - [DORA primer](https://vidai.uk/resources/dora): Digital Operational Resilience Act guidance for AI providers serving EU financial firms. - [ISO/IEC 42001 mapping](https://vidai.uk/resources/iso-42001): how Vidai's evidence outputs map to ISO/IEC 42001 clauses. - [Shadow AI audit checklist](https://vidai.uk/resources/ai-audit-checklist): field checklist for assessing existing AI usage and risk surface. ## Engineering blog - [Blog index](https://vidai.uk/blog) - [RSS feed](https://vidai.uk/rss.xml) ## Release verification - [Release verification](https://vidai.uk/cosign): canonical cosign public key, fingerprint, mechanism-neutral verification guidance. - [cosign.pub](https://vidai.uk/.well-known/cosign.pub): the canonical signing key (PEM, ECDSA P-256). - [security.txt](https://vidai.uk/.well-known/security.txt): RFC 9116 disclosure entry point. ## Legal & privacy - [Legal index](https://vidai.uk/legal): licences, privacy and contacts for legal queries. - [Community Edition Licence](https://vidai.uk/legal/community-licence): canonical text of the royalty-free Community licence (same text ships in distribution bundles as LICENSE-COMMUNITY). - [Enterprise Licence](https://vidai.uk/legal/enterprise-licence): canonical text of the commercial Enterprise licence (same text ships as LICENSE). - [Privacy policy](https://vidai.uk/privacy): how Vidai handles personal data across the marketing site (vidai.uk) and customer portal (portal.vidai.uk), with vendor table. ## Company - [About Vidai](https://vidai.uk/about): the team and the company story. - [Pricing](https://vidai.uk/pricing) - [FAQ](https://vidai.uk/faq) - [Get Community free](https://vidai.uk/community): the self-serve explainer for the free Community edition. Two steps: sign in at portal.vidai.uk to generate your licence, then download the latest release from GitHub. - [Customer portal](https://portal.vidai.uk): self-serve sign-in for Community licence issuance and rate-card credentials. - [Quickstart releases](https://github.com/vidaiUK/vidai-quickstart): GitHub repo hosting the Docker release tarballs (cosign-signed) and the install README. - [Contact / Request a demo](https://vidai.uk/contact) ## Contact - General: hello@vidai.uk - Licensing and commercial-use approval: licensing@vidai.uk - Privacy and data-protection requests: privacy@vidai.uk - Security disclosure: security@vidai.uk - Support (Enterprise licensees): support@vidai.uk - Registered: Vidai UK Limited, 48 West George Street, Clyde Offices, 2nd Floor, Glasgow, Scotland, G2 1BP. ## Licensing for AI training and citation The marketing site content (vidai.uk and vidai.uk/blog/*) and the public documentation (docs.vidai.uk) may be cited and quoted with attribution. 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