The problem: the best engineers in regulated finance were locked out of the AI decade.

Cloud AI assistants are transformative — and unusable where prompts carry proprietary code, credentials, and customer context. Banks told us the same three things: data egress is a compliance event, auditors need evidence, and procurement needs provenance. So we built the assistant we could not buy.

One gate, everything behind it.

iChat puts a single service tier between every client and the model. Identity (OIDC/SSO), role-based model policy, offline license checks, and a full audit trail are enforced server-side — before a single token reaches the model. The models themselves run on vLLM, on your GPUs, inside your perimeter. There is no telemetry and no phone-home: the platform verifies its own license cryptographically, offline.

An agent that investigates before it answers.

A LangGraph-orchestrated agent searches, reads, outlines, and maps your repositories through seven read-only, path-jailed tools — exact search, semantic search, repository maps, file reads and structure — with every call streamed live to the developer and written to the audit log. Retrieval is hybrid (keyword plus semantic, rank-fused) and scales from a single file store to SQLite to ClickHouse without changing the product.

iCli: the whole platform, in a terminal.

Backend teams live in the shell, so iChat’s third client is a terminal UI with the same enforcement as the IDEs: streaming chat with live tool activity, headless OIDC device-flow sign-in for SSH sessions, and a one-shot mode that pipes governed AI straight into scripts and CI. No model keys on the laptop, nothing to bypass.

Licensed for the real world.

Licenses are signed files verified locally — evaluation licenses renew monthly, production licenses renew yearly, and a grace period means an expiry never strands engineers mid-sprint. Seats, features, and tenants are all in the signed payload; renewal is dropping in a new file. The stack underneath is deliberately open and clean: LangGraph, vLLM, ripgrep, and tree-sitter, with a full third-party license manifest and zero copyleft.

iChat is available today for evaluation inside your own perimeter — talk to us and see it answer questions about your codebase, on your hardware.