# We The Flywheel

> An AI-native digital group company operating five units: Flywheel Media, Flywheel Sports, Flywheel Studio, Flywheel Motion and Flywheel Advisory. Also publishes a large research hub on AI infrastructure, agentic commerce and AI search.

Beyond the group's own operations, wetheflywheel.com hosts practitioner research on how AI systems are actually bought, wired together and measured — model access and pricing, gateways, observability, agentic commerce protocols, and AI search visibility. Material is benchmark- and comparison-led.

Published primarily in English, with some German coverage under `/de/`.

## Start here

- [Home](https://wetheflywheel.com/): The group and its units.
- [English hub](https://wetheflywheel.com/en/): Entry point for all research content.
- [Radar](https://wetheflywheel.com/en/radar/): Ongoing signal tracking.
- [Book onboarding](https://wetheflywheel.com/book-onboarding/)

## AI model access and economics

- [AI model access](https://wetheflywheel.com/en/ai-model-access/): Hub for pricing, tiers and access routes.
- Covers: free API tiers across providers, subscription vs API cost, LLM API aggregators compared, OpenRouter alternatives, and export-control constraints on frontier models.

## Infrastructure

- [AI gateways](https://wetheflywheel.com/en/ai-gateways/): Gateway selection, including AI gateway vs API gateway and best-LLM-gateway comparisons.
- [AI observability](https://wetheflywheel.com/en/ai-observability/): Agent governance and agentic network operations.

## Agentic commerce

- [Agentic commerce](https://wetheflywheel.com/en/agentic-commerce/): What it is, ACP vs AP2, and AI shopping agents.

## AI search and visibility

- [AI search](https://wetheflywheel.com/en/ai-search/): How AI answer engines retrieve, cite and rank sources.

## Reference libraries

- [Rankings](https://wetheflywheel.com/en/rankings/): Ranked comparisons across tools and providers.
- [Comparisons](https://wetheflywheel.com/en/comparisons/): Head-to-head evaluations.
- [Guides](https://wetheflywheel.com/en/guides/): Longer-form how-to material.
- [Careers](https://wetheflywheel.com/en/careers/): Role guides and hiring context.
- [Future of software development](https://wetheflywheel.com/en/future-of-software-development/)

## Group properties

- [Flywheel Motion](https://flywheelmotion.com/): Discoverability and personal brand.
- [CTAIO](https://ctaio.dev/): Newsletter on the CTO + CIO + AI convergence.
- [Thomas Prommer](https://prommer.net/): Co-founder.

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