Pontus the Zero Trust AI Layer
Hi HN, We’re @sumants and @rmehtany, working on Pontus. Pontus makes it easy to use AI with privacy embedded. We were concerned about the volume of personal data that goes to large LLM models without protection. We tried find an easy solution where didn’t change the simple apis given by LLM providers. However, most required you to invest significant engineering effort. We wanted privacy and LLMs to be easy, so we built Pontus. Through a declarative YAML, we orchestrate a microservice with the most common element of the LLM stack. - Anonymize Prompts before it hits LLMs, yet keeps context on…
Pontus the Zero Trust AI Layer launched on September 28, 2023 with 7 votes, #1,586 of 4,228 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was not reachable when checked in September 2026.
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Hi HN, We’re @sumants and @rmehtany, working on Pontus. Pontus makes it easy to use AI with privacy embedded. We were concerned about the volume of personal data that goes to large LLM models without protection. We tried find an easy solution where didn’t change the simple apis given by LLM providers. However, most…
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