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Governing AI agents in the apps you already run
How the gateways compare, what to restrict, what the audit log has to capture, and what each team does with it.
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AI consultant vs AI automation agency: who to hire
AI consultant vs AI automation agency: one gives you a plan, the other builds automations. Forward deployed engineers do both, in your apps.
Uday Gajavalli
AI gateway vs MCP gateway: which one do you need?
AI gateway vs MCP gateway: one governs your apps' calls to models, the other which tools each person's AI client may call, and on whose account.
Roopendra Talekar
Composio vs Zapier MCP for company use
Composio vs Zapier MCP: Composio bills per tool call, Zapier MCP uses two tasks per call, and Elaichi bills per seat at one shared address.
Roopendra Talekar
How to connect AI to CRM without engineers
To connect AI to CRM data safely, give each person's assistant only their own CRM access, start with reads, and keep a log of what it does.
Uday Gajavalli
Enterprise MCP: a buyer's guide for IT teams
Enterprise MCP for buyers: what changes when MCP goes from one laptop to a whole company, and what to ask a vendor before you sign.
Roopendra Talekar
Hosted MCP gateway vs running the gateway yourself
A hosted MCP gateway runs the checkpoint every AI tool call passes through. Self-hosting puts it on your servers. Six questions decide which fits.
Roopendra Talekar
MCP governance: who may do what, in which app
MCP governance decides who connects which app, which tools each role calls, whose account a call uses, what is logged and how access ends.
Uday Gajavalli
Why AI pilots fail, and how to get to daily use
Why AI pilots fail: the AI cannot reach your apps, nobody trusts it, or nobody owns it. The fix for each cause, and how to measure daily use.
Uday Gajavalli
Vendor MCP servers: why run them through Elaichi
Vendor MCP servers bring the vendor's own tools. Through Elaichi they also get one address, per-person sign-in, tool rules and one audit log.
Uday Gajavalli
AI agents with employee permissions, no shared bot
How to run AI agents with employee permissions instead of one shared service account, and the cases where a named service identity is still correct.
Uday Gajavalli
How to approve apps for Claude across a company
There are two places you approve apps for Claude: Anthropic's connector controls, and the restriction rules behind your one MCP endpoint.
Raajshekhar Rajan
Approved AI tools per team, set by role
Approved AI tools per team is two jobs: restrictions bound to a role for enforcement, and templates shared to a team for curation.
Uday Gajavalli
Space permissions for Confluence in ChatGPT
ChatGPT ships no Confluence connector, so Confluence in ChatGPT runs over MCP. Here is the route that keeps each person inside their space permissions.
Raajshekhar Rajan
Scope Google Drive in Claude to people or folders
Google Drive in Claude has two honest shapes: each person connects their own Google account, or one dedicated account whose shared folders draw the line.
Raajshekhar Rajan
Govern SharePoint in Claude with delegated OAuth
How to keep SharePoint in Claude inside each person's own site and library permissions, using per-person OAuth and one allow rule per role.
Raajshekhar Rajan
Copilot Studio vs MCP gateway for company apps
Copilot Studio vs MCP gateway: where each one puts the rules about which company app an AI client may reach, and who gets to write them.
Roopendra Talekar
ClickUp in ChatGPT for a customer success team
Two decisions put ClickUp in ChatGPT for a customer success team: whose account each call runs on, and which ClickUp tools are restricted.
Uday Gajavalli
QuickBooks read-only for a finance team in Claude
QuickBooks has no read-only OAuth scope, so QuickBooks read-only has to be enforced by whatever calls the API. Here is how to do it with one restriction.
Uday Gajavalli
Ramp in Claude for finance, minus admin reach
Ramp in Claude for a finance team, without giving every analyst an admin seat: one authorized connection, read-only scopes, restrictions on the finance role.
Uday Gajavalli
Find the MCP servers employees have installed
No admin console lists the MCP servers employees have installed. The order that works: a device sweep, the vendor logs that exist, then a direct ask.
Nachi Raman
Keep BambooHR salary data out of AI assistants
Two layers keep BambooHR salary data away from Claude and ChatGPT: the access level behind the API key, and an allow rule per role in Elaichi.
Nachi Raman
Keep payroll data in HR with Gusto in Claude
Gusto in Claude runs on Gusto's own MCP server. One admin connects it in Elaichi, HR gets a Gusto-only toolbox, and roles decide who reaches which tool.
Nachi Raman
IT admin controls for MCP connectors, compared
What the IT admin controls for MCP connectors cover in Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor, and the three gaps none of those consoles closes.
Uday Gajavalli
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