As organizations accelerate AI adoption, they're discovering that success isn't just about choosing the right large language model—it's about building the right infrastructure around it.

Enterprise AI requires secure connectivity, consistent governance, observability, and control across every API and AI service involved. That's why we're excited to strengthen our partnership combining Kong's industry-leading API and AI Gateway capabilities with ApiShare's API governance platform to help organizations build AI-ready ecosystems with confidence.

Why This Partnership Matters

Modern AI applications rely on APIs more than ever before. Whether connecting internal systems, external services, or multiple AI models, APIs have become the backbone of enterprise AI.

But as AI initiatives scale, many organizations face familiar challenges:

• APIs are distributed across teams with inconsistent standards.

• AI endpoints are introduced without sufficient governance.

• Documentation and functional requirements quickly become outdated.

• Security and compliance requirements are increasingly difficult to enforce.

• Development teams struggle to maintain visibility across rapidly growing API portfolios.

Infrastructure alone is not enough. Governance alone is not enough.

Organizations Need Both

It is the combination of infrastructure and governance that creates a solid foundation for building and scaling Enterprise AI: infrastructure capable of delivering security, performance, and runtime reliability, complemented by governance that ensures control, consistency, and compliance throughout the API lifecycle.

Together, Kong and ApiShare bring these two complementary layers together, giving organizations the strength of robust infrastructure, the precision of effective governance, and the simplicity needed to make these processes accessible and scalable.

Kong: Secure, High-Performance API and AI Infrastructure

Kong provides the runtime foundation for modern APIs and AI services.

With Kong API Gateway and AI Gateway, organizations can:

• Secure and manage APIs at scale

• Route traffic intelligently across AI providers

• Apply authentication, rate limiting, and policy enforcement

• Improve observability and operational resilience

• Simplify connectivity between applications, services, and AI models

As AI workloads grow, Kong helps organizations deliver reliable, scalable, and secure access to the services powering their applications.

ApiShare: Governance That Scales with Innovation

ApiShare complements this operational layer by ensuring that organizations know which APIs exist, how they should be governed, and whether they comply with corporate standards.

ApiShare enables organizations to:

• Govern APIs throughout their entire lifecycle

• Maintain an API catalog enriched with business information

• Apply governance policies based on roles

• Enable role-based discovery and actions

• Increase visibility into API maturity and business impact

• Support collaboration across IT, business, and legal teams

ApiShare makes API governance highly granular and configurable, giving organizations precise control over every operation while maintaining a simple and accessible experience, including for non-technical users. In this way, governance becomes not a barrier to innovation, but a true accelerator, helping teams build consistent, high-quality APIs from design through production.

Better Together

Together, Kong and ApiShare create a powerful combination of runtime excellence and lifecycle governance.

Kong manages and protects APIs in production.

ApiShare ensures those APIs are designed, documented, governed, and aligned with enterprise standards before and throughout their lifecycle.

This integrated approach enables organizations to:

• Build AI applications on well-governed API foundations

• Reduce operational and security risks

• Improve developer productivity through better API discovery and documentation

• Accelerate compliance initiatives

• Deliver consistent API experiences across business units

• Scale AI initiatives without sacrificing governance

Creating Value Across the API Lifecycle

The combined solution supports customers at every stage of the API lifecycle:

• Design & Governance
  Teams define API standards, documentation, and governance policies with ApiShare.

• Deployment & Runtime
  Kong securely publishes, manages, and protects APIs and AI services through API Gateway and AI Gateway.

• Operations & Visibility
  Organizations maintain operational visibility through Kong while preserving governance and lifecycle management visibility with ApiShare.

• Continuous Improvement
  Together, customers can continuously evolve their API ecosystem with greater transparency, consistency, and security.

Enabling Responsible Enterprise AI

As AI adoption continues to accelerate, governance is becoming a strategic requirement—not an afterthought.

Organizations need to know which APIs expose AI capabilities, who owns them, how they're documented, what policies apply, and how they are secured in production.

By combining Kong's API and AI Gateway capabilities with ApiShare's governance platform, organizations gain both the operational foundation and governance framework required to build secure, scalable, and compliant AI ecosystems.

Looking Ahead

Our partnership reflects a shared commitment to helping organizations modernize their API strategies while preparing for the next generation of AI-powered applications.

Together, we're enabling enterprises to innovate faster, strengthen governance, and confidently scale the APIs and AI services that power digital transformation.

We're excited about what's ahead and look forward to helping our customers build secure, well-governed, and AI-ready platforms together.