Getting started

Introduction

GROUNDROCK is a programmable edge that sits between your application and every AI model provider. One endpoint speaks OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, xAI Grok, DeepSeek, Mistral, and every model you'll add tomorrow.

What is GROUNDROCK?

GROUNDROCK is the AI cloud — infrastructure primitives (routing, caching, observability, fallbacks, guardrails, analytics, governance) that every serious AI product ends up rebuilding. We built it once, so you don't have to.

You integrate against a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint. We handle everything from the first byte to the last provider retry.

Why an AI cloud?

Modern AI stacks are polyglot by necessity. You want gpt-5 for reasoning, claude-opus-4 for long-form, Gemini for cheap multi-modal, and DeepSeek for cost-sensitive summarization. Wiring these together in your application means seven SDKs, seven auth flows, seven billing surfaces, and no unified observability.

GROUNDROCK replaces that with a single control plane: one API, one bill, one dashboard, one audit log — and full portability out at any time.

Core primitives

Universal Gateway
One HTTP endpoint that speaks every provider.
Smart Routing
Route by cost, latency, quality, region, or policy.
Semantic Cache
Embedding-based cache. Cut spend by up to 68%.
Automatic Fallbacks
Multi-provider retries with a typed error taxonomy.
Observability
Every request captured with I/O, tokens, latency, cost.
Guardrails
PII redaction, jailbreak detection, prompt-injection filters.

Next steps