Route across frontier and open models. Lower cost, stronger control, no lock-in.

Northwood deploys its open-source router and operates the production system around it, sending each workload to the right model on approved providers or your own infrastructure. The routing policy, cost ledger, and deployment path stay portable and inspectable.

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CostLower, yours to optimize
QualityHeld to your floor
AccountabilityEvery route on record

Own your AI infrastructure, and the cost curve that comes with it.

Your AI usage is growing and so is the bill. Northwood helps you run the best open models on infrastructure you own, tuned for utilization and cost per token, portable across models and hardware. Then we build the knowledge and workflow layer on top. Pure-software teams and hardware companies alike keep their code, firmware, designs, customer context, and internal knowledge in their own environment.

API cost scales with success. Every token is metered and marked up, so the bill grows with adoption. Self-hosting open models flips usage from a variable cost to a fixed one.
Lock-in is a roadmap risk. Provider pricing, deprecations, and rate limits aren’t yours to control. Model-portable deployments swap models and hardware without rebuilding the workflow layer.
Your code shouldn’t train someone else’s model. Inference runs in your environment. Outbound routes to provider APIs don’t exist unless you create them.

Open-source infrastructure, operated for production.

Analyze

Find where the money goes

Northwood-built analysis tools map spend, models, latency, errors, cache behavior, and routing evidence so your team can distinguish expensive workloads from one blended bill.

Validate

Test against your workloads

Northwood compares current and candidate models on representative cases using your quality, latency, reliability, tool-use, and security requirements.

Deploy

Put the approved route into production

Northwood deploys its open-source control layer, connects approved providers or customer compute, encodes the accepted model policy, and introduces the route through a staged rollout.

Operate

Keep the economics honest

Northwood monitors cost, route behavior, provider reliability, and model changes after launch. The open-source control layer keeps the resulting evidence available to your team.

Common workflows

Self-hosted inference
Model routing and optimization
GPU utilization and cost monitoring
Evals and observability
Internal knowledge search
Engineering documentation assistant
Customer support knowledge workflows
Sales engineering responses
Product and customer context lookup
Codebase and technical documentation
Firmware and hardware documentation
Test and manufacturing data
Onboarding and internal enablement
Incident response and runbooks

Your workloads. Your models. Your cost curve. Start with one.

Northwood builds the open-source infrastructure and operates the production system around it. Start with one workload, evaluate the available model and deployment options, and expand when the quality and economics hold.

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