About Tangison Agent
Tangison Agent is a self-hosted AI agent platform published by Tangison, an independent software brand founded by Tangi Iigonda. The agent runs entirely inside your infrastructure. You bring the model key. You keep the keys to the kingdom. This page is the longer version of why the platform exists, what it is, and what it is not. If you want the short version, the homepage has it. If you want the founder's story, keep reading.
The parent brand ships product work and consulting from tangison.com.
The founder's story
Why I built Tangison Agent
I am Tangi Iigonda. I build software in Windhoek, Namibia, and I have spent the last decade watching businesses hand their intelligence to cloud AI vendors. The pattern repeats. A founder signs up for a hosted AI service because it saves three weeks of engineering. Six months later, the service has trained on every prompt the team wrote. Twelve months later, the vendor has deprecated the model the team tuned for. Eighteen months later, the team cannot leave because their workflows, prompts, and evals all speak the vendor's dialect. They are tenants in their own business.
I wanted to build something different. I wanted to build a platform where the user keeps the keys, the keys to the model, the keys to the workspace, and the keys to the audit log. I wanted the agent process to run on hardware the user controls, to call models the user pays for, and to write its outputs to a disk the user can unmount and walk away with. No vendor in the middle. No markup on the tokens. No silent model swaps. No perpetual license to train on your input buried in clause 14 of a terms update.
Tangison Agent is that platform. It is the product I wanted to exist when I was the founder signing up for hosted AI in 2023. It is the product I wish I had recommended to the logistics company that called me in 2025 after their vendor changed terms overnight. It is open source, MIT licensed, and it runs on a Raspberry Pi or a Kubernetes cluster with equal ease. The agent ships with seven skills, three channels, and one config file. You read the source. You fork it. You own it.
Tangison Agent is published by Tangison, my software brand. The brand ships product work, consulting, and writing from tangison.com. The agent platform is the brand's open-source contribution to a sovereignty-first AI stack. If you want to know who you are dealing with, the brand site has the longer story, the past clients, the talks, and the code I have shipped under my own name. Tangison Agent is not a side project. It is the brand's flagship product, and I intend to maintain it for the next decade.
What the product is
A self-hosted runtime for AI agents
Tangison Agent is a self-hosted AI agent platform. The agent process runs on your hardware, calls models you pay for through OpenRouter, and writes its outputs to a workspace on a disk you control. Seven skills ship in the box, covering web search, file I/O, code execution, HTTP fetch, messaging, deploys, and MCP connectors. Three channels ship in the box, Telegram, WhatsApp, and a web dashboard, all wired through one config file. The whole platform is MIT licensed and open source, with the source and the roadmap visible on GitHub.
The runtime is designed to be boring in the right places. The agent process is a single binary you start with one command. The audit log is a SQLite database you can back up with one command. The egress policy is a file you edit with any text editor. The skills are TypeScript files you can read in an afternoon. The channels are wired through a config block you can copy from the docs. Every default is set so that the agent works the first time you run it, and every default can be overridden without touching the source.
What the product is not
Not a SaaS. Not a template. Not a wrapper.
Tangison Agent is not a hosted SaaS. We do not run the agent for you. We do not store your prompts. We do not see your model key. We do not bill you per token. If you want us involved in operations, the Supported and Enterprise plans put Tangi on call for setup, upgrades, and incidents, but the agent itself stays on your hardware under your control. The plans are a service relationship, not a hosting relationship.
It is not a chatbot template. It is a runtime that executes skills in a sandboxed workspace with a full audit log, a per-skill egress policy, and a task model that handles multi-step workflows with retries and branching. It is not a wrapper around one vendor's API. The model router is pluggable, the skills are pluggable, and the channels are pluggable. Swap any of them without rewriting the agent. The parent brand has more on this philosophy at tangison.com.
Talk to the founder
Message Tangi directly
The waitlist opens directly to Tangi on WhatsApp. Tell him what you want to automate, what infrastructure you run, and which model you want to use. He replies within one business day, Monday to Friday, 09:00 to 17:00 CAT. If you would rather send an email, the address is below. Either way, you are talking to the person who writes the code.
For general agency inquiries, visit tangison.com. For Tangison Agent specifically, message Tangi on WhatsApp.
Tangison Agent is built by Tangison, owned by Tangi Iigonda. Read the brand story at tangison.com.
Want to see the product first? Read the docs or browse the blog.