The secure access layer for government-ready AI

Ship AI into the mission,
not around the rules.

Optimal is the secure access layer between your agents and the models they use. Authorize every call, block what shouldn’t cross the boundary, and prove every control — across GovCloud, on-prem, and air-gapped.

Hub-and-Spoke · self-hosted Sovereign by default Zero-persistence option

Built to the standards that gate production

FedRAMP 20xNIST AI RMFISO 42001SOC 2OWASP LLM Top 10IL4 – IL6HIPAAPCI DSS v4DISA STIG
SDVOSB — Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, SBA VetCert certified

Optimal, LLC is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business — SBA-certified and eligible for veteran set-aside contracts.

The platform

One control plane over every model call.

Four surfaces, one governed boundary — the body, badge, keys, and audit trail for AI in regulated environments.

01

Secure AI Gateway

Every model call flows through one governed boundary — authorized against an accredited allowlist, scanned for injection, jailbreak and data exfiltration, then forwarded to a FedRAMP-authorized model.

02

Agent Governance

Per-agent identity, tool and data-scope allowlists, autonomy dials, rate limits, and a kill switch. Bound to mTLS / SPIFFE identity from your mesh — not a self-asserted header.

03

Red-team & Assurance

Attacker-style probes mapped to the OWASP LLM Top 10 gate promotion before a model ships. Hardened to CIS / DISA STIG, red-teamed, and proven — automatically, in the pull request.

04

Compliance Evidence

Hash-chained, append-only audit of every request and every token. Coverage against the frameworks you answer to, regenerated live — ingestible by an authorizing official.

How it works

Agents in. Accredited resources out.
Everything in between, governed.

01

Authorize

Authenticate the caller (mTLS / OIDC) and check the accredited model + resource allowlist.

02

Guard

Inline detection on prompt and response — injection, jailbreak, PII / DLP, exfiltration.

03

Forward

Proxy to a FedRAMP-authorized model in GovCloud / Assured Workloads, via workload identity.

04

Prove

Write a tamper-evident audit row; re-emit live compliance evidence per framework.

No wrapper, no SDK rewrite — point your existing OpenAI / Anthropic client at the gateway and every call is governed and logged.

Use cases

Built for the missions that can’t get it wrong.

Federal contractors

Use commercial LLMs inside the accreditation boundary

Route agents to GovCloud-hosted models with zero-persistence audit. Every request authorized, every token logged — the evidence an AO actually ingests.

State & local gov →
Healthcare

PHI-safe inference

DLP at the boundary blocks PHI egress before it leaves. HIPAA residency, no-train guarantees, and a full decision trace for OCR.

Optimal for Healthcare →
Financial services

Governed model access for regulated workloads

PCI-scoped routing, per-service identity, and continuous control evidence — so the QSA reads one live artifact instead of three stale tools.

Optimal for Financial →

“The audit is the product. Every authorization decision and model call lands in an append-only ledger — and the compliance coverage is computed from those same signals.”

Bring your organization
through the Gateway.

Tell us your accreditation boundary and the models you need. We’ll stand up authorized, audited access across your clouds.

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