---
title: "Sanctioned AI gateway"
description: "The single approved route by which staff reach AI tools and model APIs: approved tools behind single sign-on and a gateway that classifies each request by data class, allows, redacts or blocks it…"
canonical: https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/sanctioned-ai-gateway
author: "Jorge García Aibar"
license: "CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)"
doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197
version: "0.5.0"
updated: 2026-09-25
---

# Sanctioned AI gateway

The single approved route by which staff reach AI tools and model APIs: approved tools behind single sign-on and a gateway that classifies each request by data class, allows, redacts or blocks it under the acceptable-use policy, checks for a current attestation and logs a decision per call. It works by being the easiest route.

- Developed in: [ch. 12, Acceptable use of AI by staff](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/governance-program#acceptable-use-of-ai-by-staff); [ch. 05, Pattern: Sanctioned AI Gateway](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/patterns/sanctioned-ai-gateway)
- Chapters: [ch. 05, Patterns](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/patterns) · [ch. 12, Governance Program](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/governance-program)
- Contrast with: [Shadow AI](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/shadow-ai)
- In the glossary chapter: https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/glossary#t-sanctioned-ai-gateway

## Sources

Defined by this Body of Knowledge: the section it is developed in is the source.