Custom API Development & Integration Services

We design, build and connect REST, GraphQL and event-driven APIs that are documented, versioned and properly secured, so your product, your partners and the software you already pay for finally behave like one system.

https://api.yourcompany.com/v1
GET /v1/orders?status=paid
200 OK application/json 1.0 kB 84 ms
{
  "data": [
    { "id": "ord_8412", "status": "paid", "items": 3, "total":  249.00 },
    { "id": "ord_8413", "status": "paid", "items": 1, "total":   79.50 },
    { "id": "ord_8414", "status": "paid", "items": 9, "total": 1340.00 },
    { "id": "ord_8415", "status": "paid", "items": 1, "total":   58.25 },
    { "id": "ord_8416", "status": "paid", "items": 4, "total":  412.90 },
    { "id": "ord_8417", "status": "paid", "items": 2, "total":  186.40 },
    { "id": "ord_8418", "status": "paid", "items": 6, "total":  973.15 },
    { "id": "ord_8419", "status": "paid", "items": 1, "total":   24.99 },
  ],
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}
API Pattern

Our API development services

From one public endpoint to a versioned platform your partners build on. We pick the protocol that suits the problem, not whichever one is fashionable this year.

REST API development Most requested

REST API development

Predictable, resource-modelled endpoints with pagination, filtering, idempotency keys and HTTP semantics that behave the way developers expect. We work contract-first from an OpenAPI spec, so your web and mobile teams can start building on day one instead of waiting for the backend to land.

GraphQL API development

GraphQL API development

One typed schema, and each client gets exactly the fields it asks for. Worth doing when several frontends need different shapes of the same data and you are tired of raising a backend ticket for every one of them.

Realtime & streaming

Realtime & streaming

WebSockets, server-sent events and gRPC for dashboards, chat, live pricing, and anything else where polling every few seconds is the wrong answer.

Webhooks & events

Webhooks & events

Signed, retried, replayable delivery with a dead-letter queue behind it, so an hour of partner downtime never quietly loses your data.

SDKs & developer portal

SDKs & developer portal

Client libraries, sandbox keys and a portal your integrators can help themselves to. It is the difference between onboarding a partner and babysitting one.

Gateways & BFF layers

Gateways & BFF layers

One entry point handling auth, routing and rate limits, with backend-for-frontend endpoints shaped per app rather than a dozen chatty calls.

Legacy system APIs

Legacy system APIs

SOAP services, stored procedures and overnight file drops wrapped in a clean, modern interface, with no rewrite of the system underneath.

Third-party systems we integrate

Cannot see your platform here? If it has an API, a webhook, or even a nightly CSV drop, we can integrate it.

Ask about your stack

Payments & billing

Stripe, PayPal, Wise, local gateways
Payments & billingCheckout & subscriptions Payments & billingPayouts & refunds Payments & billingReconciliation

CRM & ERP

Salesforce, HubSpot, Zoho, SAP, Odoo
CRM & ERPTwo-way contact sync CRM & ERPInventory & orders CRM & ERPCustom field mapping

Communication

Twilio, SendGrid, Slack, WhatsApp
CommunicationTransactional email CommunicationSMS & OTP flows CommunicationInternal alerting

AI & data

Claude, OpenAI, vector stores, warehouses
AI & dataLLM gateways AI & dataEmbedding pipelines AI & dataETL & sync jobs

Cloud & infrastructure

AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, DigitalOcean
Cloud & infrastructureStorage & queues Cloud & infrastructureIdentity providers Cloud & infrastructureServerless endpoints

How we build an API

01

Discover

We map the data, the consumers and the systems already in play, then agree in writing what the API has to guarantee.

02

Design the contract

The OpenAPI or GraphQL schema is written and signed off before a line of implementation exists, and then frozen.

03

Build & test

We build against that contract and hand your client teams a mock server they can call straight away. Contract, integration and load tests run in CI, covering the failure paths and not only the happy one.

04

Document & ship

Reference docs, worked examples and a sandbox, so integrators get there without emailing you. Then a staged rollout behind a gateway, with alerts on latency, errors and per-consumer usage.

API Lifecycle

API security and governance, built in

99.9%

Uptime target

Health checks and alerting are wired up before launch, not after the first outage.

120ms

Median response

Measured against real production traffic, not a laptop benchmark.

60+

Integrations shipped

Across payment, CRM, logistics and AI platforms.

100%

Documented endpoints

Every endpoint ships with a spec and somewhere safe to try it.

OAuth 2.0, JWT & scoped keys

Least-privilege access issued per consumer, and revoked in seconds when a partner or an employee moves on.

Rate limiting & quotas

Enforced per key and per endpoint, so one noisy client cannot degrade the service everybody else depends on.

Encrypted in transit & at rest

TLS everywhere, encryption on stored data, and secrets kept out of the codebase and rotated to a schedule.

Idempotency & replay safety

A retried payment call charges once and only once. It is the most expensive bug we find in other people's APIs, and the easiest to design out.

Audit logging & tracing

Every request traceable to a consumer and a moment in time, so an incident gets reconstructed instead of guessed at.

A written versioning policy

Breaking changes get announced, dated and survivable, with the old version kept alive long enough for everyone to move.

How we start

Getting started is simple. Here are the three steps between your first email and the work beginning.

The stack we build on

Languages & frameworks

PHP PHP JavaScript JavaScript Dart Dart Laravel Laravel Next.js Next.js React React Flutter Flutter

Gateways & runtime

Nginx Nginx Apache Apache Forge Forge

Data & queues

MySQL MySQL PostgreSQL PostgreSQL MongoDB MongoDB SQLite SQLite

Cloud & delivery

AWS AWS Azure Azure Google Cloud Google Cloud DigitalOcean DigitalOcean GitHub Actions GitHub Actions

Questions we get asked

Faq

If your consumers are third parties, integrators or webhook-driven systems, REST is usually the right call, because it caches well and every developer already knows it. If you have several in-house clients each wanting a different slice of the same data, GraphQL will save you a lot of endpoint churn. We will give you a recommendation once we know who is consuming the data, and there is nothing wrong with running both where it earns its keep.

Yes, and honestly that is most of what we do. We start with an audit of the endpoints, auth, error handling, performance and documentation, then come back with a prioritised list of what to fix, what to wrap and what genuinely needs replacing. A rewrite is a last resort here, not an opening offer.

Common, and entirely workable. We put an anti-corruption layer in between: your application talks to one clean internal interface, and the vendor's quirks stay quarantined behind it: strange pagination, inconsistent types, aggressive rate limits. When that vendor changes something, or you replace them altogether, only the layer changes.

A single, well-scoped integration usually takes two to four weeks. A documented, versioned API platform, with auth, rate limiting, a sandbox and a developer portal, typically runs eight to fourteen. Either way you get the contract and a mock server inside the first fortnight, so your other teams are never sat waiting on us.

You do. The code, the specification, the infrastructure config and the docs, all in your repositories and your cloud accounts. We build on the assumption that your team will take it over one day, and we run a proper handover session to make sure they can.

Yes. Monitoring, on-call response, dependency updates and the inevitable vendor API changes can all sit under a maintenance retainer. Ask us to scope one alongside the build, or take a look at our maintenance and support plans.

Tell us what needs to connect

Tell us about the two systems that refuse to talk to each other. We will come back with an approach, a rough timeline, and an honest answer about whether you need us at all.

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