Shannon Williams, Co-Founder and President, Obot AI

The Enterprise MCP Control Plane: Why “Yes” Beats “No” for AI Adoption

Enterprise MCP adoption is outpacing governance. A control plane that curates approved MCPs and Skills – not a ban – is how enterprises enable AI without exposing the org to risk.

What Uber’s MCP Journey Tells Us About Enterprise MCP Strategy

Learn about Uber’s enterprise MCP strategy and its practical applications shared at the MCP Dev Summit North America.

MCP Management: What Comes After Building the Servers

MCP management is the hard part of enterprise AI adoption. Learn how to handle governance, access control, employee discovery, and security at scale.

MCP Filtering: How to Inspect and Control MCP Traffic in the Enterprise

MCP filtering lets enterprises inspect, modify, or block MCP requests and responses at the gateway layer — enabling PII redaction, compliance enforcement, and payload inspection without changing MCP servers or clients.

Understanding MCP Server Hosting: Why Centralized Management Matters (And Where Your Servers Should Run)

If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve discovered MCP servers running in your organization—probably more than you expected, and possibly without IT’s blessing. You’re not alone. Over the past few months, I’ve talked to dozens of IT leaders who’ve had the same realization: developers are already using Model Context Protocol servers extensively. Some organizations have […]

Obot AI Donates the MCP Dev Summit to the Linux Foundation — and a New Chapter Begins for Agentic AI

Obot AI is donating the MCP Dev Summit to the Linux Foundation under the new Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF). After 2025 events in San Francisco and London, the summit will transition starting with the April 2–3, 2026 New York event. CFP is open.

The MCP Maturity Model: Full Framework Now Available

We’re releasing the full MCP Maturity Model—a practical framework with stage definitions, readiness checklists, and implementation guidance to help enterprises move from shadow adoption to scaled deployment. Includes real-world patterns we’re seeing and how Obot supports each stage.

What Is an MCP Gateway? Why Enterprises Are Adopting a Control Plane for MCP

MCP made it easy to connect AI to tools. Scale made it messy. Here’s a plain-English answer to “What is an MCP Gateway?”—and how it turns ad hoc MCP sprawl into an enterprise platform.

The Practical MCP Tools Landscape — Who’s Building What, and How to Pick the Pieces

If you want to understand the Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem today, don’t start with buzzwords — start with the tools. MCP isn’t a single product: it’s a set of conventions that a growing number of projects and companies use to let LLMs call out to real systems. That means the ecosystem is naturally fragmented […]

Obot AI Secures $35M Seed to Build Enterprise MCP Gateway

Obot raises $35M seed funding to accelerate development of its enterprise-grade MCP Gateway—enhancing governance, security, and scalability for MCP deployments.

Understanding MCP Hosting: Deploying and Running MCP Servers in the Enterprise

Discover how to build a secure, scalable MCP hosting strategy—manage single-tenant, shared, and third-party MCP servers with centralized governance and control.

Introducing Nanobot: Turn MCP Servers Into Interactive AI Agents

Introducing Nanobot, an open-source framework for turning MCP servers into interactive AI agents with reasoning, tool orchestration, and MCP-UI.

Update on the MCP Registry Project, new ChatGPT support for MCP and what it means for Enterprise AI

Learn about the launch of the MCP Registry, ChatGPT’s new MCP support, and how enterprises can use Obot’s MCP Gateway for secure discovery, governance & control.

Deep dive into the Obot MCP Gateway

Get an in-depth look at the Obot MCP Gateway: architecture, access control, security features, cataloging, and observability for enterprise MCP adoption.

Why Every Organization Needs an Enterprise MCP Strategy

Explore why enterprise-level MCP strategies are becoming mission-critical—empowering CIOs with scalable, secure AI tools and setting the stage for widespread MCP adoption.

Building an MCP Registry: Why It Matters and How to Get It Right

Discover how to build an enterprise-grade MCP registry – centralize discovery, ensure governance, automate onboarding, and maintain secure AI infrastructure at scale.

Managing Access Control for MCP Servers in the Enterprise

Learn how to implement enterprise-grade access control for MCP servers—integrate with identity providers, scale securely, simplify IT management, and ensure compliance.

What Is Secure MCP Access? Why It Matters for Enterprise AI

Understanding secure MCP access and how to achieve it is critical for anyone adopting MCP across their organization.

The Value of an MCP Proxy: Security, Control, and Observability for Enterprise AI

Learn why an MCP Proxy is essential for enterprise AI—enabling centralized security, access control, and observability for trusted MCP workflows.

Evaluating Enterprise MCP Gateways

Explore how to evaluate enterprise MCP gateways — comparing Obot, Microsoft, IBM on security, catalog, deployment, integration, observability, and extensibility.