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How Tailscale built a customer-facing model router on AI Gateway | Customers | Vercel

Vercel News·Eric Dodds·5 days ago
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Hundreds of AI models shipped to customers in-product

Model access granted and revoked by tailnet network identity

Went from model routing prototype to paying customers in months

Tailscale connects a company's laptops, servers, cloud instances, and personal devices into one private network called a tailnet. Remy Guercio, who leads product for Aperture by Tailscale, describes it simply: "It's basically like a VPC that can span any cloud, on-prem, your house, and your phone."

Aperture takes that same idea and applies it to AI. Instead of giving every employee, agent, or tool a separate provider API key, Aperture lets companies control model access through the tailnet itself. Add someone to the network, and they can immediately use approved models. Remove them, and access disappears.

Under the hood, Aperture is built on Vercel AI Gateway and Vercel Sandbox . AI Gateway gives Tailscale one API for hundreds of models. Sandbox gives agents a safe place to run.…

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