Tool Forge. Published on arXiv.
An open-source system for generating governed agent tools and serving the right tools through a token-optimized MCP router. Build reusable capabilities without turning tool catalogs into prompt noise.
Backed & built with
·NVIDIA Inception ·Google for Startups ·AWS Activate ·Babson Butler Launchpad ·ND Labs
The thesis
Every enterprise tool was built for a world where humans did the work.
Now humans build the agents.
Agents do the work.
Next Moca is the operating layer for both.
The compounding layer
Primitive-makers scale the substrate. Vertical experiences compound elsewhere. AWS sold compute. A decade of B2B SaaS — Wistia, Basecamp, Mailchimp — built the durable layer on top. The same economic structure keeps model providers focused on the model layer. The control plane is where your governance, workflows, and institutional memory live. That layer should compound, not reset.
Models deprecate. Your enterprise knowledge compounds.
Models deprecate every quarter
Three weeks in April 2026 reshaped every AI roadmap. Foundry, Bedrock Managed, Gemini Enterprise, Claude Managed each lock to one cloud and one model family.
GPT-4 Claude 3.5 Gemini 1.5 GPT-5 Claude 4.6 Gemini 3 ?
Workflows, audit, governance compound for years
What you build above the model layer survives every model turnover. Your IP, your customer trust, your operating record. Build once. Compound forever.
Governance & audit ledger+years
Workflows & HITL gates+years
Domain knowledge & memory+years
Models & runtime~quarter
80%+
Time compression · 12 months collapses to 4 weeks
90%+
Cost reduction · vs. assembling the layer in-house
∞
Workflows, audit, governance · yours forever
Three pillars
The structural decisions that make the control plane the durable layer of the stack.
01 · Sovereignty
Your IP never leaves your VPC.
Architectural and contractual. The Federation Model is written into the customer MOU, not just the diagram. Your data, your models, your tenants, your trust boundary.
VPC-resident runtime · BYO model endpoints · contractual data isolation · no cross-tenant training
02 · Neutrality
One-click A/B across any model.
Clone an agent. Run two models on the same input. Version any workflow step. A first-class workflow primitive, not a config flag buried in YAML.
OpenAI · Anthropic · Gemini · Bedrock · Foundry · self-hosted · swap with one config change
03 · Compounding
Knowledge compounds. Models deprecate.
Workflows, audit trails, HITL playbooks, evaluators, governance. Build once. Compound forever. Every agent, every action, fully ledgered.
Append-only ledger · workflow versioning · evaluator graph · ADL spec
Built for the new intelligence agencies
The companies whose proprietary domain IP is the moat. Their host ecosystem ships data primitives but not action primitives. They need a control plane to turn intelligence into product.
Embedded Agent Intelligence Providers
Ship agentic products under your brand. In weeks.
Your domain IP is the moat. Don't burn six engineers and twelve months reinventing orchestration. White-label the control plane, keep your IP in your VPC, embed agents in the product your customers already buy.
- White-label UI and API surface
- Per-tenant isolation and governance
- Federation Model for IP residency
- Snowflake & Salesforce Native App ready (Q2-Q3 2026)
Founding white-label customer: Aurivio AgentBase · live in production · 1,000 agent capacity per tenant
Agent Service Providers
Deliver agentic engagements that compound across clients.
Every engagement makes the next one cheaper and faster. Standardize on one control plane across your book of business. Reusable, audited, ownable. Your delivery teams ship faster. Your clients see governance from day one.
- Reusable agent and workflow library
- Multi-client governance and segregation
- Audit-ready delivery on day one
- GCC ops & outsourcing patterns built in
Active with 2 GCC channel partners · 3 US ops pilots · digital workforce playbook
What you're being sold
The category got crowded in April 2026. Most of what shipped is a managed runtime priced in vCPU-hours. We are not that.
| Hyperscaler managed agents | DIY orchestration (6 engineers · 12 months) | Next Moca | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cross-platform reach | One cloud. Their ecosystem. | Whatever you wire up | Cross-3P-platforms by default |
| Model swap | Within their family | Refactor your codebase | One config change |
| IP residency | Their VPC | Yours, if you build it | Your VPC. Federation Model. |
| Time to first production agent | Quarters | 12 months | Weeks |
| Audit & HITL | Add-on | Build it | First-class primitives |
| Brand surface | Theirs | Yours, after twelve months | Yours. White-label, day one. |
Founding white-label customer
Aurivio AgentBase, powered by Next Moca.
Multi-year white-label MOU signed April 2026. Live in production under Aurivio's brand. Aurivio's IP stays in Aurivio's infrastructure under the Federation Model.
Capacity for one thousand agents per customer (25 commercial users x 40 agents per user). Published category language co-articulated with our founding customer.
1,000
Agent capacity per tenant
Multi-year
White-label MOU · April 2026
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Most agentic AI today is a black box. AgentBase is the opposite. Agents your team builds. Agents your team owns.
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Aurivio AgentBase
auriv.io · Snowflake + AWS + Next Moca
What you actually get
The primitives that make the control plane the durable layer. Built for governance, neutrality, and brand sovereignty from day one.
Control plane
Operate
Every agent, every action, fully ledgered
- HITL approval queues with role-aware routing
- Append-only audit ledger and rollback
- Workflow versioning and one-click A/B across models
- Evaluator graph for continuous quality
- 116 REST endpoints · SSE streaming · webhooks
White-label · Federation Model
Embed
Your brand. Your VPC. Your customers.
- White-label UI, API surface, and naming
- Federation Model · IP stays in your infrastructure
- Snowflake & Salesforce Native App (Q2-Q3 2026)
- Per-tenant isolation and governance
- Co-articulated category language available
Open source
Open standards and tools for governed agent systems.
Agent Definition Language. Published on All Things Open.
A declarative spec for assembling agents from intent. 90 seconds from prose to a running, observable, governed workflow. Read the article. Read the spec. Fork it.
Team
Hyperscale operators and engineers who built and shipped agentic infrastructure at billion-dollar revenue scale. We are building Next Moca because we know what the next ten years of enterprise AI actually need.
Kiran Kashalkar
Co-CEO & Co-Founder
Repeat builder. Co-founded and served as CTO of Green Piñata Toys (acquired). Director of Engineering at Oracle (OCI) and Brightcove, with prior leadership roles at Juniper, Cisco, and others. Built and scaled world-scale services for customers like ByteDance and HBO. Architect behind Next Moca's agentic orchestration and infrastructure layers. MBA (Babson), M.S. Computer Science (Penn State), B.E. Computer Engineering (University of Mumbai).
ex-CTO Green Piñataex-Director Oracle · BrightcoveCisco · JuniperBabson MBA · Penn State MS
Swanand Rao
Co-CEO & Co-Founder
Product-driven inventor with a track record of bootstrapping new products, blending deep engineering with go-to-market focus. Director of Product at Adobe, with prior leadership roles at Microsoft, Oracle, and others. Holds multiple patents in distributed systems. Architect behind Next Moca's agentic foundations and core AI services. Executive MBA (Michigan Ross), M.S. Computer Science (USC), B.E. Computer Engineering (University of Mumbai).
ex-Director AdobeMicrosoft · OracleDistributed-systems patentsRoss EMBA · USC MS
Paru Somashekar
Founding Member of Technical Staff · Agent Experiences
Engineering and UX leader with 25+ years at Sun Microsystems and Oracle. Founding Member of Technical Staff at Next Moca, leading Agent Experiences. Recognized expertise in UI/UX architecture, data security, and full-stack engineering. Building the intuitive, secure interfaces that bridge human creativity with intelligent automation.
Founding MTSSun · OracleUI/UX architectureFull-stack engineering
Backed by
Operators who built and shipped enterprise platforms at billion-dollar scale. They're betting on Next Moca because they've lived the problem we're solving.
Namita Dhallan
Lead investor · Managing Partner, ND Labs
Ran product and strategy at Brightcove (CPO) and Ellucian (CPO) over two decades of enterprise SaaS leadership. Now Managing Partner at ND Labs and lead investor in Next Moca.
ND Labsex-CPO Brightcoveex-CPO EllucianEnterprise SaaS
Rohit Puri, Ph.D.
Advisor · VP of Engineering ML Platform, Capital One
Head of ML Platform at Capital One, operating production AI infrastructure for one of the largest regulated U.S. banks. Ph.D. in EECS from UC Berkeley, M.S. from UIUC, and B.Tech. from IIT Bombay.
Capital One ML HeadUC Berkeley Ph.D.Regulated enterprises
Tools change. Truth doesn't.
Aurivio, May 2026
Twenty minutes is all we need to show you what runs above your hyperscaler. Bring the use case. We bring the live system.
Thanks. Expect us to get in touch soon.
In the meantime, you can also reach us directly at kiran@nextmoca.com or swanand@nextmoca.com.
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kiran@nextmoca.com · swanand@nextmoca.com · Boston, MA · Palo Alto, CA