Connecting the systems that do not talk today

There are ways out and they depend on the case: scheduled file exchange, direct database reads when the vendor allows it, or an intermediate layer exposing what the old system does not. What we do not recommend is automating the graphical interface: it works until the vendor changes a screen and everything breaks without warning. If your system is completely closed, we tell you on the first call.

The integration assumes it from the design: retries with backoff, a queue for what could not be processed, and an alert when something has been pending too long. When the system returns, the backlog is processed without duplicating records. That behavior is what separates a production integration from a script that worked once.

It means processing the same event twice produces the same result as processing it once. It matters because in distributed systems events do get duplicated: a retry, a webhook delivered twice, a reconnection. Without idempotency that means double invoices or inventory drawn down twice. It is one of those things that never shows up in the demo and always shows up in production.

Model Context Protocol is a standard for exposing systems and data as tools a language model can use. Instead of writing a bespoke integration for every agent you build, you expose your systems once and any agent consumes them. If you are planning several agents, starting here saves a lot of repeated work.

Infrastructure is usually low: roughly USD 20 to 80 monthly for typical volumes. The real cost appears when the system on the other side changes its API, and that happens. That is why we document external dependencies and leave monitoring configured, so the change gets detected the same day rather than three weeks later.

Yes, and it is a more frequent request than you would think. OpenAPI documentation generated from the code, with examples and a sandbox, plus versioning if needed. When third parties consume the API, this dramatically reduces support load.

Yes: electronic invoicing, local payment gateways, shipping platforms and regional ERPs. When a system we do not know shows up, the first thing we check is what it exposes and how stable its interface is, and we assess that before quoting so we are not promising on assumptions.