API Engagement Process
How Meridian API Consulting scopes and delivers API design and integration projects.
Engagements are built for teams that need HTTP interfaces, event feeds, or partner connectors to stay predictable in production—not slide-deck architecture.
1. Intake and constraints
You share existing specs, traffic patterns, compliance boundaries, and partner commitments. We return a short list of unknowns that would block a reliable estimate.
2. Written scope
The statement of work names endpoints or topics, authentication approach, environments, test data expectations, and acceptance checks. Fees and calendar dates are fixed to that document.
3. Design pass
We produce or revise OpenAPI (or agreed alternative) with examples, error catalogue, and versioning rules. Review cycles stay inside the scoped hours.
4. Implementation slice
Where build work is included, we land code or configuration in your repositories with pull requests sized for your review cadence.
5. Handoff
Operators receive runbooks for keys, sandboxes, and partner onboarding. Optional follow-on slices are quoted separately.
Ready to start? Discuss your API with a short description of the system you are exposing.