Kong Inc. has announced the launch of Kong Ascent, an AI-assisted migration offering designed to automate and accelerate the transition from legacy API management systems to Kong Konnect, its unified API and AI platform. Designed to enable organizations to rapidly adjust to the emergence of AI agents as a new type of API consumer, the solution dramatically reduces the traditional migration times by at least half in most cases. Since legacy gateways do not have native support for key AI features like Model Context Protocol (MCP), AI-specific governance, semantic controls, etc. enterprise will encounter a huge mismatch between their aspirations for AI and their current infrastructures. In fact, the long timelines and risks of legacy migrations that have traditionally led to the freezing of modernization efforts, Kong Ascent merges AI automation with human intervention by Kong Professional Services to eliminate risks and accelerate the transition.
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This allows organizations to establish a unified platform built for API, AI, event, and agent connectivity while maintaining strict cost and security controls. Explaining the operational necessity of this new offering, Reza Shafii, SVP of Product, Kong, stated: “Every enterprise software vendor is racing to make their platforms accessible to AI agents. The challenge for most organizations is that the APIs powering their business were never designed to be discovered, governed, secured, and consumed by agents. Kong gives customers the platform they need to make their APIs agent-ready, and Ascent dramatically accelerates the journey.” Currently available for migrations from MuleSoft® environments with more platforms to follow, Kong Ascent provides enterprises with the foundational agility needed to confidently scale agentic AI workflows.