Backplanes vs Custodian Labs

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Backplanes compared with Custodian Labs
Detail	Backplanes	Custodian Labs
What it does	Intent-based visibility and control for AI agents	Deploy production-grade AI agents in 2 minutes with built-in PII protection
Stage	Not given	Not given
Founded	Not given	Not given
Based in	US	NZ
Pricing model	Freemium	Freemium
Pricing	Know is free with no seats or trial clock. Enforce and Prove is a subscription priced on the agent work you put under control, not per seat. Contact for subscription pricing details.	Basic (Free): 100k tokens, 1k requests, GPT-6 Luna, email and community support. Starter: $19/month (was $49): 1m tokens, 10k requests, all models with newest first, priority 24/7 support, direct roadmap input, monthly 1:1 product call, free compliance assessment. Custom: contact for enterprise need
Key features	Monitor, warn or block agent actions Policy drafting from observed agent activity Audit trail for every decision One-command installation Local policy enforcement without external calls	Guardian Layer PII protection with remove, mask, transform or detect options Support for over 100 AI models including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral and open-source Build with Python, JavaScript or visual no-code builder Multi-agent routing with specialized agents on different models Tools including web search, Gmail, X, URL scraping and document parsing Built-in knowledge base with automatic retrieval, embeddings and citations Zero infrastructure deployment with hosted endpoint and auto-scaling Session memory included in deployments Bring your own API key or use Custodian-managed models Custom entity types for PII protection
What makes it different	Drafts policies from actual agent behavior before anything is enforced Deterministic, intent-based decisions instead of authorization checks No OAuth into AI providers or agent changes required PII and credentials scrubbed before leaving the machine	Guardian Layer proprietary PII protection keeps context while protecting sensitive data Deploy production agents in 2 minutes with no infrastructure setup One-line model switching across 100+ models without changing agent logic Complete support agent with knowledge base and memory in 6 lines of code Built-in multi-agent routing for specialized agent teams
Community votes	0	0
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)	5 −1 (down) since last check	3 no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	5	9
Citation Flow (Majestic)	30	23
Referring domains (Majestic)	88	52

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