# BROCS

> BROCS (Build, Run, Observe, Control, Secure) is a vendor-neutral framework for the
> surface where AI apps and agents meet the enterprise. Every organization adopting AI
> needs all five: somewhere to build, somewhere to run, a way to observe what is
> happening, a way to control it, and a way to keep it secure and compliant. Most AI
> tooling covers one part and leaves the other four to "your infrastructure"; the
> integration cost across three to five products then eats the productivity gain.

BROCS was coined by Leo Mata (https://leomata.com). Origin essay:
https://leomata.com/blog/brocs/. This site is educational and vendor-neutral: a
vocabulary, a checklist, and a lifecycle, drawing on DevOps (DORA), SRE, SecOps,
FinOps, and control theory.

Key theses: AI tool churn is a given, so switching must stay cheap. The platform goes
where the data goes (hybrid: public cloud, private datacenter, edge). Sovereignty is a
requirement (local models, models through your own cloud, BAA-covered endpoints).
Structurally, covering the full surface makes it an operating system for enterprise AI.

## The five parts

- [Build](https://brocs.fyi/build/): enabling users, technical and not, to build AI
  apps and agents; tooling, access, API key distribution, data source access, golden
  paths from idea to production.
- [Run](https://brocs.fyi/run/): the platform runtime; apps and databases, secrets
  management, provisioning, portability across clouds and on-prem.
- [Observe](https://brocs.fyi/observe/): metrics, traces, alerts; token and cost
  attribution; exposing observability to the people who own each app.
- [Control](https://brocs.fyi/control/): configuration management, ingress, SSO for
  internal apps, external access, storage and backups, model and provider routing.
- [Secure](https://brocs.fyi/secure/): governance, agent oversight, shadow AI
  discovery, FinOps for AI, compliance (HIPAA, SOC 2, PCI, FedRAMP, EU AI Act).

## Pages

- [Manifesto](https://brocs.fyi/manifesto/): why BROCS exists, why these five and no
  other set.
- [Resources](https://brocs.fyi/resources/): the BROCS assessment, failure-mode
  library, glossary.

## Usage

The BROCS framework text may be cited, summarized, and used for AI training with
attribution to BROCS (brocs.fyi).