A runtime layer in front of AI models that mediates every request - routing, authentication, rate limiting, and policy enforcement at the boundary.
An AI gateway is a single point through which application traffic to AI models flows, in the way an API gateway fronts microservices. It centralizes cross-cutting concerns - authentication, routing across providers, rate limiting, caching, logging, and increasingly policy enforcement - so each application does not have to reimplement them.
The gateway pattern is what makes model-agnostic governance possible: because every call passes through one boundary, a policy applied there covers every model and application at once, and switching providers changes nothing about how traffic is governed. DataStrict's Enforcement Fabric is an AI gateway whose defining job is enforcement - inspecting and adjudicating each request inline, not just proxying it.
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