The API Value Proposition Canvas is a tool designed to align your API's features with the needs of its consumers.

The API Business Model Canvas helps you evaluate and plan the viability of your API.

The Business Impact Canvas helps identify and mitigate risks associated with API availability, security, and functionality. It ensures your platform architecture can support business-critical APIs by balancing costs and risks.

The Locations of Data and Systems Canvas maps where data resides and where API producers and consumers operate. This ensures the API platform architecture supports regulatory compliance, data sovereignty, and efficient network interactions.

The Capacity Canvas helps forecast API traffic patterns to ensure the platform can handle expected and peak loads. It provides critical input for scaling decisions and infrastructure planning.

What data should the API use? How will the API work? What standards and formats do we need? How can non-API experts take part in API designing?

How should endpoints i.e. the resources that our API allows the API consumers to use, be named? What features and thus endpoints should be included in the same API? To version or not and how?

Use this checklist to audit your API prototype or a ready made API before publishing it to stakeholders, or, why not before buying an API

One of the fundamental challenges in IoT projects is that various IT specialists, device experts, platform providers, and business experts often fail to understand one another – or, more precisely, the implications of each other's domains on their own. In the realm of IoT, business expertise encapsulates all areas where IoT is utilised.