at its core, yes, Helicone is exactly that! What are things in our documentation that you are unclear about? Happy to explain or help you through anything.
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thanks Scott. I definitely need to spend more time reading the documentation. Once I spend some more time with it, I'll see if I still have questions. I wanted to make sure my base assumption of it being able to be treated like an API gateway was correct.