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The four platforms overlap less than their descriptions suggest. Each one was built for a different question, and the fastest way to tell them apart is what happens to your data and where the software sits when it runs.

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The four products compared by the problem they solve, where they run, what they connect to, and when to pick them.

Question	ALPACA Governance beside your SIEM	IBEX Sealed, on-premises appliance	Meerkat Sovereign AI with a gate	ALF Answers with their sources
The problem it solves	Log sources with no named owner, no retention, and assets that report nothing at all.	Attack surface and undeclared AI in networks the cloud can never reach.	People need a capable assistant, but the documents cannot go to a cloud model.	Knowledge that already exists in writing, scattered across manuals, tickets and knowledge bases.
Where it runs	Beside your existing SIEM, not in place of it.	A sealed appliance on its own hardware, inside your perimeter, with no data egress.	Two machines on your premises. The one holding the documents has no route out.	On-premises, in a private cloud, or fully isolated.
It connects to	QRadar, Splunk, Sentinel and Elastic, plus your CMDB, Active Directory or Entra ID, and Jira.	An internal Git host, a locally held vulnerability database and your asset baseline. Nothing external.	Your existing document repositories and a local model, with cloud models reachable only through the gate.	ERP, ITSM, document management and data lakes, with access governed through AD or SSO.
Pick it when	You cannot say who owns a log source, or which assets are escaping coverage.	Nothing may leave the network, and you still have to see everything inside it.	Some questions deserve a frontier model and others must never leave the building.	The answer exists somewhere in your own material and nobody can find it.

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