APIs, integrations & AI connections
Connect the tools you already rely on.
A payment should update the right record. A new customer should reach the right system. I build those connections, including what happens when a request fails or arrives twice. And when an AI assistant needs a safe way into your systems, I build that door too.
Plan and review the work directly with me.
Connected next steps.
- 01System mapping
- 02Reliable handoffs
- 03Failure & retry handling
The challenge.
A payment lands in Stripe, the customer record stays stale, and someone retypes the details into a third system. When a request fails or arrives twice, nobody notices.
One system owns each fact. The others follow.
I map which tool is the source of truth for every field, then build the connection with the failure cases designed in: retries, duplicates, and a visible trail when something doesn’t arrive.
Explore the work
Follow a payment beyond checkout.
Run this example to see a successful payment become a customer record and a receipt. It uses sample data and does not contact any payment service.
Ready to follow a sample payment.
No live services connected.
Tools I work with
Stripe
Supabase
AnthropicWhat goes into it
The work behind
the finished result.
Get the payment flow right.
One-off payments, subscriptions, installment plans and refunds have different rules. I build the checkout and connect its result to the records and communications your process needs.
Stripe Checkout, billing events and agreed payment states.
Decide which system owns the record.
We map the fields, identifiers and event triggers before connecting APIs. That makes it clear what should be created, what should be updated and which source to trust when information differs.
Field mapping, authentication and predictable updates.
Plan for the unsuccessful attempt.
Requests can time out, cards can fail and event notifications can be repeated. I account for retries and duplicates, and make errors visible so a failed connection does not quietly disappear.
Event verification, duplicate protection, logs and recovery paths.
Give your AI assistant a safe way in.
An MCP server is a small program that lets an AI assistant such as Claude or ChatGPT use your business’s own tools and records, under rules you set. I build one when your team wants the assistant to look things up, draft work or file it, without handing it the keys to everything. Anything that changes a record or reaches a customer waits for a person.
Scoped access per tool, an approval step for changes, and a log of what the assistant did.
Working together
Map the handoff. Make it dependable.
Map the handoff
Identify the source, destination and event that starts it.
Build the connection
Implement the mapping and handling for each agreed state.
Test the exceptions
Check repeats, failures and the recovery path.
Scope & budget
Put a clear boundary
around the work.
The systems' APIs, authentication, data quality and the number of event types determine the scope. One connection can be a focused project; a multi-system process needs a broader plan. An MCP server is scoped by the tools it exposes and the approvals each one needs.
The work, price and review points are agreed before the project starts.
See project budget guidanceRelevant work
Connections that do useful work.
Junior Ravens Baseball & Softball / Volunteer project
Registration, payments and email in one place.
A club-owned platform with registration, installment billing, records and customer communication connected.
Central Oregon Baseball / Tournament platform
The tournament, from registration to results.
Team registration, Stripe payments, schedules, brackets and standings connected in one application.
Guides to help you decide.
Before we get started
A few useful answers.
Can you fix an integration someone else built?
Yes. I need access to the code or integration setup, logs and the connected accounts. The first step is understanding the expected behavior and reproducing the failure.
Can you handle Stripe subscriptions and payment plans?
Yes. We define the billing schedule, customer communications, failed-payment behavior and cancellation or refund rules before implementation.
What if one of our tools has no API?
I look for supported alternatives such as exports, imports or existing connectors. If the tool cannot support a reliable connection, I explain that constraint before proposing a workaround.
Do you need access to our payment account?
An integration needs the appropriate scoped access. Account ownership stays with you, and secrets are handled through the deployment environment rather than embedded in the website.
What is an MCP server, and have you built one?
MCP is a standard way for an AI assistant to use outside tools. An MCP server is the piece that speaks it for your system: it says which tools the assistant may use and what each one is allowed to do. Yes. My own publishing tool runs on one, and the client portal I am building for my practice has one so my agents can post progress without ever approving or paying anything.
Let’s make it happen
Plan an integration.
Tell me what you want to build or improve. A sentence or two is enough to start.