Hellgate® Guardian is the declaration of independence for your payment infrastructure. As a centralized, managed PCI data vault, it frees enterprise merchants from the "walled gardens" of traditional Payment Service Providers (PSPs). You - not your payment processor - retain absolute control and ownership of your sensitive customer data. End Vendor Lock-in and "Data Hostage" Scenarios: When a PSP stores your payment data, you are tied to their ecosystem. Guardian shifts this balance of power. Using an intelligent proxy architecture, Guardian intercepts payment data before it reaches your backend or the PSP, converting it into universal, provider-agnostic tokens. The original raw data is only injected back into the payload during final authorization with the acquirer of your choice. Strategic Benefits: 1. Absolute Data Sovereignty: You own the tokens 100%. Export, migrate, or use your payment credentials across multiple PSPs simultaneously without ever asking your provider for permission. 2. Freedom of Choice (Agnostic Routing): Seamlessly swap acquirers or integrate new regional payment methods. Dynamically route each transaction to the provider offering the best rates—without forcing customers to re-enter their payment details. 3. Minimized PCI Scope: Despite having total data control, your internal servers never touch raw card data. Your compliance burden drops drastically to SAQ-A. 4. Network Tokenization: Direct integrations with Card Schemes provide dynamic tokens that boost authorization rates and operate entirely independent of specific acquiring banks. 5. Future-Proof & Composable: Build exactly the payment stack you need. Benefit from an API-first architecture perfectly suited for multi-acquiring strategies, global platforms, and Agentic Commerce.