Orlo Documentation

Orlo is the governed domain AI control plane for production decision paths.

A model can look fine in staging and still fail in production. A retrieval call can pull stale policy. An agent can reach for a write tool without approval. A deployment can keep serving after validation quality slips. Orlo sits on that path and makes those decisions reviewable, governable, and improvable.

This documentation site covers two connected surfaces:

  • Orlo Open Core — public packages for validation, runtime adapters, Web Components, and agent-governance SDKs
  • Orlo Platform — the managed multi-tenant platform and the APIs used to integrate with it

The Operational Surface

Orlo is built for a concrete operational surface:

  • before production — define tasks, upload datasets, compare models, and freeze deployments
  • on the decision path — route inference, validate outputs, retrieve grounded context, and gate consequential actions
  • after production traffic — review traces, stage feedback, promote corrections, and improve the next deployment

Start Here

Quickstarts

If you want to see Orlo working quickly, start with one of these:

Open Core

Orlo Open Core is for developers and platform builders who want reusable building blocks:

  • deterministic validation
  • runtime adapters
  • agent-governance SDKs
  • framework-agnostic Studio Web Components

If you want to understand or adopt the open packages first, start with:

Orlo Platform

Orlo Platform is the full managed product experience:

  • task definition and versioning
  • dataset upload and evaluation
  • deployment and inference
  • retrieval and document ingestion
  • governed feedback promotion
  • multi-tenant platform behavior
  • agent-step governance APIs

If you are integrating against the product, start with:

Orlo Platform APIs are available at api.useorlo.com.

## Choose the Right Path

Use Open Core when

  • you want to evaluate Orlo's technical primitives
  • you want reusable validation, adapter, or UI components
  • you are integrating Orlo-style governance into an existing engineering stack

Use Orlo Platform when

  • you want the full evaluation-to-deployment loop
  • you need tenant isolation, auditability, approvals, and governance in one system
  • you want a domain team to use AI safely without becoming an AI platform team

Core Concepts

  • Task — the unit of domain work
  • Task Version — immutable snapshot of schemas, prompts, and validation
  • Dataset — labeled examples for evaluation
  • Evaluation — budget-bounded, uncertainty-aware model comparison
  • Deployment — a frozen model + task-version + strategy binding
  • Inference — governed execution through the Orlo runtime path
  • Feedback — corrections and promotion into improved datasets
  • Agent Session — a governed trajectory of agent steps