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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Intune in Claude for help desk lookups only
Intune in Claude for a help desk is one allow rule, not six blocks: the msintune connector carries 198 tools and only 69 of them read.
Jamf in Claude on a read-only API role
Jamf in Claude lets a help desk check a Mac's inventory mid-ticket. Build a read-only Jamf API role, then narrow it per person with Elaichi restrictions.
MCP for coding agents across an engineering org
MCP for coding agents needs one endpoint, a sign-in per engineer, and rules the agent cannot edit, because nobody reads each call it makes.
Connect Elaichi to Claude Code
To connect Elaichi to Claude Code, run one claude mcp add command and sign in with OAuth. The entry holds no secret, so a project .mcp.json is safe to commit.
Connect Elaichi to Codex
To connect Elaichi to Codex, add one URL as a streamable HTTP server and run codex mcp login. No token, no header, and each engineer signs in as themselves.
Docker MCP Gateway vs a managed MCP platform
Docker MCP Gateway vs a managed MCP platform: Docker runs MCP servers in containers you operate. Elaichi serves connectors behind one sign-in URL.
Human approval for AI agent actions: the layers
Human approval for AI agent actions comes in layers: a prompt for the person asking, then the role rules, frozen values and requests an admin decides.
What is an MCP control plane, and who needs one?
An MCP control plane is one org-wide MCP endpoint that serves the tools, signs each person in and decides access on every call.
Elaichi vs Composio: who writes your connectors?
Elaichi vs Composio: Elaichi writes most of its connectors and serves them on one company-wide MCP endpoint. Composio covers more apps, one endpoint per team.
Claude and ChatGPT connectors vs one MCP endpoint
Claude and ChatGPT connectors fit one client and a few apps. Once a second client repeats the setup, one governed MCP endpoint costs less to run.
SOC 2 evidence for AI agents: CC6 and CC7
SOC 2 evidence for AI agents maps to CC6.1, CC6.2, CC6.3 and CC7.2: who can reach what, how access starts and ends, and a log of each executed tool call.
Should marketing get HubSpot inside ChatGPT?
Yes: marketing can have HubSpot inside ChatGPT to read contacts and campaigns and draft work, with email sends and deletes restricted and the portal pinned.
Running your own MCP servers: the real cost
Running your own MCP servers wins for one internal tool. Managed wins once credentials, token refresh, per-user sign-in and audit multiply.
When you don't need an MCP gateway yet
Per-user connectors plus SSO are enough while you can name everyone connected. That is when you don't need an MCP gateway, and four signals end it.
Employees pasting customer data into AI
No single log records employees pasting customer data into AI. Measure it from three partial sources, report a range, and remove the reason to paste.
Zapier MCP alternative for a whole company
Elaichi is a Zapier MCP alternative: one organization endpoint with role restrictions and an audit log. What each costs, and when Zapier fits.
MCP endpoint per team, per person or per company?
One endpoint per company usually beats an MCP endpoint per team or a server per person: each AI client needs one entry, and a leaver is one action.
AI agents and PHI: four questions for your BAA
AI agents and PHI raise four BAA questions, all about access: minimum necessary, audit controls, workforce clearance and what happens when someone leaves.
Let IT post to one Slack channel from Claude
IT can post to one Slack channel from Claude when Elaichi freezes the channel argument. Channel reads stay open, and opening DMs is restricted for the role.
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