Does the Flower Shop Need an AI Gateway?
What an AI gateway does, whether the flower shop agents need one, how LiteLLM, Portkey, Cloudflare and Kong compare, and how I put gateways in for clients. For the people buying and the people building.
Notes
Field notes from the final mile.
What breaks when AI leaves the demo: evals, retrieval, agent loops, cost, and the org chart around them. Written from engagements that shipped.
Worker Agents for Small Business: A Flower Shop Blueprint
How I build AI worker-agent systems for businesses of any size: narrow workers, a coordinator, and an approval gate enforced in code, with a working flower shop example.