Developer-first API integration platform

All your integrations. One place to build and run them.

Centralize the APIs your business uses and the systems your enterprise clients run. Let Invokation handle credentials, token renewal, execution, and recovery behind one developer interface.

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01 / THE PRODUCT VISIONYour API stack · Your enterprise clients

The API call is the easy part

It’s everything
around it that grows.

The first integration fits in a function. The fifth comes with its own credentials, data model, network rules, and recovery playbook.

Credentials live in several services. Each job has a different retry loop. Logs miss the context you need, and an expired token becomes a failed customer action.

Give external API requests one operating model. Keep provider details and client differences in explicit profiles, with business decisions in your application.

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Two contexts. The same integration layer.

YOUR API STACK

Centralize your API stack.

Payment, transactional email, messaging, and custom APIs. Configure connections once and give their requests a shared place to run, inspect, and recover.

For your company's API dependencies ↗YOUR ENTERPRISE CLIENTS

Connect enterprise clients.

One product, different client systems. Keep their credentials, mappings, gateways, and approved routes behind tested integration profiles.

For repeatable client onboarding ↗

A small model for a complicated reality

Configure. Define. Invoke.

Use an explicit connection, an application-owned operation, and a traceable execution in either context.

Configure a connection profile

Bind endpoint settings, protected credential references, authentication strategy, environment, adapter version, and execution policy.

custom-api.production

Define an operation

Name what your product needs. Specify inputs, outputs, permissions, and what failure means. The contract belongs to your application.

records.list

Invoke and observe

Make an interactive request or enqueue background work. Inspect the trace and delivery attempts, then recover deliberately.

result.data · result.traceId

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Explore the shared model

Different connections.
A familiar way to operate.

Stripe and SendGrid illustrate provider connections. Alpha, Beta, and Gamma illustrate client-specific REST, SOAP, and gateway adaptation. All examples are local fixtures, not working connectors.

Integration workspaceInteractive product preview · simulated data

Explore a contextIllustrative providers · no shipped connectors

Provider API / API key

Stripeproduction

mapping v1.2.0

Application operationpayments.getStatusAdapterpayment-status@1

Public HTTPS · configured provider destination. Authentication uses a protected credential reference; no downstream token is passed by the caller.

Proposed SDK; not yet published

// Proposed SDK — illustrative API design; not a published package.
const invokation = new Invokation({
  apiKey: process.env.INVOKATION_API_KEY
});

// The profile handles downstream authentication.
const result = await invokation.request({
  profile: "stripe.production",
  operation: "payments.getStatus",
  input: { paymentId: "payment_demo_123" },
  timeoutMs: 8000
});

Run inspectorCompleted

Trace: trace_demo_01
Duration: 142 ms
Result: 200

Normalized response

{
  "data": {
    "paymentId": "payment_demo_123",
    "status": "confirmed"
  },
  "traceId": "trace_demo_01"
}

ExecutionSimulate a runAttempt 1 completed

Both contexts use explicit profiles and application-owned contracts. Stripe and SendGrid illustrate API-key connections; the custom API illustrates a fictional token endpoint. These are not shipped connectors. The operation names, customers resource, and record shape belong to this fictional vendor’s contract. Your product defines its own. REST, SOAP, and gateway profiles need explicit logic for identifiers, status values, pagination, and supported actions.

Managed API authentication

Configure the connection.
Leave the token loop behind.

Protected credential references, an approved auth endpoint, usable-token reuse, and coordinated renewal. Know when a connection needs attention before the next failed request.

Interactive authentication preview · simulated data

One connection. One coordinated renewal.

The fictional clock starts at 12:00 UTC. Advance it to inspect expiry. No auth requests are sent and no credential values are accepted or stored.

Authentication strategyConnection scenario

Credential reference: secrets/custom-api/production@v3
Auth endpoint · fictional: https://auth.example.com/session/token
Connection state: Usable token
Token expiry · simulated: 2026-10-20T12:02:00.000Z
Remaining / expiry buffer: 120s / 60s

Redacted fixture response

{ "access_token": "[REDACTED]", "expires_in": 120 }

Simulated time: +0s · Coordinated renewals: 0

Three waiting callers share one connection-scoped renewal. Only the redacted result becomes visible.

OAuth client credentials normally reacquires an access token; delegated refresh follows the provider's issued refresh-token rules. JWT is a format, not an OAuth flow. The application keeps calling its operation without handling downstream tokens. Authentication renewal never authorizes blind replay of an ambiguous write.

Explore credentials, renewal, and connection health ↗

A developer’s interface

Keep the call simple.
Make the context explicit.

One named operation. One selected profile. A useful result and a trace you can follow. The proposed SDK and REST interface keep your Invokation key on your backend; downstream credentials stay behind the connection profile.

Interactive reads can use request-response. Background writes can use a queue. Accepted work is only the start of its lifecycle.

Explore the API design preview ↗

Proposed SDK; not yet published

// Proposed SDK — illustrative API design; not a published package.
const invokation = new Invokation({
  apiKey: process.env.INVOKATION_API_KEY
});

// The profile handles downstream authentication.
const result = await invokation.request({
  profile: "stripe.production",
  operation: "payments.getStatus",
  input: { paymentId: "payment_demo_123" },
  timeoutMs: 8000
});

Delivery history SIMULATED

Attempt 01429 · rate_limitedRetry-After: 30s

Policy checkBounded backoffOriginal mapping v2.4.0

Attempt 02200 · completedTrace attached

authorization: [REDACTED]

Execution & recovery

A failure should leave
a useful trail.

The run inspector brings together profile, trace, timing, delivery attempts, redacted errors, and versioned configuration. Search and filter runs to see which connection needs attention.

Retry policies need bounds. Replays need review. A timeout can hide a successful write, and destination deduplication depends on the adapter and system.

Read the guide to safer recovery ↗

Same operation. Meaningful differences.

Customer-specific.
Without being scattered.

REST for Alpha. SOAP for Beta. A custom gateway for Gamma. The application asks for its agreed result; each profile owns the translation and the permitted path.

Client Alpha

REST / JSON

Cursor pagination. Bearer credentials. account_name maps to displayName.

Stable shared egress · approved public endpoint

Client Beta

SOAP / XML

Page-number pagination. Certificate requirements. AccountLabel maps to displayName.

Dedicated address allocation · enterprise allowlist

Client Gamma

Custom HTTPS gateway

Continuation tokens. Scoped API key. records.upsert explicitly unsupported.

Private-only target · separate planned network path

Illustrative profiles, not existing customer implementations. Your adapter owns the business rules; a consistent contract doesn’t make every system equally capable.

Walk through enterprise client onboarding ↗

Enterprise connectivity

Make “what IP do
we allowlist?”
an answerable question.

Share a documented stable address set, complete the enterprise’s approval process, and assign the approved egress policy to a profile. Choose stable shared sets or dedicated allocations.

A fixed public source address does not reach a private-only endpoint. Planned private connectivity is a separate path, with its own setup and approval.

Understand the connection options ↗

↗Your applicationOne operation contract

Invokation profileApproved egress policy198.51.100.20Illustrative dedicated address

Approved public route → Enterprise APISeparate private path → Private systemPlanned · routing + authorization required

Useful engineering resources

Make the next integration
easier to reason about.

Explore all four reading paths ↗

For product and backend teams, SaaS teams, and software and solutions providers.

An extension of the same foundation

Useful to your application.
Deliberate tools for your agents.

Selected operations could become agent tools with schemas from your contracts, profile-scoped access, validation, and execution budgets. The same inspection and recovery model applies. Your integration infrastructure should make sense before you add a model.

Explore controlled tool access ↗

A few useful answers

Before you join.

Can I use Invokation today?

Invokation is in development. This website describes the intended platform, including capabilities beyond a first release. The interactive workspace uses simulated data; joining the waitlist does not create a product account or grant immediate access.

Who implements the adapters?

Your application or integration team defines meaningful operations and implements provider-specific or client-specific semantics. Invokation centralizes authentication, configuration, execution, visibility, and connectivity. Supported methods depend on the adapter and destination.

Do we need enterprise clients?

No. A backend using payment, email, messaging, identity, AI, or custom APIs can use the same connection and execution model. Enterprise-client profiles are a second context, not a prerequisite.

Does Invokation handle downstream authentication?

That is a core part of the platform vision: protected credentials, approved token endpoints, expiry and renewal rules, and connection health. You still configure provider accounts, authorization, and permissions. This website does not collect or process provider secrets.

What about custom APIs and different enterprise systems?

Profiles are intended to adapt documented APIs, enterprise gateways, SOAP/XML services, and structured file-driven workflows. Identifiers, enum meanings, pagination, and supported actions still need explicit implementation and testing. There is no promise of a ready-made connector for every system.

Does a fixed IP give access to a private system?

No. A stable public source address can meet an allowlisting requirement when the destination has public ingress. Private-only endpoints need an approved network path, such as a planned customer-side agent or network connection. Authentication, certificates, routing, and enterprise approval still apply.

What happens when I join?

Your email is stored on the early-access waitlist for product-development updates and research. You can optionally share technical needs and indicate interest in a design-partner conversation. No payment, corporate email, or commitment is required.

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What’s the integration
you keep rebuilding?

Tell us where the work repeats. Join early access and help shape Invokation around real technical needs.

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All your integrations. One place to build and run them.

It’s everythingaround it that grows.