Featured · Resilience pattern
Designing for AI failure
One abstraction sits in front of OpenAI, Gemini and Anthropic. When a provider degrades, requests step down through three tiers instead of surfacing an error. It became the team's standard failure-handling architecture and cut AI integration complexity by 60%.
Request
Provider gateway
OpenAI · Gemini · Anthropic
Tier 1
Retry & failover
Backoff, then the next provider
Tier 2
RAG fallback
Answer from retrieved context
Tier 3
Rule-based floor
Deterministic, never hard-fails