# API Value Proposition Canvas

Canonical page: https://apiopscycles.com/resources/api-value-proposition-canvas

Language: en

Entity ID: apiValuePropositionCanvas

Align API features with user needs by mapping tasks, pains, and gains to API products.

Category: canvas

## Outcomes

- Focused feature development
- Alignment with user needs
- Improved API consumer satisfaction

## How to use

1. List user journey tasks
2. Identify features delivering expected gains
3. Define features addressing challenges
4. Map features to API products

## Canvas guidance

How does the customer journey map to APIs? What end-user and API consumer pains, and gains need to be addressed?

Describe the end-users' perspective, starting with their tasks, then their and API consumers' pains and gains, and finally the API's products and features.

License: CC-BY-SA 4.0

Authors: Alexander Osterwalder, Osaango Ltd

### Tasks

What are the customers (end-users) trying to achieve?

### Gain Enabling Features

What features enable end-users and API consumers to achieve gains?

### Pain Relieving Features

What features help end-users and API consumers overcome pains?

### API Products

What API products and features address the tasks, pains, and gains?