Key Takeaways
- Boomi has acquired Lunar.dev to provide an essential AI gateway, enabling businesses to securely govern AI agents and manage connectivity between models and enterprise systems.
- The integration offers centralized control, including policy enforcement, cost management, and observability, to help organizations scale AI deployments while reducing security risks.
- This acquisition reinforces Boomi’s commitment to an agnostic, flexible platform that prevents vendor lock-in, allowing customers to use any AI model while maintaining rigorous governance.
For the past few years, every CEO has issued a similar, urgent mandate within their businesses: “Go do AI!” It’s why their teams have been actively experimenting and trying to decide what that exactly means for them. Now that the rubber has begun to meet the road with organizations launching large-scale deployments, they’re learning two things.
- Previously unimaginable productivity gains are possible as AI can be a superpower for code development, marketing, sales operations, finance, and more.
- Massive headaches are emerging around security concerns, rising token usage costs, and fears that AI might do something unexpected.
Balancing implementation speed and responsible adoption has become a challenge for every business. Applying governance, fiscal control, and observability are now the primary differentiators between organizations that see their AI projects stuck in purgatory and those surging ahead with provable ROI.
That’s why we’re so excited about closing our acquisition of Lunar.dev. This innovative company is a leader in AI gateways, which serve as a control layer between enterprise systems and the AI models and agents that interact with them. Lunar.dev’s capabilities will become an integral part of the Boomi Enterprise Platform – including serving as a key component of Boomi Connect, our new managed MCP server offering. They will extend our ability to securely govern connectivity between AI tools such as Claude, Copilot, and Gemini and enterprise applications via over 1,000 managed, Model Context Protocol-enabled tools.
Agents need the foundational infrastructure of integrations, APIs, and access to trusted data to act safely and with proper governance. The addition of this technology enhances Boomi’s ability to both build and govern everything that AI touches. On a single platform, Boomi addresses the hot-button concerns confronting every C-suite: reducing risk, containing costs, and boosting adoption.
Flexibility Every Business Needs
Eyal Solomon, CEO and co-founder of Lunar.dev, was on stage at Boomi World in mid-May when we announced our intent to acquire the company.
“Connecting is everything,” Solomon told the audience. “Back in the day, it was between applications. These days, it’s agents that need to be safely connected to enterprise resources. That has been our vision.”
It fits perfectly with Boomi’s vision as the infrastructure that turns AI into action. Businesses are understandably leery about becoming locked into the worldview and cost structure of any frontier model. The advancements in AI are coming so fast that it’s impossible to predict which ones will be the leaders a year from now, or even next month. Models continually leapfrog each other with each new release, showcasing distinct strengths and capabilities.
That’s why our CEO, Steve Lucas, likes to say the correct answer to the question, “What’s the best AI model?” is this: all of them. Every business needs the flexibility to use whatever fits their purposes for a given use case and to pivot on a dime to optimize for better results when they want to switch to something else.
Boomi’s guiding philosophy, since our inception, has been to help customers run their businesses as they prefer. We are like Switzerland. There’s zero lock-in. We work with any vendor, application, or hyperscaler. Boomi is an agnostic platform that connects everything to anything. Boomi gives you access to and governance over all your cloud and on-premises applications. We do the same for your data landscape and API management assets. Now, in the age of AI, we give you control over all your agentic processes with Boomi Agentstudio so that you can move from experimentation to production.
The Rising Importance of AI Gateways
According to the 2026 Gartner® Market Overview for AI Gateways report:
“Gartner defines an AI gateway as an intermediary platform that is situated between AI applications and agents and the AI models, tools and resources they use. Its core function is to provide centralized management of access to AI models and remote MCP servers. This is achieved through policy-based controls such as model routing, load balancing and cost management enforced by the gateway.”1
The need for AI gateways stems from a simple problem. Agents are multiplying faster than the guardrails meant to control them. Agents are calling large language models (LLMs), accessing tools, and relying on APIs – often with no centralized oversight, no consistent controls, and no audit trail.
Two issues are compounding one another. First, agents often can’t access the enterprise systems they need to be useful. Second, IT has no control over the access that does exist. Together, they’re creating massive issues for businesses just starting their AI journeys. Most current solutions in the marketplace address one problem or the other. Boomi is unique in that it solves both.
For example, the combination of Boomi Connect and Lunar.dev is a managed MCP solution that delivers granular governance and enterprise connectivity in a single product – out of the box. It provides:
- Policy enforcement for all agent-to-tool traffic, overseeing authentication and authorization, applying access protocols, enacting throttling and rate limiting, tracking costs, monitoring security, and enabling observability across every MCP tool call.
- More than 1,000 managed enterprise tools – such as Salesforce, SAP, Workday, and ServiceNow – with no custom builds and Boomi handling complete connector lifecycle maintenance.
- A single pane of glass for provisioning, access control, real-time usage monitoring, and CISO-ready audit logging across all AI tool activity.
In addition, Lunar’s AI gateway functionality provides production-grade control and visibility over AI traffic. Track every LLM call with observability into token usage, cost, latency, and errors. Protect applications with robust prompt-injection defenses and token-level rate limiting, while optimizing performance on the fly through dynamic, cross-provider model routing.
Businesses can confidently make company-wide AI deployments – including for non-technical knowledge workers – knowing that they will help employees do their jobs more efficiently while staying within the business’s defined guardrails.
Governance Is the Secret to ROI for AI
Every organization is eager to take advantage of AI. But it won’t produce ROI without the supporting infrastructure being in place. And that’s the biggest blocker to successful AI initiatives. Can you trust the decisions and actions of models and agents? Do you have transparency into what they’re doing and the associated cost? Ultimately, do you have the proper safeguards and control?
Security has always been part of Boomi’s pedigree. AI gateways provide that, which is why pairing Lunar.dev’s governance capabilities with Boomi’s lightweight, hybrid runtime architecture makes our platform ideal for addressing some of the most pressing concerns businesses face as they embrace AI.
It also further enhances Boomi’s ability to address whatever comes next. The AI technology landscape is changing incredibly quickly. The pairing of Lunar.dev and Boomi leaves our customers well-positioned to handle that rate of change with governance and at scale. For instance, consider the explosion of Agent Skills in the marketplace. A year ago, this concept didn’t even exist. But we now plan to integrate skills over MCP in an upcoming release.
We’re future-proofing our solution. By doing that, we’re helping customers design more resilient and flexible AI strategies that can adapt to this fast-moving world – today and tomorrow.
1. Gartner Market Overview for AI Gateways, Keith Guttridge, Andrew Humphries, Shiva Varma, May 13, 2026. GARTNER is a trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates.