API Solutions for Tech Leaders

Establish high-quality, high-impact API programs quickly and easily.

Stoplight can help you develop APIs that are high-quality and high-business-impact quickly and easily. By using a tool that offers a design-first approach, you can save time in development and documentation. With clear definitions, cross-functional alignment, and reusable components, designing a successful API is easier from start to finish.

Take a strategic approach to API programs for efficiency, consistency, and productivity.

Avoid the API underbelly. Disorganized efforts create waste, risks, and lower adoption.

Deliver API-led business outcomes. Drive transformation efficiently and effectively.

API program success starts here.

Without visibility or governance, API development can have a dangerous underbelly. Done incorrectly, APIs bring risk to your organization and cause overruns and delays. Specifically, disorganized API efforts can cause development teams to waste time, create security vulnerabilities, and reduce adoption.

These issues are often why digital transformation efforts take longer than expected and run into unforeseen issues that lead to costly delays. They can result in partners losing interest. And could be why you have trouble retaining top talent.

And all of these issues boil up to significant business risk and reduced ROI. However, it is possible to evolve your approach to API development, eliminate developer toil, and wrangle in your API strategy before it’s too late with the application of a simple principle: design first.

More resources from Stoplight

API Intersection Podcast

Stoplight's API Roadmap eBook

API-as-a-Product Guide

Design and Develop

With Stoplight, you can create a proactive and strategic approach to API development that starts with designing first.

Since we’ve started with the design-first approach, we have seen results of decreasing the cycle time by two thirds—we are 60% faster. We have been able to increase the release frequency to daily, even multiple times per day. And everything is thanks to setting up the proper process with the proper tools.

Sergi Baños, CTO at wefox

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We've rolled out to lots of internal teams that are using Stoplight. There’s a number of [Stoplight] beta features that we’d like to get our hands on. There's some that we're already testing.

Dave Holliday, API Product Manager at Fiserv

Adopt and Govern

With Stoplight, drive predictable API development and adoption through a better developer experience, better governance, and increased reuse.

In one example, we were able to move from ideation to a complete Stoplight prototype in 6 hours. Before it would usually take weeks and often wouldn’t have the right people involved. Now, we have a point of collaboration.

Marc Patterson, API Architect at Highmark Health

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That's where Stoplight came in, giving us a very wonderful way [...] of having developers quite easily document existing APIs, create missing endpoints from existing payloads, and more with open API specifications.

Kostas Petrakis, Lead API Engineer at Sendcloud

Improve and Optimize

With Stoplight, you can efficiently deliver API-led business outcomes that improve your organization and reduce waste time and effort.

API design and development previously took up to three weeks. With Stoplight, we have that all worked out in a matter of days.

Connor Williams, Software Engineer at Schneider Electric

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Adopting an API design-first philosophy with Stoplight has helped us cut 80% off development time, from idea to consumption. The reason that’s shrinking is that now we get it right the first time.

Paul Trevino, Senior Manager of Engineering at Transact