Your API keys. Your rate card. IGNY8's pipeline.
If your agency has existing agreements with AI providers, IGNY8 supports bring-your-own-key configuration. The pipeline runs identically — AI calls route through your keys at your negotiated rates.
Same pipeline. Same quality. Same methodology.
BYOK changes how AI calls are billed — not how the system works.
Same SAG methodology
The semantic authority grid governs every decision, unchanged.
Same content templates
The four content types and their structures, unchanged.
Same optimization scoring
Seven-component scoring against the mesh, unchanged.
AI calls route through your keys.
The economic side moves to your rate card; the transparency does not change.
Your API keys
AI calls route through your provider keys.
Your negotiated rates
Cost tracking reflects your actual provider costs.
Configured per account
BYOK is set at the account level.
The economic contract is the same.
Cost tracking and the transaction ledger reflect your actual provider costs — every operation previewed, every cost visible, every transaction exportable.
| Aspect | Detail |
|---|---|
| Configuration | Per account |
| AI routing | Through your keys |
| Rates | Your negotiated rate card |
| Ledger | Reflects actual provider costs |
- Every operation previewed before dispatchPreview
- Every cost visible in the ledgerVisible
- Every transaction exportableCSV export
Paying a markup on every call
When AI calls route through a vendor's account, you pay their margin on top of the provider cost.
- AI calls billed through the vendor
- A markup on top of provider cost
- Existing provider contracts unused
- No view of the underlying rate
Paying your own rate
AI calls route through your keys at your negotiated rates — no markup in between.
Same system. Your rate card.
Where provider billing gets in the way.
Agencies with provider contracts should not pay a markup on top of them.
| Anti-pattern | Why it fails | The BYOK approach |
|---|---|---|
| Paying a markup on AI calls | Provider margin stacked on top of provider cost | Calls route through your keys at your negotiated rates |
| Provider contracts left unused | Existing agreements deliver no benefit | BYOK puts your existing contracts to work |
| Opaque AI cost | No view of the underlying provider rate | The ledger reflects your actual provider costs |
| A different pipeline for BYOK | Quality and behaviour diverge from the standard product | The pipeline runs identically — only billing changes |
Configure once, then it is just the pipeline.
Setup is per account; after that, every run behaves exactly as the standard product does.
- 01Add your keysAI provider keys configured at the account level.
- 02Run the pipelineThe 8-stage pipeline runs identically to the standard product.
- 03Route through your keysAI calls bill at your negotiated rates.
- 04Track real costsThe ledger reflects your actual provider costs, every transaction exportable.
Put your provider contracts to work.
Connect a URL and run the full pipeline through your own AI keys.