High-Availability eCommerce Platform
OpenRouter fallback routing kept AI chat live through a 4-hour OpenAI outage
When OpenAI went down on Black Friday, ExecCortex + OpenRouter automatically failovered to Claude — zero downtime.
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0 minutes
AI chat downtime during outage
< 3 seconds
Failover trigger time
$280K
Black Friday revenue protected
The story
An eCommerce platform running AI-powered customer chat saw OpenAI experience a service disruption on Black Friday — historically their highest traffic day. Because OpenRouter was configured inside ExecCortex with Claude as a fallback, the system automatically rerouted all AI requests to Claude with no manual intervention. Chat remained live throughout the 4-hour outage. The team learned about the incident from the news, not from customer complaints.
"ExecCortex paid for itself in the first week. The team finally stopped chasing dashboards and started chasing growth."
Operations Lead · High-Availability eCommerce Platform