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Why Yurts? Flexible, Secure, and Innovative AI Solution

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You'll learn the key advantages of Yurts' innovative AI platform:

  • Flexibility: Adapt to your unique needs with an LLM-agnostic platform and deployment options
  • Security: Ensure data protection with enterprise-grade security and air-gapped deployments
  • Integration: Enhance existing systems and workflows seamlessly without replacement

Keep reading to learn how Yurts empowers organizations with flexible, secure, and innovative AI solutions.

Proprietary models and closed systems are the wrong direction for AI. Yurts stands apart, rooted in flexibility, security, and innovation. But before diving into what makes us different, you may be wondering—why Yurts? Why did we choose this name for our company, and what does it symbolize for our approach to AI?

The answer lies in the very essence of a yurt.

Yurts: A Symbol of Unassumed Flexibility and Utility

A yurt is a portable, round tent traditionally used by nomadic cultures in Central Asia. It’s been around for thousands of years, representing the perfect balance of durability and adaptability. While a yurt can be moved and set up anywhere, it also provides a strong, protective space for communities to live, work, and explore. You can find them today overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Big Sur, CA, or acting as Louis Vuitton storefronts in St. Moritz, Switzerland. 

We embrace these values in our platform. Just as a yurt brings people together under one roof, Yurts brings together applications, workflows, and data under one flexible, secure AI framework. In a world where organizations are often locked into rigid, proprietary systems, we aim to provide a solution that adapts to your unique needs while fostering collaboration.

Preserving Your Investments, Enhancing Your Systems

One trend we’ve noticed in the industry is that many AI companies are focused on replacing existing applications and workflows with completely new solutions. While exciting, this approach often requires companies to discard systems that they’ve spent years—and enormous sums of money—developing. The result? Huge investments risk being lost, and a costly overhaul becomes necessary.

We don’t believe in replacing what’s already working well. Instead, we’re focused on enhancing your existing workflows and systems by integrating AI within them. We see tremendous value in the applications, systems of record, and processes that enterprises have carefully built over time. They don’t need to be overhauled; they need to be augmented with AI.

With Yurts, you can unlock new workflows, automate existing processes, and empower users to do more—without starting from scratch. This approach allows you to add AI deep within your systems, maximizing value without risking disruption.

Flexibility and Customization at the Core

Just as a yurt adapts to different environments, Yurts is designed for flexibility. We are a Large Language Model (LLM)-agnostic platform, meaning you can choose the models that best meet your unique requirements, whether for security, performance, or cost. You aren’t forced into a one-size-fits-all solution.

Yurts also offers deployment flexibility. Whether you need to run your AI in the cloud, on-premises, in a virtual private cloud (VPC), or across hybrid environments, Yurts can meet you where you are. This adaptability is key to ensuring that your data remains secure while giving you the control and performance you need.

Integration and Openness in a Walled Garden Era

In an era where many tech companies are building walled gardens for data, locking businesses into proprietary ecosystems that limit flexibility, Yurts is taking a different approach. We believe in openness and interoperability.

Our platform is designed to integrate seamlessly with your existing systems, whether legacy applications or modern cloud infrastructures. This allows you to leverage AI across all facets of your organization, connecting disparate systems and streamlining workflows. By enabling broad API access and integration options, Yurts helps you avoid the lock-in that so many other platforms impose.

You don’t need to discard what you’ve built. Yurts ensures that AI fits into your existing landscape, rather than forcing your organization to bend around a rigid new system.

Security and Innovation Under One Roof

Much like a yurt provides a safe and protective space, Yurts delivers enterprise-grade security without stifling innovation. Our platform includes context-aware search and best in class Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to generate AI-driven insights based on trusted, verified data. This reduces the risks associated with AI hallucinations, a critical factor in high-stakes environments like government or defense.

We’ve forged key partnerships to bring cutting-edge AI capabilities to even the most secure environments. For example, we produced the first fully air-gapped LLM platform with Lambda in 2023, and we’ve gone on to partner with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Oracle to deploy our platform on their air-gapped systems used by the Department of Defense (DoD) ideal for sensitive, edge-based deployments. This ensures that government agencies and defense departments can use the most advanced AI solutions while maintaining the highest security standards, in any environment and setting.

Empowering the Future—Without Replacing the Past

In a world increasingly reliant on AI, we believe that flexibility and interoperability are essential. Like a yurt, Yurts is designed to be adaptable, secure, and sustainable—bringing people, data, and systems together in an open and robust platform.

At Yurts, we see the future of AI not as a replacement for what’s already in place, but as an enhancement—a way to build upon the applications and workflows that already power your organization. You don’t need to throw away years of investment to embrace AI; you just need to augment your systems with intelligent, adaptable solutions that work for you.

So, why Yurts?

Because just like its namesake, Yurts is designed to empower and protect. It’s a space for innovation, security, and collaboration—a flexible foundation for the future of AI, built on the strength of your existing systems.

Thank you for being part of this journey.

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written by
Ben Van Roo
CEO and Founder
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