What AION does
Inventory the AI traffic AION observes beside your gateway (across the API, gateway and managed-provider paths) and surface unmanaged spend there. Named honestly: AION sees the traffic that flows through the gateway it sits beside, not usage outside that path.
AI Bill of Materials for every covered agent: models, providers and per-request cost. Signed and append-only, so finance can trace every dollar to the request that spent it.
AION uses intelligent CPU-based routing to send covered AI traffic to the cheapest model that handles the prompt, with budget, token, cache, team and cost-center context gating model selection. Every routing decision and its cost land in the signed ledger.
Cost claims that survive audit. Every saved dollar tied to an observed traffic event and a replay-hashed receipt before it reaches an invoice.
Agent workflows resend old tool logs, RAG chunks and prior context. AION estimates what can be compressed, skips when provider cache or tool ordering would break and signs the context decision.
Deployment
Intelligent routing runs CPU-first. GPU is never a default requirement. Strict mode runs with no outbound vendor dependency.
Deploy beside a single workload, in-boundary, for low-latency local inference and minimal blast radius. Bring your own gateway: AION observes the traffic that already flows through it, prices it and signs the cost evidence. Single-writer, local storage, no client-server DB.
An air-gapped overlay on the sidecar: no outbound vendor calls. Router weights, policy bundles and updates ship as offline artifacts. The in-boundary, customer-key-held, no-phone-home posture for regulated finance, healthcare and government.
AION rides the gateway you already run rather than replacing it. It prices and routes covered traffic on your existing gateway, sidecar or air-gapped, with no hosted control plane and no vendor in the data path.
Adoption
Begin with one low-risk team in observe mode, then turn on budgets and cheapest-safe routing across more covered traffic.
Start here
Mirror or proxy covered AI traffic, build attribution and cost reporting, then replay cost-routing scenarios using the AION router baseline.
Govern spend
Turn on virtual keys, per-team and per-cost-center budgets and provider allowlists for selected teams or apps.
Cheapest-safe routing and savings ledger
The AION routing engine drives cheapest-safe routing, fallbacks, route replay, cache-aware affinity and guarded context compression. The verified savings ledger writes one event per validated dollar.
Self-host or hybrid
Deploy sidecars or a central gateway inside the customer environment with private policy, SSO/RBAC and dedicated rollout support, alongside AION Budget.