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API & Integration

The wiring between every system you depend on.

We design and build the integration layer that connects core systems, third-party platforms, and partner networks, API gateways, event buses, and ETL pipelines that hold under load.

Approach

How we deliver it.

What we do

Integration is the work most projects underestimate and the work that decides whether they succeed. We build the wiring between the systems your business already runs on and the ones you’re adding, payment gateways, core financial systems, ERP, dealer networks, regulatory portals, partner APIs.

In practice

We start with the contract, not the code. An API design review identifies the consumers, the data shapes, the failure modes, and the SLAs each side can hold to. Then we build: gateway, schema registry, observability, retries, dead-letter handling, idempotency keys. For partner integrations we set up a sandbox, a developer portal, and an onboarding runbook so the second partner takes less time than the first. We’ve delivered integration estates that move six-figure transaction volumes daily, lender-to-fintech, dealer-to-OEM, PMS-to-loyalty, POS-to-supply-chain, with measured throughput and latency budgets.

How we know

Our integration practice has been live since 2009, when we first delivered an EDI gateway for a distribution client we still work with. We’ve published reference patterns for our regulated clients to use during audits. ISO 27001 covers data-in-transit controls, key management, and the change process for production gateways. We carry contractual SLAs for the platforms we operate on behalf of clients, and we publish post-incident reviews when we miss them.

Capabilities

What we ship.

  • API design and gateway implementation (WSO2, Kong, Apigee)
  • Event streaming platforms (Kafka, Kinesis, EventBridge)
  • iPaaS and middleware (MuleSoft, Boomi, custom)
  • Partner-network onboarding and B2B integration
  • Legacy system adapters and protocol bridges
  • API security, rate limiting, and developer portal

Where this fits in Compound

A design stage service.

Every iBoss engagement runs through the same four stages. API & Integration sits in the Design stage .

  1. 01

    Locate

    Understand the system, the constraints, the people.

  2. 02

    Design

    Architectures, contracts, runbooks. Decisions, not deliverables.

  3. 03

    Build

    Pods of senior engineers. Weekly demos against real data.

  4. 04

    Sustain

    SRE, runbooks, knowledge transfer. We hand it over or we run it.

Where this lands

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