An API designed around your domain
A good API isn't a thin wrapper over your database tables. It's a deliberate contract that models your business: the resources, the actions, and the rules about what's allowed. We design that contract first, so clients get endpoints that make sense and you avoid painful breaking changes later.
We'll help you choose REST or GraphQL based on your clients and data rather than on fashion, and structure the API so it can grow without a rewrite.
- API design that models your resources, actions, and business rules
- REST or GraphQL chosen to fit your clients, not a default
- A versioning strategy so future changes don't break existing clients
- Consistent error format, status codes, and response shapes
- An OpenAPI or GraphQL schema as the single source of truth
Secured, documented, and ready for real clients
An API that other software depends on needs guardrails. We add authentication and authorization so only the right callers reach the right data, rate limiting so one client can't take down the rest, and validation so malformed requests fail cleanly.
Documentation is part of the deliverable, not an afterthought. Your own team and any partners get generated, accurate docs they can actually build against.
- Token, API-key, or OAuth authentication with scoped permissions
- Input validation and clear, machine-readable error responses
- Rate limiting, pagination, and filtering built in
- Auto-generated docs from the schema (Swagger UI or a GraphQL playground)
- Automated tests covering the endpoints and edge cases
Fits your stack and your future
We build in the language and framework that suit your team and hosting, and deploy it where the rest of your system lives. The point is an API you can own and extend, not a black box only we understand.
- Built in your preferred stack (Node and Express, Python and FastAPI, Laravel, and others)
- Deployed to your cloud or a managed host you control
- Clean, commented code and a schema your team can extend
- Logging and monitoring so you can see how the API is used
- Handoff docs so your developers can take it forward
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Frequently asked questions
Should we build REST or GraphQL?
It depends on your clients. REST is simple, cacheable, and familiar, which is great for straightforward resources and public APIs. GraphQL shines when clients need to fetch varied, nested data in one request and you want to avoid many round trips. We have dedicated pages on each and will recommend one after understanding how your apps use the data.
Can one API power both our website and a mobile app?
Yes, and that's a common reason to build one properly. A single well-designed API serves web, iOS, and Android from the same contract, so your business logic lives in one place instead of being duplicated in each client. We design the responses to work for all of them.
How is custom API work priced?
The main drivers are the number and complexity of endpoints, the auth and permission model, how much business logic lives in the API, and whether integrations to other systems are in scope. We scope it as a project after a free consultation rather than quoting a flat rate blind.