# Managed AI Agents: Third Way Hosting

> Managed AI agents mean always-on hosts without surrendering keys—microVMs, BYOK, templates. How AI-native companies host fleets.

- Published: 2026-08-03 · Updated: 2026-08-03 · jurniti
- Canonical: https://www.jurniti.com/blog/managed-ai-agents

**Managed AI agents** is a hosting question, not a model question.

Two bad options show up every founder conversation:

1. **Babysit a VPS forever** — every agent is a snowflake host. You become ops.
2. **Surrender to a black box** — someone holds keys, proxies spend, owns memory.

## The third way

**Managed runtime, still yours.**

- Isolated microVMs
- Harness of your choice
- BYOK keys inside the tenant
- Templates/forks for the next department
- Observability + **token usage** transparency without token resale

That is the host half of an AI-native company OS. The work half is fleets, memory, channels, plugins.

## Course + product

Learn the OS for free (email), then host for real:

No free trial of compute. First purchase: 30-day money-back. Soft path to [pricing](/pricing).

## Frequently asked questions

### What is managed AI agents?

A practical building block of an AI-native company operating system—how you run agents that create value with ownership, isolation, and cost honesty—not a chat widget alone.

### How does this relate to building an AI-native company?

Fleets, observability, memory, channels, and plugins are the OS. This topic is one pillar; the free 7-day course walks all five and soft-introduces managed microVM hosts.

### What is the free AI-native company course?

A 7-day email series on fleets, observability (including token usage), memory, communication, and plugins—with optional soft jurniti CTA and no free trial of compute.

### Does jurniti charge for model tokens?

No. jurniti is BYOK: you bring keys. Token usage is an advisory meter for spend transparency, not a token resale or free tier.

### Is there a free trial?

No free trial or free tier. The email course is free. First paid purchase has a 30-day money-back guarantee.

### Where do I start?

Read this post, then enroll in the AI-native company course for a paced OS checklist that CTAs from every cluster post.