Other platforms ask your people to learn a new product. Atlas sits behind the tools they already use, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, your existing agents, and makes them smarter.
01 · Your tools, not ours. Atlas works inside Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and the files your people already use. No new application to learn, no chat window to copy-paste from. The work happens where it always did.
02 · It learns when you correct it. When an expert rewrites a projection or rejects a draft, Atlas captures what changed and asks one question. The correction becomes a governed rule, scoped, versioned, attributed to the person who taught it.
03 · Your benchmark, not a public leaderboard. Every correction becomes an eval case. Atlas scores frontier, local, and each new release against the firm's own held-out work. Nothing reaches production until it clears the gate your partners set.
04 · Any model. Your rules. The firm model is portable. When a better or cheaper model ships, re-run your evals and switch. The learning never lives in a vendor's weights. It stays with you, on whichever model is best this quarter.
| Constellation | Codex | Cowork | Vertical tools | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Customization | Built for your firm by Lab. Not an out-of-the-box product. | General-purpose, one-size-fits-all | General-purpose, one-size-fits-all | Pre-built |
| Model choice | Any model: Claude, GPT, Gemini, open weights, whichever wins the task | OpenAI models only | Anthropic models only | The vendor's fixed stack |
| Cost over time | Post-trained models on your data, decoupled from any model vendor | Frontier inference, cost scales with use | Frontier inference, cost scales with use | Flat per seat or per query |
| Deployment | Your VPC, on-prem, or air-gapped. Compute and identity stay on your side. | Provider's multi-tenant cloud | Provider's multi-tenant cloud | Multi-tenant SaaS |
| Agent choice | Run any agent or framework on the platform, not a single vendor's | One vendor agent | One vendor agent | A closed, fixed workflow |
| Evaluation suite | Rubrics, golden sets, and dashboards built in. Every run scored automatically. | None built in | None built in | None built in |
| Data ownership | Traces, rubrics, and tuned models stay in your perimeter. You own them. | Flows to the model provider | Flows to the model provider | Locked inside the vendor |