# Why we're building a portable layer over AI vendors

Published 28 April 2026

[Originally posted on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7454986157144203265/)

AI providers can block your account at any time. If your team depends on one, that's a real problem 🤔. Nick's post below shows what that actually looks like.

Not a new problem either — companies treated databases as critical ten years ago, but almost nobody rehearsed what to do when one breaks. GitLab learned it in public in 2017:

[https://lnkd.in/dzcc\_5cv](https://lnkd.in/dzcc_5cv)

That's why we're building [https://awesome-mcp.xyz](https://awesome-mcp.xyz) — a portable layer over AI vendors, so we can switch when we need to ⚙️.

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