MAQPNA

Energy, utilities and critical infrastructure

Agents for critical infrastructure, safe when things go wrong.

In operational technology a wrong action has physical consequences. MAQPNA keeps agents in isolated sandboxes on your own sites, requires an engineer for safety-relevant calls and fails closed when a control is unavailable.

The problem

Why operators keep agents away from operations

Safety, regulation and segmentation come first.

  1. Physical consequences

    Switching, setpoints and work orders affect equipment and people.

  2. Segmented networks

    OT networks are segmented or disconnected; cloud-hosted agents cannot reach them, and should not.

  3. NIS2 obligations

    Operators of essential services must show access control, logging and incident handling.

  4. Failure modes

    When a dependency fails, the safe default is to stop, not to carry on.

How MAQPNA solves it

Safety-first defaults

  • Fail-closed defaults

    If the revocation list or ledger is unavailable, calls are denied in the sovereign profile.

  • Engineer approval

    Safety-relevant tools need an approver, or two, with separation of duties.

  • Isolated sandboxes

    Each session is isolated, with default-deny egress and tools reachable only through the gateway.

  • On-site and air-gapped

    Install from a signed offline bundle on your own sites, with no phone-home.

  • Kill switch

    Stop an agent, session or user across the installation within about a second.

  • Incident evidence

    A tamper-evident ledger and session timeline for incident reviews and regulators.

Architecture sketch

A maintenance-planning agent on an operator's site

The agent reads asset data and drafts work orders. Anything that touches operations is held for an engineer, and nothing leaves the site.

Operator site · segmented network · no internet egress

Sandboxes

tier-1 (microVM)

  • asset-maintenance
  • outage-summary
  • procurement-assist

MAQPNA gateway

identity · policy · DLP · budgets · approval · audit

  • Allowedhistorian.read_seriesread-only-tools
  • Held for approvalwms.create_work_orderengineer approval
  • Deniedscada.write_setpointdefault deny

Your systems

  • MCPhistorian (read-only)
  • MCPwork-management system
  • modelon-site model route
Hash-chained audit ledger with signed checkpoints, on site
Illustrative. Agent, tool and rule names are examples; you write your own policies.

Evidence and oversight

Evidence for operators of essential services

Mapping only. MAQPNA gives you technical controls and evidence; it does not make a system compliant, and we hold no certifications.

  • NIS2: access control, logging, incident handling and supply-chain evidence for agent actions.
  • EU AI Act Art. 12 and 14: record-keeping and human oversight controls.
  • Supply chain: signed releases, SBOMs and an offline install path.
  • Honest scope: MAQPNA governs what agents may call; it is not a safety-instrumented system.

Talk to us about a safe first use case.

We will help you pick a read-mostly workflow and the approval rules around it.

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