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Surface Order

For platform and API product teams

Surface OrderWhich integration surface to build next - by reversal cost and audience, not novelty.

Answer a short interview, mark the surfaces you have today, then paste your demand signals and the order you had in mind. Your browser ranks the lead posture from your buyer, puts the spec before anything derived from it, weighs blocked deals over telemetry over community asks, keeps MCP last until agent signals move it, and sequences the surfaces in waves your team can carry. Then the plan, and the handoff cards.

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The platform, and a short interview free

The surfaces you have today free

How deep each one goes. Partial means the API exists but some step of the flow still needs a person.

Demand signals and your draft order free

The build order and the checks free

What the page flags

The gates

The lead posture

The build order

Signals, your draft and the audiences

Area by area

Your gate sheet free

The skill's measurement gates, filled in from this plan - coverage, derivation, concurrency, groundwork and the review date. Re-run it at the review.

Gate sheet (Markdown)


    

The sequencing plan

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    Saved plans

    How it works - and what is sourced

    The order follows the skill: reversal cost plus audience, never novelty. Once outside developers depend on a surface, every behaviour of it is depended on, so commit early to the cheap-to-unwind surfaces - additive REST and webhooks - and delay GraphQL schemas and SDK signatures until the contract underneath is stable. A non-technical buyer who needs value in hours gets embedded components first, still on an API foundation.

    SDKs, MCP and generated docs all derive from one spec, so a drifting spec is fixed first. A blocked deal outweighs telemetry, which outweighs community asks. MCP is a thin layer generated from an existing API, scheduled by RFPs or agent traffic. Build no more surfaces at once than the team can support for years. Reversal-cost tiers are the skill's synthesis; the gRPC, SQL, CLI and Terraform tiers are not in its table and are marked so.