by Blackburn Tactical
Don't Just Trust AI LLMs. Verify Them.
Fire Mission is an independent third-party verification layer that sits between your business and AI providers. We verify the actual AI model processing your data matches what you intended—not an unverified substitute.
The Hidden Risk
The AI model processing your data may not be the one you intended. Unverified backend LLMs pose significant data security and compliance risks—your sensitive information could be handled by models you didn't authorize. Misconfigured API endpoints, compromised libraries, and supply chain attacks make model substitution easier than you think.
Independent Verification
Your prompts and responses pass through—we retain only metadata (costs, tokens, security events) for analytics.
LLM Identity Verification
Verify the actual backend model processing your data matches your expectations—not an unverified substitute
Model Substitution Detection
Detect when the backend model doesn't match the expected provider, ensuring compliance with data handling requirements
Content vs. Metadata Separation
Your prompts and responses pass through to providers without storage. We retain only metadata (token counts, costs, security scan results) for your analytics dashboards
Complete Audit Trail
Every AI call logged with verification status, cost tracking, and security scan results
🔒 Verified Providers Only: Fire Mission validates the backend LLM processing your requests against a curated list of verified, compliant providers. Unverified models are blocked to ensure your data handling meets compliance requirements.
How We Handle Your Data: Your prompts and AI responses pass through Fire Mission directly to providers—we don't store content. What we do retain is metadata: token counts, cost calculations, provider used, timestamps, and security scan results. This metadata powers your cost analytics and security dashboards. Full request/response content is captured only when security violations (model substitution, prompt injection) are detected, giving you forensic evidence of the incident.
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Truly Independent Verification:
Fire Mission has no business relationships, partnerships, or revenue-sharing agreements with any AI provider. This independence ensures unbiased verification.
How Fire Mission Verification Works
Three steps to verify your AI providers are who they claim to be
Connect Your AI Providers
Add your OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or other API keys. Your keys stay encrypted—we're a verification layer, not a key manager.
We Verify Every Response
Fire Mission validates the backend LLM processing your requests, detecting model substitution before any data is exposed.
Trust the Verified Response
Legitimate responses pass through instantly. Suspicious responses are blocked and logged for your security team to review.
7-day free trial. RECON tier starts at $75/mo.
The Independent Verification Layer
Fire Mission is a third-party verification layer—we have no business relationship with AI providers, making us truly independent
Your AI Apps
Your internal tools, customer apps, and AI-powered workflows
Fire Mission
Independent third-party verification with full transparency
Your AI Providers
Connect to major AI providers with your own API keys
See Verification in Action
Our built-in AI Playground lets you test any connected provider with live verification status, model validation, and transparent data handling.
AI Playground
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Sign up to access the AI Playground with your provider API keys
Built for Every Role in Your Organization
From security teams verifying AI sources to engineers building AI-powered applications, Fire Mission provides unified verification, visibility, and control.
Security & Compliance
LLM identity verification, model validation, audit logs, compliance monitoring
CFOs & Finance
Cross-provider cost tracking, budget controls, spend forecasting
Engineers
Universal API with security scanning, multi-provider routing, self-hosted LLM support
CTOs & IT Leaders
Unified governance, verified AI sources, provider optimization
See All Your AI Spending in One Place
ChatGPT shows ChatGPT costs. Claude shows Claude costs. Fire Mission shows you all your AI spending together—and tells you which service gives you the best value for each task.
📊 Spend Analysis & Trend Tracking
Monitor your AI spending trends across all providers. Budget tracking and alerts help you stay ahead of costs before they hit your invoice.
- ✓ Spend tracking across all providers
- ✓ Trend arrows and percentage change indicators
- ✓ Budget alerts and overage warnings
- ✓ Usage patterns and cost optimization insights
🎯 Unified Dashboard for Your Team
One streamlined dashboard with two mission-focused tabs—AI Proxy for security and costs, and RAG Document Generation for AI-powered content creation.
- ✓ AI Proxy Tab: Provider management, cost tracking, security monitoring
- ✓ RAG Tab: Data ingestion, semantic chunking, document generation
- ✓ AI Playground: Test providers with live verification
- ✓ Simple navigation—no complex multi-level menus
📈 Integrated Analytics Dashboard
- ✓ Cost Summary: Total spend, trends, forecasts across all providers
- ✓ Provider Performance: Latency and reliability metrics
- ✓ Security Status: Verification results, blocked threats, compliance
- ✓ Rate Limit Tracking: Real-time usage vs. provider limits
- ✓ Operation History: Live AI call log with verification status
🔍 Complete AI Cost Tracking
- ✓ Every AI call logged with cost, tokens, model, provider
- ✓ Document processing costs integrated into forecasts
- ✓ Anomaly detection with automatic alerts
- ✓ Provider cost comparison across models
- ✓ Budget tracking with overage warnings
🔐 Keep Your Data Under Your Control
All intelligence runs on your AI provider keys (Bring Your Own Keys). Fire Mission is a pass-through verification layer—we store metadata for cost tracking, but your prompts and responses are stored only when security violations are detected.
📄 Bonus: Document Intelligence for AI Workloads
Send documents to any connected provider for analysis, summarization, or generation. Unified document tracking across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google—see which provider handles your document workloads most cost-effectively.
Why Independent Verification Matters
Calling a trusted API doesn't guarantee a trusted model is processing your data. Fire Mission provides independent third-party verification that the backend LLM handling your requests is genuinely from your chosen provider—ensuring compliance with your data handling requirements.
Ephemeral Processing
30-minute session timeout. All documents automatically deleted. Zero persistence = zero breach surface. "Process and Forget" philosophy.
Military-Grade Encryption
FIPS 140-2 AES-256 for data at rest. TLS 1.2+ for transit. AES-256-GCM for API keys and cloud credentials. RSA-2048 cryptographic licensing for enterprise deployments.
Air-Gap Capable (Roadmap)
Air-gapped deployment with local LLMs is on our development roadmap. Self-hosted LLM support (Ollama, LM Studio) is available today in all tiers.
Secure Update Distribution
SHA-256/512 checksums + RSA-2048 signatures. SBOM & compliance certifications included. Offline delivery for air-gapped systems with cryptographic verification.
Comprehensive Audit Logs
Detailed audit logging of all AI operations. User actions, AI provider calls, token usage, costs—all tracked with timestamps. Export-ready format for compliance reporting. SIEM integration on roadmap.
AI Legal Guardrails
Configurable enforcement for legal data ingestion and generation. Server-side policy locks. Prevents unauthorized or non-compliant AI operations.
Choose How You Want to Use Fire Mission
Start with our cloud service today, or run Fire Mission on your own servers for maximum control. Either way, you get the same security and features.
SaaS Subscriptions
Hosted cloud platform—instant access, automatic updates, and pay-as-you-grow flexibility.
- Hosted cloud platform—instant access
- Monthly subscription tiers available
- Automatic updates & maintenance
- Pay-as-you-grow flexibility
- Starter tier available (RECON - credit card required)
Enterprise Licensing (Under Development)
On-premise and air-gapped deployment options are under active development. Contact us for enterprise requirements.
- On-premise deployment (under development)
- Air-gapped deployment (under development)
- Cryptographic licensing system (under development)
- Contact mark@blackburntactical.us for enterprise inquiries
- Expected availability: 2025
The Data Individual Providers Don't Have
Fire Mission captures cross-provider intelligence that OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google can't see.
Business Context
Fire Mission knows which department, which project, and which customer triggered each AI call across all providers. Individual provider dashboards only see their slice.
Cross-Provider Economics
"Same prompt to 3 providers—which performed better?" OpenAI can't compare themselves to Anthropic. Fire Mission shows you which provider to use for which workload.
Predictive Intelligence
Provider dashboards show what you spent. Fire Mission shows what you're about to spend and how to optimize it across your entire AI portfolio.
Unified Security
Enforce your policies across all providers: PII detection, budget limits, data residency. No provider-specific security tools—one enforcement layer for everything.
The Industry's First Security-Focused AI LLM Middleware
Fire Mission isn't just another AI gateway or observability tool. It's the first platform to combine mandatory security scanning, LLM identity verification, and model substitution detection in one BYOK gateway.
Based on publicly available information as of November 2025. To our knowledge, no other platform offers these combined security capabilities.
What Makes Fire Mission Different
Mandatory Security
No bypass option. Every call is scanned.
LLM Identity Verification
Detects models impersonating GPT-4, Claude.
Non-Compliant Blocking
Blocks non-compliant AI models.
US/NATO Compliance
Allied nations whitelist enforced.
| Security Feature | Fire Mission | Helicone | Portkey | LangSmith | Cloudflare AI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mandatory Security Scanning (No Bypass) UNIQUE | ✓ Enforced on every request | Optional Can be disabled | Optional Guardrails configurable | ✗ Not offered | ✗ Not offered |
| LLM Identity Verification (Anti-Impersonation) UNIQUE | ✓ Detects fake GPT-4, Claude, etc. | ✗ Not offered | ✗ Not offered | ✗ Not offered | ✗ Not offered |
| Non-Compliant Model Blocking UNIQUE | ✓ Blocks DeepSeek, Qwen, Yandex, etc. | ✗ Not offered | ✗ Not offered | ✗ Not offered | ✗ Not offered |
| US/NATO/MNNA Compliance Mapping UNIQUE | ✓ Allied nations whitelist enforced | ✗ Not offered | ✗ Not offered | ✗ Not offered | ✗ Not offered |
| PII Detection & Blocking | ✓ SSN, credit cards, emails, etc. | Partial PromptGuard models | ✓ Via guardrails | ✗ Not offered | ✗ Not offered |
| Prompt Injection Detection | ✓ Jailbreak & injection blocking | ✓ PromptGuard | ✓ Via guardrails | ✗ Not offered | ✗ Not offered |
| Multi-Provider BYOK Gateway | ✓ OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Groq, etc. | ✓ 100+ providers | ✓ 1,600+ models | Partial Tracing only | ✓ Major providers |
| MoE Routing & Load Balancing | ✓ Cost/speed/quality optimization | ✓ Routing + fallbacks | ✓ Smart routing | ✗ Observability only | ✓ Basic routing |
| Cost Analytics & Budgeting | ✓ Real-time tracking + alerts | ✓ Cost tracking | ✓ Budget limits | Partial Basic tracking | Partial Basic metrics |
| Self-Hosted LLM Support | ✓ Ollama, LM Studio, LocalAI | ✓ Custom endpoints | ✓ Custom endpoints | Partial Via tracing | ✗ Cloud only |
| Starting Price | $75/mo 7-day free trial | Free 10K requests | Free 10K logs | Free 5K traces | Free Limited |
The Problem with "Optional" Security
Other platforms offer security as an add-on or configuration option. This means developers can (and often do) disable security for "performance" or "convenience." Fire Mission is different: security scanning is mandatory on every request, with no bypass option. This is a security platform for AI, not an AI platform with optional security.
Built by DoW/DoJ Cleared Veteran
Mark Sicat (CISSP, DoW/DoJ security clearance, 20+ years enterprise, Microsoft 8+ years) built Fire Mission with government-grade security from day one. Not a startup experimenting with compliance—a platform designed by someone who has built classified systems.
Independent Third-Party Verification
Fire Mission has no business relationships, partnerships, or revenue-sharing agreements with any AI provider. This independence ensures unbiased verification. We work for you, not the AI providers.
Comparison Disclaimer: Feature information for third-party products is based on publicly available documentation from official vendor websites as of November 2025. "Unique" features are designated based on our review of competitor documentation; we cannot guarantee competitors have not added similar features after this date. Competitor trademarks are the property of their respective owners: Helicone™ (Helicone AI), Portkey™ (Portkey AI, Inc.), LangSmith™ (LangChain, Inc.), Cloudflare™ and Cloudflare AI Gateway™ (Cloudflare, Inc.). Fire Mission is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any third-party service mentioned. Customers should verify features directly with vendors before making purchasing decisions.
Security Claims: "Mandatory security scanning" means Fire Mission enforces security checks on all API requests routed through the platform with no configuration option to disable. "LLM identity verification" analyzes response patterns to detect model substitution attacks. "Non-compliant model blocking" blocks AI services that don't meet US compliance standards based on model identifiers and response analysis. These security features represent Fire Mission's design philosophy as of November 2025.
Stop Managing 8 Dashboards. Start Managing One AI Portfolio.
Replace spreadsheets, vendor bills, and scattered monitoring with one unified platform. See which provider to use for which workload. Predict costs before they hit your invoice. Enforce security across all providers.
Questions? Email us at mark@blackburntactical.us