Introducing Mentiko: Agent Pipelines You Actually Own

Most agent platforms rent you shared compute on their cloud, charge you per execution, and store your data on their servers. We built Mentiko because we think that model is broken.

The problem

You want to automate a workflow with AI agents. Maybe it's a content pipeline, code review, or support triage. You look at the options:

• Per-execution pricing that scales linearly with your usage. 1,000 runs? $500. 10,000 runs? $5,000.
• Multi-tenant infrastructure where your agents run alongside everyone else's on shared machines.
• API key passthrough where your keys transit their servers before hitting the LLM provider.
• Proprietary formats that lock your workflows into their ecosystem.

None of this is necessary. It's a business model choice, not a technical constraint.

What Mentiko does differently

Mentiko gives you your own isolated instance. Your agents run on your machine, your API keys never leave your infrastructure, and your workflows are JSON files you can git-commit.

Here's what that looks like in practice:

Event-driven architecture. Agents trigger agents. Your content researcher finishes, and that event fires the writer. The writer finishes, the editor starts. This isn't a linear step-by-step flow -- it's a reactive system where agents coordinate through events.

Flat-rate pricing. You pay for compute, not per execution. Run 100 chains or 100,000 -- same price. No usage meters, no per-seat fees, no surprises.

Visual builder + raw JSON. Design chains in a drag-and-drop interface or write the JSON directly. Both approaches produce the same portable format.

Cron scheduling. Set your pipeline to run on a schedule. It handles its own errors, retries with exponential backoff, and alerts you only when something needs a human.

What's next

We're onboarding early-access teams now. Every user gets a dedicated instance -- we provision real machines, not virtual quotas. That means spots are genuinely limited.

If you're building agent workflows and you're tired of per-execution pricing and shared infrastructure, join the waitlist.

We'll be writing more here about event-driven agent architectures, pipeline design patterns, and the engineering decisions behind Mentiko. Stay tuned.