Build an API-First Product with AI
Emmanuel Paraskakis
Founder, Level 250 | 3x VP, API Products
Go from an idea to a deployed, standards-compliant API in one session.
$50 Replit Credits & Free API Design Skill Included!
You have idea for an API product. Build the first iteration inside of 3 hours so you can validate it in the market.
In this workshop, you'll start with a prompt and a set of requirements. By the end, you'll have a standards-compliant API running behind a gateway, with observability, logging, and documentation. Built with AI, validated with real tools, deployed and live.
You'll use a repeatable workflow: requirements to user stories, stories to OpenAPI spec, from API design to running code, behind a gateway with rate limiting and auth. Every step uses AI. Every step follows real API standards and best practices. Every step produces an artifact you keep.
You'll design the API using a Skill that takes your requirements, domain model, and API standards as markdown files and produces a validated spec. You'll score it for quality and build it with Replit. Then you'll deploy it on an API gateway with authentication, rate limiting, analytics and documentation. You'll watch traffic flow through.
Walk in with an idea. Walk out with a running API you can show your team, point an agent at, or build on tomorrow.
What you’ll learn
Design, build and deploy an API product the right way
Use context files and API standards to ensure a high-quality design
Generate and review user stories as the human-in-the-loop
Validate the OpenAPI spec output with deterministic linting and rating tools
Create a quick mock/documentation artifact for user validation
Build a full MVP using the AI Agent in Replit
Publish the API and run tests to ensure it performs as designed
Stand up a cloud-based API Gateway and route traffic to it
Create API Management Policies to govern and manage your API
Observe logs and analytics to understand what your users are doing with your API product
Adapt the tools for your own product and domain
Distribute skills, prompts, and processes to your team to get a standards-compliant repeatable flow
Workshop agenda
Optional: Introductions
Join early to introduce yourself and meet participants in an informal setting before the workshop starts.
Tools for Rapid API Prototyping
We'll set up your tools and generate context files.
Translating Requirements into Stories and Specs
Write your context files (domain model, API standards, best practices). Generate user stories with AI. Review, approve, and produce an OpenAPI Spec to drive development.
Evaluation: Quality, Linting & Validation
Validate syntax and quality against preset rules to ensure adherence to standards.
Feedback Through Mocks & Documentation
Upload your spec and get a live mock API with documentation in seconds. Share it with users, observe requests, and collect feedback to validate your product design.
Implementation: Frameworks & Code Generation
Use your OpenAPI Spec with a code generation agent. Watch it build your API, fix issues by chatting with the agent and test its output.
Deployment & API Gateways
Configure API Management with your API Spec. Set up routes, forwarding, rate limiting, and auth. Generate traffic and observe analytics.
Optional: Q&A and Next Steps
Extended Q&A and help with prioritization. Path to further learning.
Learn directly from Emmanuel
Emmanuel Paraskakis
3x VP Product (Apiary, Swagger, Oracle) | 1.3M APIs | Agent-ready APIs & MCP
Who this workshop is for
API Product Managers who want to prototype an API quickly so they can validate it in the market.
Software Architects who want to have a repeatable, AI-assisted API design workflow end-to-end.
Software Engineers who want to build AI-ready APIs the right way, adhering to standards.
Prerequisites
A basic understanding of APIs and OpenAPI specs is beneficial
We'll be designing API products so to get the maximum out of this workshop, come with your own API or API product ideas.
Bonus points if you've used Replit before
We'll supply Replit credits so you can complete the exercises, but you won't need to know how to code - though it's an advantage.
Basic know-how on installing Skills
We'll use an Agent Skil to design an API, so if you're prepared on how to do this in Claude Code, Codex or Cursor, you'll be ahead.
What's included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Emmanuel Paraskakis in a real-time, interactive format.
Lifetime access
Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.
Community of peers
Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.
Certificate of completion
Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.
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Free resource
Design an API Product with Agent Skills
Build a complete, standards-based API design in 30 minutes
We'll take you from an idea to a complete, highly usable API spec ready for prototyping or building.
Install and use the API Design Skill in Claude Code
Complete process: User Stories→API Spec→Hill Climb to a high score→Preview Swagger Docs.
Understand how markdown context files work for high quality
Dive into the 4 markdown files you'll use as input: Requirements, Domain Model, API Standards, OpenAPI best practices.
Learn the importance of hill-climbing to get higher quality
Demonstrate the use of an OpenAPI linter and use the output to iteratively improve API quality up to 100%.
Take the Skill back to your organization and adapt it
Distribute it to every PM on your team (yes, agents too) and ensure high quality API design that checks all the boxes.
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