Introducing KAi, the Agentic API Platform Co-Pilot for Kong Konnect

New AI assistant automates governance, accelerates debugging, and speeds up API
design and development for the AI era

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Kong Inc., a leading developer of cloud API and AI technologies, today unveiled KAi, a new agentic AI co-pilot for Kong Konnect, the unified API and AI platform. Announced at the company's annual API Summit 2025, KAi intelligently automates complex tasks across the entire API lifecycle, helping to improve the developer experience, accelerate time-to-market, and strengthen governance across both API and AI workflows.

As enterprises increasingly leverage APIs to build and scale their AI initiatives, platform teams are under pressure to deliver faster, improve security, and control costs. KAi helps address these challenges by acting as an intelligent copilot within Kong Konnect, offering expert assistance across the API lifecycle, from debugging and remediation to accelerating API design and development.

"Enterprises are under immense pressure to innovate with AI while keeping their systems secure, compliant, and cost efficient," said Reza Shafii, Senior Vice President of Product, Kong Inc. "Now, KAi gives platform teams a practical way to meet that challenge. By embedding agentic intelligence directly into Konnect, we are enabling customers to deliver API and AI driven innovation faster, with higher quality and stronger governance built in."

KAi also helps organizations better manage their API and AI workflows with:

• Automated Governance: Proactively scanning for policy violations and suggesting automated remediations to help ensure compliance.
  
  
• Advanced Debugging and Issue Resolution: Accelerating troubleshooting by analyzing traffic patterns, pinpointing issues, and recommending fixes to reduce mean time to resolution.
  
  
• Accelerated API Design and Development: Assisting developers with best practices and real-time feedback to build secure, high-quality APIs faster.

A Unified Platform for APIs and AI Agents

Kong Konnect is the unified API and AI platform designed to support every aspect of modern API and AI connectivity. Enterprises can build, run, discover, and govern APIs, LLMs and MCPs, event streams, and microservices — operated in their local region, powered by a single, globally distributed cloud platform. This enables organizations to move faster, operate more securely, and prepare their infrastructure for the Agentic era.

For more information about KAi, and the Konnect platform, visit: https://konghq.com/products/kong-konnect.

About Kong Inc.

Kong Inc., a leading developer of cloud API and AI technologies, is on a mission to empower companies to become "API-first" to advance and enable the AI era. They help organizations worldwide — from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises — unleash developer productivity, build securely, and accelerate time to market. For more information about Kong, please visit www.konghq.com or follow us on X @Kong.

SOURCE Kong Inc.