SmartGate
AI Intelligence Layer — not another assistant or LLM proxy

Agent loops don't warn.
They bill.

SmartGate is the intelligence layer between AI and the world — helping you research, understand, remember, and act before runaway tool traffic becomes a surprise invoice.

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Human interface (Web) + agent interface (MCP/API) · Not a chatbot, search app, or model router

What is SmartGate?

SmartGate is the intelligence layer between AI and the world, helping humans and agents research, understand, remember, and act with confidence. On the surface: Smart Research, decisions, knowledge, and monitoring — no MCP required. Under the hood: an MCP-native algorithmic gateway with five capabilities (Research, Context, Memory, Control, Pipeline) powered by seven smart_* primitives.

Dashboard · Usage Reports
Cursor Agent using SmartGate to research product requirements

Product research in Cursor Agent

Smart Research on the agent path: search, fetch, dedup, and compress—so Cursor explores product requirements with clean facts, not noisy HTML. Intelligence runtime for builders, not another assistant.

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The 2026 agent fear trifecta

Three ways agents leak money and trust

Median workload profile · dashboard-calibration

Illustrative product benchmarks (SmartGate internal calibration, Q1 2026). 30× / 4× / 81% / 14% are not independent third-party studies — use for orientation only, not paid ad claims without legal review.

Token black hole

30×

One agent loop ≠ one API call

Agent loops compound token usage silently. Alerts aren't enforcement — you need compress, dedup, and hard budget caps.

Traffic customs

4×

Uncontrolled fetch & search

Redundant pages and overlapping snippets inflate context before your host LLM ever reasons.

Audit & Compliance

81%

Deployed — not governed

81% of teams past planning; only 14% with full security approval. Every tool call needs an audit trail.

Value layer

Five intelligence capabilities

Powered by seven algorithm primitives — what users experience vs what developers wire.

  • Research

    smart_search · smart_fetch

    Multi-source discovery and noise-free fetch — Question → sources → clean facts.

  • Context

    smart_dedup · smart_context_gate

    Dedup overlapping claims and compress to a token budget before your model reasons.

  • Memory

    smart_memory

    Team-scoped facts that survive the next session — not a public encyclopedia.

  • Control

    smart_budget_guard

    Check, count, and hard-cap tool spend — loop-breaker for FinOps.

  • Pipeline

    smart_pipe

    Declarative research · read · remember runs — one call instead of glue code.

Mechanism layer · seven primitives

Algorithm primitives behind the runtime

Integrators: click a smart_* tool for protocol-level detail (same definitions as MCP docs).

smart_fetch

Fetch a public URL and return Markdown-friendly content. Use when the user gives a link — not when text is already in context.

Token control

Stop paying for redundant context.

Every fetch and search result lands in your host LLM context. Compress with intelligent compression, deduplicate with intelligent deduplication, and block further calls when budget_guard says no.

  • Compress — intelligent compression algorithm + optional purpose filter
  • Dedup — intelligent deduplication before host LLM
  • Enforce — L1 monthly cap + L2 hard cap (Pro β)
Token Control →

Usage Reports

Saved
2.35M
Est. USD
$5.88

From audit token_saved aggregation

Traffic customs

Shape research traffic before it shapes your bill.

Built-in pipe templates chain search → fetch → dedup → compress. One smart_pipe call instead of four manual steps.

  • research — full web research workflow
  • read — fetch → compress for a URL
  • remember — search → team memory
Traffic Customs →

research template

smart_search→smart_fetch→smart_dedup→smart_context_gate
Platform architecture

Human interface · runtime · agent interface

Web and Playground for people; MCP and API for builders — one SmartGate runtime between models and the world.

Human (Web / App)Teams & governanceAgent (MCP / API)→ runtime →

Human interface

Ask a question — research, context, memory, and decisions without wiring MCP.

SmartGate runtime

Research · Context · Memory · Control · Pipeline

Models & world

Not a chatbot or LLM proxy — intelligence infrastructure for tool traffic.

Intelligence layer · POST /api/mcp + REST · Dashboard for keys, billing, audit

See one page, cleaned

Paste a public URL. Same fetch, before and after compression — gateway counterfactual, not a second scrape for show.

Features

Three pillars. No phantom features.

Token Control

Stop the black hole

context_gate + dedup + budget_guard with Dashboard Est. USD saved.

Learn more →Traffic Customs

Shape tool traffic

fetch + search + pipe templates for governed workflows.

Learn more →Audit & Compliance

Every call traced

query · trace · export — team-isolated audit logs.

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Hard-cap before the surprise invoice

Free: 2M tokens/month · Full MCP · Playground · 7-day logs

Start free — 2M tokens/month