# Modern Relay > Context & Coordination Infra — for token-maxxing enterprise, teams, and people. Modern Relay is infrastructure for agent-native work: a context graph engine, a workspace, and the primitives to compose them. Runs on infrastructure you own — on-prem, on-device, or our hosted plane on plain S3 economics. ## Primary Positioning - Category: Context and coordination infrastructure for AI agents. - Core thesis: Agents are first-class citizens of how work gets done. They need their own substrate — branch, graph, policy, ontology — on infrastructure their company owns. - Product role: The data plane and the control plane for agent-native teams. - Main concepts: graph, branch, policy, ontology, ETL, storage, surface, config, open formats, owned infrastructure. ## Products - Omnigraph — Object-storage native graph. Git-style workflows. A typed knowledge graph that lives directly on object storage. Branch, merge, review and snapshot — built on Rust, Arrow, DataFusion and Lance. - Nanograph — Omnigraph, embedded. The same Omnigraph engine running in-process — a single binary on a laptop, in a CI job, or beside your agent. Same schema, same queries, no server. - Workspace — Control center for context and agents. Orchestration, integration, plugins and policies — one pane of glass over every graph your team operates. ## Keywords - context infrastructure for AI agents - coordination infrastructure for AI agents - agent-native data plane - embedded graph database - branchable graph - schema-as-code for AI - policy-as-code for agents - governed context graph - Lance / Arrow on S3 for AI - on-prem AI infrastructure - sovereign AI infrastructure - open-format AI knowledge base ## Canonical Pages - [Modern Relay](https://modernrelay.com/): Context and coordination infrastructure for agent-native teams. Branchable graph, policy-as-code, open storage — runs on infra you own. - [The Knowledge-Coordination Manifesto](https://modernrelay.com/manifesto): The coordination thesis: shared structured state, governed change, and sovereign infrastructure for the agent era. - [Memos](https://modernrelay.com/memos): Technical and strategic memos from the Modern Relay team. - [Careers](https://modernrelay.com/careers): Open roles at Modern Relay. - [Privacy Policy](https://modernrelay.com/privacy): How Modern Relay collects, uses, and protects information. - [Terms of Service](https://modernrelay.com/terms): Terms governing access to and use of Modern Relay. ## Memos - [Agents Are the New Database Operator](https://modernrelay.com/memos/agents-are-the-new-database-operator): Database categories form around their dominant operator. Agents are a new operator profile — and they need a database that treats reading, writing, and coordination as one loop. - [The Branchable Context Graph: A New Operational State Layer for Agentic Systems](https://modernrelay.com/memos/branchable-operational-graph): The dominant enterprise knowledge architecture will be replaced by a new pattern for agentic systems: a branchable operational graph — typed context, hybrid retrieval, branch-local proposed writes, and governance as a first-class system property. ## Open Roles - [Founding Engineer](https://modernrelay.com/careers/founding-engineer): Full-time, Remote — relocation to London or SF possible later. - [Founding Developer Advocate](https://modernrelay.com/careers/founding-developer-advocate): Full-time, Remote — relocation to London or SF possible later. ## Primitives - Data Branches: Git-style data branches — agents propose changes in isolation, reviewed and merged like code. - Graph: Typed nodes and edges — semantics and ontology. - Surfaces: Slack, VS Code, CLI, web, Claude — meet the graph where you already work. - Policy: Access and governance, defined as code. - Ontology: A model of your domain. A shared contract for agents and humans. - MD File: The native format. Human-readable, agent-editable. - ETL Pipeline: Deterministic and reproducible ingestion. - Object Storage: S3 — infinitely scalable storage at the lowest cost per GB. - Declarative Config: Code defines everything about your system. Consistency, auditability, reproducibility. - Events: Event streaming across the graph. - Notebook: Declarative UIs for teams. - Open Table Format: Lance as open lakehouse format for multimodal data. ## Surfaces - Slack: Ask the graph, get governed answers. - VS Code: Edit ontology and policy as code. - Web: The Workspace UI for humans. - CLI: Scriptable, scriptable, scriptable. - Terminal: Drop in via SSH — your graph is there. - Notebook: Jupyter cells over typed graph queries. - Pipeline: CI/CD-friendly. Diffs trigger reviews. ## Solutions - Company Brain: One graph every team and every agent works from. - Context Graph: The shared memory where agents coordinate work and compound knowledge. - GraphRAG: Retrieval grounded in structure, not just embeddings. - On-Prem AI Infra: Run the whole AI stack on infrastructure you own. ## Infra Comparison - On-prem — Fully inside your own data center. - VPC — In your own cloud account. - Hybrid — On-prem and cloud, one graph. ## Machine-Readable Mirrors - [Manifesto (Markdown)](https://modernrelay.com/manifesto/index.html.md): Markdown mirror of the manifesto. - [Agents Are the New Database Operator (Markdown)](https://modernrelay.com/memos/agents-are-the-new-database-operator/index.html.md): Markdown mirror of Agents Are the New Database Operator. - [The Branchable Context Graph: A New Operational State Layer for Agentic Systems (Markdown)](https://modernrelay.com/memos/branchable-operational-graph/index.html.md): Markdown mirror of The Branchable Context Graph: A New Operational State Layer for Agentic Systems. - [Careers (Markdown)](https://modernrelay.com/careers/index.html.md): Markdown index of open roles. - [Founding Engineer (Markdown)](https://modernrelay.com/careers/founding-engineer/index.html.md): Markdown mirror of Founding Engineer role. - [Founding Developer Advocate (Markdown)](https://modernrelay.com/careers/founding-developer-advocate/index.html.md): Markdown mirror of Founding Developer Advocate role. - [Privacy Policy (Markdown)](https://modernrelay.com/privacy/index.html.md): Markdown mirror of the privacy policy. - [Terms of Service (Markdown)](https://modernrelay.com/terms/index.html.md): Markdown mirror of the terms of service. - [Full LLM Context](https://modernrelay.com/llms-full.txt): Long-form markdown context for LLMs. ## External References - [Omnigraph documentation](https://www.omnigraph.dev/docs): Developer documentation for the graph foundation. - [Omnigraph GitHub](https://github.com/ModernRelay/omnigraph): Open-source graph foundation. - [Modern Relay LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/modern-relay): Company profile.