# How I Built an AI That Controls Cloudflare WAF via Plain English

I've managed Cloudflare across multiple enterprise accounts for the past two years. I know the dashboard intimately — probably better than I'd like to. In that time, I've navigated the same mental maze hundreds of times. You know the one: you need to block a badly-behaved IP that just started hammering your login endpoint, so you open the dashboard, find the right account out of several, switch to the right zone, locate Security → WAF → Firewall Rules , click Create a Rule , manually type out a firewall expression in the CF expression language, pick an action, hit save, and finally verify it's active. If you manage five accounts and eight zones, that's not a security task anymore — it's a memory test. That frustration is why I built Flarite — an AI command engine that lets you manage your entire Cloudflare setup (and eventually your full SaaS stack) through plain English. No dashboard. No expression syntax memorization. Just intent. This article is about the technical decisions behind