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Announcing Built On Envoy: Making Envoy Extensions Accessible to Everyone

What is an AI gateway, and why every LLM team needs one

Agent Router Enterprise

Apr 23, 2026

What is an AI gateway, and why every LLM team needs one

An AI Gateway handles routing to one or more AI models, fallback, authentication, cost control, and observability.

Agent Security: What NIST Wants You to Think About Before Your Agent Calls a Tool

Agent Router Enterprise

Apr 21, 2026

Agent Security: What NIST Wants You to Think About Before Your Agent Calls a Tool

Your agent has AWS credentials. It can execute cloud CLI commands. NIST has opinions about this. Here's what tool-calling security looks like in practice.

Making Agents Reliable: Auto-Save, Stable IDs, and the Context Window Problem

Agent Router Enterprise

Apr 15, 2026

Making Agents Reliable: Auto-Save, Stable IDs, and the Context Window Problem

When your agent crashes at tool call 142 out of 150, you'd better hope the first 141 findings aren't lost. Here are the patterns that made our cost agents production-ready.

Not Everything Needs an LLM: When to Remove the AI from Your AI Agent

Agent Router Enterprise

Apr 7, 2026

Not Everything Needs an LLM: When to Remove the AI from Your AI Agent

We built an agent to sync compliance data. Then we built a version without the LLM that runs faster, costs less, and produces identical results. Knowing when to remove the AI is an underrated skill.

Two Ways to Build a Cost Agent (And Why We Use Both)

Agent Router Enterprise

Apr 3, 2026

Two Ways to Build a Cost Agent (And Why We Use Both)

We built two fundamentally different architectures for our cost optimization agents. One lets the LLM drive. The other relegates it to a single call. Both have their place.

Your Agent Found 2.4 Percent of the Savings. Now What?

Agent Router Enterprise

Mar 23, 2026

Your Agent Found 2.4 Percent of the Savings. Now What?

We built a cost optimization agent. It worked. Then we did the math: it was catching 2.4 percent of the savings. Here's what was missing and what we changed.

From Plain English to Governed Workflows: How WorkflowIQ Earned Runner-Up at the Tetrate AI Buildathon

Tetrate Agent Router Service

Mar 18, 2026

From Plain English to Governed Workflows: How WorkflowIQ Earned Runner-Up at the Tetrate AI Buildathon

WorkflowIQ's runner-up finish at the first Tetrate AI Buildathon underscores its innovative approach to governed AI workflows—turning plain English into structured, event-driven processes.

From Photos to Packing Lists: How Mvio Won the First Tetrate AI Buildathon

Tetrate Agent Router Service

Mar 5, 2026

From Photos to Packing Lists: How Mvio Won the First Tetrate AI Buildathon

Mvio won the first Tetrate AI Buildathon by turning moving inventory into a simple photo-to-structured-data workflow. Here's how they did it and why it matters.

Reflections on the First Tetrate AI Buildathon

Tetrate Agent Router Service

Feb 24, 2026

Reflections on the First Tetrate AI Buildathon

A reflection on the first Tetrate AI Buildathon—the supportive community, the intentional 'Buildathon' approach, 16 demoable projects, and what comes next.

Announcing Built On Envoy: Making Envoy Extensions Accessible to Everyone

Tetrate Blog

Announcing Built On Envoy: Making Envoy Extensions Accessible to Everyone

What is an AI gateway, and why every LLM team needs one

Agent Security: What NIST Wants You to Think About Before Your Agent Calls a Tool

Making Agents Reliable: Auto-Save, Stable IDs, and the Context Window Problem

Not Everything Needs an LLM: When to Remove the AI from Your AI Agent

Two Ways to Build a Cost Agent (And Why We Use Both)

Your Agent Found 2.4 Percent of the Savings. Now What?

From Plain English to Governed Workflows: How WorkflowIQ Earned Runner-Up at the Tetrate AI Buildathon

From Photos to Packing Lists: How Mvio Won the First Tetrate AI Buildathon

Reflections on the First Tetrate AI Buildathon

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