AI Gateway
Agentic governance, federated knowledge
Your applications need answers, not model credentials. AI Gateway lets an application call Syncratic Ask through a secure API: the application brings its intent, and Syncratic brings the governance, the privacy enforcement, the spend control, and, when authorized, the federated knowledge of the enterprise.
The story, part one
Every team is building the same gateway, badly
An application wants to reason with AI. Someone provisions a model key, wires it into the code, and ships. Now that application holds credentials it should not hold, spends without a budget, answers without citations, and audits nothing. Multiply by every internal tool and agent your teams are shipping this year.
The fix is not a better model. The fix is moving the model call behind a governed capability: one place where policy is defined, privacy is enforced, spend is bounded, and evidence is recorded, before any model is invoked.
And because every request passes through the same gateway, auditability comes naturally. Agentic and human requests follow one identical path, so an auditor traces a scheduled agent's midnight call with the same rigor as a person's afternoon question: same policy record, same boundary decisions, same correlated evidence.
The shift
Applications stop calling models. They start asking Syncratic.
The application describes what it needs. Tenant policy decides whether the call may happen, what knowledge it may touch, and what it may cost. The model is an implementation detail the application never sees.
The story, part two
Governance is defined before anything is invoked
The policy model starts at the tenant: which applications are approved, what model capability they may use, what limits and budgets bound them. Entities layer on top, so an individual application or user can be tightened or loosened without touching the baseline. Nothing reaches a model until these layers say yes.
Rejection happens before invocation: a call that fails authorization, privacy, limits, or budgets is denied outright, with the decision recorded, not discovered later on an invoice.
The story, part three
Boundaries travel with every call
Each invocation carries its boundary decisions: who asked, under which policy, with what privacy posture, inside which limit. Privacy checks apply to supplied context and to generated answers, with no exposure of credentials or provider endpoints to the calling application.
Every call lands in the audit record with correlated invocation IDs, policy decisions, usage and cost, and tenant-selected encrypted retention. An auditor follows one thread from application intent to model response, without ever seeing a prompt they should not.
The story, part four
Federated knowledge is an explicit choice, never a silent mix
Mode 1
Caller context
The application supplies its own context, and Syncratic Ask reasons only over that supplied context after policy and privacy checks. Syncratic tenant knowledge is not consulted. Designed for systems that bring their own evidence.
Mode 2
Syncratic federated knowledge
For approved applications or users that need answers over connected enterprise knowledge. Existing tenant authorization, retrieval controls, and privacy policy determine what may be used. Answers arrive with citations and provenance, like every Ask answer.
The modes are intentionally separate. That separation makes data lineage clear for users, administrators, and auditors: an answer is either reasoned over what the application provided, or over governed enterprise knowledge, and the record says which.
The wider platform behind these modes: see the architecture overview.
AI Gateway extends governed knowledge assurance to the applications your teams already use. Application teams add governed AI without building a separate model gateway for every application, and every call inherits the same tenant policy, privacy enforcement, and audit evidence as the platform itself.
Faster integration
A stable Syncratic API replaces per-application model gateways.
Rejection before invocation
Requests that fail authorization, privacy, limits, or budgets are denied before any model call.
Safe administrator visibility
A posture panel shows readiness, policy limits, and aggregate usage. It never reveals prompts, answers, credentials, or provider endpoints.
Governed knowledge assurance
Ask us about AI Gateway.
We will walk through the policy model, the two knowledge modes, and how your applications call Syncratic under tenant governance.