API engineering
API development on Azure
North Peak Cloud builds production APIs on Azure — .NET minimal APIs, Azure Functions and API Management — secured with Microsoft Entra ID, documented with OpenAPI, observable from day one and delivered through CI/CD. And because the AI era is arriving fast, every API we build is agent-ready: a clean, well-described OpenAPI contract is one step away from being safely callable by AI assistants and agents, so the integration work you buy today keeps paying as your customers' tooling changes.
- .NET minimal APIs, Azure Functions and API Management
- Entra ID authentication, scoped authorisation and rate limiting
- OpenAPI-first: documented, versioned, testable contracts
- Observability and CI/CD wired in from the first endpoint
- Agent-ready by design — one step from MCP exposure
- Fixed price and timeline agreed before work starts
AI on Azure, done right.
AI-ready foundations
Azure AI Foundry hubs and projects, private networking to your models, identity and policy guardrails — the secure base every AI workload needs before it scales.
Cost control for AI & cloud
FinOps for the AI era: token and PTU strategy, model right-sizing, reservations and anomaly detection. We find the waste your invoice is hiding.
Platform engineering
Landing zones as code in Bicep or Terraform, GitOps, policy-as-code and golden paths. Enterprise-grade Azure delivered in weeks, not quarters.
Security & responsible AI
Content filtering, evaluations, data-residency and audit-ready guardrails aligned to the EU AI Act and ISO 42001 — trustworthy AI you can put in front of customers.
Migration & modernisation
Cloud Adoption Framework migrations and Well-Architected reviews that leave you cheaper, faster and ready for AI — not just lifted-and-shifted.
Senior engineers, direct
You work with the architect who does the build — no account managers, no offshore hand-off, no gatekeeping. Answers in plain English.
Three ways to start.
An AI-ready Azure landing zone, delivered in weeks.
- Azure AI Foundry hub & projects
- Private networking to model endpoints
- Identity, RBAC & Azure Policy guardrails
- Responsible-AI baseline & content filters
- Infrastructure as code you own
- Handover & runbook
One AI use case, production-grade, on AI Foundry.
- RAG, agent or document-intelligence build
- Evaluation & guardrails wired in
- CI/CD and observability
- Cost model before you commit
- Knowledge transfer to your team
- Reusable accelerator IP
Stop AI and cloud bill shock — with a gain-share option where our fee aligns to the savings we deliver.
- Token / PTU vs pay-as-you-go strategy
- Model right-sizing & reservations
- Cost anomaly detection
- Classic Azure estate optimisation
- Monthly reporting & reviews
- Gain-share option available
for AI.
Asked and answered.
What does API development on Azure involve?+
Designing the contract first (OpenAPI), building the service (.NET minimal APIs or Azure Functions), fronting it with API Management for security, throttling and versioning, and wiring in authentication (Microsoft Entra ID), observability and CI/CD. North Peak Cloud delivers the whole chain, fixed-price, with the contract agreed before code is written.
What makes an API 'agent-ready'?+
A precise, well-described OpenAPI contract with proper authentication and scoped permissions — the same qualities that make an API good for human developers make it safely usable by AI assistants and agents. From there, exposing it via the Model Context Protocol is a small step rather than a rebuild.
Can you take over an existing API estate?+
Yes — auditing, documenting and securing existing APIs is common work: adding OpenAPI contracts, moving authentication to Entra ID, putting API Management in front, and bringing deployment into CI/CD without breaking existing consumers.