The bridge between raw inference and usable AI.
Trifrost exists because enterprises need AI inference to behave like infrastructure — governed, auditable, resilient, and close to home.
Inference should behave like infrastructure.
Enterprises don't get to treat model APIs as toys. Spend needs an owner. Access needs a policy. A provider outage needs to be invisible to users. And when someone asks "who sent what to which model, and what did it cost" — the answer needs to be a query, not an archaeology project. Trifrost is that control plane: one governed, audited, OpenAI-compatible API across 27+ providers, deployed in the region your data needs to stay in.
Three convictions, shipped as product.
Governance is a feature, not a tax
Budgets, allowlists, and audit should make engineers faster — safe defaults that unblock teams, not tickets that block them. Governance that slows people down gets routed around. Ours runs in microseconds on the hot path, so nobody ever needs to.
Reliability is the product
A provider outage should be invisible to your users. Load balancing, mid-stream failover, and health tracking aren't add-ons bolted onto a proxy — they are the reason the gateway exists.
Proof beats promises
HMAC-signed event logs, honest capture provenance, a public roadmap and changelog. We would rather hand you a verifiable record than ask you to trust a slide.
Distributed by default.
Trifrost is built by a small, distributed team of infrastructure engineers — people who have run production systems and carry the pager scars to prove it. We hire slowly and deliberately.
Want to build the control plane for enterprise AI? Email cory+trifrost@hawkvelt.id.au and tell us what you'd ship first.
Trifrost at a glance
- ▸ Cloud-hosted control plane for AI inference
- ▸ 27+ provider kinds behind one OpenAI-compatible API
- ▸ Five regions live: AU · APAC · EMEA · UK · Germany
- ▸ SOC 2 Type II · ISO 27001 · HIPAA
- ▸ trifrost.tech