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MCP vs Middleware vs Direct API Integrations: How SaaS Teams Should Expose Product Capabilities to AI Agents

calendar_today August 24, 2026 person Hayley Brown domain cyclr

As AI agents become a standard feature across enterprise software, SaaS vendors face a new architectural challenge: how should product capabilities be exposed to AI? Should you allow agents to call your APIs directly? Should requests be routed through middleware?

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