TrueFoundry, a San Francisco-based B2B machine learning startup founded by former Meta engineers, has unveiled TrueForge, an open source AI agent harness licensed under MIT. This tool enables greater developer control and cost efficiency in enterprise AI deployments by supporting any preferred AI model and allowing integration into commercial products. Benchmarks on DevRev’s Enterprise-Bench demonstrate TrueForge’s ability to complete multi-step tasks at 30% to 75% lower cost compared to Anthropic’s Claude Managed Agents, using the Claude Opus 4.8 model or the open source GLM-5.2 LLM. TrueForge supports flexible deployment from local developer machines to shared enterprise installations and emphasizes efficient context management techniques to reduce compute waste and expenses. While the harness itself is free, enterprises can add TrueFoundry’s commercial AI Gateway for centralized governance, identity, and access controls. TrueFoundry aims for TrueForge to serve alongside other harnesses in a vendor-neutral, cost-effective manner. Existing customers like NetApp and Automattic have benefited from the solution. With $21 million in funding and acquisitions like Seldon AI, TrueFoundry continues growing its presence in enterprise AI infrastructure, blending traditional ML, LLMs, and agent orchestration with governance and monitoring capabilities.
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