AI privacy that survives procurement: zero retention, your keys, provable erasure
"We don't store your data" is a claim. A per-request retention header, a customer-held encryption key, and a crypto-shred certificate are proof.
Notes on cost, routing, and data trust from the team building NeuroRoute.
"We don't store your data" is a claim. A per-request retention header, a customer-held encryption key, and a crypto-shred certificate are proof.
AI spend rarely explodes in one moment. It leaks — on every call, every key, every day — until the model line is 4× last quarter and nobody can say why.
A committed API key or a compromised service account can burn six or seven figures in a single day. Models are fast enough to spend faster than any human notices.
A one-line classification and a paragraph of literary analysis are not the same task. Most gateways price them the same anyway.
Token compression is the cost lever nobody remembers to pull — right up until a debug session with a 40,000-line log attached shows up on the invoice.
Both sit between your app and every model provider. Where they actually differ — routing depth, retention posture, self-hosting, and how each prices — matters more than either company's marketing.