AI gateways are at a crossroads. As adoption scales toward the 70% mark projected by analysts for 2028, the industry is grappling with a lack of transparency. While marketing claims of “20x speedup” are common, the technical reality of running these systems in production – especially within highly regulated on-premises environments
AI Firewall Guide: What is an AI firewall and how is it different from a WAF? The enterprise guide to prompt injection defense, PII filtering, OWASP LLM Top 10 coverage, and on-premise deployment.
AI Gateway Guide: What is an enterprise AI gateway and why can't traditional API gateways handle AI traffic? The definitive guide to multi-provider routing, cost governance, semantic caching, and evaluation criteria.
AI Control Plane Guide: What is an AI control plane and why does Forrester call it the next infrastructure requirement? The enterprise guide to centralized AI governance, agent oversight, and compliance enforcement.
When we set out to build Langsmart, we knew that solving the enterprise AI governance challenge wouldn't happen in isolation. The complexity of securing, routing, and managing AI across global organizations requires fresh perspectives, multidisciplinary thinking, and a pipeline of talent that understands both the technology and the
Today we’re shipping SmartFlow 1.3 with 12 new capabilities across caching, MCP tool orchestration, agent-to-agent communication, and enterprise security. This release represents a significant expansion of what SmartFlow governs: with 1.3, the platform now covers every way enterprises interact with AI. When we built SmartFlow, the problem
LangSmart CEO Craig Alberino joins Startups Decoded to discuss why enterprise AI has a control plane problem — and how SmartFlow and SafeChat solve it.
SmartFlow 1.3 delivers 12 new capabilities spanning LLM, MCP, and A2A governance — the only platform covering all three, deployable on-premise.
With 90% enterprise adoption projected and documented security concerns unresolved, MCP governance is no longer optional.
Enterprise AI budgets are growing, but so is per-token cost. Here's why cost governance is becoming the CFO's AI priority.
With EU enforcement active and US deadlines approaching, the ability to prove governance is becoming as important as governance itself.
As AI agents start talking to each other, the governance surface area expands exponentially. Most enterprises aren't ready.