Standards
Identify and develop the standards required to ensure the interoperability of any aspect of business operations.
I have watched more interoperability die from a lack of boring agreements than from any hard technical problem. Two teams, two formats, two ways of saying the same date — and suddenly integration is a project instead of a given. Standards are the boring agreements that make the interesting work possible.
I help you identify which standards actually apply to your operations — OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, JSON Schema, Arazzo, and the domain-specific ones your industry already leans on — and where you may need to establish your own. Then I help you adopt them in a way that sticks, so they show up in your interfaces and your pipelines rather than living in a slide deck.
Standards are how you buy interoperability once instead of renegotiating it on every project. I have been tracking the API standards landscape since before most of these specifications had version numbers, and I bring that history to bear on what is worth your attention and what is noise.
What you walk away with
- A shortlist of the standards that matter for your specific operations
- A plan for adopting them consistently across teams and interfaces
- Interoperability treated as a default, not a per-project negotiation
Related reading
- The Promise of a New Specification
- What is OpenAPI?
- API Validator — conform your specs to the standards you choose (OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, Arazzo, JSON Schema)
Start with the research
Everything I know about choosing and adopting standards is already written down, priced, and yours to read tonight — no call, no scoping, no proposal. Start there.
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The Agent-Era API Standards Onramp $25
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