Open at SynOI

Open the protocols. Sell the platform.

SynOI publishes the protocols that govern AI agent actions as open standards under CC0 or Apache-2.0 - anyone can implement them. The hosted services, the reference implementation, and the Resonance retrieval engine stay ours. Same model as Postgres + Supabase, Terraform + Terraform Cloud, OAuth + Okta.

What's open

SRAID-Core

Open

Self-Routing Addressable Identity Data - L0 object layer

CC0 spec + MIT reference library (@synoi/sraid)

The L0 substrate: content-addressed signed objects (CDRO, MRO, OID), canonical hashing, Ed25519 + ML-DSA-65 hybrid signatures, supersession + provenance.

OID Resolver

Open

DNS-shaped lookup for content-addressed objects

CC0 + MIT reference implementation

Given an OID, returns canonical locations, revocation status, supersession chain. Anyone can run a Resolver; SynOI's hosted Resolver competes on uptime + reach.

GAP

Open

Governed Action Protocol

CC0 spec + Apache-2.0 reference library (@synoi/gap)

Capability declarations, grants, workflows, multi-stage HITL choreography, channel adapters, L1/L2/L3 revocation, Decision Receipts. The protocol governing every action AI agents take.

On the roadmap (not yet shipped)

The following will be open once built. They are not yet available as libraries or APIs.

Inference Broker API

Roadmap

Governed ML dispatch surface

CC0 spec (in development)

Capability-gated NPU/GPU/CPU/cloud dispatch with power policy, per-inference Decision Receipts, and SCG-signed model registry. The shipped @synoi/broker covers cloud-LLM cost-arbitrage and the wrap() API; the full device-dispatch + power-policy spec is a paper design that has not yet been built. No @synoi/inference-client library exists yet.

What stays proprietary

Three things are SynOI's actual competitive moat. Opening these would commoditize the company.

Resonance

Proprietary

The proprietary similarity-retrieval engine: provenance weighting, multi-signal ranking, multi-modal indexing. Algorithms never published. The named differentiator from day one.

Hosted services

Proprietary

oid.synoi.systems, Vault canonical tier with OpenTimestamps + Sigstore Rekor anchoring, synoi-control subscription management, synoi-portal customer dashboard.

Curated content

Proprietary

Premium GAP workflow templates (incident response, equipment-control, voice-approval), compliance pack mappings (NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act, HIPAA Safe Harbor), the SynOI-signed skill library.

The layer picture

L4  Apps                ── Vault Browser, Identity, Quest
L3  GAP                 ★ OPEN ★    Governed Action Protocol (CC0 spec / Apache-2.0 lib)
L2  Inference Broker    ◷ ROADMAP   Governed ML dispatch (spec in development)
    Resonance           ✕ CLOSED    Similarity retrieval (the moat)
L1  Vault               ★ OPEN spec / ✕ HOSTED proprietary
    OID Resolver        ★ OPEN spec / ✕ HOSTED proprietary
L0  SRAID-Core          ★ OPEN ★    Self-Routing Addressable Identity Data (CC0 spec / MIT lib)

Every layer that's open can be implemented independently. Every layer that's closed delivers value that's hard to replicate without years of investment.

Why open?

Enterprise procurement increasingly demands open standards. "Is this an open protocol or vendor lock-in?" comes up in every serious RFP for AI governance tooling. Closed protocols lose those RFPs. Open standards with the best reference implementation win them.

Standards adherence creates the ecosystem. When third-party apps integrate against open GAP, every new integration increases the value of being on SynOI's reference implementation, because ours has the most-tested dispatcher, the curated content library, and the proprietary Resonance retrieval underneath.

Resonance is the moat, not the protocols. Opening SRAID + GAP + Resolver costs us little - those are data shapes and state machines. Resonance is proprietary similarity-ranking that's hard to clone without re-doing the tuning work. Keeping the moat where the work is.

The precedent

PostgreSQL+Supabase / Neon

Open database, paid hosted service. Same database, different value.

Terraform+Terraform Cloud

Open IaC, paid orchestration + collaboration layer.

OAuth2 / OIDC+Okta / Auth0

Open identity protocols, commercial implementations win on integrations + reliability.

MQTT / HomeKit / Matter+Vendor implementations

Open IoT protocols. Vendors compete on hardware quality, not protocol lock-in.

ActivityPub+Mastodon hosting providers

Open federated social protocol, paid hosting layer.

HTTP / HTML+AWS / Cloudflare

Open web protocols, hosting + edge services win on operational excellence.

Build with us

The specs live in our published specs. Read them. Implement them. Fork them. The license is CC0 (public domain, no attribution required).

The reference TypeScript libraries (@synoi/sraid MIT, @synoi/oid-resolver MIT, @synoi/gap Apache-2.0) are available on npm. The GAP spec itself is CC0; the @synoi/gap reference library is Apache-2.0.

The reference SynOI Gateway implementation is dual-licensed: AGPL-3.0-or-later for open-source deployments; a commercial license is available for proprietary use. Contact us for commercial licensing.

For substantive protocol changes, follow the RFC process in get in touch.

Trademark notice

Open protocols don't mean open brand. The names SynOI, SynOI Vault, SynOI Resonance, SynOI Gateway, SynOI Identity are trademarks of Foundation X, LLC. The CC0 dedication on the specs does notgrant trademark rights. If you implement GAP, you can say "this is a GAP implementation." You cannot say "this is SynOI" or "this is SynOI-compatible" without a separate trademark agreement.