Why FDE work needs a model gateway: the three failures that hurt on site

Forward-deployed engineers get asked to make a demo work by Friday, on a customer network, with a customer account. The gateway is what keeps those three variables from breaking the demo.

• Failure 1: a new vendor account and key for every model, hours before the demo.
• Failure 2: one upstream down, and the whole flow dies mid-presentation.
• Failure 3: the bill cannot be split per customer or per project afterwards.