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Barndoor AI
An enterprise AI gateway that governs access to language models and AI agents with unified controls for security, cost and compliance. Barndoor lets organisations route all AI usage through centralised policies for data protection, audit trails and risk management.
Model Gateways & Routingalso: AI Runtime Security & Guardrails11-50 peoplebarndoor.ai ↗
Updated 23 October 2026
Hiring now
From Barndoor AI's own jobs board, checked every week.
Where the roles are
Against its sector
9 of the 18 active companies in Model Gateways & Routing are advertising roles. OpenRouter has the most, with 28.
Funding
Barndoor AI announced a $13.6 million seed round in May 2025, led by Crosslink Capital.
Source: Barndoor AI's announcement
Who Barndoor AI competes with
The other active companies we file under Model Gateways & Routing, sorted by how much they are hiring.
Where this fits
One layer in front of many models, handling routing, fallback, cost control and rate limits.
We track hiring and team changes across all 183 companies in Model Serving & Compute.
Our talent report for this sector shows how Barndoor AI's team compares with its competitors.
What is in it:
- Every company's team size, side by side, grouped by sub-sector
- Who grew their team over the last year, and by how much
- Who is losing people: attrition for each company, against the sector average
- Who is hiring right now, and how many open roles each has
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