Uvi vs Hyperspell
Hyperspell is a cloud 'Company Brain' API for developers. Uvi is an enterprise Reasoning Layer - Decision Graph, on-prem, native RBAC, Forward Deployed Agent.
The thesis in one paragraph
Hyperspell (YC W25) offers a hosted context API developers can call to give an agent a “Company Brain.” It's clean, developer-friendly, and quick to try. Uvi is a Reasoning Layer for the Fortune 500: a Decision Graph with owners, triggers, blockers, and evidence as first-class nodes - deployed inside your VPC or on-prem, with permissions mirrored from your source ACLs, and shipped end-to-end in 2-4 weeks by a Forward Deployed Agent. Same category on the surface. Different buyer, different depth, different deployment model underneath.
Side by side
Category
- Uvi
- Reasoning Layer built on a Decision Graph
- Hyperspell
- Cloud 'Company Brain' context API for developers
Primary abstraction
- Uvi
- Decisions as first-class nodes - owners, triggers, blockers, evidence
- Hyperspell
- Documents + entities ingested into a hosted context graph
What ships out of the box
- Uvi
- A Decision Graph encoding your org's private definitions of shipped, blocked, and owned
- Hyperspell
- SDK + hosted endpoint - you write the ingestion, you define the schema
Enterprise ETL depth
- Uvi
- Live joins across code / tickets / PRs / Slack / internal services, encoded by a Forward Deployed Agent
- Hyperspell
- You wire up your own sources against Hyperspell's API
Primary buyer
- Uvi
- Enterprise R&D, Platform, Head of AI at Fortune 500 orgs
- Hyperspell
- Individual developers and small teams building agent products
Deployment
- Uvi
- On-prem or VPC, zero data egress, native RBAC at retrieval
- Hyperspell
- Hosted cloud service - your enterprise data flows to Hyperspell
Permission model
- Uvi
- Source ACLs mirrored at retrieval - agents only see what the caller can see
- Hyperspell
- Application-level - you enforce it before you push
Time to value
- Uvi
- 2-4 weeks - Decision Graph shipped end-to-end by the Forward Deployed Agent
- Hyperspell
- Minutes to a working API call; months to reach enterprise depth on your own
How the agent queries it
- Uvi
- GraphQL + MCP - returns a structured chain of decisions
- Hyperspell
- REST API returning matched context items you compose into a prompt
Compose with each other?
- Uvi
- Yes - Uvi's MCP server plugs into agents built on any framework
- Hyperspell
- Yes - Hyperspell can serve developer-side apps while Uvi grounds enterprise workloads
| Uvi | Hyperspell | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Reasoning Layer built on a Decision Graph | Cloud 'Company Brain' context API for developers |
| Primary abstraction | Decisions as first-class nodes - owners, triggers, blockers, evidence | Documents + entities ingested into a hosted context graph |
| What ships out of the box | A Decision Graph encoding your org's private definitions of shipped, blocked, and owned | SDK + hosted endpoint - you write the ingestion, you define the schema |
| Enterprise ETL depth | Live joins across code / tickets / PRs / Slack / internal services, encoded by a Forward Deployed Agent | You wire up your own sources against Hyperspell's API |
| Primary buyer | Enterprise R&D, Platform, Head of AI at Fortune 500 orgs | Individual developers and small teams building agent products |
| Deployment | On-prem or VPC, zero data egress, native RBAC at retrieval | Hosted cloud service - your enterprise data flows to Hyperspell |
| Permission model | Source ACLs mirrored at retrieval - agents only see what the caller can see | Application-level - you enforce it before you push |
| Time to value | 2-4 weeks - Decision Graph shipped end-to-end by the Forward Deployed Agent | Minutes to a working API call; months to reach enterprise depth on your own |
| How the agent queries it | GraphQL + MCP - returns a structured chain of decisions | REST API returning matched context items you compose into a prompt |
| Compose with each other? | Yes - Uvi's MCP server plugs into agents built on any framework | Yes - Hyperspell can serve developer-side apps while Uvi grounds enterprise workloads |
FAQ
Isn't Hyperspell the same category as Uvi?
Same category, very different products. Both aim at 'give AI agents better context.' Hyperspell is a cloud API that developers plug into their apps to store and retrieve context - a hosted 'Company Brain' as they call it. Uvi is an enterprise-first Reasoning Layer: a Decision Graph with decisions as first-class nodes, deployed inside your VPC or on-prem, with source ACLs mirrored at retrieval, and shipped end-to-end by a Forward Deployed Agent. Different buyer, different depth, different deployment model.
What does 'decisions as first-class nodes' actually mean?
In Hyperspell (and every 'context graph' competitor) a node is a document, an entity, or a fact - things the agent has seen. In Uvi, a node is a decision your organization made: what triggered it, who owns it, what blocks it, what evidence supports it, and what depends on it. That's queryable directly. When your agent asks 'what's blocking checkout v2 from shipping,' Uvi returns the four open decisions, the owners, the statuses, and the triggers - not a pile of retrieved documents the agent then has to reason about.
Why does the enterprise deployment matter?
Because Fortune 500 buyers won't send code, tickets, PRs, and Slack history to a hosted API run by anyone else. They need the data plane inside their VPC or on-prem, the retrieval enforced against their existing RBAC, and zero data egress. Uvi runs where the customer runs. Hyperspell runs in Hyperspell's cloud. That's a hard line for enterprise procurement.
What does 'Forward Deployed Agent' change?
It's the difference between a library and a working system. With Hyperspell you get an SDK and a set of primitives; your team writes the ingestion, defines the schema, and hardens the joins. With Uvi, a specialist in ETL and data science sits with your tech lead, encodes your org's private definitions of 'a feature,' 'shipped,' 'owned,' 'blocked' - and ships the Decision Graph end-to-end in 2-4 weeks. It's an outcome, not a toolkit.
When is Hyperspell the right choice?
When you're a developer or small team building an agent product and you want a hosted context API you can call in minutes - low friction, no enterprise contracting, no on-prem constraints. Great for prototyping, personal projects, and product-led SaaS. If you're inside a Fortune 500 with existing systems, permission requirements, and Decision-Graph-shaped questions - Uvi is the right layer.
Can I use Hyperspell inside my product and Uvi for internal R&D agents?
Yes, and some enterprises do exactly that. Hyperspell (or a similar developer API) powers customer-facing context in your SaaS; Uvi runs the R&D-side Reasoning Layer for the agents your engineers, PMs, and CX teams use. Different problems, different tools.
A hosted API isn't the Fortune 500 answer.
If you need context inside your VPC, permissions mirrored from your source systems, and a Decision Graph that reflects how your team actually operates - talk to us.