API Design, Integration, Testing & Security Audit

APIs specified before they are built, contract-tested against their consumers, and audited against the OWASP API risks. We also review APIs we did not build, and we report what we find without softening it.

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Business outcomes

What you get from the engagement

A published contract consumers can build against with confidence
Breaking changes caught in the pipeline rather than by a consumer
Authorisation defects identified before exposure, not after
Documentation generated from the specification and therefore current

Technical capabilities

What we do inside it

OpenAPI-first design and governance
Consumer-driven contract testing
Versioning, deprecation and lifecycle policy
API gateway, rate limiting and authentication design
OWASP API Security Top 10 audit

Architecture and stack

How we build it

Architectural position

Object-level authorisation is tested per endpoint and per role. Broken object-level authorisation remains the most common finding in the APIs we audit.

Representative technologies

Technology selection follows the requirement. This list is representative of engagements in this service line, not a constraint we impose on yours.

Service assurance

SLA, compliance and governance

Engagements in this service line are delivered under the Platinum service tier by default, against the compliance obligations below. Both are set in the engagement contract, not by this page.

Default tier

Platinum — 99.95% availability target, P1 response within 15 minutes, coverage 24 × 7 × 365.

Compliance scope

Governance

Written architecture decision records, weekly delivery reporting, and a documented handover comprising runbooks, source and credential transfer at engagement close.

Intellectual property

Client-commissioned work product vests in the client on payment. Source escrow available on request.

Service level tiers, availability targets and response commitments
Tier	Availability target	P1 response	P1 resolution target	Coverage	Service credits
Platinum	99.95%	15 minutes	4 hours	24 × 7 × 365	Yes
Gold	99.9%	1 hour	8 hours	24 × 5 plus on-call	Yes
Silver	99.5%	4 hours	2 business days	09:00–18:00 EAT	No

Publication gate G-05 — outstanding

These values illustrate the structure of the table. Each figure must be confirmed by whoever will be contractually bound by it, and the availability targets must be achievable on the underlying cloud provider SLAs before publication. Publishing a 99.95% target on infrastructure whose own composite SLA is lower creates an obligation that cannot be met.

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Begin with a scoped conversation, not a sales call.

Our intake is structured so that the first response you receive is technical. Tell us which of the following describes your position and we will route your enquiry to the engineering lead who owns that practice.

Enterprise modernisation An existing system — core, legacy or on-premises — that must be migrated, re-architected or integrated. New product build A platform to be taken from concept or specification to production under a fixed scope. Team augmentation Senior engineering capacity embedded into an existing team and roadmap.

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