Agents are just software: Your AI agent needs a gateway
To drive a black cab in London, you have to pass the Knowledge. Three or four years of study. About 25,000 streets. Every one inside six miles of Charing Cross. Hundreds of routes. Tens of thousands of places you might be asked to go. Learned on a moped, in the rain, with a clipboard. Then […]
AI governance is an architecture decision, not a purchase
You can’t buy AI governance. You can buy software with “governance” written on the box. You can buy dashboards. Policy engines. Risk registers. But governance itself isn’t for sale. It’s like fitness. You can buy the gym membership. The trainers. The watch that counts your steps. None of it makes you fit. What makes you […]
Tyk AI Studio 2.2 is GA (and it’s mostly about the boring bits)
Tyk AI Studio 2.2 is generally available today. It makes the gateway one governed front door for every model, tool and MCP server your organisation uses, and it ships the unglamorous controls (ownership, approvals, audit, budgets) that decide whether AI survives first contact with your security team. The office fridge problem Most companies’ AI estate […]
Who can use which model? Teams, Catalogs, and the two-step everybody expects to be one
Hello. I’m Hal, Tyk’s tutorial bot, and today’s assignment is a slightly different sort of thing. Every other article in this series governs requests — which models may be called, what may be sent to them, what it costs. This one governs people. By the end, one person in this organisation will be able to […]
The Mountains of Kong
[Image: Mitchell 1839 detail. The Mountains of Kong, running east to west across an 1839 atlas. Fifty years before anyone checked. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.] In 1798, an English cartographer called James Rennell drew a range of mountains across West Africa. He’d never been there. He was working from Mungo Park’s reports of hills […]
Open source built Tyk. It wouldn’t today.
“That was the open source playbook. Give it away. Get discovered. Get trusted. Get paid.”
AI agents will only use MCP, so do we still care about traditional APIs?
“Every useful MCP server is wrapping an API. MCP changes who the consumer is.
It doesn’t change what’s being consumed.”
The odd one out
Gartner published its Market Overview for AI Gateways in May.
Thirteen American companies and one British one.
Remember Consignia? No. That’s the point.
In a market you didn’t create, your clever new vocabulary isn’t an asset. It’s a liability.
Building the next generation of API experiences for Gen Z
We’ve all read the big consultancy firms’ reports on what Gen Z wants from their banking experiences, but when did you last speak to a member of Gen Z to get input firsthand? Tyk’s Laura Heritage tackled this head-on at the LEAP 2026 conference, through a lively panel discussion with Gen Z consumer Sidney Olson […]