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Tollbooth AI — Multi-Tenant LLM Gateway & AI Governance Platform

A multi-tenant LLM gateway that provides secure AI access control, usage tracking, cost management, and governance features for AI applications.

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Tollbooth AI — Multi-Tenant LLM Gateway & AI Governance Platform

Overview

Project context and problem focus.

Tollbooth AI is a backend-focused AI infrastructure platform designed to manage and govern LLM usage across multiple tenants. The platform provides secure API access, tenant isolation, role-based permissions, provider routing, usage metering, and cost attribution. The system was designed around production backend concepts including asynchronous processing, event-driven architecture, database modeling, authentication, authorization, and scalable API design. Kafka-based event processing handles usage tracking and audit workflows separately from the main request lifecycle.

Purpose

To simplify the management of AI infrastructure by providing developers and organizations with secure, observable, and cost-controlled access to large language models.

Target Users

AI application developers, SaaS companies Engineering teams integrating LLM APIs Organizations requiring AI usage governance

Case Study Deep-Dive

The Problem & The Architectural Solution

Addressing real-world performance, concurrency, and reliability constraints.

The Challenge

Problem Statement

LLM adoption creates challenges around access control, tenant isolation, cost tracking, usage monitoring, and security. Many AI applications lack centralized governance for managing multiple users, teams, and providers.
Engineered Approach

Implemented Solution

Built a multi-tenant backend gateway with authentication, authorization, API key management, rate limiting, budget controls, provider routing, and asynchronous usage processing. Kafka-based events were introduced to separate usage analytics and audit processing from real-time API requests.

Impact & Outcomes

Measurable Results & Benchmarks

30%

Reduced API response errors

25+

Fixed bugs

30%

Improved feature delivery speed

8+

Supported modules/features

Tech Stack

Technologies used in this project.

A clear technical stack overview for recruiters, clients, and engineering reviewers.

Project Technology Stack

TypeScriptNestJSFastAPIPostgreSQLPrismaRedisApache KafkaDockerpgVectorREST APIRBACLLM Infrastructure
Features

Core features and implementation highlights.

This section explains the important functional parts of the project and what was implemented.

Backend

Multi-tenant architecture

Backend

API key management

Backend

JWT authentication

Backend

Role-based access control

Backend

Rate limiting

Backend

Budget enforcement

Backend

Provider routing

Backend

Usage metering

Backend

Audit logging

Database

PostgreSQL schema design

Database

Prisma ORM

Database

Relational data modeling

Database

Usage tracking tables

Database

Tenant isolation

Devops

Docker containerization

Devops

Environment-based configuration

Devops

Service deployment workflow

Challenges

Problems faced and how they were solved.

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Challenge

Managing usage tracking without slowing down LLM requests.

Solution

Implemented Kafka-based asynchronous processing to move metering and audit operations outside the main request flow.

Challenge

Supporting multiple tenants securely.

Solution

Designed tenant-aware authentication, authorization, API keys, and access-control layers.

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