{
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "source": {
    "name": "Internal Technology Taxonomy",
    "url": "https://mad.firstmark.com",
    "notes": "Vendor registry for internal taxonomy concepts, initially seeded from MAD FirstMark references."
  },
  "vendors": [
    { "id": "langgraph", "name": "LangGraph", "website": "https://www.langchain.com/langgraph", "summary": "Stateful orchestration framework for long-running, multi-step agent workflows.", "focusAreas": ["Agent workflows", "State management", "Tool orchestration"] },
    { "id": "microsoft-autogen", "name": "Microsoft AutoGen", "website": "https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/", "summary": "Multi-agent orchestration framework for task delegation and conversational collaboration.", "focusAreas": ["Multi-agent", "Conversation orchestration", "Enterprise automation"] },
    { "id": "crewai", "name": "CrewAI", "website": "https://www.crewai.com/", "summary": "Role-oriented framework for coordinating collaborative AI agents.", "focusAreas": ["Role-based agents", "Task delegation", "Workflow automation"] },
    { "id": "vertex-agent-builder", "name": "Vertex AI Agent Builder", "website": "https://cloud.google.com/products/agent-builder", "summary": "Managed Google Cloud tooling to build and deploy enterprise agent solutions.", "focusAreas": ["Managed agents", "Enterprise deployment", "Cloud integration"] },
    { "id": "model-context-protocol", "name": "Model Context Protocol", "website": "https://modelcontextprotocol.io/", "summary": "Open protocol for tool and context interoperability between models and external systems.", "focusAreas": ["Tool protocol", "Interoperability", "Agent integration"] },
    { "id": "semantic-kernel", "name": "Semantic Kernel", "website": "https://github.com/microsoft/semantic-kernel", "summary": "SDK for orchestrating AI functions, plugins, and memory in governed workflows.", "focusAreas": ["Orchestration SDK", "Function calling", "Enterprise integration"] },
    { "id": "fastmcp", "name": "FastMCP", "website": "https://github.com/jlowin/fastmcp", "summary": "Developer framework for rapidly building MCP-compatible tool servers.", "focusAreas": ["MCP server tooling", "Developer velocity", "Tool exposure"] },
    { "id": "composio", "name": "Composio", "website": "https://composio.dev/", "summary": "Connector platform for wiring agents to enterprise SaaS tool actions.", "focusAreas": ["Tool connectors", "SaaS integration", "Agent actions"] },
    { "id": "vllm", "name": "vLLM", "website": "https://vllm.ai/", "summary": "High-throughput inference runtime optimized for large language model serving.", "focusAreas": ["Inference runtime", "LLM serving", "Performance"] },
    { "id": "nvidia-triton", "name": "NVIDIA Triton", "website": "https://developer.nvidia.com/triton-inference-server", "summary": "Production inference server supporting multiple model frameworks and deployment patterns.", "focusAreas": ["Inference serving", "Multi-framework", "GPU acceleration"] },
    { "id": "together-ai", "name": "Together AI", "website": "https://www.together.ai/", "summary": "Cloud platform for running and serving open and frontier model workloads.", "focusAreas": ["Model hosting", "Inference APIs", "Open models"] },
    { "id": "baseten", "name": "Baseten", "website": "https://www.baseten.co/", "summary": "Managed deployment platform for model serving and inference operations.", "focusAreas": ["Model deployment", "Inference ops", "Managed serving"] },
    { "id": "openrouter", "name": "OpenRouter", "website": "https://openrouter.ai/", "summary": "Unified routing endpoint for selecting and switching among model providers.", "focusAreas": ["Model routing", "Provider abstraction", "Cost optimization"] },
    { "id": "portkey", "name": "Portkey", "website": "https://portkey.ai/", "summary": "AI gateway with routing, observability, and governance policy integration.", "focusAreas": ["AI gateway", "Routing", "Governance"] },
    { "id": "litellm", "name": "LiteLLM", "website": "https://litellm.ai/", "summary": "Model API abstraction and gateway for routing and failover logic.", "focusAreas": ["Model abstraction", "Routing", "Fallback"] },
    { "id": "tensorzero", "name": "TensorZero", "website": "https://www.tensorzero.com/", "summary": "Model routing and experimentation platform for quality and latency optimization.", "focusAreas": ["Routing", "Prompt experimentation", "Optimization"] },
    { "id": "langfuse", "name": "Langfuse", "website": "https://langfuse.com/", "summary": "Open-source observability and evaluation platform for LLM applications.", "focusAreas": ["LLM tracing", "Prompt analytics", "Evaluation"] },
    { "id": "langsmith", "name": "LangSmith", "website": "https://www.langchain.com/langsmith", "summary": "Development and observability tooling for monitoring and evaluating LLM workflows.", "focusAreas": ["Tracing", "Testing", "Evaluation"] },
    { "id": "arize-ai", "name": "Arize AI", "website": "https://arize.com/", "summary": "Observability platform for model quality monitoring and drift analysis.", "focusAreas": ["Model monitoring", "Quality", "Drift"] },
    { "id": "braintrust", "name": "Braintrust", "website": "https://www.braintrustdata.com/", "summary": "Evaluation tooling for prompt, model, and application quality across releases.", "focusAreas": ["Evaluation", "Prompt quality", "Release gating"] },
    { "id": "validmind", "name": "ValidMind", "website": "https://www.validmind.com/", "summary": "Model risk and validation platform for regulated governance programs.", "focusAreas": ["Model risk", "Validation", "Compliance"] },
    { "id": "credo-ai", "name": "Credo AI", "website": "https://www.credo.ai/", "summary": "AI governance platform to operationalize policy, risk, and controls.", "focusAreas": ["Governance", "Risk", "Policy"] },
    { "id": "ibm-watsonx-governance", "name": "IBM watsonx.governance", "website": "https://www.ibm.com/products/watsonx-governance", "summary": "Enterprise governance controls across model lifecycle, risk, and compliance.", "focusAreas": ["Lifecycle governance", "Risk controls", "Auditability"] },
    { "id": "holistic-ai", "name": "Holistic AI", "website": "https://www.holisticai.com/", "summary": "AI assurance and governance tooling for policy compliance and risk management.", "focusAreas": ["Assurance", "Compliance", "Risk management"] },
    { "id": "guardrails-ai", "name": "Guardrails AI", "website": "https://www.guardrailsai.com/", "summary": "Validation framework for enforcing output constraints and safety checks.", "focusAreas": ["Output validation", "Guardrails", "Safety"] },
    { "id": "lakera", "name": "Lakera", "website": "https://www.lakera.ai/", "summary": "AI security platform focused on prompt attack detection and defense.", "focusAreas": ["Prompt security", "Threat detection", "AI firewall"] },
    { "id": "nemo-guardrails", "name": "NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails", "website": "https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails", "summary": "Configurable runtime rails for safe and policy-compliant conversational AI.", "focusAreas": ["Runtime policy", "Safety", "Conversation control"] },
    { "id": "prompt-security", "name": "Prompt Security", "website": "https://www.prompt.security/", "summary": "Security controls for enterprise LLM applications and prompt channels.", "focusAreas": ["Prompt protection", "Governance", "Threat prevention"] },
    { "id": "datadog", "name": "Datadog", "website": "https://www.datadoghq.com/", "summary": "Unified observability platform for metrics, logs, traces, and incident workflows.", "focusAreas": ["Observability", "Alerting", "APM"] },
    { "id": "splunk", "name": "Splunk", "website": "https://www.splunk.com/", "summary": "Telemetry analytics platform for operations and security insights.", "focusAreas": ["Log analytics", "Security analytics", "Operations"] },
    { "id": "grafana", "name": "Grafana", "website": "https://grafana.com/", "summary": "Open observability platform for dashboards, alerting, and telemetry integrations.", "focusAreas": ["Dashboards", "Alerting", "Telemetry"] },
    { "id": "azure-monitor", "name": "Azure Monitor", "website": "https://azure.microsoft.com/products/monitor", "summary": "Azure-native monitoring, log analytics, and alerting for cloud workloads.", "focusAreas": ["Cloud monitoring", "Logs", "Alerts"] },
    { "id": "collibra", "name": "Collibra", "website": "https://www.collibra.com/", "summary": "Enterprise governance catalog for stewardship and policy alignment.", "focusAreas": ["Data catalog", "Governance", "Stewardship"] },
    { "id": "alation", "name": "Alation", "website": "https://www.alation.com/", "summary": "Collaborative data intelligence and governance catalog platform.", "focusAreas": ["Catalog", "Data intelligence", "Governance"] },
    { "id": "atlan", "name": "Atlan", "website": "https://atlan.com/", "summary": "Modern active metadata platform for cataloging and governance workflows.", "focusAreas": ["Metadata", "Catalog", "Lineage"] },
    { "id": "microsoft-purview", "name": "Microsoft Purview", "website": "https://azure.microsoft.com/products/purview", "summary": "Microsoft data governance and unified catalog service.", "focusAreas": ["Governance", "Catalog", "Data estate visibility"] },
    { "id": "apache-airflow", "name": "Apache Airflow", "website": "https://airflow.apache.org/", "summary": "Open-source platform for authoring, scheduling, and monitoring workflows.", "focusAreas": ["Workflow orchestration", "Scheduling", "Data ops"] },
    { "id": "prefect", "name": "Prefect", "website": "https://www.prefect.io/", "summary": "Workflow orchestration platform with developer-centric reliability controls.", "focusAreas": ["Orchestration", "Reliability", "Data pipelines"] },
    { "id": "dagster", "name": "Dagster", "website": "https://dagster.io/", "summary": "Asset-centric data and AI orchestration platform with governance hooks.", "focusAreas": ["Data orchestration", "Asset lineage", "Ops"] },
    { "id": "temporal", "name": "Temporal", "website": "https://temporal.io/", "summary": "Durable workflow execution engine for long-running distributed processes.", "focusAreas": ["Durable workflows", "Retry logic", "Stateful orchestration"] },
    { "id": "power-bi", "name": "Microsoft Power BI", "website": "https://powerbi.microsoft.com/", "summary": "Business intelligence platform for governed dashboards and analytics reporting.", "focusAreas": ["BI dashboards", "Reporting", "Semantic modeling"] },
    { "id": "tableau", "name": "Tableau", "website": "https://www.tableau.com/", "summary": "Visual analytics platform for enterprise insight and data storytelling.", "focusAreas": ["Visual analytics", "BI", "Reporting"] },
    { "id": "looker", "name": "Google Looker", "website": "https://cloud.google.com/looker", "summary": "Semantic BI and embedded analytics platform on Google Cloud.", "focusAreas": ["Semantic layer", "Embedded analytics", "Governed metrics"] },
    { "id": "thoughtspot", "name": "ThoughtSpot", "website": "https://www.thoughtspot.com/", "summary": "Search-driven analytics platform focused on self-service insights.", "focusAreas": ["Search analytics", "Self-service BI", "Insight exploration"] }
  ]
}