Everyone loves a great GenAI demo. You throw a prompt into a model, and magic happens. But ask any engineering leader what happens when you try to take that “magic” to production across an enterprise.
It is absolute chaos.
Models change behavior overnight. Rate limits throttle your app. Latency spikes ruin the user experience. And your AI compute spend? It silently bleeds your runway. Moving from a shiny proof-of-concept to a reliable, enterprise-grade AI product is a massive, unglamorous operational gauntlet.
Portkey is building the exact control plane to tame this chaos.
Founded by Rohit Agarwal and Ayush Garg, Portkey is an enterprise-grade AI Gateway that acts as the ultimate traffic controller and observability suite for production AI.
The moat here is hardcore, low-latency infrastructure. Portkey provides a single, unified interface to access over 250 different models. But more importantly, it handles the brutal realities of scale — smart routing, load balancing, semantic caching, and automatic fallbacks. If a primary LLM goes down or hits a rate limit, Portkey dynamically routes the request to a backup model in milliseconds. It seamlessly processes over 500 billion tokens a day while giving engineering teams microscopic visibility into every single log, trace, guardrail, and dollar spent.
The market? Fortune 500 enterprises and hyper-growth giants like Postman and Snorkel AI who are actively managing massive daily AI scale. They realize that in the enterprise world, predictability, governance, and reliability are just as important as the intelligence of the model itself.
What Rohit and Ayush are doing is profoundly foundational. We often talk about the AI gold rush, but Portkey is building the enterprise-grade steel pipes that will actually transport the gold. It takes immense technical conviction to build the invisible, heavy-lifting infrastructure that the rest of the world relies upon.
This is world-class infrastructure, built by Indian founders, quietly running the global AI ecosystem. It is exactly what gives momentum to the Product Nation dream.
Let’s celebrate the builders.
w/ Jay Ingle & Dikshant Joshi
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