Getting started

From signup to your first governed answer — in under a day.

Backplain is built to be deployed by an in-house team without an IT project. Six steps, most of them under five minutes. By the end, you have a workspace, a Firewall, and an audit trail.

01

Create your workspace

Start a 14-day trial at dashboard.backplain.com/register. No credit card. No procurement cycle. The workspace is provisioned in under two minutes — multi-tenant SaaS by default, or pick a deployment region during onboarding for AWS, Azure, GCP, dedicated bare metal, or Sovereign Compute.

02

Invite your team

Add seats by email or SSO (Google, Microsoft, Okta, SAML). Team and Business tiers include role-based access — admins, power users, and standard users. Departments can see different model bundles; you decide who gets what.

03

Turn on the AI Firewall

Open Admin → AI Firewall. Pick a mode for each category — PII, PHI, financial credentials, custom terms. Hard Block rejects and logs. User Warning flags and confirms. Silent Reconstitute substitutes outbound and restores on response in under 40ms.

04

Pick your model bundle

47 models across 9 providers ship enabled. Toggle off anything you don't want. Group favorites — "contract review", "clinical drafting", "code review" — and assign them to teams.

05

Run the Tokyo Test

Open Multi-Model Chat. Ask one prompt. Up to ten models answer side by side. The variance is the point — pick the answer that holds up. The other nine are your research.

06

Review the audit log

Every prompt, every response, every Firewall action is logged with user, timestamp, model, and substitution trace. Export CSV or stream to your SIEM. This is what answers "are we using AI safely?" in four minutes, not four months.

What you get on day one

Day-one checklist.

  • 47 models across 9 providers, ready to compare
  • Patent-pending AI Firewall on, in your chosen mode
  • Single sign-on configured (Google, Microsoft, SAML, Okta)
  • Role-based access for admins, power users, and standard users
  • Full audit log with user, timestamp, model, and Firewall trace
  • Flat-rate billing — no token meters, no usage surprises