Where Do AI-Ready APIs Come From?

I’m Emmanuel, 3x VP Product, now a founder at Level 250.

If you built or used APIs in the past 15 years, chances are you’ve used one of my products:

I’ve led some of the most influential API tools: Apiary (550,000+ APIs), Swagger (750,000+ APIs) and Oracle’s first Cloud-Native API Gateway. Before that, I built large B2B API programs at Verisk, Moody’s, and Precisely.

Today, I advise Fortune 500 CEOs and AI-forward startup founders on API Strategy, Developer Experience, MCP products, and AI agent readiness.

I'm also a member of OpenAPI and a featured speaker at apidays and other global technology conferences.

My passion is helping others build products, which is why I also teach on Maven: to share my lessons learned and help Product Managers and Engineers fast-track their careers.

Mike Amundsen is an internationally recognized author, speaker, and consultant specializing in network architecture, Web development, and the evolving relationship between technology and society. He works with organizations around the world to design sustainable API ecosystems and guide teams through digital transformation.

In recent years, Amundsen’s writing and talks have focused on AI-augmented API design, composable service platforms, and the future of human–machine collaboration continuing his long-standing exploration of how systems evolve and how meaning emerges in connected environments. His current book project is "AI-Driven API Design" for O'Reilly.

Amundsen is the author of several influential books, including RESTful Web API Patterns and Practices Cookbook (2022) and Design and B