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AI

ACTIVATE AI brings your organization's AI usage under one governed gateway. Connect your own AI providers — hosted services or models running on your own infrastructure — and ACTIVATE manages access to them through a built-in chat workspace, API keys, and token-level usage tracking.

Chat

Chat is a full-featured chat interface for interacting with large language models directly within the platform. You can have conversations with AI models, attach files for context, branch conversations to explore different approaches, and share conversations with teammates.

  • Chat Overview — Get started with the chat interface, learn about available features

The AI Gateway

The AI gateway is how ACTIVATE manages access to your providers. Every request — whether it comes from Chat, the CLI, or an external tool authenticating with an AI key — is proxied through the platform, where access is checked and token usage is metered against your organization's budget allocations.

  • AI Providers — Connect the model backends that power the gateway
  • AI Keys — Create API keys for programmatic access through the OpenAI-compatible API
  • AI Usage — Track spend, tokens, and budget allocations
  • Best Practices — Tips for prompting, model selection, and security