Backplanes vs The Brains

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Backplanes compared with The Brains
Detail	Backplanes	The Brains
What it does	Intent-based visibility and control for AI agents	Founders, CEOs and investors as searchable MCP servers for Claude, Cursor or ChatGPT
Stage	Not given	Not given
Founded	Not given	Not given
Based in	US	Not given
Pricing model	Freemium	Free
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.	Not given
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	Searchable MCP servers for each founder, CEO or investor Integration with Claude, Cursor and ChatGPT All answers cite their original sources Built from talks, essays and posts Request new brains to be built Claim and verify your own brain Open source codebase on GitHub
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	Every answer is cited and traceable to original sources Access to knowledge of founders, CEOs and investors in one place Works directly with popular AI tools like Claude, Cursor and ChatGPT Open source and community-driven
Community votes	0	0
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)	10 no change since last check	3 no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	5	6
Citation Flow (Majestic)	30	28
Referring domains (Majestic)	88	17

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