API & integrations
Connect the systems you already run, without a six-month project.
- Typical scope
- 2–5 systems, bidirectional sync, error handling
- Timeline
- 1–4 weeks
- Price band
- $299+
The problem you probably have
Data lives in four systems and someone on your team reconciles them by hand every week. Every integration vendor quote comes back at six figures.
What you get
- Direct integrations with retry, idempotency, and dead-letter handling — the parts that matter at 3am
- A normalized internal model so adding the fifth system does not mean rewriting the first four
- Observability: you can see what synced, what failed, and why
Typical stack
- Node.js
- Python
- Postgres
- Redis
- Webhooks
Questions on this specifically
What if the vendor API is badly documented?
That is the normal case, and it is priced in. We budget discovery time for reverse-engineering undocumented behavior rather than discovering it in week six and asking you for more money.
Will the integration break when a vendor changes their API?
Eventually something upstream will change — the question is whether you find out from monitoring or from a customer. We version against stable API releases where they exist, validate payloads at the boundary, and alert on contract drift, so a vendor change surfaces as a notification rather than silent data corruption.
Why not just use Zapier or a similar tool?
For low-volume, one-directional automations you probably should, and we will say so during scoping. Custom integration earns its cost when you need bidirectional sync, guaranteed ordering, retry with idempotency, or volumes where per-task pricing stops making sense.
What access do you need to our systems?
The minimum that works: scoped API credentials with least-privilege permissions, issued by you, revocable by you. We never ask for your admin passwords, and credentials live in a secrets manager — not in code, not in a shared document.
What happens when a sync fails at 3am?
The failed record lands in a dead-letter queue instead of vanishing, the retry policy takes its shots, and if it still fails you can see exactly which record, which system, and why. Silent failure is the thing this entire service exists to prevent.
Have a project in mind?
Bring us the problem. StratEdge scopes it, staffs it, manages it, and delivers it — one accountable company from start to finish.