Ship your own branded AI API in a day · Real-time analytics across every request · Provider Onboarding Wizard · Hybrid Data Bridge · Model-by-model performance
| # | Feature | Category | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AI Packaging Platform — new operating mode for white-label AI APIs | New Feature | New GTM motion · ISV, MSP, enterprise |
| 2 | Provider Onboarding Wizard — 5-step guided UI in Routing dashboard | New Feature | Zero-code provider setup in <5 min |
| 3 | Hybrid Analytics Bridge — new service merging Redis + MongoDB for complete analytics | Infrastructure | Unifies 119K+ request history |
Smartflow 1.7 introduces a new operating mode: the AI Packaging Platform. Any organisation can now take one or more LLM providers — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Ollama, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint — and re-expose them as a fully governed, branded AI API under their own domain and their own rules.
Your customers call https://ai.acme.com/v1/chat/completions, use model names like acme-premium, and authenticate with sk-acme-xxxx virtual keys — while Smartflow handles everything behind the scenes: routing, caching, compliance, identity, metering, and the audit log. They never know which underlying provider is serving their request.
This enables three entirely new go-to-market motions:
White-label AI APIs · Per-tenant isolation · Provider swap without client code changes · Full compliance + audit at the gateway layer
→ Full use case guide: AI Packaging Platform documentation
The new Provider Onboarding Wizard — available in the Routing dashboard under the green "Onboard Provider" tab — guides operators through provider setup in 5 steps with zero YAML or config file editing.
PUT /api/routing/strategy, PUT /api/routing/default-provider, and POST /api/routing/model-mapping via the Smartflow API.Any operator can onboard a new AI provider in under 5 minutes — no API calls, no config files, no YAML required.
Smartflow 1.7 ships the Hybrid Data Bridge — a new service that gives the analytics dashboard complete visibility across your full request history, not just the live window. Cache performance, model-by-model routing metrics, request trends, and provider breakdowns now populate automatically from day one of deployment with no manual configuration.
The bridge delivers:
Complete analytics visibility from day one · No data migration · Works with existing Redis and MongoDB deployments
Kubernetes deployments: Apply the Hybrid Bridge deployment manifest to add the new service:
kubectl apply -f https://docs.aperion.ai/assets/hybrid-bridge-deploy.yaml
Then update the main ingress to route /api/vas/metrics to the bridge service (see deployment guide). All other services continue with a standard image update:
docker pull langsmartai/safechat-enterprise:v1.7.15b docker pull langsmartai/safechat:v1.7.1 docker pull langsmartai/safechat-dashboard:v1.7.1 docker compose -f docker-compose.simple.yaml up -d --pull always
No database migrations required. The Hybrid Bridge reads the existing MongoDB smartflow_vas collection and Redis keyspace without schema changes. Provider Onboarding Wizard is included in the dashboard image.
New Kubernetes resource: smartflow-hybrid-bridge Deployment + Service + Ingress rules for /api/redis, /api/hybrid, and /api/vas/metrics.