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Track IV · The Mid-Market BridgeDossier 07 · 2026-04-30

Application-Layer Governance: Enforcing Multi-Provider Policy

Authored by Vantio Engineering · Target: SMB DevSecOps

SMB Brief

Route your AI provider traffic through a single environment variable change. Gain HTTPS interception, 30-day WORM audit logs via Google Cloud Spanner, and multi-provider policy enforcement at 5–25ms latency. No Kubernetes required.

The Governance Gap

Enterprise-grade AI governance — syscall-level enforcement, cryptographic audit trails, immutable ledgers — requires kernel access, container orchestration, and dedicated infrastructure engineering. Most SMB DevSecOps teams have none of these resources. The result is a governance gap: organizations that cannot deploy Ring-0 enforcement operate with no enforcement at all.

Tier 02 closes this gap without Kubernetes.

One Environment Variable

The Vantio Managed Edge Proxy deploys as a cloud-hosted HTTPS intermediary on your provisioned proxy-[id].edge.vantio.ai endpoint. Update one environment variable in your AI provider client:

# OpenAI
OPENAI_BASE_URL=https://proxy-abc123.edge.vantio.ai/v1

# Anthropic
ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=https://proxy-abc123.edge.vantio.ai

Your application code is unchanged. Every LLM API call now passes through the proxy. No SDK integration. No library changes. No deployment pipeline modifications.

What the Proxy Enforces

  • HTTPS Interception: Full request and response inspection, provider-agnostic across OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, and Mistral.
  • Active Policy Enforcement: Block, redact, or flag requests based on configurable governance rules. Rate limiting and budget caps enforced at the network layer.
  • 30-Day WORM Retention: Every intercept committed to Google Cloud Spanner with TrueTime timestamps. Records cannot be modified or deleted. Audit-ready for SOC 2, GDPR Article 30, and SEC Cybersecurity Disclosure.
  • 5–25ms Latency: Proxy nodes deployed in the same GCP regions as major AI provider endpoints. The 5–25ms overhead is a predictable, bounded additional cost on every request — not a zero-cost claim.

No container orchestration. No cluster. No infrastructure team required.

Pricing

Tier 02 is available via Stripe self-serve at $499/month per tenant, with no per-request fees up to 10M tokens/day. Enterprise volume pricing and private proxy deployment are available on request.

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Governance without the cluster.

Join the Tier 02 private beta. One environment variable. Full WORM audit trail. No infrastructure investment.

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