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Riften

riften.ai

Earned intelligence for every company

HQSan Francisco, CA, USA
Employees1-10
Profile 1mo ago
Specialization
Language Models
Business
Inference Servingand 2 more business values
  • Infrastructure Operation
  • Model Development
Market
Cross Industry
Ecosystem
Inference
Customers
Enterprises
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Organization type
Commercial Company
Ecosystem
Inference
Business
Inference Serving, Infrastructure Operation, Model Development
Specialization
Language Models
Market
Cross Industry
Customers
Enterprises
Delivery models
Managed Infrastructure, Hosted Software
Revenue models
Not classified
Listing status
Not classified
Latest equity round
Not classified
Reported funding amount
Not classified

About

Intelligence will be the most valuable asset a company owns. Today, almost every company rents it. Companies pay a handful of labs one token at a time. Each dollar buys an answer, not an asset. They spend more, but own nothing more. Riften reverses that. Change one environment variable and Riften becomes the gateway for a company's AI traffic. We route each request to the lowest-cost model that can do the job, serving most work on open-weight models we host. Customers save money immediately without rebuilding their products. The gateway is the entry point. Over time, Riften turns the company's work into private models built on open weights and shaped around the business. What begins as cheaper inference becomes an intelligence stack the company owns, runs on infrastructure it controls, and uses to power its most important applications. We call this earned intelligence. It is created by the company's own work, controlled by the company, and accumulated over time. The next generation of companies will not rent their intelligence. They will earn it, own it, and compound it. Riften is how they get there.

Recent News

2026-09-10product_launch
Riften launches an AI traffic-routing gateway for company-owned models

Riften was publicly presented in YC Summer 2026 coverage as an AI gateway that routes company traffic to the lowest-cost capable model and uses production work to develop private, specialized models. Its public company page labels the announcement “Riften: Route every AI request. Build the models your company owns.”

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