When your AI lives behind a hyperscaler gateway, three things happen that erode your business.
You sell through Bedrock, Azure Foundry, Vertex. The enterprise relationship sits with the cloud provider. You're an interchangeable backend.
Enterprise security wants provable provenance for regulated decisions. The answer routes through middlemen with mushy accountability. You can't answer cleanly.
Behind a hyperscaler gateway, you can't credibly claim regulatory ownership. Your AI looks like every other AI on the platform. Switching cost: near zero.
Every request to your LLM today carries a forwardable bearer token (API key). Every token can leak. Every leak is your support burden. Replace the entire chain with cryptographic identity — and the keys disappear.
The human. Authenticates via the HexaEight Authenticator app on their phone. No license, no expiry.
The agent runtime — runs OpenClaw, a custom workflow, a chatbot, whatever. Owns IAM: decides which user identities are allowed to connect.
An identity-pinned subscription to ANY AI provider. Usable only by exactly one bridge. No API key. Nothing to share, nothing to leak, nothing to forge.
The customer picks whichever AI provider they trust. The format stays identical — a subdomain of the provider, pinned to the customer's bridge. Switching providers doesn't break the bridge, doesn't lose user identities, doesn't require new API keys (because there were never any).
Customers can procure subscriptions from multiple providers simultaneously — and the bridge picks which one to call per request, per workflow, or per cost-tier policy. No vendor lock-in, ever.
The subscription identity is cryptographically pinned to one bridge. There's no shareable secret. Leaked-key incidents disappear.
Every request to your LLM carries a verifiable bridge identity. Abuse, billing disputes, and audit questions answer themselves.
Identity-bound subscriptions replace volatile per-token billing with a predictable monthly tier — easier to forecast for you, easier to budget for the customer.
A Marketplace VM hosts unlimited identities under your domain. Bundle them into identity-pinned LLM subscriptions. Predictable cost in, predictable subscription revenue out, identity-pinned attribution at every dollar.
HexaEight Mode 2: $144/core/month. CPU cores only — GPUs are free. Runs in your AWS / Azure / GCP account, your subnet, your compliance perimeter.
Each subscription (user.YOURBRAND.com) is pinned to exactly one customer bridge. No API keys, nothing to leak, nothing to share.
$4,000 gross − $2,304 infrastructure = $1,696/month. Scale linearly: 5 VMs = $8,480/mo. 50 VMs = $84,800/mo. Stable recurring, identity-attributed, no token-cost volatility.
HexaEight provides the identity primitive and the bridge pattern. The product, the LLM, the agent UX is yours to design and brand. Some examples of what AI providers can package today:
Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Gemini CLI, your in-house tool — repackaged behind the bridge pattern. Customers run the bridge on their laptop; the agent runs on your VM. Same UX, your brand, your subscription tier.
An OpenClaw-style local-first assistant talking to your LLM via the bridge. Your branded mobile chat, your LLM, your monthly tier.
Industry-vertical agent (legal review, claims processing, code-review-for-compliance) on your LLM with audit-evident signatures.
Bring your own agent runtime. The bridge pattern works the same way. Identity, IAM, LLM-subscription — all yours.
The bigger picture: Any command-line agent tool — Claude Code, Codex, your in-house CLI, whatever ships tomorrow — can be packaged the same way OpenClaw is. The bridge handles identity. The tunnel handles transport. You handle the UX, the LLM, and the brand. Same pattern, infinite packaging. Your customer's subscription is identity-pinned to exactly their bridge — and the recurring revenue lives with you.
agent01.customer.yourbrand.com. The URL itself becomes cryptographic disclosure. Your brand owns the namespace. Your brand owns the trust.
Pair HexaEight identity with Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, or your own runtime. Your customer buys compute + identity + LLM on one invoice. You own the endpoint, you own the accountability story.
Provable AI provenance, defensible in front of regulators. The audit trail is signed at the identity layer, not bolted on later.
You don't have to leave AWS, Azure, or GCP. You stop being BEHIND their gateway. The customer sees your brand on the URL and your name on the signature.
Volume Marketplace VM licenses. Signature License bundled for enterprise-bound identities. Co-marketing on regulatory accountability positioning. Custom pricing based on identity count.