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TokenGate — Fine-grained permissions for coarse-grained APIs.

The Problem

Most third-party APIs (Stripe, Salesforce, Slack, GitHub) force you to grant full account access with a single token—no fine-grained scopes. When multiple internal services or AI agents share that token, you're violating least-privilege and expanding your breach surface. Teams either accept the risk or spend weeks building custom proxy layers in-house.

What We're Building

TokenGate sits between your code and any third-party API, intercepting requests and enforcing granular permissions without touching your integrations. Define policies in plain JSON (method, path, payload rules), deploy as a Docker container or Lambda, and instantly restrict what each internal service can do—read-only access, specific endpoints, rate limits, and action blocking. Pre-built templates for Stripe, Salesforce, Slack, and GitHub ship out of the box.

Who It's For

Platform engineers and security leads at SMB and mid-market SaaS companies (50–500 employees) building AI agents, multi-tenant products, or subject to SOC 2 / HIPAA / PCI compliance. Highest urgency in fintech and healthcare.

Key Features

  • Policy-based request filtering: define fine-grained rules by HTTP method, path, and payload
  • Pre-built templates for Stripe, Salesforce, Slack, GitHub—deploy instantly
  • Drop-in proxy: works with your existing integrations, no code rewrites needed

We're validating this concept. When you integrate third-party APIs with coarse scopes, do you currently run them behind a custom proxy/gateway, or do you just grant full token access and manage the risk operationally?

Check out the concept page


By Jenavus — AI-powered business intelligence

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