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Dial Your Agent Loop Up to 11

Introducing the first iteration of the to11 LLM engineering platform.

Chris SchagenSören MartiusChris Schagen, Sören MartiusCo-founder · to11.aiPublishedApr 29, 2026Read2 min

Today, we are dropping the first iteration of the to11 LLM engineering platform. It's the opening chord of our vision for the future — a foundation built for teams who need their AI agents to do more than just play a solo.

The Stage is Set

We are at a massive inflection point in the industry. GitHub commits are exploding, GPU spot prices are hitting all-time highs, and even the heavy hitters like Claude are unavailable more often than we'd like. The demand is massive, despite most enterprises having even started yet.

From Solo Acts to Integrated Suites

The current LLM & agentic tooling landscape is fragmented. Most existing gear — gateways, observability, prompt management, and guardrails — still follows the "single agent" model. While there are some great point solutions in those categories, using them together at times feels like trying to tune a guitar with a sledgehammer.

to11 changes that by offering an integrated suite. We've brought observability, evals, guardrails, and alerting together into one heavy-duty stack, designed from the ground up for orchestration.

The Power of the Orchestrated Band

We also believe the future is agent-to-agent (A2A). We're starting to see cloud agents and managed agents collaborating with high specialization in complex workflows. It's no longer about one model doing everything; it's about a network of experts working in a tight rhythm section to deliver results.

This orchestration unlocks a step-change in productivity for companies at the forefront of the movement. When your agents communicate and collaborate effectively, work can be transformed and the output isn't just better — it's louder.

Escaping the Model Provider Lock-In

While the capability frontier is ever expanding, open models are reaching parity and task competence with the frontier models in ever faster cycles. We think this will force the frontier labs to move beyond prompts and tokens toward their own proprietary orchestration layers. Which creates a serious threat of lock-in and opaqueness if you're not careful. These providers want to capture the value that underpins their sky-high valuations by keeping you in their "black box" ecosystem.

You need a trusted third party to tell you if your agents are actually doing a good job. And at which agent that A2A workflow of yours broke down. You will want to have the freedom to swap out your models without having to dismantle your entire stage setup every time.

This One Goes to 11

The current AI landscape is loud, but most teams are still playing at a 10. We built to11 to give you that extra "kick".

If you're ready to move beyond fragmented tools and black-box orchestration, it's time to tune your stack. Dial your agent loop up to 11. Let's see what happens when you turn the volume.

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Chris Schagen

Chris Schagen

Co-founder of to11. Building the LLM engineering platform for teams running orchestrated agents in production.

Sören Martius

Sören Martius

Co-founder of to11. Building the LLM engineering platform for teams running orchestrated agents in production.

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