Core Principles & Architecture

1. **Never Lock In**: Standard OpenAI wire schemas ensure that if you ever decide to switch providers or self-host, you only change a single environment variable. 2. **Zero Recurring Seats**: Avoid paying $20-$60/month across multiple vendor subscriptions. With Unlocked AI, you fund a credit balance that never expires. 3. **Failover by Default**: Single-provider outages should never bring down your application. We cascade requests across fallback models automatically. 4. **Data Privacy**: Prompts and completions are processed ephemerally with zero-retention policies. Your data is never used for model fine-tuning.