LLM control plane · on-prem ready

The warded gateway for your models.

Gateward sits in front of every LLM your organization runs — enforcing auth, routing each request to the right model — local or frontier — and cutting token spend. One control plane for the models you host and the ones you call.

Built by Digital One · Dublin, Ireland
The gate

Every prompt passes through Gateward first.

It is the single doorway between your applications and your models — so control, cost and compliance stop being an afterthought.

Ward

Authenticate, authorize and apply policy before a single token reaches a model. Keys, quotas and rules live in one place.

Route

Send each request to the right model — local for the routine, frontier for the hard calls — by cost, capability, latency or data residency.

Save

Trim context, cache repeats and compress prompts — so every call, especially to frontier models like Claude, costs less. Pay for signal, not overhead.

Capabilities

A control plane, not just a proxy.

Everything you need to put governance, routing and economy in front of your models — without slowing your engineers down.

Access control & keys

Per-team keys, rate limits, budgets and policy — enforced at the gate, audited by default.

Model routing & fallback

One endpoint, many models. Route by rules and fail over automatically when a provider degrades.

Token & cost optimization

Caching, prompt compression and context trimming that cut spend without touching your app code.

On-prem & sovereign

Run entirely inside your network. In sovereign mode, no prompt or response ever leaves your infrastructure.

Observability & audit

Every call logged with cost, latency and model — a full, exportable trail for finance and compliance.

Multi-provider gateway

Local models and frontier APIs — Claude, GPT and more — behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Route the routine local, escalate the hard calls.

Runs where your data lives

From data-center racks to a desk-side cluster.

We are hardening Gateward across the full spectrum — from enterprise GPU servers to the new wave of cost-effective local AI hardware. Keep your models and your data in-house, without the hyperscaler bill.

Enterprise GPU servers

Data-center class racks and existing GPU fleets — Gateward fronts them as one governed endpoint.

Validating

Apple Mac Studio clusters

Unified-memory Mac Studios clustered into a quiet, power-sipping local inference pool.

In testing

NVIDIA DGX Spark

The Grace-Blackwell desk-side box — serious local inference without a data-center bill.

In testing

AMD Ryzen AI Max

Strix-Halo APUs with big unified memory and an on-chip NPU for cost-effective local models.

In testing
Relative cost to serve, by deployment
Indexed to managed cloud API = 100 · lower is cheaper · illustrative, validation in progress
Cloud API (managed)
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Enterprise GPU server
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Mac Studio cluster
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NVIDIA DGX Spark
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AMD Ryzen AI Max
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Figures are directional estimates we are validating across the hardware above — not a published benchmark. The pattern we keep seeing: once traffic is steady, owning the silicon undercuts per-token cloud pricing, and on-prem keeps data in your walls.
Local-first, frontier-ready

Run your agents locally. Escalate to the best models when it counts.

Frontier labs like Anthropic (Claude) and OpenAI will keep building the strongest models — and for the hardest final decisions, you want them. But most agentic work — the loops, retrieval and routine steps — runs fine on cost-effective hardware you own. Gateward orchestrates both: keep the bulk inside your network, and pass the complex calls through to frontier models in a token-optimized way.

Local ecosystem
Agents, loops & retrieval
On your Mac Studio, DGX Spark or Ryzen AI hardware
optimize · route
Gateward
Auth · token economy · escalation
hard calls only
Frontier models
Claude · GPT · …
The complex, final decisions — token-optimized
How it works

Four steps, one endpoint.

01

Connect

Point your existing SDK at Gateward's OpenAI-compatible URL. No rewrite.

02

Ward

Auth, policy, budgets and rate limits are enforced before the call goes anywhere.

03

Route & optimize

Gateward picks the model, trims and caches tokens, and forwards the request.

04

Observe

Cost, latency and the full trail land in your logs — per team, per model.

Why it matters

Bring your models in-house. Keep your speed.

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Endpoint for every model & provider
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On-prem option — data stays in your network
~0%
Target token-cost reduction in pilots
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Hardware targets in active testing
Private beta

Tell us your stack. We'll set up a pilot.

Gateward is in private testing with a handful of teams. Share the models you run and the hardware you're considering, and we'll get you a tailored pilot.

Email gateward@digital1.one →