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But essentially, it's a private AI gateway that lets you consolidate all of your API keys inside of it.
And it just looks like a node on your tail net like any other would.
After spending months and months going to various AI conferences and showing off TS-IDP and just talking with all sorts of people, like engineers, CISOs, people in IT, what have you.
Time and time again, people were saying things like, oh, TS-IDP, it's super fascinating, interesting that you guys are working on all this kind of stuff.
I see the merits of tail scale.
Multi-tailnet, which is this other thing we've been working on internally, is super neat.
But what I'm really struggling with is just trying to figure out how to manage API keys because they're all over the place.
I can't claw them back because it'll potentially disrupt production or some engineering workflow.
We're trying to go really fast as a business.
And it's just dangerous.
You've got API keys all over the place.
People trade them, they get exfiltrated, they get checked in.
And they have very large, I guess,
well, accounts or credit cards associated with them.
And so it's very hard in some cases to track usage because a lot of API calls are inherently anonymous.
We were sitting around at a company offsite back in November, just talking about all the things we've been learning over the past few months.
And we're like, well, wait a minute, if...
If we built a gateway and we used TSNet for that, the gateway already knows exactly who you are because everything that connects to it over Tailscale has identity baked in.
So if we put the API keys all inside of the gateway, then you wouldn't need to share an API key with anybody inside of your company.
You could just say, oh, if you have a coding agent, just point the coding agent