Knott.
Automation you can actually be accountable for.
Self-hosted, AI-powered workflow automation with human-in-the-loop decisions, a visual designer, real-time execution monitoring, and a full audit trail. The power of a modern orchestration platform, with every AI decision running locally and all data staying on your own infrastructure.
The premise
Automate the routine. Keep a human on the consequential. Record everything, with its justification.
One run, drawn to scale
The shape of a decision.
Hover a node. The green edge is machine confidence; the orange one is a human being pulled in.
T1, Trigger
API/webhook entry point: workflows start from real-world events, not just manual runs.
The moment that matters
Feel the handoff.
Escalation isn't a feature bullet: it's a line. Drag the model's confidence across it and watch who becomes responsible.
Machine lane
Confidence clears the line: the run proceeds and records its own justification.
Human lane
Confidence drops below the line: the run pauses here, with you, and an SLA clock starts.
The audit trail: every completion, either way, lands here
- Nothing recorded yet. Complete a run: machine or human, and read what Knott writes down.
100% of consequential steps recorded with justification, including the machine's.
Node reference: 8 types
01
Trigger
API/webhook entry point: workflows start from real-world events, not just manual runs.
02
AI Decision
Confidence-scored, model-selectable decision step running on your chosen provider.
03
Human Task
Pauses for review or approval, with SLA tracking. Low AI confidence escalates here automatically.
04
Condition
Branches the run on expressions.
05
Tool Call
Real connectors: webhook, Slack, SendGrid, Twilio. Credentials come from environment variables, never the workflow definition.
06
Agent Call
Calls a registered external agent from the agent registry.
07
Parallel
Fan-out / fan-in across simultaneous branches.
08
End
Terminal outcome: Approve, Reject, Complete, or Escalate.
Surface area
Five services.
One port out.
In production, the Execution Engine is the single reverse proxy for everything else. Internal service ports stay bound to the host network. The outside world sees exactly one opening.
Workflow Registry
Execution Engine← the one exposed
AI Decision Engine
Human Task Service
Agent Integration
Everything inside the wall. One gap, on your terms.
Choose your intelligence: switchable at runtime
Sovereignty
Ollama
Local models, fully offline, cost under control. No data egress. GPU recommended.
Quality
Anthropic Claude
Highest decision quality. Requires an API key and internet, your call, made explicitly.
Determinism
Simulation
Rule-based fallback, always available. Deterministic runs for testing and demos.
On the record
- ⬡Every AI decision and human approval recorded with timestamp and justification
- ⬡Automatic escalation to human reviewers when AI confidence is low
- ⬡Connector credentials read from environment variables at runtime, never stored in a workflow definition
- ⬡Runs behind your reverse proxy; TLS and authentication terminate at your layer
- ⬡Runtime-configurable AI: switch providers and test connectivity with no restart
- ⬡Full light/dark theming, switchable per device
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Next system · 03/07
Matta→Enterprise Semantic Platform