We’d like to introduce you to Naftiko, a domain-driven, business-aligned approach to transforming messy API and data integrations into a governed fabric that teams can depend on—leveraging a community and standards-driven open-source core to bring AI into the enterprise. Naftiko is a response to the cloud, SaaS, and API sprawl that has emerged over the last decade, which is now pushed to its limits by the need to integrate AI across enterprise operations.
Naftiko is the vision of Jerome Louvel. Jerome and I worked together during his Restlet days, and we reconnected this year at APIDays in New York City. That’s where he introduced me to Naftiko—which is Greek for “navy” or “naval.” The Naftiko vision reflects core principles that echoed much of what I’ve seen at Postman and Bloomberg over the last five years, while also aligning closely with work I have been doing at API Evangelist around API discovery and governance–so when Jerome invited me to join as Chief Community Officer, I said yes.
Nearly six months later, Naftiko was established as a company and secured $1.5M in investment from Serena Capital and angel investors Pawan Deshpande, Paul Melchiorre, and Vincent Macé. The Naftiko board includes co-founders Jerome Louvel (chairman) and me (Kin Lane), along with Guillaume Decugis and Laurent Pyi, with Bertrand Diard and Jake Stein joining as observers—helping guide the ship. We’re proud to have investors with a deep understanding of commercial open source and the critical role of standards in shaping enterprise software integrations.
Naftiko has brought on Thomas as Head of Engineering who has already begun laying the foundation for the declarative, standards-driven approach for defining simple or complex API and data integrations which are expressed as business-aligned capabilities. These capabilities—individual or in aggregate—power an engine, or a federation of engines, that can integrate, automate, and orchestrate across internal and external API and data sources. All of this comes together in the Naftiko Fabric, a unified, policy-driven approach to managing integrations at scale.
We are officially launching Naftiko at APIDays Paris and have begin building the Naftiko Capabilities, Engine, and Fabric out in the open—leveraging and contributing to an open-source core, united with a commercial fabric. We’ve initiated the first conversations through our pilot customer and ecosystem program, Naftiko Signals, and we invite you to join the discussion on how Naftiko can help your enterprise integrate AI confidently into everyday operations.
Keywords: Integrations, Legacy, AI, API, Data, SaaS, Cloud, Sprawl, Context, Reusability, Orchestration, Capabilities, Domains, Engine, Fabric
