Most enterprises are not short on APIs. The average organization runs more than a thousand SaaS applications and tens of thousands of internal endpoints, with AI-related API traffic growing faster than any other category. The problem isn’t supply — it’s that nobody can reliably find, govern, or safely reuse what already exists. And now there’s a new layer of consumers showing up at the door: copilots and agents that want to call all of it, often in unpredictable patterns, sometimes a thousand times in a runaway loop.
If you’ve been wiring up Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers for the last year, you’ve probably already lived the pattern. The first integration goes great. The second feels a little ad-hoc. By the fifth or sixth, you realize you’re rebuilding API sprawl one layer up — except this time the ungoverned thing is talking directly to a model.