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API Product Development

Build and Launch an API Product

For companies that want to turn data, models or proprietary logic into a commercial API business.

Selling access to an API is a different business from building one. Alongside the service itself you need signup, keys, plans, limits, metering, invoices, documentation, a sandbox and somewhere for developers to get unstuck at two in the morning.

MLPivot can build the whole product, or the core API while your team keeps the commercial layers in house.

What MLPivot can help with

16 areas
  • Product discovery
  • API architecture
  • Data sourcing
  • Data pipeline creation
  • Model development
  • Endpoint design
  • Authentication
  • Billing
  • Usage tracking
  • Documentation
  • Developer portal
  • Sandbox environment
  • Production environment
  • Monitoring
  • Scaling
  • Customer onboarding

A commercial API architecture

DATA / MODELS
CORE API
AUTHENTICATION
RATE LIMITING
USAGE METERING
BILLING
DEVELOPER PORTAL
CUSTOMER

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API Architecture & Prototype

For companies that are not ready for a full build, the entry point is a fixed-scope prototype. Deliverables can include:

  • Requirements review
  • Data-source review
  • Endpoint design
  • OpenAPI draft
  • Architecture
  • Security plan
  • Infrastructure recommendation
  • Proof-of-concept API
  • Production roadmap

Have something valuable that should become an API?

Tell us what you have and who would pay to call it.