RESTful and GraphQL APIs designed for performance, security, and developer experience. The connective tissue between your products, partners, and platforms. Built right the first time so you're not rebuilding it at scale.
Your API works, technically. But every new integration takes three times as long as it should because the documentation is outdated, error messages are cryptic, and nobody left comments in the code. Your partners spend more time emailing your team than actually building.
Everything looked fine in testing. Then you launched, traffic spiked, and response times went from 80ms to 4 seconds. No rate limiting. No caching strategy. No connection pooling. Performance issues that were easy to prevent become expensive to fix after the fact.
Authentication bolted on at the end. No input validation. Overly permissive CORS settings. API keys stored in client-side code. Security vulnerabilities that should never make it to production end up exposed in a breach postmortem. The damage to partner trust takes years to repair.
We spec the API before we write the code. Endpoints, data schemas, authentication flows, error responses, versioning strategy. An OpenAPI specification that becomes both the implementation guide and the documentation. No surprises when integration starts.
Implementation against the contract with test coverage at every layer. Unit tests for business logic, integration tests for endpoints, load tests for performance benchmarks. We don't ship until the API behaves exactly as documented under real conditions.
Deployment with observability built in. Request logging, error tracking, latency monitoring, and alerting from day one. You know immediately when something is wrong, what endpoint is affected, and what the error pattern looks like. No more flying blind in production.
Clean, predictable REST APIs that follow conventions developers already know. Proper HTTP semantics, consistent resource naming, pagination that works, and error responses that actually tell you what went wrong. Built with an OpenAPI spec so documentation writes itself.
GraphQL schemas designed for flexibility without the N+1 query trap. DataLoader for batching, persisted queries for performance, subscription support for real-time data. Schema-first development with type safety throughout the stack.
OAuth 2.0 and API key authentication, rate limiting and throttling, input validation and sanitization, CORS policy configuration, and audit logging. Security designed into the architecture, not bolted on after launch. Compliance-ready for SOC 2 and GDPR requirements.
Interactive API docs with live request testing, SDKs for popular languages, a developer portal with onboarding guides, and changelog management for versioning. The goal is for a new developer to go from signup to first successful API call in under 30 minutes.
We've built APIs for SaaS products, enterprise integrations, and public developer platforms.
SaaS platform API rebuilt with proper caching and query optimization. P95 response time dropped from 1.8 seconds to 62ms. Partner integrations that were timing out started completing reliably.
Public API launch with developer portal and interactive documentation. 14 partners integrated within the first year, up from 3 on the old undocumented API. Time to first integration dropped from weeks to days.
Enterprise platform migration from monolith to API-first architecture. New feature integrations that previously took 8 weeks now ship in 2. Teams build independently without stepping on each other.
"The API they built is genuinely a pleasure to work with. Our partners tell us it's the best-documented API they've integrated with. That matters more than we expected."
SaaS Platform Company
It depends on your use case. REST is simpler, widely understood, and great for straightforward CRUD operations. GraphQL shines when clients need flexible data fetching, you're building for multiple clients with different data needs, or you want to reduce over-fetching. We'll help you make the right call based on what you're actually building.
We design versioning in from day one so you never break existing integrations. For REST APIs we typically use URL path versioning (/v1/, /v2/) which is explicit and easy to document. For GraphQL we use schema evolution with deprecation notices. You always get a clear migration path before anything changes.
Authentication with OAuth 2.0 or API keys, rate limiting to prevent abuse, input validation to block injection attacks, and TLS everywhere. We also implement proper CORS policies, audit logging, and scope-based authorization. Security isn't an afterthought. It's part of the contract design from the start.
Most API projects fall in the $20K-$100K range depending on complexity, the number of endpoints, authentication requirements, and integrations. A focused internal API for a single product is on the lower end. A public developer platform with partner onboarding, SDKs, and a developer portal is a bigger investment. We scope every project clearly before we start.
A well-scoped API with clear requirements typically takes 6-12 weeks from contract design to production deployment. We start every engagement with a design phase where we document endpoints, data schemas, and error handling before writing a line of code. This upfront work cuts implementation time significantly and avoids expensive rework.
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Tell us what you're connecting and we'll tell you how to build it right. No over-engineering, no shortcuts. Just a clean API your team and your partners will be glad they have.
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