API Development
APIs other developers actually want to build on
APIs designed as products — coherent, versioned, documented, and fast.
An API is a promise. Every endpoint you publish is a commitment to everyone who builds against it — and the quality of that promise determines whether integrating with your product takes an afternoon or a quarter. Developers can tell within ten minutes whether an API was designed or accreted.
We design first. The resource model, the error shapes, the pagination strategy, and the versioning policy exist on paper before the first endpoint exists in code — because these are the decisions that are nearly free to change in a spec and brutally expensive to change in production. Then we implement against that contract, with tests that fail the build if the implementation drifts from the documentation.
The result is an API that reads like it was written by one careful person: consistent, predictable, documented with examples that actually run. Whether it’s the public developer API your product’s ecosystem will grow on, or the internal contracts that let your teams ship independently, we build interfaces that hold their shape under the weight of real consumers.
Capabilities
API Development, in practice
REST and GraphQL API design
Resource models and schemas designed before endpoints are written — consistent naming, predictable errors, and pagination that holds up at real data volumes.
Public developer APIs
APIs as products: authentication, rate limiting, versioning policy, SDKs, and documentation with runnable examples — the full developer experience.
Internal service APIs
Service boundaries and contracts for teams that need to move independently — designed around your domain, not around this quarter's org chart.
Third-party integrations
Building against payment processors, logistics providers, and legacy SOAP services — including the undocumented behavior their docs won't admit to.
Questions we hear
Asked before, answered honestly
REST or GraphQL?
It depends on the consumers. REST is the right default for public APIs and simple integrations — cacheable, predictable, universally understood. GraphQL earns its complexity when many clients need different slices of the same data. We've shipped both at scale and will recommend based on who's calling the API, not on fashion.
How do you handle breaking changes and versioning?
With a written policy from day one: what counts as breaking, how deprecations are announced, and how long old versions live. Additive changes flow into the current version; breaking changes get a new one with a migration guide. Consumers should learn about changes from your changelog, never from an outage.
Can you document and stabilize an API that grew without a plan?
Yes — this is common and fixable. We map the actual behavior into a spec, add contract tests to lock it down, then improve the design incrementally behind that safety net. Existing consumers keep working while the API becomes something you'd willingly show new ones.
Do you build the API only, or the systems behind it too?
Either. Sometimes we design and build the API layer over your existing services; often we build the whole backend. Because we also build full platforms, the API layer never becomes a thin veneer over a data model that can't support it.
Next step
APIs on your roadmap?
Tell us where you are — an idea, a prototype, or a system under strain. You'll get an honest read on scope, sequence, and cost from the engineers who'd build it.
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