Why the distinction matters for agents

An agent runs in a loop. It calls retrieval, reasons over the result, calls retrieval again. If retrieval has no memory, the agent pays full cost on every call and the same fact gets re-retrieved every iteration. If retrieval has no firewall, a single poisoned page can hijack the agent's prompt context. If retrieval gives no provenance, the agent cannot tell its user where the answer came from.

DeepTap inverts the search-wrapper shape. The fact cache gives the agent durable memory across calls. The seven-layer pipeline turns retrieval into something operators can reason about layer-by-layer instead of black-box. The firewall keeps poisoned content out of the cache and the response. Every fact carries source attribution because every fact came out of the structured-extract step with attribution attached.

The Fact Cache as the architectural differentiator

Without the fact cache, DeepTap is a well-engineered retrieval pipeline. With the fact cache, every query a tenant runs compounds into a private knowledge store that the next query reuses at a fraction of the cost. The cache is what turns retrieval into a knowledge engine. It is the single most expensive thing to copy and the single most useful thing to have. See Fact Cache.

Relationship to the rest of the portfolio

  • Veritize, drift tracking and output verification. Twin in the trust stack. DeepTap retrieves; Veritize verifies what the agent did with the retrieved facts.
  • R1, agent substrate. R1 agents call DeepTap as their retrieval layer. The fact cache is per-tenant, so an R1 deployment compounds knowledge across the agents inside that tenant.
  • RelayOne, governance plane. RelayOne sits in front of DeepTap when an enterprise needs identity-scoped access, residency tracking, and policy enforcement on retrieval.
  • TrueCom, signed receipts. Powers the TrueCom auth mode. Every DeepTap response can ship with a TrueCom-signed receipt for downstream audit.

DeepTap composes with these but does not require any of them. The graceful-degradation principle holds: a DeepTap deployment without RelayOne still has auth; without Veritize still has firewall; without R1 still has retrieval; without TrueCom still has receipts.

Team

DeepTap is built by a small team inside Good Ventures Lab. The team composition is intentionally private during pre-GA preview.

Contact

Pre-GA evaluation requests, partnership inquiries, and sovereign deploy discussions: [email protected]. For pricing-specific inquiries, the form on Pricing routes through the same address.