By Fernando SC Ferreira
Business Development

The explosion of applications over the past 15 years powered a vast ecosystem of APIs — the building blocks of our digital landscape. The launch of chatGPT 3 years ago rushed us into the genAI era and more recently we saw the rise of Agentic IA. As such, the Integration challenge these days involves much more than standard APIs and includes multiple LLMs, MCPs (to connect AI applications to external data and tools), event streaming models, and so on.

To support “AI connectivity”, the ability to manage multiple protocols from a single, unified plane is more critical than ever. After all, autonomous agents require a standardized way to discover and interact with services, shifting the focus from user to programming interfaces. Further, the command-based protocols that characterized traditional APIs are being superseded by context-based AI interactions.

Enter the AI Gateway

This intelligent orchestrator acts as the central control point between corporate applications and its various AI models. It delivers essential benefits, including:

  • Security and Governance: enforcing policies such as “prompt protection” to filter sensitive data.
  • Cost Control and Efficiency: implementing capabilities like “token control” to supervise expensive LLM traffic.
  • Management and Reliability: providing a single “AI access point” to allow effective monitoring and high-availability.

Over a trillion dollars were invested in the AI sector (Andreas Horn). The pressure is on to demonstrate real-world impact and ROI. And besides financial return, companies must move from AI experiments into actual strategic advantage. Developing autonomous Agents is clearly no simple task, but an AI Gateway infrastructure can significantly contribute to reducing risks and accelerating projects.

In sum, AI Gateways are emerging as an intelligent layer that governs the flow of AI data, profoundly reinventing the role of the traditional API gateway. They will increasingly play a key role in ensuring secure, efficient connectivity between business systems and the new generation of Agents. “Intelligent Integration” is here and count on us to guide your organization in the transition to the new AI economy.