Need to Map APIs to Products and Business Capabilities
Riley has a clean API inventory but needs to understand how APIs map to products and business capabilities.
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Persona Story:
Riley, the head of APIs, has a clean API inventory but now needs to understand how those APIs map to products and business capabilities.
Problem Context
- API inventory is accurate (<100 APIs properly accounted for)
- Next step is understanding how APIs map to products and business capabilities
- Currently no systematic way to connect technical API inventory to business domain model
Problem Impact
- Can’t prioritize which APIs matter most to the business
- Architecture decisions made without understanding business capability coverage
- Unable to identify gaps or redundancies at the business capability level
Naftiko Today
- Agent Skills exposure groups MCP tools into business-level skill groupings, creating a natural mapping layer between technical APIs and business capabilities
- Executable YAML capability specs are named and described in business terms, bridging the gap between technical endpoints and product language
- Backstage Integration (Fleet) provides a catalog with capability template scaffolding, enabling teams to organize APIs by business domain from the start
- Multi-step orchestration with cross-step data mapping lets teams compose multiple APIs into product-aligned capabilities, making the API-to-product mapping explicit
Naftiko Tomorrow
- Naftiko Shipyard MVP (Fleet Second Alpha) would serve as a business-capability-oriented discovery layer where capabilities are browsable by domain
- Capability scaffolding from existing APIs (Fleet Second Alpha) would automate the creation of business-aligned capability specs from raw API inventories
- Fabric capability discovery (v1.1) would enable cross-organization search for capabilities by business domain, surfacing gaps and redundancies
- Backstage TechDocs integration (Fleet First Beta) would let teams document the business context and product mapping alongside each capability