With the advent of agentic AI and the promise of newfound workforce productivity and customer engagement, it’s no surprise that organizations are rapidly engaging in projects to bring that promise to light. Unfortunately, many of these projects end up consuming massive amounts of development time and resources, producing a result that is more “prototype” than “enterprise-ready”. They often lack the authentication, monitoring, logging, performance, and scale needed for production readiness. Further, much of the invested time is spent getting the foundational aspects of application-AI connectivity working, rather than the aspects of the solution that would deliver business value. So much so that industry analyst Gartner predicts that “by 2027, over 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled due to escalating costs, unclear business value or inadequate risk.”
What We’re Launching
What’s needed is a fast, easy, solution that makes applications agent-ready in minutes without coding, integrates with existing authentication and authorization infrastructure, provides visibility into what the agents are doing and who is behind them, and of course, operates at enterprise scale. This is exactly what the new Cequence AI Gateway delivers.
The AI Gateway can be leveraged across the organization. For example:
- Customer service connecting CRM, Call Center as a Service (CCaaS), or Knowledge Management Systems to deliver more efficient, cost effective, and positive customer experiences.
- Sales development representatives can leverage agentic AI to interface with existing systems to autonomously conduct prospect research, compose personalized emails, assess lead quality, and ultimately schedule meetings.
- Engineering is evolving beyond today’s AI coding assistants to handle a wider range of tasks across the software development life cycle (SDLC), allowing developers to focus on more creative, complex, and frankly satisfying tasks.
The AI Gateway supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and turns any API into an MCP-compatible tool with just a few clicks. It also insulates the user from changes to the MCP protocol, so code updates aren’t needed as the protocol evolves.
Agentic AI depends on APIs, and Cequence’s deep knowledge of how APIs are structured, used, and abused means users can trust that the AI Gateway was designed with security and scale in mind.
Cequence AI Gateway Features
First and foremost, Cequence makes it easy to quickly take advantage of AI agents for internal workflow and productivity improvements or enhanced customer experiences. Our no-code approach means that you are able make your internal, external, or SaaS applications agent-ready in minutes. We create MCP servers without you having to up-skill developers or worry about creating downstream technical debt.
Integrated Access Control
Second, we know how important identity is, and it’s even more so in the world of agentic AI. AI Gateway integrates with your existing OAuth 2.0-compliant IdP with a few clicks, providing appropriate identity-based access to systems and data while preventing unauthorized AI agent access.
Built in Monitoring and Visibility
Knowing what users and agents are interacting with what applications and what actions their taking is a key hurdle for enabling AI access. We’ve built in monitoring and logging, so organizations have the full view of AI-application interactions and an indelible audit trail.
Enterprise Ready
The AI Gateway is a SaaS solution, delivering the scalability, performance, and reliability that the world’s largest organizations expect. In addition to monitoring and built-in access controls, the AI Gateway also has RBAC, discrete pre-prod/production modes, and more features designed for the enterprise.
Why It’s Different
Let’s face it. There’s no shortage of MCP server projects floating around. The enterprises we talk to consistently express their views that these are valuable learning resources for MCP. However, they also acknowledge the significant learning curve that often hinders project progress. At best, these projects result in a proof of concept, while at worst, they become failed endeavors that consume valuable time and resources.
Identity solutions have matured greatly over the past decade, and most organizations have a solid OAuth 2.0-compliant solution in place by now. Of course, you’ll want to use that rather than risk implementing a simple MCP server that has siloed authentication or none at all. It would be a significant security risk and simply will not scale.
Further complicating things is that SaaS solution vendors are introducing MCP servers to support their own solutions at a steady clip. On the one hand this is great – you could consider these “reference” implementations for interacting with their SaaS solutions via agentic AI. However, taking this path means you lose visibility and control over your organization’s use of agentic AI.
Cequence has made it super easy to make your applications agent-ready, without sacrificing the enterprise-class capabilities that modern organizations need. All of the performance, scalability, reliability, and environment monitoring that you’d expect are present in a modern, enterprise SaaS offering.
Unbelievably Easy
Creating your own agent-ready applications with Cequence AI Gateway couldn’t be easier:
- Connect Your Applications – Choose from existing application APIs or upload an existing OpenAPI/Swagger API spec and select the endpoints to convert into tools.
- Configure Authentication and Authorization – Choose passthrough authentication or configure an OAuth 2.0 provider.
- Deploy Your MCP Server – Choose a fully managed deployment in the Cequence cloud or manage it yourself and deploy with Helm Chart.
That’s really all there is to it!
Enthusiastic Customer Response
Early adopters have been quick to recognize AI Gateway’s value. “We were trying to enable a complex, customer-facing agentic application experience, a process we thought would take months,” said one enterprise customer. “With Cequence AI Gateway, we went from ‘stalled’ to ‘operational’ in under 48 hours. Now, customers can ask natural language questions and get real-time answers, reducing costly support interactions. It solves a real business problem faster and more safely than we thought possible.”
Another CSO summed up his experience with the AI Gateway to his team saying, “This is a game-changer.”
Cequence Platform Integration
Cequence has been a pioneer in application security, getting our start by defending against bot attacks and later expanding into API security. This wealth of experience was poured into the Cequence Unified API Protection (UAP) platform, and the new AI Gateway benefits mightily.
From our API security work, we leverage AI/ML to automatically create OpenAPI specs to fill a documentation gap that most organizations suffer from. These specs, given to the AI Gateway, produce an MCP server.
On the bot management side of the house, we’ve gone far beyond detecting simple volumetric attacks. We look deep into traffic and build an understanding of each customer’s business context to deliver the industry’s most accurate and effective system for detecting AI-based attacks, business logic abuse, and fraud. This becomes more important with each passing day as AI becomes more prevalent, since AI agents act autonomously, faster than any human possibly can, posing serious new risks to an organization’s attack surface.
With the press of a button, Cequence AI Gateway integrates with UAP to take advantage of this protection so your agentic AI solutions can operate safely and securely.
Getting Started
Learn more about the Cequence AI Gateway or sign up for the waitlist now.
