u/ndimares

We wrote this quite a while ago, but forgot to share it here: https://www.speakeasy.com/blog/we-were-wrong-about-the-hard-problem

I know there are a lot of people building MCP tooling, and our experience may be interesting.

We started off generating MCP servers from APIs in Dec. 2024. Then we built an MCP hosting platform early in 2025. At the time, we thought internal MCP usage was going to be massive, and that if we could help people quickly scaffold MCP servers it would unlock teams.

We were right about the first bit: internal usage is massive. But we missed on the second bit. Building and hosting MCP servers simply wasn't / isn't a hard problem.

What we ultimately found was that at most companies, the bottleneck for internal MCP usage was updating governance. That's what we've ended up pursuing.

Hope people find this interesting!

I know a lot of people in this sub are working on MCP gateways, so thought this might be interesting to share. Disclosure: I work at Speakeasy.

We mapped how the MCP gateway fits alongside the other pieces enterprises are assembling for their governance platforms: LLM gateway, identity, policy/threat, observability. We're calling comprehensive architecture ab AI control plane or Agent control plane.

The MCP gateway is a super important part of the equation because the connection between AI and external systems is often one of the most critical security risks for a company.

Would love to hear what other builders in the space have found talking to companies