COGNIVISE

API development and integration services

Two systems that should share data, and a person in the middle copying it by hand. It works until the volume grows, or until they make a mistake nobody catches for a month.

* API development and integration services: REST and GraphQL APIs, third-party and legacy system integration. Built by us, or by developers we find you.

When systems do not talk to each other

Custom API development, and the integrations around it

An API is how one system lets another use it without a person in between. We build them, and we build the API integration services around them: connecting the tools you already pay for, pulling data out of a system that was never meant to share it, and keeping the whole arrangement working when one end changes.

Most of this work is unglamorous and specific. What matters is that it is documented, versioned and monitored, so that the integration is still working in two years and someone other than its author can change it.

Two ways to get it done

01

We build it

As an API development company we take the work as a project: design, build, documentation and handover. Best when the need is defined and you would rather buy the result than run the work.

02

We find you the developers

Hire API developers onto your own team instead, permanently or on contract. Best when integration work is continuous and the knowledge should stay in your company.

What we build

What we build

API development services end to end — API consulting, design, delivery and documentation — plus the software integration services around them.

Related: Custom software development · Team building and hiring

REST and GraphQL APIs

Designed to be used by someone who did not write them

Third-party API integration

Connecting the services you already depend on

Legacy system integration

System integration services for software never meant to share data

Webhooks and event delivery

With retries, ordering and a record of what was sent

Authentication and rate limiting

OAuth, keys, quotas and the abuse cases

Documentation and SDKs

The part that decides whether anyone adopts it

Versioning and migration

Changing an API without breaking its consumers

Monitoring and support

Knowing an integration broke before your customer tells you

Clear answers

What people ask before any of this starts — including what we cannot promise.

It depends on who is consuming it. REST is usually the right default for a public or partner API and for anything that has to be cached simply. GraphQL earns its place when many different clients need different shapes of the same data and you would otherwise be adding an endpoint a week. We will tell you which one your situation calls for rather than the one we feel like building.

That is most of the work. Legacy systems, and services that were never designed to talk to each other, are the normal case rather than the exception — payment and CRM providers, internal databases, and platforms whose only interface is a file drop or a screen.

They are part of the work, not an extra. Authentication, versioning, rate limiting, error handling, documentation and the tests that stop a change breaking a consumer are what decide whether an API is still usable in two years.

You do. The code, the documentation and the accounts are yours by default, in your own repositories, handed over as we go.

Next step

Discuss your project

Tell us which systems need to talk to each other. We'll tell you what it would take, whether you need a project or a person, and plainly if we're not the right people for it.