← Start Here · This is Step 3: The Infrastructure

The independent third party between your LLM and your Runtime.

LAO picks the right model, cuts wasted tokens, and provides infrastructure for capturing, anchoring, verifying and reusing Agent Experience.

LLM vendors sell tokens. Runtimes move them. LAO watches the door for you.

Install LAO — free & open source For Agents →

Apache 2.0 · No telemetry · No lock-in

What LAO does

① Run it, inspect it, verify

LAO is open source (Apache 2.0). Install it, read the code, fork it, run it on your real workload. Every claim is auditable against the source. Your keys stay with you — zero telemetry, zero lock-in.

Install LAO → · GitHub →

② Capture Experience

Every operation that passes through LAO generates operational data. LAO provides the infrastructure to capture this data with full context — which task, which model, what outcome — so it can become verified Experience.

What is Experience? →

③ Improve efficiency and cost

Cache-miss requests are 8.5% of token volume but 56% of cost measured · pending official reconciliation. LAO plugs that hole. Cache hit rate: 91.3% measured · pending official reconciliation.

LAO is infrastructure, not a complete system

LAO is the entry point for Agent reliability — the layer that sits between your LLM and your Runtime. It is not the entire solution. It is the foundation on which Experience-based reliability is built.

Status applies at claim level. The table below shows the authoritative status of each claim on this page.

Claim Status
LAO is open source (Apache 2.0) TODAY
LAO provides model routing + cache-aware token optimization TODAY
Cache hit rate: 91.3% TODAY · measured · pending official reconciliation
LAO has zero telemetry TODAY
Formal Experience verification and fingerprinting pipeline NEXT
Experience reuse across sessions (Reliable Agent Layer) NEXT

TODAY — shipping now

  • Per-task model selection and routing
  • Cache-aware token optimization
  • Intent lock and Experience anchoring
  • Operational data capture with full context
  • Zero telemetry — your keys, your data
  • Open source (Apache 2.0) — auditable, forkable

NEXT — under development

  • Formal Experience verification and fingerprinting pipeline
  • Experience reuse across sessions (Reliable Agent Layer)
  • Public Experience Protocol specification
  • Cross-Agent Experience interoperability

LAO in 60 seconds

Your Agent has a task
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LAO picks the right model (cost, capability, history)
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LLM responds → LAO checks: cache hit or miss?
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Hit (91.3%) → instant response, near-zero cost
Miss (8.5%) → full LLM call, but Experience captured
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Every outcome → anchored for future reuse

Cache-miss is 8.5% of volume but 56% of cost. LAO plugs that hole. Source →

What is LAO the foundation for?

LAO captures Experience. But Experience is not the end — it is the beginning of a chain that leads to Agent reliability.

LAO captures Experience TODAY

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Experience makes Agents reliable

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Reliable Agents become digital employees

How does Experience create reliability? →

Independent infrastructure layer — on your side of the table.

Nobody on the vendor side gets paid when you spend less. So someone independent has to sit between your LLM and your Runtime — representing no vendor, aligned only with you.

🛡️ Represents no vendor

No markup, no cut per token. Your saved cost is the only metric.

🔍 Everything auditable

Apache 2.0. Every claim carries its source and waits for official reconciliation.

🔑 Keys stay with you

Your keys, your data, no telemetry. Walk away anytime.

Real numbers, not promises.

No figure appears without a source. Cost numbers publish only after official reconciliation. How we verify →

📋 Receipt slots reserved

Slots ready; receipts being reconciled one by one.

Where does LAO lead?

LAO is the entry point — not the destination. Here is what it connects to.

Experience

What LAO captures. Why it is different from memory, context, or RAG.

What is Experience? →

Reliable Agent

What Experience produces. The mechanism: verification → reuse → evaluation → improvement.

How does reliability emerge? →

Evidence

Real incidents, real numbers, real receipts. Every claim has a source.

See the proof →

Install LAO

📦 One command

pip install git+https://github.com/ZWISERFIT/lao.git

GitHub: ZWISERFIT/lao →

📖 Apache 2.0

Read it, audit it, fork it.

🔑 Zero LLM calls

Your keys. No markup. Ever.

About ZWISERFIT

LAO is our first open-source product — not our last. Everything we ship keeps three promises: on your side, honest about limits, yours to keep.

"I hit these holes myself, so you don't have to."

See the full story →

Next: Reliable Agent — how Experience creates reliability →