Quali expands Torque for enterprise AI infrastructure

Quali has expanded its Torque platform for enterprise AI infrastructure management, positioning it as a single control plane across mixed infrastructure environments.

The update focuses on bringing together infrastructure often managed through separate tools such as Terraform, OpenTofu, Ansible, Helm, Kubernetes and CloudFormation. Torque can scan cloud accounts, on-premises systems and Git repositories, then convert live configurations into governed Infrastructure-as-Code.

Quali is targeting a problem facing large organisations as AI deployments spread across different computing environments. Infrastructure teams often run workloads across bare metal servers, virtual machines, containers, public cloud, private systems and edge locations, while ownership, cost and compliance data remain split between teams and tools.

Torque is designed to sit above those existing systems rather than replace them. The platform standardises what those tools produce so environments can be tracked, governed and operated through a single framework.

Broader oversight

Additions include continuous discovery tools, cost controls tied to provisioning, drift detection and automated remediation. The platform also tracks ownership, business purpose, cost, utilisation and health status for active environments.

Quali says this links spending to the intended outcome of a deployment rather than treating it only as a cloud or infrastructure bill. It also allows policy-violating deployments to be blocked before resources are created, while idle or orphaned assets can be identified continuously.

The platform includes governance features for regulated and sovereign AI deployments, with policy enforcement, data residency controls and audit trails applied at the point of provisioning. This reflects a wider push to build tighter controls into AI infrastructure before workloads go live, rather than applying compliance checks later.

Another part of the expansion covers autonomous AI agents. Torque includes a live Model Context Protocol server that allows compatible agents to provision environments, query system status, inspect configuration drift and trigger lifecycle workflows within role-based policy limits.

Natural language

For users who do not work directly in code, Quali has added a generative AI environment designer that translates natural language prompts into Infrastructure-as-Code. The resulting code remains present and auditable even when it is not directly exposed to the user.

The platform spans physical and software-defined infrastructure, including bare metal provisioning, operating system imaging, network configuration, CPU-based workloads, virtual machines, containerised applications, GPU clusters and cloud-native AI environments.

Quali also linked Torque to its work with Cisco. Torque shares its platform core with Stack Automation by Quali, an AI infrastructure operations product developed with Cisco for Cisco AI infrastructure environments.

That connection clarifies how Quali is positioning its software in a crowded infrastructure market. Rather than competing only in cloud management or container orchestration, the company is making the case for a broader management layer spanning multiple infrastructure types and tying them to governance and cost controls.

Quali says it has around 100 enterprise customers globally and supports more than 40,000 environment launches each month. It was also named a Representative Vendor in Gartner's Market Guide for AI Assistants for Infrastructure as Code.

Chief Executive Officer Lior Koriat outlined the company's view of the market shift in a statement accompanying the launch.

"Every enterprise managing AI infrastructure today is dealing with a version of the same problem: environments provisioned across too many tools, by too many teams, with too little visibility into what is running, what it costs, and whether it is delivering value. Torque was built to solve that problem at its root, not by adding another management layer, but by becoming the intelligence layer that makes every other tool in the stack governable, measurable, and aligned to outcomes," said Lior Koriat, Chief Executive Officer, Quali.