# Aghi Marietti

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Real Alpha has cut 4 moments of Aghi Marietti (CEO, Kong) talking, from an interview on MTS published Oct 23, 2026.

- Role: CEO, Kong

## What Aghi Marietti said

- [AI gateways give enterprises a checkpoint to stop agent attacks](https://realalpha.app/s/ai-gateways-give-enterprises-a-checkpoint-to-stop-agent/)
  MTS · Oct 23, 2026 · 7 min
  > “gateways are becoming very strategic because in the code, gateways are like deterministic AI choke points.” — Aghi Marietti · [4:33](https://realalpha.app/v/lEcT1VvKIis/?t=273)
- [Enterprise AI is spreading across models as token use surges](https://realalpha.app/s/enterprise-ai-is-spreading-across-models-as-token-use-surges/)
  MTS · Oct 23, 2026 · 8 min
  > “we are running about 500 trillion tokens, going to quadrillion soon, because it's growing 140x year over year.” — Aghi Marietti · [14:26](https://realalpha.app/v/lEcT1VvKIis/?t=866)
- [AI cost controls can tie token budgets to business workflows](https://realalpha.app/s/ai-cost-controls-can-tie-token-budgets-to-business-workflows/)
  MTS · Oct 23, 2026 · 3 min
  > “you can then block when the budget gets hit all the way down to individual” — Aghi Marietti · [17:05](https://realalpha.app/v/lEcT1VvKIis/?t=1025)
- [Enterprise AI adoption will arrive in step changes](https://realalpha.app/s/enterprise-ai-adoption-will-arrive-in-step-changes/)
  MTS · Oct 23, 2026 · 4 min
  > “They're more like step functions. Like it might take six months to put an AI on a gentle workflow in productions.” — Aghi Marietti · [21:42](https://realalpha.app/v/lEcT1VvKIis/?t=1302)

## The episode

- [AI Gateway Token Traffic Growing 140X Year Over Year | Aghi Marietti](https://realalpha.app/v/lEcT1VvKIis/) · MTS · Oct 23, 2026