The Sovereign SRE Manifesto
Efficiency is an engineering problem. Gerty is the engineer.
Cloud optimization has become a corporate tax. Venture-backed platforms want a percentage of your "potential savings" while vacuuming your cluster metadata into their own SaaS silos.
Gerty is the antidote. She is a specialized, self-hosted assistant designed for teams who value privacy as much as their bottom line.
I. Efficiency is an Engineering Problem
Cloud "Cost Optimization" has been hijacked by FinOps dashboards and enterprise spreadsheets. They produce graphs; we produce code. Gerty is built on the belief that the best way to save money is to engineer a better-packed cluster, not to buy a better dashboard.
II. The Sovereignty of the VPC
In 2026, the "SaaS-First" model is a liability. Sending your pod names, resource history, and cluster metadata to a third-party cloud for "analysis" is an unnecessary risk.
- The Gerty Rule: Intelligence belongs where the data lives.
- Gerty's AI runs locally on your nodes.
- No telemetry egress. No metadata "phone-home." No exceptions.
III. GitOps is the Source of Truth
"Auto-pilot" features that live-patch your API server are a recipe for infrastructure drift and 3:00 AM outages. Gerty respects the workflow:
- Observe: Monitor real-world resource utilization continuously.
- Advise: Justify rightsizing recommendations with deep-tech reasoning.
- Commit: Gerty doesn't just patch; she opens the Pull Request in your repository.
You remain the pilot. Gerty is the navigator.
IV. Eliminate the "Success Tax"
Venture-backed platforms charge a percentage of your "savings." This creates a perverse incentive to over-report potential gains and under-report risk.
- Gerty is a flat rate per node. Predictable billing. No hidden fees. Our incentives are aligned with your cluster's health, not your cloud provider's invoice.
V. Built for the Underground
Gerty isn't designed for the C-Suite or the Procurement department. She is a specialized, loyal assistant for the Sovereign SRE - the engineer who is tired of over-provisioning "just in case" and wants a silent partner to handle the bin-packing.