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+Title: Strategy
+license: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Apache projects are adopting AI the way everyone else is: quickly, and one account at a time. A
+committer signs up with a provider, pays out of pocket or through an employer, and wires the
+result into a project workflow. That works for one project. At the scale of hundreds of projects
+it leaves the Foundation with no view of what is being spent, no shared catalog of what is
+approved, and no way to extend a donated pool of tokens across communities fairly.
+
+The Responsible AI initiative is building a Foundation-managed alternative. Committers remain
+free to use whatever tools they like; this is the path the ASF runs and can account for.
+
+<div class="rai-cards">
+
+<div class="rai-card">
+
+## Free to projects
+
+A project draws on a budget the Foundation allocates, rather than a personal account or an
+employer's.
+
+</div>
+
+<div class="rai-card">
+
+## Governed by default
+
+Every call is authorized against Apache identity, metered, and attributed to the project that
+made it.
+
+</div>
+
+<div class="rai-card">
+
+## Private where it matters
+
+Sensitive work runs on models the Foundation hosts itself, so the content never leaves ASF
+infrastructure.
+
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<a id="how-it-fits-together"></a>
+
+## How the pieces fit together
+
+The work divides into four layers. A project asks for work; agents do it; shared services run
+those agents and govern every model call; models answer.
+
+<svg viewBox="0 0 720 178" width="100%" role="img" aria-label="Four layers: workloads, agents, services, models" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" style="max-width:100%;height:auto;margin:1.5rem 0">
+ <defs>
+ <marker id="s-ar" viewBox="0 0 8 8" refX="6.5" refY="4" markerWidth="6" markerHeight="6" orient="auto">
+ <path d="M0 1 L6.5 4 L0 7 z" fill="#9aa3ac"/></marker>
+ </defs>
+ <g>
+ <g font-size="7.6" fill="#6a737d" letter-spacing="1.4">
+ <text x="0" y="14">WORKLOADS</text><text x="0" y="60">AGENTS</text>
+ <text x="0" y="106">SERVICES</text><text x="0" y="166">MODELS</text>
+ </g>
+ <rect x="82" y="0" width="638" height="25" rx="5" fill="#fdf2f4" stroke="#e8c3c9"/>
+ <text x="401" y="16.5" font-size="9.2" fill="#8c0a22" font-weight="600" text-anchor="middle">define · schedule · report runs</text>
+ <path d="M401 25 L401 42" stroke="#9aa3ac" stroke-width="1.2" marker-end="url(#s-ar)"/>
+ <rect x="82" y="44" width="152" height="27" rx="5" fill="#fdf6ec" stroke="#edc98f"/>
+ <rect x="244" y="44" width="152" height="27" rx="5" fill="#fdf6ec" stroke="#edc98f"/>
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+ <rect x="568" y="44" width="152" height="27" rx="5" fill="#f7f8fa" stroke="#d7dbe1" stroke-dasharray="3 2"/>
+ <g font-size="8.6" fill="#96590a" font-weight="600" text-anchor="middle">
+ <text x="158" y="61.5">security scans</text><text x="320" y="61.5">issue triage</text><text x="482" y="61.5">CI/CD review</text>
+ </g>
+ <text x="644" y="61.5" font-size="8.6" fill="#5a6472" font-weight="600" text-anchor="middle">what projects build</text>
+ <path d="M401 71 L401 88" stroke="#9aa3ac" stroke-width="1.2" marker-end="url(#s-ar)"/>
+ <rect x="82" y="90" width="638" height="46" rx="5" fill="#f7f8fa" stroke="#d7dbe1"/>
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+ <text x="168" y="111" font-size="8.8" fill="#15181d" font-weight="700" text-anchor="middle">agent workbench</text>
+ <text x="168" y="121.5" font-size="7" fill="#5a6472" text-anchor="middle">build and run agents</text>
+ <rect x="252" y="99" width="148" height="29" rx="4" fill="#fff" stroke="#bfc6d0"/>
+ <text x="326" y="111" font-size="8.8" fill="#15181d" font-weight="700" text-anchor="middle">MCP federation</text>
+ <text x="326" y="121.5" font-size="7" fill="#5a6472" text-anchor="middle">governed tool access</text>
+ <rect x="410" y="99" width="148" height="29" rx="4" fill="#fdf2f4" stroke="#b21326" stroke-width="1.4"/>
+ <text x="484" y="111" font-size="8.8" fill="#8c0a22" font-weight="700" text-anchor="middle">llm.apache.org</text>
+ <text x="484" y="121.5" font-size="7" fill="#8c0a22" text-anchor="middle">metered model access</text>
+ <rect x="568" y="99" width="140" height="29" rx="4" fill="#fff" stroke="#bfc6d0"/>
+ <text x="638" y="111" font-size="8.8" fill="#15181d" font-weight="700" text-anchor="middle">advisor</text>
+ <text x="638" y="121.5" font-size="7" fill="#5a6472" text-anchor="middle">cost · quality · policy</text>
+ <path d="M484 136 L484 150" stroke="#9aa3ac" stroke-width="1.2" marker-end="url(#s-ar)"/>
+ <rect x="82" y="152" width="638" height="25" rx="5" fill="#f7f8fa" stroke="#e6e8ec"/>
+ <g font-size="8.6" fill="#3d4652" font-weight="600" text-anchor="middle">
+ <text x="188" y="168.5">first-party providers</text><text x="401" y="168.5">hosted under ASF terms</text><text x="614" y="168.5">ASF-hosted models</text>
+ </g>
+ <line x1="295" y1="156" x2="295" y2="173" stroke="#e6e8ec"/><line x1="507" y1="156" x2="507" y2="173" stroke="#e6e8ec"/>
+ </g>
+</svg>
+
+**Workloads** is what a project asks for: which job to run, on what schedule, reported where.
+**Agents** are the implementations that do the work, and the layer where projects contribute their
+own. **Services** are the shared infrastructure the Foundation builds and operates. **Models** are
+the classes of model available behind the gateway.
+
+The dividing line matters. Projects contribute at the agents layer; the Foundation is responsible
+for keeping the services underneath them running.
+
+## One governed path to models
+
+`llm.apache.org` is the address AI calls go to. It checks who is asking against Apache identity,
+attributes the call to the right project, and selects a model appropriate to the work — including
+models the Foundation hosts itself, so that sensitive material need never leave ASF
+infrastructure.
+
+Tokens reach that pool from several directions: providers donate them, the Foundation procures
+capacity, and we run open-weight models on our own rented hardware. A project asks for what it
+needs; the Foundation decides where it comes from.
+
+## Where this is going
+
+The initiative is early, and this page describes direction rather than finished work.
+
+| | |
+| --- | --- |
+| **Running now** | Automated security scanning across Apache projects, with findings delivered to maintainers through the Foundation's standard disclosure process |
+| **In development** | The model gateway at `llm.apache.org`, and the agent workbench the scanning pipelines already run on |
+| **In design** | Tool federation, and the advisor layer that tracks cost, quality, and routing policy |
+| **Ahead** | Self-serve access for any project that wants it, and open-weight models the Foundation controls |
+
+Each piece is being built in the open. As they land, this page will say so.
+
+## Take part
+
+The initiative works in public on the [discussion list](get-involved.html), and welcomes
+participation from any Apache committer — on the technical work, on policy, or on the questions
+projects are facing right now.
+
+- [Get involved](get-involved.html) — the mailing list and how to join in
+- [What we do](what-we-do.html) — the initiative's wider activities
+- [Best practices](best-practices.html) — guidance for projects using AI today
+
+*This page describes work in progress and will be updated as the work develops.*
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<ul class="navbar-nav me-auto">
<li class="nav-item"><a class="nav-link" href="about.html">About</a></li>
<li class="nav-item"><a class="nav-link" href="what-we-do.html">What we do</a></li>
+ <li class="nav-item"><a class="nav-link" href="strategy.html">Strategy</a></li>
<li class="nav-item dropdown">
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