Adoption outpaces governance
Most enterprises are running generative AI experiments in shadow mode — developers using public LLMs on production data without oversight. The risk is real and the clock is ticking.
The guardrails
- Data classification — never send restricted data to public endpoints without contractual and technical controls.
- Model gateway — route all prompts through a central gateway that logs, redacts, and enforces policy.
- Evaluation — measure quality, safety, and cost on every release.
- Human-in-the-loop — automate the safe 80%, escalate the risky 20%.
Build the gateway early
A model gateway is the single highest-leverage control. It gives you observability, cost controls, and policy enforcement without forcing every app to reimplement them.